How fast is your Internet?

[Terry B]

I live 12km from the edge of town but get 5.67Mb/s down and 0.32 up, ping of 62
Plenty fast for me and from the much maligned telstra.

[Chillie (Henry)]

The worst part of wireless internet is when every man, woman, child, dog and cat want to use it at the same time. We have a large event (Wimmera Machinery Field Days) happening at the moment, and I think every one is using the internet tonight. I'm on BigPond wireless internet and it's very slow tonight.

My speed is Download 2.8 Mb/s, Upload 1.67 Mb/s, and Ping 55 ms.

[bartman (Bart)]

I'm happy with my results. 750 m from the exchange.
Would like better though, cause this test is obviously locally.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1182094615.png
Bartman
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1182094615.png

mmmm why doesn't my copied link from speedtest show up as a pic?

[sasup (Stacey)]

optus 10.34 download
.67 upload

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

My Internet is faster than me. So I think it is fast enough.

[frolinmod]

I'm getting about 64mb down and about 9mb up on a DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem. It's San Diego, California rather than Australia though. Unfortunately pretty much the only sites that actually go that fast at the other end (which is what really matters) are Microsoft.com and speed tests.

[MrB (Simon)]

Yeah thanks for rubbing it in Ernie!
We are already aware we live in a 3rd world country when it comes to internets.

[AstroGuy]

Guys,

It makes a big difference if your connected to your modem via a good quality network cable, as opposed to using the modem in wireless mode. Of course those with wireless USB type modem/plans have no choice unfortunately.

I have found in the past that the telephone socket contacts become oxidized the more the line is used with high frequencies. As this happens eventually the line seems to all of the sudden slow down. The only way around this is to change the socket every 6 months or give it a going over with WD40 to disolve the oxides!

This extreme circumstance really only happens if you live near the ocean like I did. High Frequency Electricity, copper and salty humid air is not a good combination. I suppose other enviromental conditions could have the same effect.


My current ISP: TPG
Plan: Home Phone + 500gb Premium ADSL2+

Using Speedtest.net

ping: 29ms
DL speed: 13.96 mbps
UL speed: .67 mbps


And that's pretty much how it is everyday.