Don't get too hung up on it - you'll never actually get more than about 20mb/s downstream, 8mb/s upstream, regardless of what speedtests say. I don't. I'm not sure exactly why, but they seem to be universal limits. I'd never actually get 80mb/s downstream - even if I could, my drives can't write that fast, so it wouldn't be sustainable once I ran short of RAM. 20 and 8 seem to be immutable universal limits on internet transfers. Unless anyone's actually managed to saturate their theoretically immense bandwidths? If so, how?
I honestly don't know where the limit is. I only know that somewhere in the process of connecting to The Tubes, something happens that makes the effective speeds radically less than the theoretical and line-tested speeds. Home ADSL is even worse, at home I'm promised 7.6mb/s by the operating system, speedtest.net and the router and I get an effective 300kb/s downstream; 800kb/s upstream is promised and tested, but only ~50kb/s effective goes through. It's bull****, why the huge disparity? Similarly here, I can't get more than 20mb/s regardless of how many parallel downloads I run from however many different sources more than capable of essentially unlimited transferring. Tests anticipate 60-80mb/s downstream. Where does the extra mileage get sucked away to on internet connections?
Monday afternoons job is to test actual download speed. Anyone got any sites that can give a decent speed?
Downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 with utorrent 689 MBytes in less then 4 minutes, averaged about 2.9MBytes/sec, peaked at 3.2MBytes
Paltry upload, but the download is sweeet. 30€/month is also good, with TV and free telephone nearly everywhere (except mobiles of course) but all this bandwidth is useless with the "3 strikes" law we have now...
I'm getting: Which sucks, I'm near a city and my wireless usb stick is only 2 metres from my wifi hub. Am going to try a wired connection. Could it be the usb dongle as it's only ratted at 54mbps? Did it again, and changed the server (is still pretty bad):
My 50/5 connection over wireless. Should be upgraded early next year to 100/10 or something. Luckily i upgraded to a full dualband N wirelsss / gigabit ethernet network recently which is letting me keep up with upgrades
Jesus, what ISP and payment rate is that, that gives 50:5? That's nice for a home line. Oh, Amsterdam, nevermind. Damn Europeans and their superior infrastructures
I've got a 50/5 (Fibre) line at home which costs me about 450 SEK (£39 with current exchange rates) and that is a HUGE amount of money for that kind of connection around here. What kind of prices are you getting in the UK?
I dont think they offer 100/100 to home users, i think they save all the uploading goodness for the datacenters where americans host their warez . My connection now costs 65 euros a month but includes television and telephone aswell. The upgrade will be free of charge, or so they tell.
