WOW I got 302KB/sec!!!

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:59 pm

This is a world record, 302KB/sec, or 2.4Mbps! That's only 0.1 less then half of the advertised speed, that means my download was almost downloading at half the advertised speed! That's a speed record right there, they must of fixed something.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:09 pm

lol what were you using to download?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:35 pm

Firefox, I was just downloading the daily access log from the site. It took like 5 minutes to actually respond to my click though but once it started it was super fast (for sympatico).

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:56 pm

you should really check your settings if its that slow lol

like depending on the site im downloading from i can hit like 1000 kb's a sec lol and it drops a few kb's every sec so by the time its done its at like 300 kb's a sec

the highest i got once was 3200kb's a sec with mozilla but it it was a one time thing and i forget what i was downloading lol

anyways sympatico DSL here too

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Tom_it · Post by **Tom_it** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 6:09 pm

Thats about my continuouse download speed maybe a little more usually sit around 300 to 320 K/bs but of course it starts out a lot higher... Sympatico for me works a lot better than my local cable company.. Been very very reliable also, only been down for about 4 hours last year that I knew about.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:55 pm

Yeah here it was very reliable until they did that umm, "upgrade".

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:00 pm

well red it may be hard to belive but sypatico is way more reliable then cable (i find anyways) cuz ive had both and my cable would only work for like the first 3 days of the month at best then cap at 10kb's max down speed

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:06 pm

Well the problem I'd have with cable is the low limits on it. at least sympatico is unlimited so I can download a TB per day if I want. (and if it stays up long enough lol) But they're slowly starting to get better, but I should not jinks it just yet.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:31 pm

Hey, maybe my claim will force them to get their butts in gear. Wouldn't it be sweet if they updated their service to 80 mbps after my letter?

. What are they running at right now anyways? Feels like 10 mbps

.

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Cold Drink · Post by **Cold Drink** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:34 pm

I'm supposed to get 4Mbps, fastest I've seen is 3-3.5Mbps or so. 320-400+Kb/s is something I get all the time

Well, my wife gets it when she is downloading Japanese media using BitTorrent... And I don't have a limit

Of course, I'm using Comcast cable in the US, and its grossly overpriced.

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Tom_it · Post by **Tom_it** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:48 pm

No download limits here which is nice... Well the biggest factor on which is better cable or your phone company comes down to location.. Thats if they both have a good internet infrastructure in place.. I've found sympatico to be about 25% faster for downloads and 100 % faster for uploads then when I had cable.. I also found that speeds varied alot during the time I was with cable.. Now i've been to other peoples homes and they have not had any real problems with their cable internet... Funny thing is everytime I go and work on someones computer I do an internet speed test for curiosity sakes and I haven't found a cable subscriber in my area that gets close to what i'm getting all the time. Not sure why but I did get a speed upgrade from bell about 8 months ago and that went without a hitch..

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:49 pm

Furball wrote: Hey, maybe my claim will force them to get their butts in gear. Wouldn't it be sweet if they updated their service to 80 mbps after my letter? . What are they running at right now anyways? Feels like 10 mbps .

Yeah maybe it will work.

Hmm I just thought of something cool, imagine a weather report for data conectivity.

Temperature: 936Kbps
clear signal

VISIBILITY: 117KB/sec
GUSTS: 10% packet loss
RELATIVE INTEGRITY: 48%
FEELS LIKE: 306Kbps
VOLTAGE: 1.52v
BANDWIDTH CAP: unlimited

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:55 pm

lol that would make a whicked forum siggy

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