How does your ISP rate for speed?

[Structo]

Here is a pretty cool speed test.

I have Comast cable internet and this is my test.
How does yours do?

[IMG:300:135]http://www.speedtest.net/result/594434750.png[/img]


http://www.speedtest.net/

[skyboltone]

Mine says 54mps but by the time it gets through the wireless router it's slower than my old cellphone based broadband at 114kbs.
[IMG:300:135]http://www.speedtest.net/result/595072152.png[/img]

Like I said, wireless from cable modem. It's 54mps into the house. I'm going wired. There are only two places I work from. Should be an easy wire. What do we use, Cat 5? Or cable.

[David Root]

23.95.

Canadian IPSs, mine is Shaw, are known to be on the slow side. There was a news item in today's Vancouver Sun that revealed that Canadians get some of the slowest performance at the highest prices, compared with worldwide values.

**Begin Rant**

No surprises there. This is a high cost country. I'm both a Canadian and US citizen but had been living in the States for a long time (24 years) before returning to Canada 6 months ago. This country has changed and not for the better.

Canadians put up with unresponsive Gov't at all levels, relatively high taxes overall, especially at the provincial (read State) level, and a justice system that ridiculously favors the criminal.

Canadians LOVE to line up, (it's called queueing) at supermarkets, banks etc., that Americans would not tolerate. Canadians are tolerant of corporations and "authority" in general, to a fault.

I put this down to the Parliamentary system of government, (same as the UK essentially), which is IMHO inferior in theory and practice in many ways to the US republican (small r) constitutionally based system of checks and balances.

Plus is a sensible single payer health care system that will not bankrupt you like the insurance companies in the US will.

Plus is also it doesn't really matter at the global level who is in power in Canada, so you don't have to worry about it.

You pays your money and takes your chances. I still like BC a lot! But I dearly love Tucson AZ too.

**End of Rant**

[skyboltone]

I traveled through your great province on a regular basis when I was working in the Alaska Oil Patch. What I find most comical is that just about every other news story on CBC is about the Vietnam war. Sheesh folks, it's been over for a generation already. Seems we exported some of our best minds up your way.

The finest line by a Canuck I heard during my travels was an RV park owner who told me he believed most Canadians would shoot themselves but that they couldn't afford the bullets. THAT was a rather dim view.

Anyway, I got property in Port Townsend so I'm kinfolks of a sort.

Dan

[mdroberts1243]

I have Bell Sympatico ADSL... line tests very high quality, but I am very jealous of those cable numbers! I think there is some throttling going on, I've seen numbers closer to 8Mb/s in the past.

[IMG:300:135]http://www.speedtest.net/result/594542711.png[/img]

[dano-rator]

I can't believe I'm paying for this:

[IMG:300:135]http://www.speedtest.net/result/594838939.png[/img]

[John_P_WI]

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner, you win Tom, those are some smokin speeds....

I am only half that at down load:


[IMG:300:135]http://www.speedtest.net/result/594932366.png[/img]

John

[Sonny ReVerb]

I have Comcast, as well. I'm sure this varies with network load. This is from my laptop with wireless overhead.

[IMG:300:135]http://www.speedtest.net/result/594945192.png[/img]

[Structo]

That's pretty good for wireless.

[Phil_S]

Here's mine.
How'd you get such a nice neat cut n paste? I can't figure it out.

I got 18.89/1.47 on the one computer that is hard wired to the router. I think that means the wireless isn't that much of a bottle neck, but the router probably is. I wonder what it's like direct to the "modem", which, as you know, it's really that gizmo's proper name.

[John_P_WI]

Here's mine.
How'd you get such a nice neat cut n paste?

Right below the speed graphic was a button that said "link to forum" or similar....

[skyboltone]

Structo:
I love that kid in your avatar. I swear, I've got pictures of me at that age. My parents must have posted that on the web or something. That's me all over. Same haircut, same shirt, same knife. I liked paperclips too.

[Structo]

Same here Dan.
I looked very much like that when I was that age too.

Tow head, cool striped shirt, Cub Scout knife on my belt.

That reminds me, there was a recent case around here where a kid took a Swiss Army knife to school because he wanted to eat his lunch with the fork and spoon on it.
I think he is in 2nd grade.
A teacher saw him using it and reported it.
Last I heard they wanted him to go to a juvenile camp for 45 days!
Not a troubled kid at all and when he was on the news he was intelligent and well spoken.
He didn't know he would get into trouble for using his camping tool.

Man, I hate stuff like that. I can remember taking my 22 rifle to school in 5th grade because I was going to go to a friends house after school and do some target shooting.
I gave it to the teacher so she could put it in the closet.

This whole, no tolerance thing about weapons at school is so much BS it's not funny.
They should judge each violation on it's merits.
There are many things at school that can be used as a weapon.
A knife or gun is only a weapon when it is used to hurt someone.
Until then it is a tool.

Sorry for the rant but that one pissed me off.

[Phil_S]

Structo:
I love that kid in your avatar... That's me all over. Same haircut, same shirt, same knife. I liked paperclips too.

Yeah, I've been meaning to comment, too. I love it, too. I was blond until about age 4 or 5 and it looks a bit like me, too.

I didn't use knives or paper clips, though. Just plain old fingers with a little spit gives a very unpleasant tingle. I have no idea why I might have gone back for more. I have a feeling lots of guys here know that sensation from when they were too young to know better. It's a wonder we all survived. Now how many of us besides the three of us are willing to admit it?

BTW, the paste to forum button just didn't work for me. Go figgur, but thanks for the pointer, Structo.

[gearhead]

Yeah, I'm poking along but it serves my purposes.

[img:300:135]http://www.speedtest.net/result/600969756.png[/img]

I do a lot of on-line FPS gaming, and it seems like half the worlds game servers are within 15 miles of me. Consistently get 10-20ms pings.