Ever since my brother accidentally dropped a branch through my cable outside, the connection speeds have never been the same, even after Comcast came out to fix the line.



See my previous results in another thread and you'll see that I was getting close to 25Mb/s to my closest server (Chicago, IL). I need to call them to see if I can upgrade to that new 50Mb/s service they're supposed to be offering in many areas.

Here's my connection to Wellington, NZ:

Okay ... I've now hit every server listed in North America, for a total of 93 tests. Of course, some were from before this thread, and some were to other countries.

From the My Summary tab at SpeedTest:

IP Address:
xx.xxx.xx.xxx (COMCAST CABLE)
Last Test Date:
11/7/2008
Total Tests Taken:
93
Fastest Download:
24016 kb/s
Fastest Upload:
2541 kb/s
Average Download:
11586 kb/s
Average Upload:
1425 kb/s

Global Rank: Faster than 97% of connections.
Country Rank: Faster than 95% of connections in the US.

Apparently my connection is a bit slow compared to other Comcast users in Minnesota (averages are 12,359/1,849 versus my 11,586/1,425). My fastest download was taken from the Owensboro KY server, and my fastest upload was taken from the Hamilton Bermuda server.

Oddly, I had three servers that were 'black holes' - returning no results:
McAllen TX
Miami FL
Nassau Bahamas

After looking at the global stats, I want to be a customer of VL-Telecom (77,062 kb/s downloads and 60,247 kb/s uploads). Ironically, while North America is the top continent by download speed, the US isn't even in the top ten countries.

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Cruiser
Gateway GT5692 L-f-S Edition
-Phenom X4 9650 CPU
-4GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM
-500GB SATA HD
-Vista x64 SP1
-BOINC 6.2.19 32-bit client
-SSE3 optimized 32-bit apps

And for a laugh here is to Auckland!

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Not bad for an upto 8mg package.

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Here’s what I came up with and it is correct and what I pay for. From Lynchburg VA but I get mine from Net Zero because Verizon is useless they don't allow servers and their service is terrible so I get mine from Net Zero for 29.00 USD a month and Net Zero rents from Verizon.

I will give you a nice laugh.



For phone, internet, caller ID and "modem rental" I pay $73 (US)/month.

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my test

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LA calls Wellington

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Here in Albuquerque Speedtest often shows shorter ping time(!) and faster link speed to some servers farther away.

Here Albuquerque calling Phoenix:

I've got Comcast, so under their recently revised Acceptable Use policy use in excess of 250 Gbytes/month is deemed excessive.

One further reservation: I took this speed test from my daily driver PC, which suffers the indignity of a wireless link on the way to the cable modem.

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Here is my test. ATT just opened up DSL to our area in the last couple of months. It is a bit slower than what it could be, but we are on the fringe of the DSL area at this point and service would not improve without ATT upgrading wire to our area. ATT only costs me $10.00 a month for this, and my old dial up ISP had been $15.00 a month.

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Here is my test. ATT just opened up DSL to our area in the last couple of months. It is a bit slower than what it could be, but we are on the fringe of the DSL area at this point and service would not improve without ATT upgrading wire to our area. ATT only costs me $10.00 a month for this, and my old dial up ISP had been $15.00 a month.

You are where I was 28 years ago.........

I am still served by the same copper pair that was run to my house back in '54 when it was built.......

At first, I had nothing but dialup.......then they upgraded me to ISDN, then finally to DSL....all on the same pair of wires.......

It's just that they finally upgraded the link from the main switch to the demarcation box about 2 blocks from my house that allowed the bandwidth to come thru.......

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Here is my test. ATT just opened up DSL to our area in the last couple of months. It is a bit slower than what it could be, but we are on the fringe of the DSL area at this point and service would not improve without ATT upgrading wire to our area. ATT only costs me $10.00 a month for this, and my old dial up ISP had been $15.00 a month.

You are where I was 28 years ago.........

I am still served by the same copper pair that was run to my house back in '54 when it was built.......

At first, I had nothing but dialup.......then they upgraded me to ISDN, then finally to DSL....all on the same pair of wires.......

It's just that they finally upgraded the link from the main switch to the demarcation box about 2 blocks from my house that allowed the bandwidth to come thru.......

I will take this any day over dial-up. And, the ATT tech said I would be lucky to get 220 down at our location when he set it up. I feel like the extra is gravy. . . And my old ISP is extremely spamy at this point. I can not even forward email from my old account to my new accout.

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1500/256 account, usage capped at 4GB peak times plus 4GB off peak per month.
AU$60/month. Rip off, eh?

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2000/256 contract. :-)))

[edit]
the route to Wellington is even faster:



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mic.

Mine appears relatively slow compared to most.
C

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Join Team MacNN

Now from the office:



upstream is bit low... might be all my proxy and filter stuff.

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mic.

Just remember that depending on what country you are in the gov't throttles max up/download speed. A few years ago I was getting your numbers. The cable company upgraded the local lines to optical fiber and bam I'm flying.

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

Local

Auckland

About $45 US monthly.

Wow I feel kinda lucky about my upload speed. Paying for 12mb down and 1mb up here, $45 a month (US).



And here's to Wellington (WOW!)

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Daniel

Here is mine
Upload Speed restrikted in my router.

Closest server


San jose Cal


Wellington


Regards