What are your internet speeds, guys? Here is mine from Speedtest.net:
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lmao
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Meh!
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Tried to get it as low as I could. :P
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20616429/1174374168.png)
I win =) Had to edit out the ISP for my image though, way too revealing of my top secret location.
Quote from: Meiun on February 25, 2011, 09:37:12 PM
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I win =) Had to edit out the ISP for my image though, way too revealing of my top secret location.
Noooo! :(
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1174402696.png)
Meh.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1174427425.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Mine is in my sig, but...
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Quote from: Meiun on February 25, 2011, 09:37:12 PM
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I win =) Had to edit out the ISP for my image though, way too revealing of my top secret location.
Where do you live? A satellite?
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? If it's high it sucks, if it's low it wins?
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man you guys have some fast connections
Quote from: Forum on February 25, 2011, 11:13:10 PM
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? If it's high it sucks, if it's low it wins?
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High is good. Wow, 40?! :o
Quote from: Forum on February 25, 2011, 11:13:10 PM
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? If it's high it sucks, if it's low it wins?
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Are you referring to the ping? Of course if it's high it sucks.
EDIT: Wanna test again with my new RAM, but Atlanta, GA's server isn't up.
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Meh
Guys, the main thing to look for is download speed and ping. Upload speed isn't that important.
Quote from: 11clock on February 25, 2011, 11:27:08 PM
Guys, the main thing to look for is download speed and ping. Upload speed isn't that important.
Unless your a server. xD
Quote from: T-Rok on February 26, 2011, 01:09:14 AM
Quote from: 11clock on February 25, 2011, 11:27:08 PM
Guys, the main thing to look for is download speed and ping. Upload speed isn't that important.
Unless your a server. xD
Or running any other application that needs upload speed. I'd hardly call it unimportant, depends entirely what your doing. Either way, it certainly is useful to have. Even things like playing an online game are going to be effected by both your download
and your upload speed (granted that many games will be effected a good amount more heavily by download, upload still matters). Upload speed is ultimately going to have pretty much just as much of an effect on your ping as download is as well.
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Paying $120 a month for this internet connection. Damn expensive Australian internet!
Quote from: Celson on February 26, 2011, 01:31:52 AM
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Paying $120 a month for this internet connection. Damn expensive Australian internet!
Celson, I too have australian internet. not only does it seem to be kicking your connections butt at speed, but its only $50.
Quote from: Meiun on February 25, 2011, 09:37:12 PM
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I win =) Had to edit out the ISP for my image though, way too revealing of my top secret location.
Edited my original post with my latest results. Looks like the first server I was using to test wasn't really able to test my upload to it's full potential. Win.
Now if only I could use this connection for the donor server =(
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 02:05:51 AM
Now if only I could use this connection for the donor server =(
College connection, I'm assuming?
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 02:05:51 AM
Quote from: Meiun on February 25, 2011, 09:37:12 PM
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20616429/1174374168.png)
I win =) Had to edit out the ISP for my image though, way too revealing of my top secret location.
Edited my original post with my latest results. Looks like the first server I was using to test wasn't really able to test my upload to it's full potential. Win.
Now if only I could use this connection for the donor server =(
Dang thats good. Low bandwith I take it?
Quote from: igufed on February 26, 2011, 02:21:32 AM
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 02:05:51 AM
Now if only I could use this connection for the donor server =(
College connection, I'm assuming?
Yup. Most people at my college have super shitty connections too. Pretty sure I am able to utilize almost 300 times what the average student at my school is allocated, thanks to how incompetent the school's IT department is ;)
Quote from: T-Rok on February 26, 2011, 02:42:06 AM
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 02:05:51 AM
Quote from: Meiun on February 25, 2011, 09:37:12 PM
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I win =) Had to edit out the ISP for my image though, way too revealing of my top secret location.
Edited my original post with my latest results. Looks like the first server I was using to test wasn't really able to test my upload to it's full potential. Win.
Now if only I could use this connection for the donor server =(
Dang thats good. Low bandwith I take it?
Huh?Low bandwidth what?
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 02:47:50 AM
Quote from: igufed on February 26, 2011, 02:21:32 AM
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 02:05:51 AM
Now if only I could use this connection for the donor server =(
College connection, I'm assuming?
Yup. Most people at my college have super shitty connections too. Pretty sure I am able to utilize almost 300 times what the average student at my school is allocated, thanks to how incompetent the school's IT department is ;)
Quote from: T-Rok on February 26, 2011, 02:42:06 AM
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 02:05:51 AM
Quote from: Meiun on February 25, 2011, 09:37:12 PM
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20616429/1174374168.png)
I win =) Had to edit out the ISP for my image though, way too revealing of my top secret location.
Edited my original post with my latest results. Looks like the first server I was using to test wasn't really able to test my upload to it's full potential. Win.
Now if only I could use this connection for the donor server =(
Dang thats good. Low bandwith I take it?
Huh?Low bandwidth what?
It was asked before I knew it was the schools connection. Low bandwith was my explanation for inability to host before you confirmed it was the schools connection.
Yeah Meiun is right. Having a good about of upload is good. Some common uses are hosting a video game (not just on a pc but also on console), uploading images/ videos/ files to the internet. If you have a lot of people using your internet at home its possible that they can kill your upload before effecting your download making it feel like your internet is slowing down especially for real time applications like video games.
Also remember this is a speed test. Does not really tell much about reliability, over all latency, uptime, speed to price, if your isp is traffic shaping, bandwidth caps, etc. Only really tells your max bandwidth.
And yes the bigger the number the "better". If you take that number and divide it by 8 it will give you approximatively how much your download would be in bytes than bits. In other words when you download/upload things off the internet the speed counter is most likely in bytes than bits.
So if you download 40 Megabits/s thats about 5 MegaBytes/s. Not too bad for a home user considering my real download speed is 2.6 Mb/s. Lower case b meaning bits and uppercase meaning bytes.
Also you people in Australia have it bad. You pay a lot for slow bandwidth thats caped and is or might be filted. :(
Speaking of internet speed. I need help understanding it all a bit better.
Basically I can get up to a download speed of 850 kbs. I'll have utorrent on and might be downloading a file at about 10 kbs (due to lack of seeders). Now what confuses me is the fact that downloading at 10 kbs completely !@#$s over my ping on stick online. I'll go from having 320 ping to 1000 ping just from dling at 10 kbs. Can anyone explain to me why that happens?
This is why upload matters not just download.
Yeah you most likely don't have a cap set on you upload on your torrent program. So your seeding some one and its taking up almost all your upload. This slows down the data stick online can send back to the server skyrocketing your ping.
Find out how to limit your upload on your torrent program and you should be fine. On utorrent/bitorrent you can right click and goto properties and set a max upload. You can also set it in the program settings so you dont have to set it for every torrent you have.
Quote from: T-Rok on February 26, 2011, 05:11:24 AM
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 02:47:50 AM
Quote from: igufed on February 26, 2011, 02:21:32 AM
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 02:05:51 AM
Now if only I could use this connection for the donor server =(
College connection, I'm assuming?
Yup. Most people at my college have super shitty connections too. Pretty sure I am able to utilize almost 300 times what the average student at my school is allocated, thanks to how incompetent the school's IT department is ;)
Quote from: T-Rok on February 26, 2011, 02:42:06 AM
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 02:05:51 AM
Quote from: Meiun on February 25, 2011, 09:37:12 PM
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20616429/1174374168.png)
I win =) Had to edit out the ISP for my image though, way too revealing of my top secret location.
Edited my original post with my latest results. Looks like the first server I was using to test wasn't really able to test my upload to it's full potential. Win.
Now if only I could use this connection for the donor server =(
Dang thats good. Low bandwith I take it?
Huh?Low bandwidth what?
It was asked before I knew it was the schools connection. Low bandwith was my explanation for inability to host before you confirmed it was the schools connection.
I think you are a bit confused as to what the term bandwidth means.
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 11:18:57 AM
I think you are a bit confused as to what the term bandwidth means.
he was asking if you had a low bandwidth cap, which is the reason you wouldn't be able to host a server as you'd hit that cap pretty fast
Quote from: Yankyal on February 26, 2011, 02:42:13 PM
Quote from: Meiun on February 26, 2011, 11:18:57 AM
I think you are a bit confused as to what the term bandwidth means.
he was asking if you had a low bandwidth cap, which is the reason you wouldn't be able to host a server as you'd hit that cap pretty fast
Ah, right. That makes sense. I thought he was asking if the actual bandwidth itself was low which it obviously isn't based on the speed test. Most the ISP's around here don't really do a lot of monthly restrictions on throughput or any of that stuff, so that type of stuff isn't something i often consider.
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So higher ping is worse?
Higher bandwidth is good but higher ping in bad.
Quote from: DarkTrinity on February 27, 2011, 06:13:19 PM
So higher ping is worse?
Higher ping is worse. The lower the ping, the faster the computer is able to connect to a remote computer, and receive the packets, thus the faster the connection. Which is why you want to test off the closest data center possible to get the fastest results.
Ping is the amount of time in milliseconds that it takes for a packet to send and return. As you can imagine, you want it to take almost no time, aka, you want ping to be low.
Download and Upload, on the other hand, is saying how many megabytes you transfer every second. Obviously, you want to be able to send more data in a short period of time, so you want these numbers to be large.
Could not agree anymore.
DSL 512Kb/256Kb aka 64kb/s and upload 32kb/s
Ping is 40ms if i ping detroit
use to jack someone's internet when i lived in town. was almost 1mb/s.
Every server I tried around us says 100+ ping. lol.
Quote from: DarkTrinity on February 28, 2011, 09:43:58 AM
Every server I tried around us says 100+ ping. lol.
Way to have fail internet. :P Perhaps someone is downloading? As long as its not 130+ you should be good for most online games. Once it hits 140, side effects are visible and once it hits about 170 most games become almost unplayable. This is all in my opinion of course.
In the event of slow internet speeds, having certain sisters who watch Netflix on their computer non-stop, it may be somewhat advantageous to tweak the QoS settings on your router, where you can set limits to all the connected computers on how much bandwidth they can consume, as to not kill the experience for everyone else.
Quote from: Scotty on February 28, 2011, 01:39:34 PM
In the event of slow internet speeds, having certain sisters who watch Netflix on their computer non-stop, it may be somewhat advantageous to tweak the QoS settings on your router, where you can set limits to all the connected computers on how much bandwidth they can consume, as to not kill the experience for everyone else.
LOL. Yes, that has become an annoyance... But I haven't the slightest idea how to do that and I don't trust myself to bother tampering with it.
Quote from: DarkTrinity on March 01, 2011, 12:56:39 PM
Quote from: Scotty on February 28, 2011, 01:39:34 PM
In the event of slow internet speeds, having certain sisters who watch Netflix on their computer non-stop, it may be somewhat advantageous to tweak the QoS settings on your router, where you can set limits to all the connected computers on how much bandwidth they can consume, as to not kill the experience for everyone else.
LOL. Yes, that has become an annoyance... But I haven't the slightest idea how to do that and I don't trust myself to bother tampering with it.
Get scotty to remote connect. xD
It's not exactly something one would want to do out of the blue one day unbeknown to the rest. I've actually gotten on Chaos about it in the past and he just sorts of chuckles and shrugs it off. I've never had to do it luckily, as I've never owned a router capable of setting the QoS AND have internet speeds bad enough to warrant it. Chances are, if it is something that you decide to go do, you'd be best off getting the manual for your router (likely found online somewhere if you don't have it in hard-copy form), and search for QoS or "Quality of Service", and it should tell you how to set it up if your router supports it.
Quote from: T-Rok on February 28, 2011, 01:35:09 PM
Quote from: DarkTrinity on February 28, 2011, 09:43:58 AM
Every server I tried around us says 100+ ping. lol.
Way to have fail internet. :P Perhaps someone is downloading? As long as its not 130+ you should be good for most online games. Once it hits 140, side effects are visible and once it hits about 170 most games become almost unplayable. This is all in my opinion of course.
Really can depend
heavily on what type of game your playing for how big of an impact ping has. First person shooters for instance (which I assume is what your refering to most) typically rely a bit more on having a very low ping (even with this, it can vary a bit based on the game). Where as your typical auto-attack based MMO it really barely even matters if your ping is multiple hundred since there is essentially so little actual timing dependant "action" going on. In cases like these it can often matter more that your ping is consistant rather than low for how smooth the game seems to be. But even then, I personally am not quite as picky with my standards as some people. But like you said, can vary.
85 ping while my sister's at work...
Coincidence? I think not.
Could it also be because the closest server I'm testing from isn't in the same state..? :x
Quote from: DarkTrinity on March 01, 2011, 06:23:37 PM
85 ping while my sister's at work...
Coincidence? I think not.
Could it also be because the closest server I'm testing from isn't in the same state..? :x
I hear data centers are far and few between on Venus.
Decided to test my Universities internet. lol
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Testing mine again:
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EDIT: "Faster than 81% of US!"
Download went down, upload probably didn't change, and my ping rose.
Also my new ping test:
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I'll probably post/edit again with my new laptop. It is directly connected to my old one, (this one) so it might be worse.
Best I could get so far today after they had a nice little outage..
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Supposed to get 60 down, the closest I've been while testing is 55. :\
Later in the night while hopefully servers aren't getting pounded..
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jesus christ man..
Quote from: igufed on March 14, 2011, 03:54:46 PM
Best I could get so far today after they had a nice little outage..
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1201698249.png)
Supposed to get 60 down, the closest I've been while testing is 55. :\
Later in the night while hopefully servers aren't getting pounded..
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Dude, you have the same type of internet as mine, but you're twice as fast as me.
Quote from: RayRay on March 15, 2011, 08:59:33 PM
Dude, you have the same type of internet as mine, but you're twice as fast as me.
Most ISPs offer a variety of speed options.
Quote from: igufed on March 15, 2011, 09:10:19 PM
Quote from: RayRay on March 15, 2011, 08:59:33 PM
Dude, you have the same type of internet as mine, but you're twice as fast as me.
Most ISPs offer a variety of speed options.
Oh, so I guess my family chose the lower one.
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Quote from: Mr Pwnage on March 15, 2011, 10:04:56 PM
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"Faster than 99% of the US"
Mr Pwnage is an alien.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0711/
http://www.speedtest.net/wave/4e89671f84c3ec67?o=desc&sb=download
When the hell did speedtest have achievements.
Also, best speeds are what:
1 week ago 968.22 Mb/s 703.23 Mb/s 1 ms
Almost a gigabyte per sec download speed wat.
Quote from: ARTgames on March 15, 2011, 10:51:55 PM
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0711/
Japan definitely isn't up there anymore...
And yeah, having Verizon FiOS makes you extraterrestrial GIS. :)
I hate you