Who has the best internetz!

Discussion in 'Debate' started by xRandomLurker, Oct 31, 2014.

  1. Drzego

    Drzego New Member

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    I'm lucky if i get 1 MB/s down and 100 KB/s up, so all these results make me cry a little bit (actually quite a lot).
     
  2. Penagwin

    Penagwin Linux Servers are better then windows!

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    Hotels? They are cheap, and don't get enough bandwidth. (True for the USA and Canada).
     
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  3. LordXyroz

    LordXyroz *insert ridiculously long title here*

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    Just wait until easter when I go to The Gathering (here in Norway). Probably gonna get fast! ^^
     
  4. LordRedstone

    LordRedstone Best Coder 2k15

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    So after my jokey glitch result, my actual download speed isn't that great.
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    Better than some people though.
     
  5. Penagwin

    Penagwin Linux Servers are better then windows!

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    Your download beats mine. I get a bit more upload though. And your ping is 1 third of mine. I almost never get below a 25 ping with anything. I wonder why though... I live in west michigan, it's not like I'm in the middle of nowhere...
     
  6. thtredstonegui

    thtredstonegui Youtuber

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    Not so fast...
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  7. Popsicle67

    Popsicle67 Active Member

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    Does your internet run through cables made of wood or something?
     
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  8. Siioh

    Siioh If you can read this, you're too far

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    You may want to consider the fact that the Sydney was about 1,200 miles away from the testing zone :D
     
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  9. thtredstonegui

    thtredstonegui Youtuber

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    Copper, and pretty new copper at that. This speed is due to congestion caused by the incumbent telecom provider deciding that 100 internet connections fed with low bandwidth was all the largest housing development in my area needed. Any new houses can't get fixed line internet because there are no ports left and I was very lucky to get what I could. It's not always that slow, but it gets like that every school afternoon when everyone in the estate is on the internet at once. I pay for 8192/384kbps (the max available) and it's a good day if I see ~2000/320kbps consistently. I have pulled speeds close to 8Mbps on rare occasion as the line can handle it, but congestion makes using the internet a nightmare during peak hours.
    Not too far away, I get 10-18/0.8Mbps where congestion isn't an issue (paying for 20/1Mbps).
    Geolocation doesn't work in Australia for desktop PCs most of the time. That 1200 miles is from somewhere in the middle of Australia because all it could determine was that I was in Australia. My ISPs data centre is in Sydney, and all traffic routes via that, so that's the best place to test. Sydney is still quite far from me, but it's still a lot closer than 1200 miles (~2000km)
     
  10. Penagwin

    Penagwin Linux Servers are better then windows!

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    Lol. The ESP8266 can transfer more data then that. (It's a 5$)

    Edit: Not the copper, the internet speed.
     
  11. TexasGamer

    TexasGamer Well-Known Member

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    At this point you get bottlenecked by the server you're connecting to and/or disk speed when downloading large files. :p
     
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  12. Penagwin

    Penagwin Linux Servers are better then windows!

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    ZMAP ZMAP ZMAP ZMAP ZMAP
    OMG ZMAP
    Took me three hours with a third of that!
     
  13. xRandomLurker

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    Switched to talktalk and its terrible. Ringed them they said that they are going to stabilise the connection to have the best stable and fast connection
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  14. SomeEnderpenguin

    SomeEnderpenguin Not a Penguin

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    Not the worst. But totally not the best.