Internet Speed Comparison

[Kye-U]

My School's: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtests/15893....net/1085583255

Mine (Home): http://www.dslreports.com/speedtests/49714....117/1085389502

[besafe]

Are you with Cogeco or Rogers? If you are with Cgeco, are you on the 5Mb connection or Pro. Your speed is a little faster than I normally get on my Cogeco 5Mb connection.

[Kye-U]

I am with Rogers.

I am on the 5 mb connection, which is new, it's called Rogers Hi-Speed Extreme Internet

I have a Motorola SurfBoard SB5100.

[Oddysey]

Kye-U;

Quote:Kye-U's school connection:
Your download speed : 15893 bps, or 15 kbps.
Your upload speed : 66456 bps, or 64 kbps
Your upload speed is much faster than down....WTH?

Perhaps you should be hiring yourself out to your schoold as a consultant who can increase their speed!! [rolleyes] I'd be surprised if you couldn't get a 10-fold improvement out of their system!

Your home speed beats mine, but just wait unitl the bandwidth hogs get a hold of your shared feed line! :P

BTW, did you ever see a movie about cable bandwidth hogs? Came out about two years ago, maybe a bit further back. I was gonna upload it for you, but when I went looking for it, I don't seem to have it anymore. It was about a neighborhood war between bandwidth hogs - people chopping cables at other people's homes, etc. Pretty funny - can't figure out what I did with it! Can't find it on the intardnet, either. Curses!


Oddysey

[besafe]

He'll probably see a little drop in speed once more people come on board, but if Rogers is like Cogeco then they guarentee your bandwidth. I've had the 5Mb connection for about a year and I routinely get 4000-4400kbps speeds.

Rogers will probably offer a pro version along with the one they have now. The Cogeco pro version is a 10Mb connection.

[YoKenny]

I switched to Sympatico in February. It is 3.0Mb and I love it. I find it a lot faster than Rogers getting Web sites. I think they have faster or more pipes into the Internet.

I can't get the speed test to run though. Must be my Java setup.

The Tweak test results.
data transmit time: 0.480 secs
our max idletime: 70.1 ms
transfer rate: 151272 bytes/sec
transfer rate: 1210 kbits/sec

[besafe]

YoKenny Wrote:I switched to Sympatico in February.  It is 3.0Mb and I love it.  I find it a lot faster than Rogers getting Web sites.  I think they have faster or more pipes into the Internet. 

I can't get the speed test to run though.  Must be my Java setup. 

The Tweak test results.
data transmit time: 0.480 secs
our max idletime: 70.1 ms
transfer rate: 151272 bytes/sec
transfer rate: 1210 kbits/sec

How much faster does a web page load with Sympatico? An average web page usually takes about 1 second to load on my pc; a slow site 2-3 seconds. I would think Kye-U would be getting similar performance. When I switched from Sympatico dsl to Cogeco cable there was a huge speed difference especially downloading.

[mozerd]

Kye-U Wrote:I am with Rogers. I am on the 5 mb connection, which is new, it's called Rogers Hi-Speed Extreme Internet
I have a Motorola SurfBoard SB5100.

I just got informed that my area can go with a 5 mb connection so Rogers are delivering a modem enables the throughput this afternoon.

Kye-U, are you pleased with the Motorola SurfBoard SB5100?

I have the option of 3 different brands of modems [Motorola, Toshiba and I can't remember which one is the 3rd band] ... and I'm not sure which one to go with.

[Kye-U]

mozerd Wrote:Kye-U, are you pleased with the Motorola SurfBoard SB5100?

I have the option of 3 different brands of modems [Motorola, Toshiba and I can't remember which one is the 3rd band] ... and I'm not sure which one to go with.

The SB5100 (Surfboard) is very consistent and compact.

The third is the Webstar, which sucks.

[mozerd]

Kye-U Wrote:The SB5100 (Surfboard) is very consistent and compact.

Thanks .. I chose the SB5100 becasue I like Motorola products. :P

[Kye-U]

mozerd Wrote:Thanks .. I chose the SB5100 becasue I like Motorola products. :P

Good good

Hope you reach max speeds like I am! [lol]

[mozerd]

Kye-U Wrote:Good good Hope you reach max speeds like I am! [lol]

Yea, me too BTW, which link did you use for the throughput tests?

[Kye-U]

http://24.112.31.117/speedtest/

[mozerd]

Kye-U Wrote:http://24.112.31.117/speedtest/

Thanks. I also found a site that I kinda like

http://myspeed.visualware.com/

My download speed is 4.7Mbps
My upload speed is 794kbps

[mozerd]

Had a problem with my SMC7004ABR broadband gateway and the Motorola SB5100 cable modem. Any site PHP driven [like this forum] was failing to load properly if at all. This was very strange [and very annoying] as other sites [not PHP based] that I frequent had zero problems.

So I switched to a spare gateway device I had laying around made by D-Link [model DI-704P] and that combination worked without any difficulty whatsoever.

I wrote SMC to find out if a firmware upgrade was in order .. waiting for there feedback.

Anyway this is just a heads up to people here who may wonder why certain sites may not work with certain hardware combinations. In the IT world -- that is why TESTING testing TESTING is the only way prior to wide-scale deployment.