Broadband.gov speed tests.

Post #322,848 by Another Scott 3/13/10 9:47:18 PM 3/13/10 9:47:49 PM Reply	Broadband.gov speed tests. They're asking for measurements of broadband speeds, and it may have an impact on the National Broadband Plan which will be released next week. http://www.broadband.gov/ (via http://www.balloon-j.../a-site-to-visit/ ) There's a link for a broadband test - the blue "I want to test my connection quality" button. It requires Java, Flash, and asks for your street address. It only takes a few seconds. My results (on Cox Cable): Download: 9544 kbps Upload: 3450 kbps Latency: 14 ms Jitter: 4 ms I'm surprised the results are so high since I accessed it through my 802.11g wireless network, but I guess it knows about things like that. Cheers, Scott. Edited by Another Scott March 13, 2010, 09:47:49 PM EST Expand All History
Post #322,850 by malraux 3/13/10 10:18:11 PM Reply	My connection sucks. 6259/1022/37/7 Comcast. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #322,852 by scoenye 3/13/10 10:34:40 PM Reply	Can't complain too much here... Comcast residential, but it seems someone flipped it to "Business" 16326/2643/42/12
Post #322,851 by SpiceWare 3/13/10 10:33:59 PM 3/13/10 10:36:24 PM Reply	ComCast Download: 19976 kbps Upload: 2201 kbps Latency: 60 ms Jitter: 4 ms Mine is a business account, work's paying for it. Edited by SpiceWare March 13, 2010, 10:36:24 PM EST Expand All History
Post #322,855 by drook 3/14/10 1:30:59 AM Reply	1244 / 204 / 80 / browser hangs -- Woo! I win! This is like golf, right? Lowest score wins? -- Drew
Post #322,864 by jbrabeck 3/14/10 8:52:44 AM Reply	Darn, ya just beat me 1502/271/25/ hang Centurytel DSL!
Post #322,858 by pwhysall 3/14/10 3:17:29 AM Reply	Re: Broadband.gov speed tests. http://www.speedtest...ult/748019852.png Sorry, drook. >gloat<
Post #322,868 by drook 3/14/10 10:44:05 AM Reply	You suck -- Drew
Post #322,859 by Ashton 3/14/10 3:24:19 AM 3/14/10 3:39:58 AM Reply	Re: Broadband.gov speed tests. Comcast / iMac-20 / Safari 4.0.3 Says Safari NG with MLab; tried anyway == jittery, eh? Second test w/Ookla: Down: 20703 -- 20972 Upload: 2672 -- 3164 Latency: 58 -- 21 Jitter: 81 -- 3 Tried FFox 3.5.8 Down: 20984 Upload: 4470 Latency: 20 Jitter: 1 __________________________ Local: SF --> Here ~ 50 mi: (Speakeasy) on Safari Down: 20.93 Mbps Upload: 4.49 Mbps No jitter info. Same on FFox: Down: 20.93 Mbps Upload: 4.73 Mbps (LA --> Here ~ same #s) Ergo: FFox uploads faster than Safari. Ed: Speakeasy tests Edited by Ashton March 14, 2010, 03:39:58 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #322,869 by crazy 3/14/10 10:45:25 AM Reply	Looks like my download wins so far 21097/2929/27/14
Post #322,870 by Another Scott 3/14/10 11:00:17 AM Reply	Looks like I should take up FPS - I'm the Latency king!!!11
Post #322,874 by folkert 3/14/10 11:26:28 AM Reply	Re: Broadband.gov speed tests. My connection on Comcast^H^H^H^H^H^H^HXfinity Cable: Download: 29698 kbps Upload: 3531 kbps Latency: 49 ms Jitter: 6 ms Apparently they've fixed a buncha thing recently in GRR. Plus this powerboost crap still slews this stuff.
Post #322,875 by mvitale 3/14/10 11:38:05 AM Reply	Re: Broadband.gov speed tests. Download: 6149 Upload: 1119 Latency: 92 Jitter: 490 3 active users to the forums at this time, so who knows what (negligible) impact that has. WideOpenWorst cable that's supposed to be at an 8MBps download rate. -Mike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #322,877 by beepster 3/14/10 3:09:44 PM Reply	Re: Broadband.gov speed tests. My results (on RoadRunner via Brighthouse): Download: 9791 kbps Upload: 951 kbps Latency: 62 ms Jitter: 2 ms No wonder my boy gets fragged badly on ps3 shooters I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #322,880 by pwhysall 3/14/10 4:20:42 PM Reply	Nope Anything under 100ms is perfectly playable. Online Gamer Excuse List, Beep Jr Edition ~~ping~~ hax lag
Post #322,903 by jay 3/15/10 12:09:42 AM Reply	Fios does well 19717 Download 4721 Upload 16ms Latency 1ms Jitter Verizon Fios. Dropped Comcast for Fios, and so far I've been very happy with it. Jay
Post #322,928 by lincoln 3/15/10 1:59:49 PM Reply	Re: Broadband.gov speed tests. My results going through Earthlink on ComCast's infrastructure: Download speed: 29143kbps Upload speed: 2673kbps Latency: 18ms Jitter: 2ms And yet I've had a tab open trying to connect to the local news page of ChicagoTribune.com for over 5 minutes now. WTF is going on? "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #322,930 by lincoln 3/15/10 2:12:07 PM Reply	And with the Win98 SE box, 400 Mhz PII, 256 Mg RAM also going through the Linksys 4 port wireless router via ethernet cable: download speed: 6551 kbps upload speed: 2453 kbps latency: 21 ms jitters: 3 ms "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #322,937 by pwhysall 3/15/10 3:05:04 PM Reply	Try changing your DNS Try using http://www.opendns.com/ instead. The relevant server addresses are on the front page.
Post #322,972 by Ashton 3/16/10 1:48:05 AM Reply	Is the U.S. Intarweb broken tonight? D/L'd FireFox 3.6 -- I use FF for CC pays, as the Big Banks don't seem to reliably grok Safari handshakes. Otherwise.. why switch? I Like Safari. Thought i'd try Speakeasy re below speed games; any diff. twixt 3.5 and 3.6(?) From here to: SF: 21.0/4.7 Mbps No change. NY: 5.28/3.86 W.T.F. ??? Dallas: 6.89/4.33 Chi: 7.20/2.79 D.C.: 6.12/4.23 . . . Safari: SF: 21.02/4.60 Others: similar to FFox above! Is this Comcast falling-back to tomato cans/piano-wire at the Nevada border or was there a minor meltdown on Long Lines?? (I called AOL HQ and asked when they were switching to the spare backbone. But they just said, "You're one of those IWETHEY-guys, are'ntcha?" and hung up.) So then, Hows Come ??? Knackered-in-Kenwood
Post #322,973 by Another Scott 3/16/10 7:22:07 AM Reply	Dunno. A few helpful sites. This morning to Speakeasy's SF site I'm getting 2.17/3.56, to their site DC I'm getting 8.83/3.74. I guess what's happening is that some packets are getting lost along the way and they're having to be retransmitted, killing the throughput. Internet Traffic Report (NA): http://www.internett....com/namerica.htm I don't see much out of the ordinary, though there was a ping glitch around 10:30 pm (time zone??). The index of 85 isn't great. Tracert (traceroute) lets you follow packets from your PC to its destination. WinMTR seems pretty good (http://winmtr.sourceforge.net/) on Windows; On OSX there are several options - http://support.lunar...bases/article/202 WinMTR of www.google.cn (Google in China) is giving me 188 ms ping times with 74% packet loss to the next-to-last hop. I think it's just slow unless the host you're going to is close by. HTH a little. Cheers, Scott.
Post #322,980 by Ashton 3/16/10 1:44:14 PM Reply	Duh,, forgot 1st line: Inet Traffic Report Didn't recall its extremely logical Site-name. Sheer sloth; mea culpa. That's the trouble with clever tools.. when you use them too often you find things that you would not LIke. That happen for no reason you can find, effortlessly. (Could this explain tea baggers?) And as you say, the graphs do not indicate anything strange at that time. Oddly too, today: Atlanta GA gets a 0 (100% packet loss.) Is Box messing with his Box-net again? (He also seems to be hammering Canada; that's bloody-well un(ex-) Patriotic innit? And I get 12.12/0.73 --> Atlanta just now,ergo; slow but not-quite-0 This stuff is just ephemeral and should not be pondered by amateurs. :-/ (Yes, had noticed the expectedly-convenient tools array within OS X; on one occasion it handily pointed out the source of some many UDP attempts (stealth mode) attempting to flummox firewall -- somewhere in China -- as well as noise on Comcast. Just fills up f/wall logs is all.) Thanks for the reminders (sans deserved sarcastic 2 X 4 to head.) Leaves with tail between legs..

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