Broadband Speedtest redux

[Ron Obvious]

Somebody posted a link here to test your internet speed a few weeks ago, and I got disturbingly low 5/5 Mb/s up and down despite all the mails I'd received from Comcast lately claiming they'd upgraded my speed again.

It bugged me enough to investigate and after I determined that my ancient router and cable modem were the problem, I ordered new equipment. It arrived yesterday, and running the same test now I got:



Better than 94% of the country, woohoo!

So, thanks to the person who posted that link here!

[Paulie]

1. Nice! I'm 91% better.

[Locut0s]

2. Think that may have been me? My results:

Right up to the 50mb cap I'm supposed to be getting.

Those are some sweet results you have now!

[Ron Obvious]

6. Yes, I think it was you

So thanks, Locut0s!

I'm all ready for ipv6 now too. I think this ancient router might have dated back to 2000 or 2001 when we first got broadband here, so I've known for a while that it was necessary. I just held off because I had written this little program back then that interrogated the router over telnet and got its WAN IP address, up-time, etc from it, which I would then mail out to myself every morning at 8.

This way I would always have the IP address to connect back to it, and it turned out be rather comforting that, no matter where I was in the world, I'd get that message from home every day saying everything was ok.

I'll just have to rewrite it, though modern routers don't do telnet so it'll have to be via http

[Locut0s]

9. You're welcome :P...

I don't know which router you have now but if you put custom firmware on the router, DDWRT or Tomato or something like it you should have the telnet feature, and thousands of others. Though rewriting the program might actually be fun.

I'm 1/2 way through a programming degree right now actually

[Ron Obvious]

12. It's an Asus RT-AC66U

I was a little surprised, because I didn't even know Asus even made routers but I'm very happy with it so far.

I think I'll rewrite the app to use http and parse the html. I'm a little nervous about flashing another firmware on a new router...

There's no portable way to get the WAN ip address, sadly, but if I'm feeling lazy I'll just fetch this page.

Good luck on that degree. I'm retired now, but I thoroughly enjoyed programming as a career. It's harder these days, of course....

[Locut0s]

13. Yes ASUS has expanded into everything it seems...

I really like their laptops now, they have products in almost every computer category. I am in fact using one of their routers, it's an ASUS RT-N16. One of the first things I did when I got it home was flash tomato firmware onto it, couldn't be happier with it. But yes you always do take the risk of bricking it if you do this.

I was going to saw you could just fetch a page off the net that reflected you IP back for you.

I enjoy programming a lot but I'm worried about the job prospects later. Also with my very long history of problems with school, and depression and anxiety I may be setting myself up for failure yet again, I don't know. I do well academically but have still managed to drop out of university 4 or 5 times due to these other issues. I don't feel good about this coming semester either, but I'll see how it goes.

[LiberalEsto]

3. D+ We have Comcast too.

We switched to Comcast a year ago so I don't think the equipment is that old. Everything has been ridiculously slow lately.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. I have comcast and this is the promised speed, ~30MB

How in the world are you getting 76 from comcast? Wow!

[Ron Obvious]

7. Must be Seattle

I heard or read a story the other day that only one US city had world-class internet, and that city turned out to be Seattle.

The plan promises 50, I think.

[hunter]

5. No way will I install adobe flash on my computer.

Here's one that's html5 and will work with any modern browser...

http://speedof.me

My computer is old and tends not to go as fast as our internet can, especially with H.264 or WebM video. It keeps up with youtube and vimeo embedded video here on DU well enough.

[B Calm]

8. Download 5.03 / Upload 0.79 / Ping 842 ms (Dish Satellite)

[Ron Obvious]

10. That download isn't too bad

Since that's what I was getting with my old equipment and I was able to stream HD video over it without problems.

That 842 ms ping, though, is pretty terrible lag. You wouldn't be able to do VOIP like Skype with that kind of lag. That's the problem with satellites, though.

[B Calm]

11. You'd think at 50 dollars a month it would be amazing, but. .

[Populist_Prole]

15. Just sprung for an upgrade

[link:|

[Trailrider1951]

16. Here's mine:

Thanks, AT&T! And only $48 per month! I guess that's what I get for living in BFE, Texas.

[GoCubsGo]

24. Mine's even worse.

I have AT&T DSL. I have a feeling mine is more equipment-related than AT&T. Although, they are the ones who provided the shitty modem. I'm on my second one in 4 or 5 years, and they have a reputation for overheating and wearing out quickly. My router is a couple of years old, too, although I would like to think it would last longer than that.

[warrior1]

17. I agree, 40 bucks doesn't buy you much. Is this what they call first world problems?

second one with google chrome




the ad at the site states gc is faster. Um no. It isn't.

[In_The_Wind]

18. This was today's test results.

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2935941542][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

[MattSh]

19. Only a B-

But for less than $13 a month, I can't complain.

[Hayabusa]

20. Better than the 56k I was using a year ago, that's for certain.

[steve2470]

21. 45 mbps down, 5 mbps up, fast enough

[Locut0s]

22. W.O.W...

This is my new dorm room connection.

[easychoice]

23. I want that!

LMAO

[Ron Obvious]

26. Whoa!

That's what you get for being a night owl!

[hunter]

27. Our entire university shared a 56 kbit/s connection, I think.

The internet wasn't very big then.

We'd have to go to the computer lab and claim a dumb terminal to use it.

Or you could use a 300 Baud phone modem! Like magic...

Hey, good luck at college this semester.

[Xyzse]

25. Hrm

[MrScorpio]

28. I'm going to spring for a faster router

[Ron Obvious]

29. To test

Connect your cable modem directly to your computer/laptop, reboot and see what kind of speed you get. Next, if you also have a bridge (like I did), connect the router directly to the computer/laptop, reboot and test the speed.

I first replaced the modem, noticed no speed difference in the network, but a huge difference when I connected directly to the modem, so replaced the router. The bridge I have connected to the router made no difference. It was the modem and the router combined.