DSL users only: please try this speed test ...

[welshTerrier2]

i'm trying to find out what kind of download speeds other DSL users are getting ... please try running a "speedtest" (it takes about 3 seconds) on the following website and choose your fastest result from the available poll choices ... thanks ...

DSL Speed Test: http://infospeed.verizon.net/speedtest/speedtest500k.asp

Note: you don't need Verizon DSL to run a test ...

Verizon claims i should be getting speeds around 3M but i haven't gotten anything higher than 1.7M ... they said it could be my wireless router slowing things down ... that's the next thing i'm going to check out ...

[Goldmund]

1. 1.43M on wireless

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. 1 M over wireless, I have Verizon.

[welshTerrier2]

11. verizon has a free upgrade to 3M service

give them a call at 800-567-6789

you may not actually get this speed but at least you can have them upgrade your service ... all it takes, if its available in your area, is a phone call ...

[NV Whino]

3. I'm confused about which figure you want

But it was 7042.3 KBytes per second. On Airport wireless. (Didn't vote in the poll because of confusion.)

on Edit: SBC DSL

[welshTerrier2]

12. that's really fast ...

that's over 7M ...

my DSL service is not even 1/4 that speed ...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. in the 200s

and I'm paying over $50 a month for this "fast DSL" speed from my phone company, which bought out the competition and is the ONLY game in town.

[obxhead]

28. go to

www.dslreports.com
Lots of tweaks that help.

[Deja Q]

5. When qwest finally gets to doing the upgrade (before tomorrow)...

I should be at ~7Mbps download, 1Mbps upload.

[Darkseid69]

6. DSL extreme

2666.7 Kbits 333.3 KBytes

[Neshanic]

7. Cox cable 2M/2325.9Kbits 290.0Kbytes

[Cronus Protagonist]

8. Time Warner Cable 2M 3084Kbits 385.5KBytes

DSL cain't catch it :)

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[Deja Q]

18. Cable is slow and is insecure... DSL gives me, for the same cost,

6329.1 down, 802k up.

:9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9 :9

[katinmn]

21. Comcast 4M 4268.9Kbits 533.6KBytes

Hate the company, though, but for once I am taking them for a ride.

I have a 3 for deal: TV, Internet and digital phone for $100/month through December 05.

[nykiera]

26. Time Warner Cable-6M 7259.5Kbits 907.4KBytes

[Cronus Protagonist]

27. Nice. You must be on a primary LAN node

Good for you :)

[unhappycamper]

31. Comcast, Boston: 4571.4Kbits 571.4KBytes n/t

[supernova]

9. 645.2KBits 80.6KBytes

So so.

[bridgit]

10. 4M ~ 4745Kbits 593.1KBytes

:shrug:

[manly]

13. test

ran it 4 times. got 4 wildly divergent results. conclusion: test is worthless.

[Kathleen04]

14. I voted 6M and up..

I get the max 10M and up..but then I got confused as to whether what I am using is "DSL"...I'm using my University's ethernet hookup...

[aeolian]

15. 2.5 MBit/s

[aeolian]

20. Damn! My home connection is faster than my work connection!

I've turned a corner! :headbang:

[Maestro]

16. I'm on a completely wireless ISP as I am sort of rural.

I wasn't even getting 768kb so I decided to try another site. Check out these wierd results. I am calling my ISP tomorrow. I'd rather have these numbers flipped-flopped.





And no, I did no tweaking.

[AntiCoup2K4]

17. I'm at 2.6m, but I'm supposed to be at 4m

Fucking Comcast......:argh:

[AntiCoup2K4]

25. Now this is interesting....

Now I'm getting 4M 5714.3Kbits 714.3KBytes

A considerable difference from last night. But then I'm using Linux at the moment, as opposed to Windows XP in the previous reading.

I have heard that certain Windows services, such as Auto Update "reserve" bandwidth for themselves, but then I always turn off all the unneccessary services anyway.

Must just be the bloat of Micro$oft itself.

Oh well, I'm to the point now where I only use Windows for the multimedia stuff anyway.

[chickenscratching]

19. i hate it when bandwidth get's in the way!!!

:banghead:

my anger is lost Completely! :cry:

[Orsino]

22. ORIGINAL POSTER: Ignore third-party speed tests!

No one is going to connect reliably to various web sites at anything greater than, say, 800 kbps (100 kBps)m, which is the most I'm seeing from the particular Verizon site in the original post. You can get lucky on occasion, but please trust me on this; I've spent too much of my workdays explaining it to customers.

You can get a near-instantaneous reading of your line's capacity, especially if you're using your own ISP's test site, but otherwise you're connecting though two or more ISPs, and all bets are off.

The 3Mbps capacity the original poster purchased is not any kind of guarantee of session speed. We buy aggregate bandwidth from ISPs, meaning the total of all our possible sessions--and no third-party web site is going to promise you 3 Mbps of their bandwidth anytime you want it.

No, I saw a bit of improvement in download speed when I upgraded from IDSL (144 kbps) to real ADSL, but none when my ISP doubled our throughput with 3M/384k service I have now.

My favorite analogy: widening your driveway doesn't get you to work any faster. It just allows more cars to come and go at the same time.

ORIGINAL POSTER: Verizon isn't gypping you on speed/capacity, but their tech support is BSing you. You're not going to get 3M, or even 2M download speeds, unless it's from a server in your own network--and you can't even count on that. 1.7Mbps is incredibly good performance for a single session, and you're not likely to get even that on a regular basis.

[Samurai_Writer]

23. 36363.6Kbits per second

How fast is that? 36Mb? I find that hard to believe. I'm on BellSouth DSL.

[obxhead]

29. got fibre?

[Samurai_Writer]

30. yeah I'm on ethernet

if that is what you mean?

[Spider Jerusalem]

24. Bellsouth DSL, 2412Kb/301.5KB/sec

Where are you located? Using a speed test page closer to your actual internet point of presence can make a difference; this might not be reflecting your actual line speed (potential router bottlenecks and so on).