Mr. Chenevert Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 My comcast connection, less than 2 miles from downtown houston, deciding it's fastest to connect with a server 400 miles away in dallas also defeats the purpose of the internet. My connection at work with half the ping, is still nearly twice as slow as my connection at home on 3 yr old wireless router sharing a connection with another laptop. How does that make any sense ? If you spend the majority of your time connecting to servers that are in Houston, then you would be correct. However, most webservers are not sitting in Houston... so that fact that most of your data gets routed through Dallas is not a problem. Work may limit bandwidth in order to ensure the pipe never gets overloaded. Anytime you check speeds from work, dont assume that you are getting 100% of the pipe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barracuda Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Different day, different results... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadooga Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chenevert Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Quite a bit better than the UH test: edit - just tried the Dallas server a couple times and got results like this and Austin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chenevert Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 NICE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxmulder Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 I get real high ping... Often as high as the 500-600ms range. Comcast sucks. I've seen speeds upto 15Mb/s and 2Mb/s upload. On my t-mobile unlocked Option 452 i get up to 1.44Mb/s on 3g. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBuddy06 Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 My home ISP offers 7 Mbps, but this is what I got last night. Almost 30 Mbps. Speed Test Link My iPhone to my home Wifi network is pretty fast too. Just slightly above 11 Mbps. App Store Link This is my work speed for comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Didn't we all do this about 3 months ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Didn't we all do this about 3 months ago? Yup. dingy of me. Plus I must have misplaced the whole post in the wrong section. Already sent a request to move it/merge it to Computer and Tech section with the existing thread. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Topics combined.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barracuda Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Nice! I'm lucky to get 5Mbps on my DSL. Over wireless it says I'm only getting 2.81 Mb/s download. With a direct connection I usually average about 4.5 Mbps. EDIT - Just re-ran the test... I re-ran this and noticed that the Houston server is no longer available to test. Also, it's interesting that my download speed is slower coming from Austin than from Dallas, Chicago, NY, and San Jose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Think it might be better if I used the ethernet cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Quite a bit better than the UH test: Aaaaaaand at home...alas: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Austin Corpus Christi Dallas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barracuda Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 ^ Lucky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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