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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Cragman, you out there?
Curious to know what do you get in Mammoth.
I'm shocked at the low values coming out of the Bay Area. What about Clint Cummins, who I think might be at the university.
Any university people out there from the Bay Area with readings, campuses are usually very fast.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2011 - 12:58pm PT
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Mark-not circlehead,
Thx. Seems like that should be best case scenario of ATT.
I'll call my provider after some more screen shots are kept.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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[url=http://www.speedtest.net]{{img}}h~~p://www.speedtest.net/result/1181418219.png[/img][/url]
I'm in Wawona with ATT's slowest DSL service. 15 dollars a month. Firefox and safari were the same. It says it would take me 166 minutes to download an 88mb movie. haha..
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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You poor guy, I had no idea.
So does it sometimes take awhile to download a supertopo thread with pictures?
EDIT
My university alma mater is 30M, too.
So I've sorta been under the impression - till now - that most of you guys were in the 20M - 50M download range as well.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Any university people out there from the Bay Area with readings, campuses are usually very fast.
Yes, the speed I posted above is my home office. I'm sure I could bump it up with a Pro account, but I also suspect that the marginal infrastructure in my hood would give it a ceiling of some sort.
The wireless in my office on campus is much slower. If I go up to the faculty mailroom, it's a bit faster-- about like my home connection. The wireless in the building in which I am currently lecturing is almost non-existent.
If you are on a wire in one of the labs, speeds are much, much better. There is nothing like a university average.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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SpeedNet is a fairly low level process so its speeds should be pretty independent of which browser you're using. Moment to moment network variability will be much greater.
There's nothing in the internet specifications that specify what minimum speed can be sustained under any set of conditions. It's all about redundancy and reliability, no matter how long it takes.
However: There can definitely be big differences between what an ISP sells you and can actually deliver.
I usually get about 1.5mbps download from a wireless delivery system 15 miles across a valley. Uploads are harder to measure but I usually get about 800 kbps. My ISP sells me 1.0 mbps down and 600 kbps up. So on average they're doing better than they sell. I DID have a helluva time getting them to upgrade their radio at my end to get to what they're delivering now.
An interesting report comparing worldwide internet speeds. As usual, the US is nowhere near #1
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/11/12/real-connection-speeds-for-internet-users-across-the-world/
Those silly Canucks beat us, although only slightly.
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murcy
climber
sanfrancisco
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Home: same ISP as Mr. Haan---SF to SF, but a good bit slower.
Office (Stanford):
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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So why don't you guys buy into faster packages, do you not have the option or is it a money thing?
Can't you buy 25M (download) for about $50/mo? that's what I pay.
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Murcy, that's greased lightning, I'm jealous!
EDIT
Mike, excellent. See that's what I thought all you bay area folk were pulling.
But some of you are real slowpokes, if I were that slow I couldn't stand it.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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from my office machine
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Well, the weakest link between the PC and the ISP determines the speed. Router, wireless NIC, shared bandwidth (DSL trunk lines get slower with more users) blah blah blah.
If you've got a consistent 100Mbit or gigabit pipe, the rate limiting component is often the CPU that's multitasking like crazy and trying to coalesce all the TCP/IP messages into a data stream. Not many personal computers can keep up with 100 MBit ethernet while doing anything else, especially intense user interactive stuff
A project I've been working has had trouble capturing "gigE" camera images at 400 megabits per second (Mbps) without doing anything else.
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
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I pay $80/month for a land line and this speed, Comcast cable. Comcast is an awful company in my experience, but the speed is there.
They're always hounding me to pick up cable TV and round out the triple deal. F that.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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12 mile wireless connection in a rainstorm
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NMR
Trad climber
Berkeley
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I win.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Satellite connection in a rural Idaho river canyon. Only $59.95 a month.
Beats dialup.
[url=http://www.speedtest.net]{{img}}h~~p://www.speedtest.net/result/1181874402.png[/img][/url]
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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So here's what I'm getting on B/band from the Pit:
[url=http://www.speedtest.net]{{img}}h~~p://www.speedtest.net/result/1182097836.png[/img][/url]
edit: I have no idea what it means, but I wanted to play!
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WBraun
climber
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I have no idea what it means, but I wanted to play!
It means your internet connection sucks major big time compared to most of the people in this thread ......
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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happiegrrrl:
It means that your internet in NYC and mine, in Choss Creek Idaho: are the slowest in all the land of ST.
I never dreamed I would share slow internet with the favored and blessed living in NYC!
Edit: After correction from happiegrrrl and DMT. Thank you!
The Pit in JT is second slowest, next to Choss Creek Idaho!
I had been seriously considering Verizon service here. and for my mobile notebook. Those numbers really suck for the dollars!
Thanks!
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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I'm not in NYC right now. I'm in Joshua Tree, camped at the Pit, and using mobile broadband from Verizon, which costs me $60/month.
It is interesting to read this thread because I can't watch videos - the stop and wait every few seconds. Not that I want to watch videos - I only get 5G a month for the $60, and can use that up if I do. But it does seem like a major rip-off.
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