How Fast Is My Internet Connection??

[YuccaFlatsRanch]

My current internet connection says it is .52 Mbps and is due to go up to 1 Mbps. How fast or slow is that really compared to cable or DSL??

[CoonXpress]

Speedtest
Here's a site to check the actual speed of your connection.
Have AT&T DSL and getting 1.3Mb/s download and .3Mb/s upload.

[Ohio Rusty]

That is blasing fast compared to what I can get. Living rural, we do not have any 'high speed' .... only dial up. My fastest speed I can get is ..... 17K bps.... that is it --- K .... not meg. Pages and graphics barely load, and it's maybe a 5 minute wait between screens or to get a screen to refresh. One bid on aything on Ebay takes me 20 minutes waiting for the different screens to change. There is no such thing as 'sniping' at the last second on my connection speed !!!

I can have high speed and live in the big city with all the crime and shootings, or I can live rural and put up with a 17K connection .... Rural is my choice !!

Ohio Rusty <><

[Windy in Kansas]

Originally Posted by YuccaFlatsRanch

My current internet connection says it is .52 Mbps and is due to go up to 1 Mbps. How fast or slow is that really compared to cable or DSL??

I have AT&T medium speed DSL in order to easily view streaming video.

Ping test was .52 milliseconds, download test showed 2.96 Mbps and upload at .42 Mbps.

[tomwendy]

I have verizon fios
Ping 10ms Download 15.30 mbps upload 4.76mbps
Just got this a month ago and am verv stisfied.

The local phone company ran fiberoptic cable in my area. (stimulus package money?) Upload speed was 2.5 MB/sec but they recently upgraded that to 5.5. Either one is fast enough to stream video from HULU and the networks.

My pet peeve is that I had to get a landline phone if I wanted the internet. Now I pay the fees and taxes associated with the phone and the local calling area is a joke.

[oregon woodsmok]

65 mbps. That's with the wireless Internet. Got a dish on the roof. It's plenty fast enough for me. I don't game, so I don't know if it is fast enough to game, but I can watch movies and photos appear to load instantaneously.

I don't remember what I am supposed to be getting. That speed is what my computer says it is receiving. Wireless modem is on another computer and then a wireless router to my computer and to my laptop.

My son had DSL and it sucked big time. Slow, down all the time, and comes with all the telephone fees and taxes, so it is expensive.

It doesn't matter how much capacity you've got, you can only receive as fast as it is broadcast, so Homesteading Today is always going to be sloooooow.

[YuccaFlatsRanch]

My ping is .52 Mbps. My download is .72 Mbps and upload is .54 Mbps. This is with the current antenna I have which is rated at .54 Mbps. They are moving me up to the 1 Mbps soon and I am "HOPING" to get fast enough to stream ROKU - I don't care if it isn't HD Roku - my eyes can't tell the difference anyway.

[calliemoonbeam]

Good luck, but I'm not sure that will be fast enough for ROKU. When I had slower DSL internet, anything below about 1.3 would cause it to lag, pause and reload a lot. For a while, I had a Cricket modem, and it was right at 1 or 0.9 sometimes, and I couldn't get ROKU to work with it at all. Netflix will "officially" tell you that you need a minimum of 1.5, but do acknowledge that slower speeds do work sometimes.

But, I'm also in a bad location, at almost the end of the DSL line and way out in the sticks for the Cricket. They weren't even sure it would work in my area, had to bring it home and try it out, lol. So you may have better luck, sure hope so!

[arabian knight]

Originally Posted by calliemoonbeam

Good luck, but I'm not sure that will be fast enough for ROKU. When I had slower DSL internet, anything below about 1.3 would cause it to lag, pause and reload a lot. For a while, I had a Cricket modem, and it was right at 1 or 0.9 sometimes, and I couldn't get ROKU to work with it at all. Netflix will "officially" tell you that you need a minimum of 1.5, but do acknowledge that slower speeds do work sometimes.

But, I'm also in a bad location, at almost the end of the DSL line and way out in the sticks for the Cricket. They weren't even sure it would work in my area, had to bring it home and try it out, lol. So you may have better luck, sure hope so!

I am at 2 MBps and hoping that this spring it can go higher.
We are getting Fiber Optics, and getter Fiber Optic cable right up the the house.~! Yippee skippy.
The have already put the box on the phone box and then will have a battery backup~! They also will have a plug in unit that goes inside the house.
And then also I may even get the Bundled Package where I will also get "cable TV" over the DSL lines~! COOL.
I had it when they first came out but they had some troubles but worked that out now and with fiber directly up to the houses, I am sure I can get a nice clear picture that will be the same as satellite service.

[HermitJohn]

Originally Posted by Ohio Rusty

That is blasing fast compared to what I can get. Living rural, we do not have any 'high speed' .... only dial up. My fastest speed I can get is ..... 17K bps.... that is it --- K .... not meg. Pages and graphics barely load, and it's maybe a 5 minute wait between screens or to get a screen to refresh. One bid on aything on Ebay takes me 20 minutes waiting for the different screens to change. There is no such thing as 'sniping' at the last second on my connection speed !!!

I can have high speed and live in the big city with all the crime and shootings, or I can live rural and put up with a 17K connection .... Rural is my choice !!

Ohio Rusty <><

I have dialup too, out in the boonies 26k is fast as it gets and usually 21k to 24k. I also have a pay as you go cell. The basic data connection on my Boost Mobile Cell tops out at 19k. But then its a flat 35cents a day if you use the data connection.... so not complaining. That 19k connection has saved my bacon numerous times when these lovely rural phone lines go down.

What hurt was last summer I went through 4 dialup isps, all throttling connection speed to a crawl. ALL of them were like 8k to 12k. You havent lived until you try to do anything at 8k.... I got very good at few solitare games. Click on a page and then bring up the solitare.

Oh what will help is use Opera browser. It simply works best for dealing with slow connections. Others time out, Opera works. And you can put button on desktop to toggle off loading of images in opera. That helps. Firefox has an addon that gives this ability too if you are stuck on Firefox. And I never even bothered installing flash. Flash is not a dialup friendly technology. Some sites simply wont let you do anything without flash but still enough that do where I can just ignore the flash sites. Most just use it for embedded video or animated ads. Those things not necessary.

I cant really snipe on ebay either, but if connection isnt unduely slow, I can get a bid in at around 20 seconds left on clock and still get it paid attention to. Helps if you have previous bid on the item so you get offered the "one click bid" option and dont have to go through the confirmation screens.

[FarmerRob]

Yucca -- according to the SpeedTest link listed above I have 9.37Mbs download and 2.89 Mbs upload on my Charter cable modem.

[Pink_Carnation]

Up to 40mbps is the fastest our DSL company can do. We are on the 7mbps I believe, but usually end up with about 5mbps. We still watch netflix and youtube on different computers.

[wharton]

Originally Posted by Ohio Rusty

I can have high speed and live in the big city with all the crime and shootings, or I can live rural and put up with a 17K connection .... Rural is my choice !!

Ohio Rusty <><

Yep.....thems the only two choices ya' gots in this country. Either you gets yur internets as slow as a dying turtle, or you move to the big sitty with them electric lights and flush turlets and risk getting shot, iffin ya' want the good stuff. Been living in the mountains for a few decades now, with high speed net, deer in the yard, coyotes howling at night, and never had a crime or a shootin' on the patch. Maybe, it's an Ohio problem?

[artificer]

I think the OP's question was... is this a good speed compared to what "you" have. The answer is, again... it depends. What are you going to do online? Check email, check the weather, minimal surfing? Your speed is fine. Do you want to have HD streaming video? Then you will not have enough speed for real-time viewing, even after the upgrade. Your speed is going to limit what you can do on the net.

Netflix wants at least 1.5mbps to view their videos. Some of the other content providers will have lower requirements. Most of them let you pause, and have the buffer fill up. Netflix doesn't, however.

With the modern web pages, with all the extra stuff they have, you should have a decent surfing experience. More speed is better, but sometimes you have to take what you can get.

Michael

[thebaker]

Ping 60ms
Download Speed 4.23 mbps
Upload Speed 0.45 mbps

[calliemoonbeam]

Originally Posted by arabian knight

I am at 2 MBps and hoping that this spring it can go higher.
We are getting Fiber Optics, and getter Fiber Optic cable right up the the house.~! Yippee skippy.
The have already put the box on the phone box and then will have a battery backup~! They also will have a plug in unit that goes inside the house.
And then also I may even get the Bundled Package where I will also get "cable TV" over the DSL lines~! COOL.
I had it when they first came out but they had some troubles but worked that out now and with fiber directly up to the houses, I am sure I can get a nice clear picture that will be the same as satellite service.

That's great AK! I have much better DSL these days, get between 13 and 15 MBps download, whee! But it's still only about 1-1.5 upload. Wish they'd speed that up too. With my work, I download/upload, download/upload files all day. I can have three files loaded in the background waiting for me, so usually that's enough that I don't see the lag from the upload time, but if they're really short reports I end up waiting to upload before I can move on. I do 100-150 reports a day, so lag time can really add up.

But I still don't do any kind of "cable" TV or satellite, just hate spending the money. I have Netflix and watch a lot of stuff online, plus I have a pretty big selection of DVDs, so I don't really feel like I'm missing much. I haven't had it for about four years, but my son got cable a while back, and I watched one evening and decided I was glad I didn't have it any more, not worth it! But good luck, it's so exciting when you move up to "high speed", lol!

[ladycat]

Originally Posted by Ohio Rusty

That is blasing fast compared to what I can get. Living rural, we do not have any 'high speed' .... only dial up.

That was the story here until a little local company sprang up that provides fixed wireless. Now I have a box on the roof with a cable that comes into the house.

I got the slowest they have- 1.5Mbps. But it's often 1.3 or 1.4.

Upload is about .4 -.5

I usually have no problems watching streaming videos.

[MattyD]

-I just ran mine on the Speedtest site and I got a 42ms ping rate. The download was 15.43Mbps and the upload was .92Mbps. Looks pretty good, but I still have to stop and refresh pages to get them completed. Happens on different sites, so I'm not sure what the issue is. I also run Firefox which has always been fast for me until the last few months or so...

L8R,
Matt

[HermitJohn]

Originally Posted by ladycat

That was the story here until a little local company sprang up that provides fixed wireless. Now I have a box on the roof with a cable that comes into the house.

I got the slowest they have- 1.5Mbps. But it's often 1.3 or 1.4.

Upload is about .4 -.5

I usually have no problems watching streaming videos.

Look for feedback before signing up. There is one of these in my area, but when I got to searching found several negative feedback and no positive. I decided probably didnt want to deal with this company. Though could just be people totally clueless as to what they bought???

Just my experience when I find people spending the time to make negative comments about a service, should pay attention. Now if comments are overwhelmingly positive feedback and just few negative, then probably ok to try.

As to those that claim cause they happen to have a fast connection in boonies where THEY LIVE means everybody everywhere has such available are just not very aware.