I have finally joined civilized world with 200mbs down and 25 up internet speed. The ISP offers up to 1 gbs down if you are willing to pay.
Nice. I got the same speeds you got. Your ping is crazy low though. How did you achieve such mythical latency? I'm usually hanging around the twenties, forties on a bad day.
I have no idea why the ping is so low, maybe because there aren't that many users yet? This is a new ISP in my area, just dropped comcast for them.
I started streaming Inglorious Basterds off of Amazon this evening and Xfinity killed it five times. This happens every night now for the last three weeks or so.
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Latency can be subjective. In my 1ms case, the speedtest server was a couple hundred yards away from where I was testing. Granted however, the fiber line probably runs a mile down the road and then back up across the street to where the speedtest server is. The fiber line probably has a jump or two into the core fiber, and then another jump or two straight into the Tier 1 provider (level 3/cogent) in Atlanta. While all of that is amazing and kick ass, that is todays standards. What is impressive are my other two examples, which are the 30ish megs with 3ms. This is a 3 mile wireless shot shooting through a couple layers of big trees.
Nobody needs to have THAT fast of speed. Unlike software and desktop rigs that need to have fast processors, the internet is optimized for the lowest common denominator. And I'm really not sure why people want to fill up their harddrive with stuff that you can get on the internet without it.
Lol. Just because YOU don't need it doesn't mean everyone else doesn't need it. I'm downloading/uploading around 100gb of data alone per month, including roommates we probably shoot that up to around 250-300gb. Please don't feed the bull**** ISP company line of "nobody needs fast internet so we won't waste money on our infrastructure" and we'll continue to price gouge our customers for ****tier speeds at higher prices. Thank god for Google Fiber forcing some ******* progress in this country.
Interesting. I never think much about the ping, and that's probably a good thing. (But this was via wireless just now -- does that matter?) <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3843862646"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/3843862646.png" /></a> Wow @ FrancisFan's upload > download. Are you running a business with that?
