Post Up Your Internet Speed~

[bdebde]

I would love to have higher speeds like most of you guys, but I have DSL at over max range (over 18000 ft). The "standard" DSL is up to 6M speed, but because of my extreme distance I can only get lower speed. In fact the only way I got DSL this far out from switch, is because a friend of mine knows the area supervisor. I called him up and asked to try it even though I am almost 1000 ft over range.

[BrianG]

Is there some kind of repeater or booster they can add somewhere in between? Might cose a pretty penny if it's even possible, but if you're that hard up for speed...

Your ping results look pretty decent though...

[bdebde]

It certainly beats dial up (OMG who uses that anymore?). Pages actually load quicker at home (this connection) than they do at work with a much faster connection.

[E-Revonut]

My speed sucks, but I'm using wireless on my laptop and my Cable modem is about 7 years old.

My iPhone has 180kbps download and 27kbps upload

Using wireless on laptop with DSL. Its fast enough for me. lol

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by bdebde

It certainly beats dial up (OMG who uses that anymore?). Pages actually load quicker at home (this connection) than they do at work with a much faster connection.

Just about everything beats dial-up! Before my g/f moved in where I have cable internet, I set her up so she could use her Palm Treo as a modem hooked to a PC. It wasn't the best (latency was kinda high and was download limited to a 17MB for a single file), but even that was better than dial-up.

[brushlessboy16]

[What's_nitro?]

Cool. Most of you have a very good connection. I heard Comcast was gonna be upgrading their line pretty soon, too. The high-speed service will have up to 50Mb/s DL.

Hey Bdebde, do they give you any discount for the slower service? Ya know, since you know a guy???

*edit* New test:



10ms ping....

[_paralyzed_]

My desktop should have the same results, right? If not the slow speed is computer related?

[lincpimp]

[What's_nitro?]

Originally Posted by _paralyzed_

My desktop should have the same results, right? If not the slow speed is computer related?

If you aren't using a wireless connection, then your speed should be a lot higher. It could just be the settings on your LAN card. You could try setting a static IP, or disabling some IE services/functions. Like you said I doubt it is spyware, but you should scan anyways. An easy way to tell if there are programs hogging bandwidth is to open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) and click on the "Networking" tab. If there is a lot of activity and you aren't DL'ing anything () then your computer might be sick...

[_paralyzed_]

0 activity. I think its just crap service and nobody knows better than to complain to comcast. I'm paying $45 a month for that.

[What's_nitro?]

Wow. YOU should call them.

[BrianG]

Give them a call on Monday and say you are unsatisfied with the speed. It could simply be poor coax wiring somewhere.

[MetalMan]

That's on a wireless connection on my laptop, with about 80% signal strength. Good enough on the download, just wish that upload were faster