Broadband speed question

phobos77 · 09-03-2003, 11:24 PM

Question! When i connect with my verizon online dsl, the bottom corner tells your "CONNECTION SPEED" -mine reads about 100 MBPS -is that fast to you cable people? please tell me your connection speed dudes!

Syanide · 09-03-2003, 11:25 PM

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Originally posted by phobos77@Sep 3 2003, 11:24 PM
Question! When i connect with my verizon online dsl, the bottom corner tells your "CONNECTION SPEED" -mine reads about 100 MBPS -is that fast to you cable people? please tell me your connection speed dudes!

are you bragging?

phobos77 · 09-03-2003, 11:27 PM

OH... UM... NOT AT ALL! NEVER WOULD I BRAG! EHEMM!

09-03-2003, 11:52 PM

100Mbps is your Ethernet speed, not your actual line speed. I currently have crap connection since I moved to a new apartment and im using thier free service but I shall be getting a nice 2Mbps connection next week. 100Mbps connection would cost you over one thousand a month...

Cable is usually 1.5Mbps sometimes 2Mbps (like mine) but sometimes lowered to 784Kbps down and commonly 384Kbps up. Problem with cable is that if your area is heavy on cable users your speeds will deminish.

ADSL on the otherhand rarely goes up to 1.5Mbps and is usually at 784Kbps down and 256Kbps Up. Reason is that ADSL is highly defined by the users distance to the central HUB(ISP).

Reason the Upload is lower then the download is to discourage people from pirating but the major players usually dont mind spending extra money on SDSL which offers download and upload of the same speed.

beast · 09-03-2003, 11:54 PM

100mbps or 100mbit is the actual connection that the cablemodem is getting between you and the modem itself. This is local traffic only. The connection speed the cable modem gets to the internet is far different.

a goodway to test your bandwidth is to go to:

http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=2

John D. · 09-04-2003, 12:07 AM

To give you an idea, here are the results for my connection. I usually get very good speed when downloading but my upload is capped and sux

Hopefully fxp & shell are a good alternative to bring you all these demos as fast as I can

phobos77 · 09-04-2003, 12:09 AM

JEEZ thanks dudes for the info! i never knew the difference and now that you say it, 100 mbps WOULD BE over 1000 a month!!! I just did the test thanks to "beast" and it came out to 816 kbps!!! pretty cool! Thanxs guys!

Big D. · 09-04-2003, 12:45 AM

I'm supposed to have 3.1 mbps down, but I had other thing using my connection so it's not as high as it should be.

EDIT: Re-ran the test and got a closer number.

olympusxp · 09-04-2003, 12:49 AM

My cable is 3.5Mbps down and 384kbps up...pretty crappy. I wish I could get at least 1Mbit or something.

Magus, the upload speed is not lowered or "capped" to discourage piracy, it is due to the technical limitations of frequency use in cable and ADSL lines. For example, on cable, when you are upload/downloading at the same time, your download speed will eventually sync down to the same speed as your upload. This is the same for DSL. Companies put your upload speed lower to sort of "pad" your download speed a bit, so when you are uploading at full potential it won't f**k with your download speed much (however, your latency/ping will still go WAY UP).

If your download/upload speed were the same on regular cable and ADSL lines, your speed would be shit if your lucky, but most likely your latency would be horrible (timing out almost) without proper support from the headend. The only way to effectively give you more upload speed on cable is to increase the download speed as well. However, this would get very expensive for the cable company to buy its bandwidth (from companies like UUNET, AT&T, Level3, Qwest, etc.) and overall speed in the neighborhood would go down.

Another reason why SDSL is so expensive.

Fiber optics (DS3, OC-3, OC-X) don't have this problem.

Big D. · 09-04-2003, 12:54 AM

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Originally posted by olympusxp@Sep 3 2003, 11:49 PM
Companies put your upload speed lower to sort of "pad" your download speed a bit, so when you are uploading at full potential it won't f**k with your download speed much (however, your latency/ping will still go WAY UP).

Yeah. I used to have 128kbits up and even when uploading at that much (16kB per sec) my ping in games would go up by a 20-50ms. I know later on they improved my upload speed to 256kbps, but for a month now I've been getting around 40kBps and even over 50 in this test. They never mentionned changing the upload speed, so that's weird, but anyway, it's a good thing, except now my ping is much worse in games (much less stable, higher in some cases and very high when I upload at full speed).