Your download speed is beautiful, but is that a sustained speed or just for an initial burst? Some cable companies will throttle you down after a lot of sustained use.
My upload speed on my sucky DSL beats yours though at 1040kb/s. I guess that only matters if you like to upload videos.
i think AT&T is filtering my connection because im getting service burps every 20 minutes while playing BF2 and using high bitrate voice comms for hours on end
The number you see from the \"recommended server\" is what I'd call your real number. It's the best representative of what your connection is capable of giving you if you were connected to an awesome server.
The number you'll see when browsing/downloading depends on where the server is and the quality of the intermediate steps. The more distant the server (in terms of hops, not necessarily geography), the more possibility of slowdowns. The fact that you get slower numbers connecting across the country or across the ocean just shows you that there are other bottlenecks out there.
I am supposed to be at 6 meg down but I have threatened to go to FIOS since they installed the lines 2-3 years ago and have got a speed upgrade every time. Not to long ago they sent me a letter saying to disregard the mention of power boost on my statement as you are at a speed faster than it gives you, but told me it should still work when you get lower speeds than that on the phone.
If I connect to the east coast, my ping gets significantly worse (there seems to be about a 100 ms jump between Chicago and New York) and my upload speed drops a bit (to about 1000 kb/s). My download speed cuts in half if I go off of the west coast at all (about 12000 kb/s down in Salt Lake, Denver, Dallas, etc.)
I'm jealous, but I still refuse to pay Comcast their exorbitant price for their broadband!
My neighbors have complained that the way Comcast has our neighborhood wired, if a lot of people go on line at once, then your speed will drop due to the lack of bandwidth.
At least it is a little better than the 512k/512k I pay over $70/mo for, but out here in rural areas you are lucky if you can get a DSL line at all.
The only real difference between mine and all these 15-30 mbit download speeds people are posting is I can use mine at it's maximum speed continually 24/7/365 and my ISP will neither cap me or complain about it in the slightest. It is "real" unlike what most people get which is "up to xx mbits*"
*if all you ever do is read the descentbb, check the weather and download your email...
This is just under what I am supposed to be paying for. Like Krom, I'm in the boonies, but there is no cap and the speed is consistent. No cable modem option here because the local cable company refuses to string a line up the hill where I live.
I tried a dozen places and I get this if I pick the recommended server....
