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I was $H!Ting myself when I saw this…


That maintained through the whole download, not a jump start like some providers are.

I have one of those 3.0 modems. (Most modems are 2.0) (Its not brand specific, I forget what the exact feature is, but its 3.0 instead of the standard 2.0)

I fail to see the significance?

I just thought 1.6 was a very good d/l speed :(

I think mine reaches to about 3-4 mb/s, but it starts slowly and picks up speed.

I get 1MB at lowest, and 2.3MB at highest :)
That's on my neighbor's network though xD
Here at home, I can get max 1.2MB and maintain 700KB at average

The download speed mostly depends on the website your downloading from, so it could vary greatly.

I think that's really fast. My max is 650kbps.

My max is only like 350kbps :(.

my max is 300. lol

its really good. today at school my laptop hit 908k

The highest I have ever gotten is 4 mb per second, and that was by like 1.5 higher than the previous max, so I don't understand how that happened… I normally get on torrents 1.6 mb, http slower on most sites besides apple(like your shot) and a few others

Lol when Charter accidentally released their business package on our node I got 25mb/s download for about 3 hours. But otherise I average 2-3mb/s

From: Mr.Klean
Lol when Charter accidentally released their business package on our node I got 25mb/s download for about 3 hours. But otherise I average 2-3mb/s

:wowzers: 25 mb/s?!!!!!!! I would've gone on a download rampage if that happened to me.

That I did I torrented for as long as I could.

Lol @ average broadband connection speeds :\ Pretty sad how low they are. 1 Gbit is amazing, shame I don't have that at my house (yet?).

From: Harry
Lol @ average broadband connection speeds :\ Pretty sad how low they are. 1 Gbit is amazing, shame I don't have that at my house (yet?).

My asshole ISP can run a trial 1gbit fibre optic test in Vancouver for free, but they still supply me with an asinine connection at the cost.

Pisses me off. But I only pay for 12/.5 and 60gb monthly bandwidth, and I routinely reach 25mbps down and sometimes reach 40-45mbps. And they've never said anything about my bandwidth usage. So for all intents and purposes I am getting more then I pay for.

I usually get about 2.5MB/s - 3.0MB/s downloading on torrents when I uncap it.
I once uploaded at 10MB/s =O

From: Harry
Lol @ average broadband connection speeds :\ Pretty sad how low they are. 1 Gbit is amazing, shame I don't have that at my house (yet?).

I know >_<
Can't wait to get like 10GB/s in some years…

My uncle just got fiber, 40mbit down x) At school I got like 100mbit symmetric which effectively translates to around 10megabyte/second, at home 1.3megabyte.

150kb/s at home lol.

This server is 100Mbit. ;)

Dude, set up a seedbox and charge donations for it (we could pay with bitcoins?) That would be AWESOME.

I can torrent at ~5MB/s at work :)

Dang, pretty nice guys! I have been around people with crappy connections to the internet most my life, so I thought this was good lol.

From: Smartzkid
I can torrent at ~5MB/s at work :)

I used to torrent at school but then I got in huge trouble…just be warned.

Really? I thought schools didn't care about that stuff(unless u download explicit stuff). I managed to download like 3 movies a week in school because it had a really fast cable network.

^ uhh wat. Schools are government property. Why would it ever be okay to do any illegal things on government property? Or anywhere at all? >_>

My university shuts down your internet access very quickly if you're caught torrenting. The first 3 hours during move in day someone had their internet shut off for torrenting….you get a few warnings though.

From: i luffs yeww
^ uhh wat. Schools are government property. Why would it ever be okay to do any illegal things on government property? Or anywhere at all? >_>

Unless it's an academy, schools are technically council owned. Schools should block most pirate portals anyway (not saying they're successful). I'm guessing it's illegal anywhere, but internet/data/information laws are veeery vague, no governing force on the internet means that the country you're in affects how you use the internet. I say meh and pirate at school.

From: i luffs yeww
^ uhh wat. Schools are government property. Why would it ever be okay to do any illegal things on government property? Or anywhere at all? >_>

Yea, as long as they don't know what your're doing :P

Gah.. My internet pisses me off!
On my work laptop I get this:
On my stationary tower pc I get this:

And on my gaming laptop I can't connect to the internet at all!
And neither with my PS3 :(

From: Zyt3x
Gah.. My internet pisses me off!
On my work laptop I get this:
On my stationary tower pc I get this:

And on my gaming laptop I can't connect to the internet at all!
And neither with my PS3 :(

Those are pretty good speeds, are you sure it's not your laptop broken? :P

At home we have around 4/5mbps. At uni my brother gets 60mbps, but he can't use it for torrents and all the good stuff because they monitor what happens on their connection.

Honestly, I'd just rent a box overseas and setup a VPN. Cheap, effective.

From: Capricorn
Those are pretty good speeds, are you sure it's not your laptop broken? :P

It worked for me yesterday, and now it's not working for my PS3 either.. I don't know what to believe… :/

E: Restart didn't help

Maybe something wrong with your wireless router?

Yeah, we figured it out, it was the router :p
It wasn't in sync with the 'main' router..

From: Smartzkid
Dude, set up a seedbox and charge donations for it (we could pay with bitcoins?) That would be AWESOME.

I can torrent at ~5MB/s at work :)

Unsure about the bandwidth limits per month. I think we're not really hitting it at the moment though.

Where is our server?

From: Smartzkid
Where is our server?

Nederland.

I doubt Wizzup would let you guys have a seedbox here anyways… villavu getting shutdown isn't worth it. Just buy a cheap dedi somewhere.

So can someone help me out.. I have a plan with my ISP that pays for 20mb/s download rate. But when downloading I frequently max out at 2.5mb/s! Why?!

Also, speedtest.net registers my dl speed as 20mb/s. wtf?

From: lordsaturn
So can someone help me out.. I have a plan with my ISP that pays for 20mb/s download rate. But when downloading I frequently max out at 2.5mb/s! Why?!

Also, speedtest.net registers my dl speed as 20mb/s. wtf?

bandwidth is measured in megabite per second or kilobit per second.

Divide 20 mbps by 8 and you get roughtly 2.5 mB/s

^ Yer, thats one of the cheap marketing tricks companies use to sell their products(because mb is quite different from mB)

From: kongking
^ Yer, thats one of the cheap marketing tricks companies use to sell their products(because mb is quite different from mB)

Not really any marketing tricks… It's not a mix up between what a byte is.

Bandwidth is measured in bits, storage in bytes (the mix up is between metric and binary)

From: Capricorn
Not really any marketing tricks… It's not a mix up between what a byte is.

Bandwidth is measured in bits, storage in bytes (the mix up is between metric and binary)

Its not a mixup, thats what the companies use to sell their stuff. Eg: if they wanted to sell a usb, they'd say its 4gb, when its actual capacity is less because they measure it differently on purpose.The difference might not be much when its small, but it rises exponentially as the number increases.
P.S. People are not aware that its a marketing technique because its been in use for years.

Here is the photo, maybe its more understable than my nonsical gibberish :D

From: kongking
Its not a mixup, thats what the companies use to sell their stuff. Eg: if they wanted to sell a usb, they'd say its 4gb, when its actual capacity is less because they measure it differently on purpose.The difference might not be much when its small, but it rises exponentially as the number increases.
P.S. People are not aware that its a marketing technique because its been in use for years.

Idk if thats a marketing strategy or not, but that's just them using KB with the power of 1000 (SI system) instead of 1024 (binary system), meaning there will be a exponentially increase

From: kongking
Its not a mixup, thats what the companies use to sell their stuff. Eg: if they wanted to sell a usb, they'd say its 4gb, when its actual capacity is less because they measure it differently on purpose.The difference might not be much when its small, but it rises exponentially as the number increases.

Alright now heres the deal, yes when you hear kbps and mbps, it is measured in a metric system. But you have to realize it's a metric representation of bits. 1000 bits = 1 kbps. There are 8 bits to a byte. There is no mix up here, no marketing techniques. I even pointed this out in my post.

Forget about hard drive's capacity for a second, because we aren't measuring storage when you measure the throughput of your connection. Nobody that I know of sells their connections in bytes. There is no conversion problem here because we are already at the lowest amount of information possible. I could say I am selling a bajillian bit line, and you'd know how many bits you were getting and if you were so inclined, you could do the conversion yourself to find out how many exabytes a second that is.

From: Capricorn
Not really any marketing tricks… It's not a mix up between what a byte is.

Bandwidth is measured in bits, storage in bytes (the mix up is between metric and binary)

It's still a marketing technique, Capricorn.. Just because you are aware of what they actually mean, it's not like they do it for the technical terms, they do it for business. Most people buying computer-related things which have anything to do with bytes or bits aren't very much aware of the difference. If you think it's specifically to be technical, you're an idiot and don't understand that virtually everything done today is done specifically for sales.

From: Capricorn
Alright now heres the deal, yes when you hear kbps and mbps, it is measured in a metric system. But you have to realize it's a metric representation of bits. 1000 bits = 1 kbps. There are 8 bits to a byte. There is no mix up here, no marketing techniques. I even pointed this out in my post.

Forget about hard drive's capacity for a second, because we aren't measuring storage when you measure the throughput of your connection. Nobody that I know of sells their connections in bytes. There is no conversion problem here because we are already at the lowest amount of information possible. I could say I am selling a bajillian bit line, and you'd know how many bits you were getting and if you were so inclined, you could do the conversion yourself to find out how many exabytes a second that is.

Yes, I know that you got your facts right, but I'm saying that companies take advantage of the average person who has no idea what the difference between a bit and byte(for an average person, its something like, sounds the same so it probably is the same). We're both right.

:P

From: Smartzkid
Dude, set up a seedbox and charge donations for it (we could pay with bitcoins?) That would be AWESOME.

I can torrent at ~5MB/s at work :)

yeah i get this as well with private trackers

I only get around 650kb download, but hey what can I say I live in Australia, 50kb/s is considered fast


My plan is 5mb/s down 0.50mb/s up, TBH I dont care about the upload speed, it doesn't benefit me that much its the download speed I care about. The plan I got is the best for my area

@ cycrosism, why are you testing using the adelaide server?

Here in finland they have started advertising 1gbit yet here I am on a 8mbit connection which still has connection issues and I live near a city (where you can get 100mbit) and they charge about 40&#8364; a month for this crap, the promise of having 100mbit in every household by 2015 is not looking good..

Remember, majority of servers don't even let you download much more than 2… even blizzard caps speed at like 2.5-3MB/s

Places don't have enough interwebz speed to let a thousand people download 10MB/s at the same time

Woo.

25MBit.