How fast is YOUR internet? (and why it matters)

[annabanana]

http://www.speedmatters.org/

(The Communications Workers of America site)

Our rate is falling well below the rest of the world. There's a simple test of your individual speed at this site.

[LadyHawkAZ]

1. Mine seems to kick serious butt

Result:
11143 kbps download
3160 kbps upload

[NYC_SKP]

15. Who is your privider?

That's fast!

[LadyHawkAZ]

27. Comcast, sadly. n/t

[NYC_SKP]

2. My ATT DSL download speed sucks at 2450 (nt)

[Bonobo]

20. Yes, DSL sucks.

It's all I get here on my island. 2717 for me.

[customerserviceguy]

24. I second the motion

All I get is the lowest speed DSL the phone company offers, because they were too damned lazy to put FIOS in my end of the neighborhood when they set it up for the rest of my condo area. It would have been easy money for them to serve folks who have enough money to pay for it where I live.

I was hoping that mesh systems would be up and running by now, without the need for physical connections. Guess I'll still have to wait.

[diane in sf]

45. My ATT Uverse is pitiful: Ping 66ms, download 4.47 Mbps, upload .67Mbps

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My result:

Download speed: 24514

Upload speed: 5102

I don't know how to interpret these numbers...

We have FIOS and it's supposed to be pretty fast.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Those are great numbers, Peg!

When you get the results, you have to make another click to get the download speed comparisons, then one more click to get the upload comparisons.

[LeftyMom]

4. I'm smoking Japan.

Gotta love NorCal.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Not bad: 20152 / 953

My download result was higher than any other category. The upload result was beaten only by my state (CA) and Japan.

[djean111]

7. I am happy with my FIOS, but I do understand that speeds are faster elsewhere -

download - 60278
upload - 15259
I believe that the faster speeds are possible now, they just want to keep charging more for higher speeds, so they dribble out the capacity.

edited to add - the first time I did this my download speed was 54700 or something like that, so I re-tested and the speed was higher.
also want to mention that yes, speeds are slower, but there is some hand-shaking stuff that goes on between your PC and modem that can slow things down, but I forget how to fix that. Can make a dramatic difference.

[rDigital]

8. That's my Dad's Union, the IUE-CWA :) nt

[LeftyMom]

9. What would really be interesting is what your bandwidth dollar gets you from one place to another.

[rDigital]

10. Don't mean to thread jack, but....

Could you all please post your internet speeds for the good of the Photography Group?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018245338 < in this thread

[Canuckistanian]

11. 27117 Down and 2415 Up

But this is from my work connection... 1 Gbps

A LOT slower than that at home

[Go Vols]

12. .

http://www.speedtest.net/

[d_r]

32. .

[d_r]

35. fwiw, that was firefox, this is chromium

my wife is on another laptop using wireless during both, so for what thats worth. we have fiber optic through our electric company.



fwiw, 46833 down and 20414 up on the speedmatters.org page, so they seem fairly consistent

[MuseRider]

13. Smokin out here in rural Kansas

but less that 20 miles from the capitol, this is actually one of the better speeds we get here. Up 4582 Down 2063

I have no idea how this ranks but would assume it is on the lower side. Much of the rest of the state is far slower than we are here. Some much slower. I don't expect anything better for a long long time here.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. Mine seem good.

We are paying (I think) for 50mbs service.

Am i getting what we pay for?

23249

2018

[CurtEastPoint]

16. 32496 download...off the chart!

and allegedly I 'm only supposed to get 22 MBits

[GoCubsGo]

17. So horrible, I won't even bother to write down the numbers.

Definitely not worth what I'm paying for it.

[japple]

18. 1031/406 out here in no man's land, rural GA.

The best verizon has to offer. Before that, the only thing I could get was hughes net, which was a huge joke.

[JaneyVee]

19. Results:

Download speed: 19261

Upload speed: 2078

I use Optimum online and a Mac G5 with a Motorola SURFboard modem.

Doubled Japan.

[LongTomH]

21. K&R I've seen mention of this on DU for years now!

Why hasn't something been done? Oh yeah, Republican obstructionists!

[OldDem2012]

22. From my broadband connection....

Download: 21710 mbps

Upload: 5430 mbps

[msu2ba]

23. 55.43 mbps down, 3.96 up

[MineralMan]

25. Download speed: 15354 kbps

Upload speed: 3352 kbps.

Seems OK to me.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. 11006 down 3604 up

[DJ13]

29. 20497 down, 3527 up

[virgdem]

30. My numbers seem to be fairly high...

Download-20,492

Upload-25280

I have Cox Cable

[SHRED]

31. Cox -- 8860 DL 2461 UL

[AverageJoe90]

33. My Zip's average D/L speed is supposed to be 11,000 kbps.

To this day, I've hardly ever gotten anything above 2,500 kbps, and that's with an ethernet cable(wireless downloads are about 400 at most, and my average has been around 180)!

My zip code, btw, is 75035.

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. does not work for me

the needle does not move, nothing happens.

[annabanana]

36. Then you just THINK you're posting on DU..

[Speck Tater]

37. Mine is fast enough to watch reruns of Cheers on Netflix and...

...that's all that matters to me.

[Matariki]

38. There are a lot of internet speed tests that don't require your email address

Here's one: http://testinternetspeed.org/
or another: http://www.speedtest.net/

[greytdemocrat]

39. Looks good...

DownLoad: 32117
Upload: 8769

Verizon FIOS

[name not needed]

40. 25.25 down, 20.2 up

[rufus dog]

41. my results

17,000 and 12300

Cox Communications in OC

[RoxyNexus]

42. Qwest DSL

Google Nexus 7 Android 4.2.1 on my wifi router

[DainBramaged]

43. You need to click on your provider's hub to get a real idea

http://www.speedtest.net/


When I click in and around NY/NJ I average 19+x4


On your site, 4.5x4

[tama]

44. My results

[Odin2005]

46. 5.5 megabits per second.

It's CableOne basic cable internet.

[Danascot]

47. I'm waiting for google fiber

They claim speeds of 1000 megabytes/second

https://fiber.google.com/features/