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MDLarson

MDLarson

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I'm on Earthlink Cable (running on Time Warner lines) here in area code 612. The attached GIF is the fastest I was ever able to achieve, which is way up from a few months ago... Weird. I thought Cable was max 1.5 Mbps?
 

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That is nonsense. I tried on mine (ameritech) and got the same result than what i get when i browse on my neighbor's bandwidth (covad). their bandwidth is just so much faster than ours.. :D
 
Hmm, I tried this test several times (using Earthlink DSL in the 209 area code).

In Netscape, I got results around 250 kbps (besides the first), but in Explorer it was closer to the 500's. Definitely doesn't seem like an accurate test.
 
I checked again... (time was from around 6:40 PM to 6:55 PM CST, Minneapolis, MN USA)

Bandwidthplace.com
1 (Safari): 2.8 Mbps / sec
2 (Safari): 2.4 Mbps / sec
3 (Safari): 3.1 Mbps / sec
(I would have tried more, but I only get 3 trys / month...)

DSLReports.com (using Minneapolis server / "DSL" button)
1 (Safari): 3906 Kbps / sec (~3.8 Mbps / sec)
2 (Safari): 3906 Kbps / sec (~3.8 Mbps / sec)
3 (Safari): 2604 Kbps / sec (~2.5 Mbps / sec)
4 (Safari): 3906 Kbps / sec (~3.8 Mbps / sec)
5 (IE): 1953 Kbps / sec (~1.9 Mbps / sec)
6 (IE): 2604 Kbps / sec (~2.5 Mbps / sec)
7 (IE): 2604 Kbps / sec (~2.5 Mbps / sec)
8 (IE): 1953 Kbps / sec (~1.9 Mbps / sec)

DSLReports.com (using Minneapolis server / "HS" button)
1 (Safari): 3130 Kbps / sec (~3.0 Mbps / sec)
2 (Safari): 3130 Kbps / sec (~3.0 Mbps / sec)
3 (Safari): 3130 Kbps / sec (~3.0 Mbps / sec)
4 (Safari): 3130 Kbps / sec (~3.0 Mbps / sec)
5 (IE): 2347 Kbps / sec (~2.3 Mbps / sec)
6 (IE): 2347 Kbps / sec (~2.3 Mbps / sec)
7 (IE): 2087 Kbps / sec (~2.0 Mbps / sec)
8 (IE): 2347 Kbps / sec (~2.3 Mbps / sec)

C|Net Bandwith Meter
1 (Safari): 1628 Kbps / sec (~1.6 Mbps / sec)
2 (Safari): 1656 Kbps / sec (~1.6 Mbps / sec)
3 (Safari): 1538 Kbps / sec (~1.5 Mbps / sec)
4 (Safari): 1433 Kbps / sec (~1.4 Mbps / sec)
5 (IE): 1171 Kbps / sec (~1.1 Mbps / sec)
6 (IE): 1125 Kbps / sec (~1.1 Mbps / sec)
7 (IE): 1299 Kbps / sec (~1.3 Mbps / sec)
8 (IE): 1236 Kbps / sec (~1.2 Mbps / sec)

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The long and short of it: IE is consistently slower than Safari. The C|Net Bandwith Meter appears to be a little slower than the others. I have a really fast connection!

What is the fastest theoretical speed that a user on a cable modem can see? I was always under the impression that it was at 1.5 Mbps.
 
MDLarson - who is your cable provider? I'm getting about 2400 kb/sec from the minneapolis server and 1.5mb/sec from c|net's server. I have earthlink/timewarner cable. Is your node just less busy then mine?
 
Mr. K, I have the same service as you. I live in a neighborhood that probably doesn't have a lot of traffic, so maybe that's it. But, I haven't had this speed the whole time... it's sped up for some reason.
 
My guess is that it just fluxes, depending on how many people are on at a certain time. Once I downloaded webObjects from developer.apple.com at about 800k/second -- but it was early in the morning so the load on the cable hub must have been real low :)
 
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