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Started by AT Jive , Jul 06 2006 02:52 PM

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Posted 06 July 2006 - 02:52 PM

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Ok i convinced my mom to get ride of aol and we recieved our new bell sympatico modem today. On the internet it said we could get up to 5000 kbps. So i ran a test on cnet.com and it said im running at a little over 900 kbps. If someone could explain this to me it would help thanks

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Posted 06 July 2006 - 02:54 PM

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QUOTE (AT Jive @ Jul 6 2006, 03:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ok i convinced my mom to get ride of aol and we recieved our new bell sympatico modem today. On the internet it said we could get up to 5000 kbps. So i ran a test on cnet.com and it said im running at a little over 900 kbps. If someone could explain this to me it would help thanks


wow Bell is really bad in my experiance with it. You should have got Rogers Yahoo HI-speed internet. And Its that you have a 5Mbit connection. Most sites dont offer that kind of bandwith while downloading.
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Posted 06 July 2006 - 02:56 PM

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QUOTE (etnies_css_playa @ Jul 6 2006, 03:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
wow Bell is really bad in my experiance with it. You should have got Rogers Yahoo HI-speed internet. And Its that you have a 5Mbit connection. Most sites dont offer that kind of bandwith while downloading.


Oooo ok thanks

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Posted 06 July 2006 - 03:35 PM

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Is that dsl or cable cause thats a hell of a lot of bandwith i pay $65 a month for 475 kbps whats ur upload cap?
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Posted 06 July 2006 - 03:52 PM

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do a pcpitstop.com internet test.

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Posted 06 July 2006 - 03:56 PM

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I got internet that's 9mb/s, but u can only get it in my area.. If they say you can get "up to" 5bm...That doesn't mean your going to. It's an advertising scheme.

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Posted 06 July 2006 - 04:13 PM

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9mb/s is a marketing scheme, too. What hosts are going to feed you from a pipe that large?
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Posted 06 July 2006 - 06:01 PM

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mine is advertised at 6 and I get 3.333. wtf. and my upload is slower than DSL. its like 700 something. is that any good?
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Posted 06 July 2006 - 06:18 PM

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Is the optimize tool worth getting? On pcpitstop.com ?

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Posted 06 July 2006 - 06:49 PM

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Nah, everything on it seems to be free on their website anyway.

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Posted 06 July 2006 - 06:50 PM

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usually your only going to get within 70% of your advertised speed. Theres a few tweaks you can do to optimize your connection, but sometimes you just get the shaft.

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Posted 06 July 2006 - 06:53 PM

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my internet is advertized as 6mbit and on PC Pitstop i get a 5963 kbps dload speed. Rogers FTW.
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Posted 06 July 2006 - 06:55 PM

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o.O Bell is not my fav
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Posted 06 July 2006 - 10:26 PM

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according to pcpitstop.com im getting 6025 kilobits per second download speed. how does that measure up???


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Posted 07 July 2006 - 02:18 AM

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Howdy, if you wanna test your net speeds, this is always a good site.

http://speedtest.frontiernet.net/

My Result's, quite sucky today actually..

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-07-07 03:17:10 EST:
3717 / 357
Your download speed : 3717 kbps or 464.6 KB/sec.

Your upload speed : 357 kbps or 44.7 KB/sec.

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Posted 07 July 2006 - 08:07 AM

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Depending on where you live, your connection speed could be dramaticly lower than advertised. I don't know all the technical details but a guy from a phone company said that the longer the internet travels to your house, the lower it becomes because of speed getting lost down the line. Mines not too bad it's 7mb when it is advertised at 8mb

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Posted 07 July 2006 - 09:33 AM

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Cable doesn't really suffer from signal degradation the way DSL does.
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Posted 07 July 2006 - 12:41 PM

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::Raises hand:: mine does. I only get 50% of what i'm supposed to.
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Posted 07 July 2006 - 12:43 PM

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QUOTE (SpikeTheWarlord @ Jul 7 2006, 01:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
::Raises hand:: mine does. I only get 50% of what i'm supposed to.


Spike is ur name mike?

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Posted 07 July 2006 - 01:02 PM

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QUOTE (g_pwnage @ Jul 7 2006, 01:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Spike is ur name mike?

nope.
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