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Compare your Internet speed
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: Pentium100 on May 25, 2011, 05:57:04 AM ---Speedtest tests the actual speed (downloads/uploads a file and times how long it took). Your ISP probably promised an "up to" speed, so it may be lower when the network is congested. For a slow connection other things should not affect the reading.
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They get a fine if they market up to speeds and then can't deliver that up to speed here. ^^ As well as getting ridiculed in the news papers. Wasn't that way ~7 years ago though, so if people pressure them it can change.
dogsinafen:
--- Quote from: Pentium100 on May 25, 2011, 12:29:35 AM ---The ISP finally replaced the fiber-to-1000BaseT converter and now I can get the new speed:
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I am jelly.
Do they limit speeds when you leave the ISP? Regional speeds?
kitamesume:
there was an old thread here around bbt about 2gbps lines given to some old lady.
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on May 25, 2011, 05:20:52 PM ---there was an old thread here around bbt about 2gbps lines given to some old lady.
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Was 40, not 2. http://www.aftonbladet.se/pryl/dator/article551799.ab summary, her son did it as a show of concept. She didn't even own a computer prior to that.
1000mAh:
Well, still about 80% lower than ISP average. xD + yeah. I'm using normal cables.
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