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Old July 22nd, 2004, 10:27 PM   #1
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Congrats man images/smilies/biggrin.gif . Once you have this you will never want to go back.
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Old July 23rd, 2004, 1:06 AM   #4
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cool! it'll be less slow but still leave room for me to make fun of you connection images/smilies/lol.gif perrrrfect! images/smilies/wink.gif images/smilies/tongue.gif
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Current connection stats:

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2004-07-22 22:57:06 EST: 210 / 209
Your download speed : 215813 bps, or 210 kbps.
A 26.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 214064 bps, or 209 kbps.
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtests...net/1090551425
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... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it.
- Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005
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Old July 23rd, 2004, 4:19 AM   #6
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hm.. images/smilies/tongue.gif trieed 3 servers, all pretty much the same, picked the average one.

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2004-07-22 23:17:59 EST: 3747 / 742
Your download speed : 3837398 bps, or 3747 kbps.
A 468.4 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 760408 bps, or 742 kbps.
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let's see your dsl stats now should be less than half my speed.. images/smilies/lol.gif
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Old July 23rd, 2004, 11:26 AM   #7
 
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Gah! Cant get any good Australian servers to test my connection images/smilies/cry.gif
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Cool, finally get rid of the dinosaur-age connection,

but i'm still faster images/smilies/mrgreen.gif
Downloading @ 150kb/sec
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Old July 23rd, 2004, 12:13 PM   #9
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mine :

Results after test :

6688.5 Kbps
819.7 Kbytes pr. sec

Raw Data:
Download start time: 1090581242482
Download end time: 1090581242543
Download time: 0.061
Download size in thousands of bytes: 50
Estimated line speed (K bits per second): 6688.5
Estimated line speed (K bytes per second): 819.7

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Old July 23rd, 2004, 2:21 PM   #10
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Download size in thousands of bytes: 50
Seems rather small for a test images/smilies/wacko.gif .

BTW, never tried DSLReports, I've always used http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
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Old July 23rd, 2004, 4:01 PM   #11
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With ESPNSTI's link

Speed
3.8 megabits per second

Communications 3.8 megabits per second
Storage 469.7 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 2.2 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

Explain results


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Date & time Friday, July 23, 11:00AM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Cable
Region Quebec
Data size 605KB
IP address 66.131.44.61
Provider Le Groupe Videotron Ltee (which is my ISP images/smilies/lol.gif )

Comparison

Your speed 3.8 Mbits/sec
Cable in Quebec (avg. 2.38 Mbits/sec)
T-1 (max. 1.54 Mbits/sec)
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Old July 23rd, 2004, 5:43 PM   #12
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Gah! Cant get any good Australian servers to test my connection images/smilies/cry.gif
BroadBandReports.com = DSLReports.com BTW...

Anyway, here's a huge ass list:

http://www.broadbandreports.com/stest?more=1

May have to be logged in to view that whole list, so here's some from Australia:

Queensland: http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpiq/linespeed/default.asp
Hunter Valley: http://www.dungogtlc.org/speedtest_2.shtml
other: http://www.cyberwizards.com.au/modemspeed
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2004-07-22 22:57:06 EST: 210 / 209
Your download speed : 215813 bps, or 210 kbps.
A 26.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 214064 bps, or 209 kbps.
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Old July 23rd, 2004, 11:14 PM   #14
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That's nothing to be images/smilies/biggrin.gif'ing about. images/smilies/tongue.gif
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Old July 24th, 2004, 12:21 AM   #15
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exactly, I'd be rolling in a little ball crying if I had that images/smilies/tongue.gif
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