HOLY 6.5MB Per Second! Look at this!

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

That can't be right. Calculating your average speed for the past 5 hours and 8 minutes, I'm only getting about 700 KB / second; and while it's indeed fast, it isn't that outstanding :huh:

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Indeed, I get about 10000`ish kbytes/sec. on some downloads using firefox, so this is nothing..... :sleep:

[P.M.K]

Nice.

Can't wait for Australia to move with the times and allow us to get speeds everyone else in the world is getting.

[The Phoenix]

Nice.

Can't wait for Australia to move with the times and allow us to get speeds everyone else in the world is getting.

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damn so with you on that one.

sick of this 56k :(

[Matt T]

Can't wait for Australia to move with the times and allow us to get speeds everyone else in the world is getting.

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I agree. What's our fastest - something like 1.5mbps? It's because of the sale of Telstra that we're stuck behind - damn government.

[golazo]

nah you can get 2mb/6mb with iprimus. but i have the 1500kbps with tpg

[The Phoenix]

nah you can get 2mb/6mb with iprimus. but i have the 1500kbps with tpg

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how much you paying though? limits? the TPG is 20gb then its slowed to 64kb.when the unlimited plans start poping up is when this student goes BB.

[ultimate99]

guys, what sites do you use to test ur connection speeds??

[Premgenius]

I would like to have that

[shthead]

I agree. What's our fastest - something like 1.5mbps? It's because of the sale of Telstra that we're stuck behind - damn government.

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I have 8/1 with Amnet. iiNet provide 12/1, and are also about to roll out 24/1. We cannot go above this atm, as the government has to appove the next standard.

[Matt]

isnt that kilobits not kilobytes so its only 630kilobytes?

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KB is byte. Kb is bit.

[gertin]

usually when my isp screws up I get 0 kbps for a few hours...

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So true :laugh:

[Koolslacker]

You got lucky there.

[Ferret]

To download at 6Mb/sec, you'd need to a 60Mbps+ connection.

10 quid says, that your download is corrupt !

[hotdog666al]

How can I pass up an opportunity to show off my brand new university connection?  :D

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You cannot imagine the jealously that is running through me right now...

[hotrod]

WEEEEEEEEE!!!

[KayMan2K]

Having a 1Gb (100Mb effective) connection to the Internet and a 400Mb (100Mb effective) connection to Abilene (Internet2)... your speed seems normal :)

On a more serious note, the only way for you to have actually achieved that speed is using some sort of data compression.... but I more suspect that 1) your download is corrupt as mention or 2) the speed was incorectly reported.

[Jesse Carlton]

6835KB/s = 53.3984375Mb/s = not quite yet buddy.

*assuming 8b/B, KB=1024B, Kb=1024b

[Daviesbad04]

Its just a spike, happens all the time. I get about 1.5MB/s for a long time on my 8mbps cable. It goes away after a little bit

[Tommy2k4]

They were probably beta testing some faster speeds on their network

[Alpha2004]

How can I pass up an opportunity to show off my brand new university connection?  :D

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What university is that?

:cool:

[Harsesis]

Having a 1Gb (100Mb effective) connection to the Internet and a 400Mb (100Mb effective) connection to Abilene (Internet2)... your speed seems normal :)

On a more serious note, the only way for you to have actually achieved that speed is using some sort of data compression.... but I more suspect that 1) your download is corrupt as mention or 2) the speed was incorectly reported.

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Post a speed test :p

[HellBender]

What university is that?

:cool:

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Purdue university :yes:

[bakerster]

anyone smell something fishy? perhaps he was downloading it from his cache?

i can easily reach speeds in excess of 100,000kbs when i'm downloading it, FROM MY SELF.

[Code.Red]

holy crap, check it out, my ISP must have screwed up or something. :alien:

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Keeping this window open for a while:

will do that, also ;)

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ is a good speed test, most people are using it here already...

Looks at my cheap DSL in shame... :p

[Liquid]

This is pretty easy. Your using newsgroups. Downloading a an NZB file that isnt supported by your client. So it simply downloads 0K text files and says its going at that speed. So no your ISP isnt screwed up. You're just not smart enough to figure that out.