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mateojg

Member Since 16 Mar 2009
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In Topic: Getting faster than 8.x MB/s on speed test.

17 March 2009 - 08:53 AM

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Welcome to you as well. Futurama is the bomb!  :grin2: :grin2:

thank you, I had just finished watching the latest movie with some friends when I found testmy so i was in the futurama mood.

also to instabin or anyone else that might be confusing bits and bytes - this is one of my favorite bit calculators - enjoy. http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/

In Topic: Getting faster than 8.x MB/s on speed test.

16 March 2009 - 09:21 PM

Im not trying to brush your question off but have you tried any of the options listed in here? http://www.testmy.net/t-2097 - I actually got a 3Mbps boost by following some of this suggestions.

Also if you are on a wireless connection a lot of things can affect your speed such as interference, distance or even router settings (assuming you have one).

In Topic: Compare your upload speeds ! ! !

16 March 2009 - 09:02 PM

:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Upload Connection is:: 1311 Kbps about 1.3 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 160 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2009/03/16 - 10:00pm
Bottom Line:: 23X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 6.4 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 18.7 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 24.15 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net)
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-VIN2KBH46
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) [!]

I'm a fail of upload speed compared to my download. ISPs need to get this ratio a little bit closer to 1:1.

In Topic: is this speed any good?

16 March 2009 - 08:57 PM

depends, how much are you paying for/your ISP advertises? 
Other than that 4Mbps is an awesome speed - I was at 780Kbps for years with my DSL, I would have killed for 4, good thing I have cable now.

In Topic: Questions about my speedtest

16 March 2009 - 08:52 PM

i see that this post kind of died on the 13th but here is my 2 cents.

the other speed test site might not be accounting for the fact that you have Powerboost. Powerboost is a feature that some ISPs have (Comcast to the best of my knowledge) to give a burst of speed. This is the explanation directly from the Comcast website -

"Comcast 6Mbps High-Speed Internet with PowerBoost provides a burst of download and upload speed above the customer's provisioned download and upload speeds for the first 10 MB and 5 MB of a file respectively. It then reverts to your provisioned speed for the remainder of the download or upload."

So if the other speed test you are running are only downloading and uploading less then your Powerboost limit your speed might seem faster sometimes even 10Mbits faster (in my case). So to better explain it if they advertise 15Mbps with Powerboost, it most likely means that your real speed is like 8Mbps.

Also your router, your computer settings, your firewall, whether you are wired or wireless - all this factors could be slowing you down.

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