Internet connection speed comparisons... Test it and post

user312 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:07 am

Philzie wrote:

I think this would be the place to ask?? This week I went and stayed up in Quesnel (north of me by a hour). Took the laptop to keep tabs on the hockey scores, the place I was staying had no internet, so I take the laptop downtown for a drive to update Boinc, and check my hockey pool. Boinc updates in no time flat (the speeds were very high, caught my eye right away. So next just to play I went to my file shareing program, downloaded a hd hour of my favorite tv show lost. Wham downloaded the whole thing in less than a minute???????? What did I stumble onto and how do I get it at home.

Not entirely sure, but Bell's fibre line (ISP backbone) runs through there so they may have tapped directly into it somehow. Check out http://www.isp-planet.com/img/backbones/bell_canada.jpg for Bell's fibre line routes. Verizon also has lines running through that area, but they are slower speed. Regardless, whoever you were downloading from also had to have a pretty fast connection to support those speeds.

Philzie · **Posted:** Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:06 am

It was from itunes, and I think it was just a city of Quesnel hot spot. If you could pipe that kind of speed to everyone it would change everything. I can't imagine, any info video or audio any time you want. With my internet at home it takes over a couple of hours to download the same length, and quality of show. For me watching that speed was like the first time I seen dsl compared to my dial up.

Pawly · **Posted:** Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:00 am

hhhmmm?

Well Lost episodes are approx 350Mb so less than a min would be ..... !!!!!!! 5.8333 MB /s ?

wow.

That would be a 46.6664 Mbit connection!

Is that possible? lol

Someone check my math! lol

Philzie · **Posted:** Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:15 am

Burst my bubble, I just checked it and it was a reg tv download, not a hi def one. should have checked it before I posted, sorry the file is 73 mb. The rest of them are around 350mb +- Well my hi speed at home is not real hi speed. The free internet is way better than my 45 bucks a month service. I'm going to take the wife to work tomorrow, and try here in town to see how they do. I always thought my internet was pretty good, checking all you guys, mine is horrible.

LePandaRoux · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:24 am

LePandaRoux wrote:

New connection:

Sirius B · **Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:01 pm

Just been reconnected at new home.......boy the difference it makes :lol:

hottwink · **Posted:** Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:16 am

Helo there,
This software was useful for me. You can also check your internet speed here http://www.ip-details.com/ . Its just simple. Enter your IP address, and you will be able to get the speed of your connection.
Cheers!

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