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Boss™
April 30th, 2008, 02:05 PM
So most of you know that I have one of the slowest internet connections ever. I thought I had 512 kbps. Since my phone cord was destroyed, and I didn't realize it, I called up AT&T expecting something to be wrong with my modem. They never really helped me, and I had to solve it myself, but I asked them how fast my internet is. They told me that I'm paying for 1.5 mbps download rate and 212 kpbs upload rate. WTF. I don't get nearly enough as that. I get 133-166 ping in most servers and when I download files from halomaps, filefront, download.com, and anyother website, I only get 125 kbps. When I upload using smartftp, I get 25 kbps. I called them up, and they want to fucking charge me to tell me whats wrong. So I'm posting here, so that maybe one of you can tell me how to fix this, so that I stop lagging every fucking place.

Patrickssj6
April 30th, 2008, 02:10 PM
Aehm..there are KiloBytes per second and KiloBits per second. The companies usually advertise with KiloBits because the number is higher.

If you have 212 KiloBits per second upload rate you have 26.5 KiloBytes per second upload rate (just divide by 8...8 bits = 1 byte)...and you said 25...that almost perfectly matches.

Summarized...company displays the connection in KiloBits you see it almost always as KiloBytes on your computer when uploading/downloading.

Also, I only get 50Kilobytes down and 10KiloBytes up and I pay twice as much you do I'm pretty sure.

Boss™
April 30th, 2008, 02:19 PM
I thought about that, and I made sure to ask her. She definatly said kilobytes.

Also heres a pic of my speed from speed.fastaccess.com.

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r188/kumajor/crap.jpg
I pay around $39.99 a month.

Patrickssj6
April 30th, 2008, 02:55 PM
Yeah Kbps = kilobits/second and KBps = kilobytes/second.

1200 Kbps = 150 KBps
212 Kbps = 26.5KBps

I pay around 50 Euros...that's about $75.

NullZero
April 30th, 2008, 03:15 PM
Yeah Kbps = kilobits/second and KBps = kilobytes/second.

1200 Kbps = 150 KBps
212 Kbps = 26.5KBps

I pay around 50 Euros...that's about $75.

:o

I pay 10 pounds sterling for 8 megabits (although my phone line can only stand 1.5 megabits).

Change ISP!

Syuusuke
April 30th, 2008, 04:41 PM
BTW, ping, is not always concerned with your speed.

Do you get that high of a ping in servers that you KNOW are close to you?

Bodzilla
May 1st, 2008, 03:46 AM
So most of you know that I have one of the slowest internet connections ever. I thought I had 512 kbps. Since my phone cord was destroyed, and I didn't realize it, I called up AT&T expecting something to be wrong with my modem. They never really helped me, and I had to solve it myself, but I asked them how fast my internet is. They told me that I'm paying for 1.5 mbps download rate and 212 kpbs upload rate. WTF. I don't get nearly enough as that. I get 133-166 ping in most servers and when I download files from halomaps, filefront, download.com, and anyother website, I only get 125 kbps. When I upload using smartftp, I get 25 kbps. I called them up, and they want to fucking charge me to tell me whats wrong. So I'm posting here, so that maybe one of you can tell me how to fix this, so that I stop lagging every fucking place.
Your complaining about 512?

talk to dano he's getting half of what your getting and i bet he's paying more.
1.5 mbps is the Fastest i can get.

Also open up a can of whoopass on them. I mean no holds back Abuse over hte fucking phone, or down face to face with them.
Bring a camera for lulz.
then upload the video on your new fast connection for us to see at modacity.
There is no logic or reasonable way to talk to these people, If you do your just another target to be exploited. Or Give them the one fingered salute and go to another ISP.

ima_from_America
May 1st, 2008, 07:14 PM
Bodzilla is right. My ISP sucks too. It's fast when it's working, but sometimes it won't work for a couple days.
I had to retry the test 4 times to get it to load.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/266349042.png

NullZero
May 2nd, 2008, 02:10 PM
lol:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/262596602.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Cortexian
May 2nd, 2008, 02:44 PM
lol:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/262596602.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
Unbalanced much?

NuggetWarmer
May 2nd, 2008, 02:57 PM
http://www.speedtest.net/result/266669569.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

:o

NullZero
May 4th, 2008, 08:04 AM
Unbalanced much?

Quite ;)

m13120
May 4th, 2008, 11:08 AM
http://www.speedtest.net/result/267296825.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

:\

SMASH
May 5th, 2008, 11:18 PM
lol, best so far:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/267886074.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

StankBacon
May 5th, 2008, 11:58 PM
http://www.speedtest.net/result/267894083.png (http://www.speedtest.net)


:'(

Llama Juice
May 6th, 2008, 05:55 AM
I think I win so far.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/267969697.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

NullZero
May 6th, 2008, 04:08 PM
I'm winning so far in the download section :)

Patrickssj6
May 7th, 2008, 09:33 AM
No, I won...
http://www.speedtest.net/result/268463461.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

nila
May 9th, 2012, 02:39 AM
My internet speed results are :


upload speed:0.52 kbps

download speed:1.96 kbps


I check my internet speed from this site http://www.ip-details.com/internet-speed-test/ , here it gives the best & accurate results for my internet speed test!!!!

Zeph
May 9th, 2012, 10:39 PM
I'm winning so far in the download section :)

oh look, it's this thread again.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1942196365.png

JackalStomper
May 10th, 2012, 08:46 AM
thats terrible bro where do you live antarctica?