OT What's your download speed?

BillyBoy wrote on 6/28/2004, 10:15 AM

I'm in the bells and whistles phase with my new Flash site and I'm curious how many have broadband verses dial-up?

I'm spoiled rotten myself and average about 1700 Mbps which is near the top of the range. That translates real world to roughly 12 MB a minute.

What kind of speeds you averaging?

Comments

Grazie wrote on 6/28/2004, 10:23 AM

56kb/sec on an ADSL, which has 288upstream and 576 downstream . . g

John_Cline wrote on 6/28/2004, 10:43 AM

Accoding to http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/index.php, I am getting 2.9 megabits/sec on my cable connection.

John

Grazie wrote on 6/28/2004, 10:50 AM

Thanks John .. didn't even know of that one!

Here yah goes BB:

394.3 kilobits per second

Communications 394.3 kilobits per second
Storage 48.1 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 21.3 seconds
Subjective rating Not bad

... well as it says ."Not Bad"

JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/28/2004, 11:03 AM

I get 2.1 megabits per second on my cable connection according to the test posted.

~jr

Jsnkc wrote on 6/28/2004, 11:06 AM

577.4 kilobits per second

Communications 577.4 kilobits per second
Storage 70.5 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 14.5 seconds
Subjective rating Not bad

jetdv wrote on 6/28/2004, 11:14 AM

56k dial up modem connects at 26,400. How's that for blazing speeds?

DavidMcKnight wrote on 6/28/2004, 11:23 AM

I get 2.5 megabits per second using cable

skibumm101 wrote on 6/28/2004, 11:28 AM

3 MB download
128k up

JJKizak wrote on 6/28/2004, 11:30 AM

My dial-up is 45.2 kbs. It does dump about every 45 minutes even though I say no, usually when there is traffic.

JJK

winrockpost wrote on 6/28/2004, 11:31 AM

1.2 on DSL
, used to be blazing, now my kid tells me its a dinasaur,

Chienworks wrote on 6/28/2004, 11:39 AM

Well, from VegasUsers.com i get about 150Mbps! ;)

From the rest of the world i get about 2.4Mbps on cable.

donp wrote on 6/28/2004, 11:42 AM

26.4 or lower in the middle of nowhere, took 3 hours over night to download the 43 megs of 5.0b.

clearvu wrote on 6/28/2004, 11:43 AM

2.1 megabits per second - Cable

Frenchy wrote on 6/28/2004, 12:23 PM

56k dial-up modem with squirrel powered copper lines - I connect at 26.4k on a GOOD day - most days are 19k-21k. Good thing I have a T1 at work - 2.6MB/sec

BillyBoy wrote on 6/28/2004, 12:43 PM

Kool, seems like broadband is getting more common.

VegasVidKid wrote on 6/28/2004, 1:11 PM

2 to 3 megabits per second: Cable modem

Jsnkc wrote on 6/28/2004, 1:16 PM

It is getting more common but there are still a LOT of people on dialup and you always need to keep that in mind when building websites or you will alienate a lot of users.

Jay Gladwell wrote on 6/28/2004, 1:21 PM

Using a BellSouth DSL "Extra," I think it's call, I'm averaging 2200Kb in average throughput. Can go as high at 3000Kb if no one else in the world is online.

Jay

jetdv wrote on 6/28/2004, 1:21 PM

And also look at the number of people that have already reported 26.4 and below. About 20% so far!

Nathan_Shane wrote on 6/28/2004, 1:30 PM

Comcast Cable - Test Results:
Communications 2.2 megabits per second
Storage 272.5 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.8 seconds

RexA wrote on 6/28/2004, 2:32 PM

I have 1.2Mb from the test (above) on ADSL.

I only stepped up from dialup a few weeks ago. On the dial connection, I hated and avoided sites that start up with multimedia or lots of graphics. I think a good site should start simple and give people options to select before any heavy bandwidth.

epirb wrote on 6/28/2004, 2:52 PM

Communications 1.8 megabits per second
Storage 220.8 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 4.6 seconds
Subjective rating Great
cable modem,florida

Jsnkc wrote on 6/28/2004, 2:54 PM

Definately, if you want a large site with lots of flash and content you should also make a more basic page and give the user the option to pick what page they want to see based on their connection speed.

BillyBoy wrote on 6/28/2004, 3:25 PM

Sure, I will take care of slow pokes because I was one myself until recently. I just want to get a handle on how many have broadband. Large is kind of a relative term. I was taking a look at my old web site which was never more than a quick and dirty place to dump the tutorials without regard to how it looked or what order it was in and I was shocked that I snunk in some thumbnails that weighted at at 200K each. Oops, I forgot to deselect save profiiles and layers when I made them in Photoshop. Nobody ever complained.