Windows 7: What's your Internet Speed?

Tews · 20 Aug 2010

I just upgraded my ISP account (again

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Willowhoop · 20 Aug 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Solarstarshines

@willowhoop that ping at 55 is not to bad considering i seen much worse in game play some people have a high ping of 150+ but i know what you mean you would love to take full advantage of what your system could really do with that speed

Thats good to hear

prob is I don't even know what a ping really is.
Yes, I would like to take full advantage, maybe one day.
Thanks hun

Gata · 20 Aug 2010

I'm supposed to be getting 3.0 MBPS downstream and 1.5 MBPS going up.

Bare Foot Kid · 20 Aug 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Tews

I just upgraded my ISP account (again

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[jealous]That's pretty good mate.[/jealous]

**cluberti** · 20 Aug 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Bujinkan

Didn't comcast buy out RR? That's why all their equipment would be substandard. Comcast is already working on F/O for Chicago area. And, are finishing up some major installations in Baltimore, and N.E. area. Sounds like cable's going to be your only option for a while, then.

No, Comcast hasn't purchased RR (they bought majority stake in NBC Universal). TW Cable was divested from parent Time Warner back in 2009, however.

Unfortunately, cable's my only real option. There exists AT&T U-Verse cabling running down a street parallel to my development, but we won't have access to it for another 24 months.

**cluberti** · 20 Aug 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by Willowhoop

prob is I don't even know what a ping really is.

Well, to get technical, a "ping" is actually an ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) echo request to the host or IP you're trying to connect to - when you "ping" something on the internet, you are sending an ICMP echo request (it's called "ping" after the similar way sonar works, hence it's name) and any response is timed to see how long it took round-trip for that to occur.