This post was inspired by Russ Beattie’s post on the same subject. He’s got me beat in the download category (1468 kbps vs 1631 kbps) but I win the upload speed contest (712 kbps vs 418 kbps). What kind of speeds do you get? Go hit the speed test page on broadbandreports.com to find out.
2005-03-15 23:05:18 EST: 1468 / 712
Your download speed : 1503727 bps, or 1468 kbps.
A 183.5 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 729793 bps, or 712 kbps
I don’t want to even try from work. Our connection makes a trip to NYC before heading out to the web for good and things are generally a little slower. From home, I shall try later.
Oh yeah, I see the ‘What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’ has been put into effect… no wild tales of thousand dollar hands and betting it all on black?
I went to someone’s blog that I could remember off the top of my head, to test out the characteristics of a new attribute to the <a> html tag, e.g.,
<a href=”http://www.example.com/”>discount pharmaceuticals</a>
This new attribute was recently adopted to fight comment spam, that people are using unethically to raise their page ranking with search engines. See:
http://tinyurl.com/3kgwz
Anyway, back to the topic of speed:
Using Verizon’s 1-way, download speedtest (I have VZ DSL service), http://tinyurl.com/3hb9n, I get 1542kbps, and with the test from http://dfw.speakeasy.net/, I get:
download speed 1468 kbps
upload speed 134 kbps
I know why Verizon omits the upload portion from their test — the result stinks! But, since I don’t usually upload very much stuff, I can live with the result.