What speeds do you get?

[futureinfinance07]

Reality and roscco's screening of mod's fails again :noes:

You failed too, huh?

:shifty:

 

[Pia E]

Since i upgraded my line i get anywhere between 800-1200

 

[keezymama]

Well, TOAS is a non-profit student housing organization so the prices are a bit higher in the commercial market. Here's some pricing of a commercial Finnish ISP (in finnish but you get the idea): http://www.sonera.fi/artikkeli2/0,3843,l-fi_h-13732_a-335645,00.html

"liittymismaksu" = subscription fee

"/kk" = /month

Interesting. From what I can tell, it is still much, much better than the UK. You are very lucky!

 

[baby f]

I cheated and used google :01:

 

[Sarcasm]

OK, so I'm looking at the speeds that I'm getting from GrabIt, and I'm thinking about how I always hear that with newsgroups, your connection is maximized. Well, since I have a 5MB connection, shouldn't I be getting like 5100 KB/s?

I'm using my ISP's news server BTW.

In a simple answer, yes, you are maxing your connection.

If you notice the tags on both those images, kb/s and kB/s, is the difference. If you divide the kb/s by 8, then you get your "theoretical" max speed, 616kB/s. Though it's never that high, just like a HDD is never the exact size as advertised. 300GB = 287GB or so.

 

[Jylmu Raouls]

I get 60 mbit (6mb / sec.) on my Giganews Diamond Account with 10 connections.

 

[red roze]

i got 220kb/s on my 2mb line

Wait up, that's 660kb/s

 

[Donnnaa]

I have Verizon FIOS i get around 2.5Mbps download. I have 20Mbps connection

 

[!>_<!geeze!>_<!]

I have rogers Isp 6mps i download at 752 KB/S
i just downloaded 700 mb xvid in 16 min
At my university we have a monster connection so i managed to download the same xvid in 3 minuts and 22 sec

 

[radex]

mines slow hehehe

 

[mekoe117]

Cable Nova Scotia, Canada. I get really high speeds on newsgroups. Just wish my upload speed was better.

 

[[email protected]]

My ISP is a small local Finnish ISP called TOASnet and my theoretical line speed is 100Mbps, although I've never maxed it out in practice. I think the best I've seen is about 7000KB/s.

Dude, I'm jealous of your super fast speed. How much do you pay per month, if you don't mind asking?

 

[Jeria]

No u have a 6 megabit connection as apposed to a 6 megabyte connection 8 bits are a byte

 

[AJD13]

I max out around 1.3mb/sec with my cable connection. I can live with it for now.

 

[luv2help]

I can get 2mb down most of the time...

 

[Bek=]]

Best I can get is 640 kb/s (5mbit)

 

[Ohyou know.]

I have a 10Mbit line and I have got up to 1200-1300KB/s. Newsgroups are insanely fast. I usually get 1150KB/s or a little more.

been using newsgroups for about 3 weeks and getting the same speeds here

roll on May for 20Mb :w00t:

 

[gjmb1960]

Maybe you have 5 Mbps instead of 5 MB?
Anyway, my cable ISP advertised speed is 5Mbps, and I get around 700-900KB/s from Usenetserver SSL connections.

Ah yes. So essentially I'm already maxing out my speed? :huh:

 

[MyApocalypse]

:whistling

 

[rhgto]

Interesting. From what I can tell, it is still much, much better than the UK. You are very lucky!

Can't complain. Now, if only my ISP had free binaries... That would result in some serious downloading.