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by LD_Mike, Level 25
Last updated at March 26, 2008, 1:17 am
I want to run a friendly contest. Let's see who among us has the worst ISP. We'll measure this by two factors: connection speed, and highest offered speed.

I'll start us off.

Highest offered connection speed: 1.5 Mbps

Actual Connection speed at 9:00-ish Pacific Time, with no download clients running, no internet browsers running, and no programs updating:




Yes, that's right, apparently my ISP can't even crack triple digits on some nights.

Game, set, match.
     
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Mukan
Mukan Mar 26, 2008 at 1:23 am
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I dunno what the fastest offered is, or even what my connection is (they randomly upgrade it from time to time).. but my download speeds run up to 1400kb/sec majority of the time.
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Slapnuts Mar 26, 2008 at 1:26 am
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Even though I have Comcrap I can't generally complain about the speeds. I can't use the killer nic I got for testing purposes behind my router or my speeds suck. But on my Nvidia onboard lan I get great speeds.

Supposed to be 8MB down 1MB up, but I boost upwards of 14-16MB at times.
Mukan
Mukan Mar 26, 2008 at 1:29 am
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I see a lot of folks with Comcast putting out some sick speeds. Makes me kinda jealous, although it isn't as big a deal since the latest upgrade I've gotten, can't really ask for more than nearly a meg and a half a second DL speeds.
Slapnuts
Slapnuts Mar 26, 2008 at 1:38 am
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I use bittorrent like the world is running out of data. :-p

Just crossing my fingers for the day when comcast rolls out DOCSIS 3 and we get some massive speed boosts. The spec is final, but they are waiting on hardware to be finalized.

FIOS wouldn't be half bad either. :)
LD_Mike
LD_Mike Mar 26, 2008 at 1:43 am
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You have both failed the "Worst ISP Competition".

You are the strongest links .... GOODBYE!
Slapnuts
Slapnuts Mar 26, 2008 at 1:49 am
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Come on, I used to play CS betas on a 33 and 56k.  I have earned my nice speeds!
Tryx
Tryx Mar 26, 2008 at 1:48 am
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downloading atm, but FIOS is pretty awesome around here
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