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Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Link — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:57:28 GMT

This is another quick survey to see what kind of internet connection speed ArchiCAD users around the world have access to.

If you have a spare moment would you please visit www.speedtest.net and select a pyramid nearest you to begin the test. It's quite a cool test and after about 30 seconds it will display your download and upload speeds.

If you could reply with a quick post in this format:

City:
Country:
Download Speed: xxxx kbps
Upload Speed: yyyy kbps

I would much appreciate it. If you have multiple locations (eg. home and office), please feel free to include them all.

Thanks for your time!

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Aime — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:14:37 GMT

City: Port Harcourt
Country: Nigeria
Download speed: 100kbps
Upload speed: 81kbps

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Rod Jurich — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:24:59 GMT

City: Perth
Country: Australia
Download Speed: 1267 kbps
Upload Speed: 84 kbps

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:25:16 GMT

City: Bath
Country: England
Download speed: 2000kbps (average)
Upload speed: 375kbps

This is on an 'Up-to-8Mbit' connection (whatever that means!)

Come on then Link, whats yours!

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Dwight — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:42:55 GMT

Vancouver
Canada

As you can imagine from my supreme geekiness quotient, I maintain two ADSL links with separate companies:

Teated at mid-day - always faster at night.

Promised speed: 1.5 megabitz/s
Delivered: 1350 kb/s
Up: 550

Promised: 6.0 megabitz/s
Delivered: 5000 kb/s
Up: 400.

Looking forward to duplexing them on the MacPro dual link Ethernet to see what happens. Smoke, probably.

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Dwight — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:45:16 GMT

If this turns out to be a popular thing, we should also do an international test, say, from everywhere to end-of-the-world-for-civilization-as-we-know-it Perth, Australia

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Rod Jurich — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:52:40 GMT

Dwight wrote:
/.......end-of-the-world-for-civilization-as-we-know-it Perth, Australia

Sshhh.......DA, best kept secret
Unfortunately missed your last visit.

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Dwight — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:06:01 GMT

And I've even been to Rottnest Island.
Working on great new horror screenplay:

"Night of the Quokkas"

Drawn by the sound of diesel tourist busses stopping for pictures, the normally sedate, but newly-mutated rodents are out for geezer blood.

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Dwight — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:08:22 GMT

So: Impressive 5000 speed download drops to 1600 when pinging Perth from Vancouver.

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Eduardo Rolon — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:21:07 GMT

City: San Juan
Country: Puerto Rico
Download Speed: 1720 kbps
Upload Speed: 410 kbps

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:28:48 GMT

City: Hanover NH
Country: USA
download: 19497 kbps
upload: 2456 kbps

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Dwight — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:31:21 GMT

Peter: Your internet connection must be the diameter of a garden hose.

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

__archiben — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:38:26 GMT

sitting in the garden of the garden city. on wifi, new zealand:

down . . . 4397 kb/s
up . . . 128 kb/s

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Erich — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:41:47 GMT

At this time I am getting the following:

City: Portland
Country: USA
Download speed: 4652
Upload speed: 1763

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Rod Jurich — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:41:49 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Peter: Your internet connection must be the diameter of a garden hose.

More like a fire hose!!
Must be sitting right next to his ISP

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:52:36 GMT

Looking at other peoples results, I thought I must have copied
the results incorrectly so I did the speed test again.
The download is a little slower on the second test but similar.
Please see attached.
Peter Devlin

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Dwight — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:18:16 GMT

Rod wrote:
Dwight wrote:
Peter: Your internet connection must be the diameter of a garden hose.
More like a fire hose!!
Must be sitting right next to his ISP

Canadians are modest when describing hose diameter unlike Australians who exaggerate.

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Dwight — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:19:05 GMT

Peter:
That is truly amazing - what type of service is it?

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Link — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:29:08 GMT

Thanks for everyone who has voted so far (and stayed focussed! ). I look forward to seeing many more.

Peter wrote:
Come on then Link, whats yours!

Mine is:

City: Noosa
Country: Australia
Download speed: 1317
Upload speed: 208

But I really don't want this to be viewed as a competition. I just want to get an accurate snapshot of internet connections from all around the world, no matter how fast or slow they are, or where they're from.

In fact I would particularly like to hear from users in remote locations, or countries with developing internet infrastructure. So even if you don't regularly post here, I'd still like to hear from you!

Cheers,
Link.

PS. Having said that, Mr. Devlin you're a real stud and I'm just a little envious.

Re: Survey - What Is Your Internet Connection Speed?

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:37:13 GMT

Hello Dwight,
I do not know anything about internet technology.
I use a cable modem and my ISP is an outfit called Comcast.
They provide cable TV which is necessary in my area because
it is hilly and ISP for internet access. If I knew more about this
stuff I could answer you more intelligently.
Peter Devlin