What's Your Internet Speed?

[poltergeisty]

It works really good for being so shoddily fabricated. My second version of this will be off the hook. I have acquired a Hughes Direcway dish with an intact TRIA. It will be fun to tinker with. I'll put a double biquad on it, ad the 30mm lips from the Trevor Marshal design, and use better cable and connectors.

I'm having trouble coming up with a good mounting solution for it. I'm going to have to find a really sturdy tower for it. An elevation actuator will be an easy hack, but homebrewing a rotor might be harder. I do live pretty close to Boeing, maybe I'll try to homebrew my own prop pitch tower rotator :wink:.

Now that is cool! :lol: Little too expensive for me though.

I've seen that double biquad antenna in another thread before and thought of building that. I do have an old direct TV dish so it would work great. My plan would be to create a hotspot and beam the signal over to the park here. :lol: Cha-ching! $$$ Of course, got to wonder what my ISP would think...? Screw 'em! :lol:

..anyway, this is going into the DIY topic. :lol:

 

[bakechad]

Comcast just doubled my speed for free to compete with AT&T UVerse which is coming this summer.

 

[masonb]

I Run NOS in my computer T6

http://www.speedtest.net/result/434449036.png

... really I am confused :S

 

[b7spectra]

Via my laptop on the 2nd floor to the G router in the basement:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/435041161.png

 

[kb9hgi]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/435082794.png

 

[poltergeisty]

Via my laptop on the 2nd floor to the G router in the basement:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/435041161.png

With an eleven millisecond ping ! ? I can't get that time if my laptop was right near the router. :lol:

 

[SCPD]

Work:

Whoa the city has a nice fat pipe!

 

[SCPD]

I am going to post mine at home and at work together, so ill post tomorrow.

 

[SCPD]

mine is 130KBs=s or about 10-11meg per minute

 

[SCPD]

Whoa the city has a nice fat pipe!

Work | Home

 

[hotdjdave]

What a Difference Verizon FiOS Makes

Speakeasy results:

Download Speed: 2894 kbps (361.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 717 kbps (89.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

What are you using to connect now?

You should run it now and post it, and then when you get the fios, you can post those too, then we'll all have a frame of reference, and run out to buy fios. lol

Seriously though. I'd be interested to see the comparison between fios and your current broadband provider (unless you're not a broadband user, then nevermind lol.)

I just got Verizon FiOS installed today. Here are my new FiOS speeds:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/451631852.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/451637288.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/451638832.png

About 7X - 8X faster than DSL.

Now this is fast compared to what I had before!

 

[mike_s104]

Mine at work.

 

[ausscan]

I am jealous. Over here in AUS I have cable and this is fairly good/average household speeds:

 

[poltergeisty]

Isn't it amazing how the speed stays the same no matter the distance with FIOS? Wish they'd install here in CO.

Of course DOCIS 3.0 is just over the horizon...

 

[hotdjdave]

Docsis 3.0

Of course DOCIS 3.0 is just over the horizon...

Wasn't DOCSIS 3.0 released in 2006?

 

[shaft]

Wasn't DOCSIS 3.0 released in 2006?

DOCSIS 3.0 is kinda like the 802.11n stuff. The final or close to final draft came out a while back. Mfg's released 3.0 draft gear that are able to be upgraded via firmware for the 3.0 final release. Several MSO's have deployed 3.0 draft gear into their networks. Charter is one of them and they are offering 60mb residential services around St. Louis right now.

 

[poltergeisty]

When do you estimate Comcast having full-fledged 3.0?

 

[shaft]

When do you estimate Comcast having full-fledged 3.0?

I believe they too have some 3.0 gear deployed but I think its on the east coast. Perhaps the Philly area.

 

[poltergeisty]

That's what I've read...

 

[KJ4FWA]

I run my own server... so my internet traffic makes it a bit slower