Ask HN: What is your download speed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934077

by swansw • 13 years ago

7 22 13 years ago

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In any order: Download speed, Upload speed, Location? and ISP. Also would be nice to get more details about how your connection is set up.

redxblood• 13 years ago

Southamerican here, guess you would be interested, considering most will come from the Us.

Max download speed in transmission(mac) in optimal conditions: 5Mb/s On average: 1Mb/s

Up.speed: Can't tell, i barely upload anything. ISP: Antel

alejantrot• 13 years ago

South Europe: Download speed around 10Mb/s, upload 1Mb/s

bohnenkrieger• 13 years ago

Germany near Hamburg 500MB/s down and 600MB/s up ISP: DFN

beobab• 13 years ago

Down 40Mbps, Up 25Mbps, UK, Virgin Media.

We have an optical-fibre line from them.

t0• 13 years ago

Down 10Mbps, Up 1Mbps, USA, Brighthouse. Connection is through cable TV infrastructure.

davidcollantes• 13 years ago

681 Mbps down, 641 Mbps up. (http://www.speedtest.net/result/3174926712.png)

zachlatta• 13 years ago

On a good day I get around 15Mbps download and 1Mbps upload. I've gotten upwards of 40Mbps download and 8Mbps upload while tethered to my phone though.

Location: Los Angeles

ISP: Time Warner Cable

pathy• 13 years ago

Currently ADSL with something like 8/1 but in the proccess of moving to cable 100/10. I believe I can get 500/50 or so from my cable company though that costs more than I would like.

Current ISP: Telia.

New ISP: Comhem

Stockholm, Sweden.

DanBC• 13 years ago

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3174979000

Current ISP: T-Mobile (using a broadband dongle)

Location: UK

UP: 0.57 Mbps

DOWN: 0.53 Mbps

Cheap - £30 for 90 days with "no limits" (but with limits). Sucky image caching. Sucky client (but you don't have to use it). Awful customer support.

SimonJWright• 13 years ago

Down: 50 Mbps, Up: 20 Mbps Location: Tasmania, Australia ISP: Internode (NBN)

tchadwick• 13 years ago

Down: 100 Mbps

Up: 20 Mbps

Location: Canada

ISP: SaskTel

It's a fiber connection. I'm not sure why they limit the upstream so much.

bmelton• 13 years ago

I'm not sure why they limit the upstream so much.

So that you don't run a data center from your house, which would saturate the network, which they are likely overselling, and so you don't cannibalize from the hosting services they would also be happy to sell you ala carte.

Also, in general web usage, the UPstream data requests are usually much smaller than the DOWN. E.g., "GET http://youtube.com/video" is very small, even with headers and whatnot added in, compared to the size of the video returned. It's more like 100:1 than 100:20, so unless you're trying to run services from home, you're likely coming out ahead.

Avalaxy• 13 years ago

Down: 100 Mbps Up: 10 Mbps Location: Netherlands ISP: UPC

Cable :)

dirktheman• 13 years ago

Exactly the same here (NL too). Don't think I need this kind of speed, but it was included in the package... Note that this costs you about EUR 55 per month, including landline phone AND cable TV. Not too bad compared to other countries!

iSloth• 13 years ago

UK: 37Mbps / 2.4Mbps

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3178007556

mrapplegate• 13 years ago

Down: 28.08 Up: 4.66 US ISP:Cincinnati Bell http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3180272022

Delphiki• 13 years ago

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3180321085

Tigard, OR, USA

Down: 25.48

Up: 20.93

ISP: Frontier Communications

trafficlight• 13 years ago