Me at the office - Dedicated (Expensive!) 1Mb line. How about that for upload speed!?

this is with freeserve @ £17.99 monthly

Do you believe this?

And it's a hotspot!!! And I see several people around me connected, a lot of people. Imagine me and me alone. Fastest Internet I've seen in my days.

wow, thats fast

Hello,
Mine is supposed to be 512 download but never has been that much since I got on satellite but, it sure beats Dial up. DSL or cable is not available.

Download speed 374kb/s
Upload speed 26kb/s

Originally Posted by jephree

BellSouth (AT&T) lists my "package" as "6 MBPS DSL".

Rather than the recommended "local" server I went to Atlanta which I knew was the major BellSouth hub:



It appears to me that the speed is more dependent on the target server then on your ISP potential.

Would that be corrrect?

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Target server is at tpg.com.au- sydney Australia and im in Adelaide, but overall internet speeds are not that good in Austrlia

Yep Jephree - server being contacted makes a notable difference on speed, always, and the biggest is probably how far you are from the nearest exchange. Closer you are, the faster the speeds usually are to the advertised if the line has the potential, is not capped and all your hardware is working well.

I found that during my break and off-time at work when not running anything work related and we're permitted internet access (certain times), they cap our upload to 489kb/s and download to 6000kb/s. My temporary home line here is also supplied by my employer and runs the same deal.

I have hit 15MB/s-3MB/s before using this same line early morning 4am once before when measuring on another site. A big one off I never see reproduced. Sometimes my download exceeds 25MB/s and many other times it hovers around 5-6MB/s. Upload never exceeds 899KB/s that I've monitored with this line.