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reply to ninjatutle

Re: Links?

Justin
I found that Sprint Speedtest to be all but worthless. It always says my pings are about 40-80ms. And all others say 140-200.
And the test isn't accruite either.
Dave
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Sprint Mobile Broadband
Sierra Aircard 595U
Home Page:»www.fastnow.net/w4dra/

really, what reading do you get on our speed test at »/stest?flash=1 or »/stest?java=1 ?

Coverage:
»coverage.sprintpcs.com/IMPACT.js···coverage

Speed test:
»www.sprint.com/speedtest

reply to justin

Have you actually ftp'd a file to test the upload speed?

Yes I have did it on my web site via FTP. I did a 3 meg file and averaged on upload 450 which I can live with. But the Download was very un-stable and ended up being about 500-600, which Is total Bull. A long way from 1400 thats for sure.
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Sprint Mobile Broadband
Sierra Aircard 595U
Home Page:»www.fastnow.net/w4dra/

Who is reporting 1400? the above test you linked to is ours and reports 269. The one sprint hosts is the same code, no?
so what does
»www.sprint.com/speedtest
report currently?
and, what latency can you ping sprint.com at?

This varies from day to day. SOmetimes from connection to connection. I never get even close to the same scores two times in a row. Here are the pings to Sprint.com

Pinging [65.173.211.241] with 32 bytes ->bytes=32 time=163ms TTL=235
Pinging [65.173.211.241] with 32 bytes ->bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=235
Pinging [65.173.211.241] with 32 bytes ->bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=235
Pinging [65.173.211.241] with 32 bytes ->bytes=32 time=140ms TTL=235
Pinging [65.173.211.241] with 32 bytes ->bytes=32 time=136ms TTL=235
Pinging [65.173.211.241] with 32 bytes ->Request Timed Out
Pinging [65.173.211.241] with 32 bytes ->bytes=32 time=154ms TTL=235
Pinging [65.173.211.241] with 32 bytes ->bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=235
Pinging [65.173.211.241] with 32 bytes ->bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=235
Pinging [65.173.211.241] with 32 bytes ->bytes=32 time=155ms TTL=235
Ping statistics for above hosts:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 9, Lost = 1 (10% loss)
Approximate round trip times (RTT) in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 136ms, Maximum = 164ms, Average = 139ms

1st Test:Lantency=135ms


2nd Test::Lantency=94ms


3rd Test:Lantency=154ms

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Sprint Mobile Broadband
Sierra Aircard 595U
Home Page:»www.fastnow.net/w4dra/

And you do get the same results on sequential tests with another speed test?

Are you still using the coffee can? Or a real yagi? My speeds are pretty consistent with EVDO. I find my speedtests on Sprint's site to be slightly more accurate. The latency usually reads slightly lower because, of course, it never leaves Sprint's network.

Very glad to see noone has posted a link to TestMy's speed test, as it's absolutely trash.

And how would you ever want WildBlue back, W4DRA? If it weren't for the speed tests, would you really say that browsing is bad? The lower latency more than makes up for the slight decrease in bandwidth. 200ms beats the 1500ms many WB users report. The speedtest I host shows some pretty weak results from WildBlue.

reply to W4DRA
W4DRA,
Your pings on the Sprint speedtests will give lower latency because you're not being routed outside of Sprint's network, therefore you're not going through as many hops. Anything below 80 ms would seem a little odd though.

Sprint.com is not hosted locally within Sprint's network, so you're not going to get much if any lower latency to it than google, yahoo, etc.

reply to CMoore2004
LOL I am still using the coffee can..
I have did a lot of changes in the registry file.
Its looking a lot better now,
but my uploads are still pretty low.


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Dave


Sprint Mobile Broadband, Sierra Aircard 595U
Home Page:»www.fastnow.net/w4dra/