Twinbeam
@huntington.com
| [Speed] I got my 15mb RR turbo service last week....Reynoldsburg
The insight...I mean thrid party installer was in and out of my place in less than 15 mins. That was good.
I called ATT and canceled my dsl service. They wanted to give me a 10 discount per month just to keep it. It was tempting but... 15mb to 6mb.. Hmmmmm... You get the picture.
At first I was very excited at the thought of downloading at 15mb. I went to speedtest.net and was only able to get about 12.5/768. Is that a normal download speed? When I had AT&T 6mb, I got 6mb all the time. What gives?
Also when downloading from websites like rapidshare or the quicktime HD previews site, why is one download limited at about 3-5mb instead of downloading at a full 12mb at least? I have to have 4 or 5 downloads going at the same time to maximize my connection. Not only that but the download speed is not steady at all. |
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TBC1
join:2002-05-31
Ft Mitchell, KY
 ·Insight Communicat..
| Re: [Speed] I got my 15mb RR turbo service last week....Reynolds
said by Twinbeam :
The insight...I mean thrid party installer was in and out of my place in less than 15 mins. That was good.
I called ATT and canceled my dsl service. They wanted to give me a 10 discount per month just to keep it. It was tempting but... 15mb to 6mb.. Hmmmmm... You get the picture.
At first I was very excited at the thought of downloading at 15mb. I went to speedtest.net and was only able to get about 12.5/768. Is that a normal download speed? When I had AT&T 6mb, I got 6mb all the time. What gives? Typically, you never hit the advertised speeds, but you get close. I have the 10/1 package and I typically get over 10megs down and about 940K up from most test sites.
Also when downloading from websites like rapidshare or the quicktime HD previews site, why is one download limited at about 3-5mb instead of downloading at a full 12mb at least? I have to have 4 or 5 downloads going at the same time to maximize my connection. Not only that but the download speed is not steady at all.
Where you download from will sometimes (and usually) be limited to that sites capabilities, or how many are downloading from there. Try using the sites here, or from their worldwide list to see some results. One of my favorites is here:
»speed.broadbandpakistan.com/ |
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gene32
join:2004-05-03
Reynoldsburg, OH
 ·ViaTalk
·WOW Internet and C..
| reply to Twinbeam
said by Twinbeam :
...I called ATT and canceled my dsl service. They wanted to give me a 10 discount per month just to keep it. It was tempting but... 15mb to 6mb.. Hmmmmm... You get the picture.
At first I was very excited at the thought of downloading at 15mb. I went to speedtest.net and was only able to get about 12.5/768. Is that a normal download speed? When I had AT&T 6mb, I got 6mb all the time. What gives?
Also when downloading from websites like rapidshare or the quicktime HD previews site, why is one download limited at about 3-5mb instead of downloading at a full 12mb at least? I have to have 4 or 5 downloads going at the same time to maximize my connection. Not only that but the download speed is not steady at all.
I also live in Reynoldsburg and when I dumped WOW and switched to Insight's 15 meg Turbo, WOW's CSR offered me 10 megs (when it's ready) and a CHERRY package to stay but I told them I only care about raw download speed.
I have several friends around Columbus that are on TWC's RR/15 meg package and we all have the problem of using speed test sites and getting odd results. But, when I fire up Grabit and open up all of it's 32? 36? connections to Astraweb, I get about 1800K/sec (1.8 megs a second) download speed. All the time! Also, when I use Download Accelerator and grab big game demos, I get right around 1.8 megs/second.
Due to traffic on the net, how crowded your node is....you probably won't ever see the FULL 15 megs. That's the nature of the beast. Heck, maybe my downloading is slowing you down since we're both in Reynoldsburg.  When I had DSL (WAY back in the day)..... I would rarely see that line max'd out to the 3 meg potential I was promised. Another fact you'll have to get use to, some sites simply can't upload fast enough to you to max out your connection or limit how much bandwidth they allocate to a single IP. That's when stuff like Download Accelerator can help a little bit. |
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WeKnSmith
join:2001-08-09
Noblesville, IN | reply to Twinbeam
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought Insight Communications in Columbus, Ohio was on the Road Runner network. |
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gene32
join:2004-05-03
Reynoldsburg, OH
·ViaTalk
·WOW Internet and C..
| said by WeKnSmith  :Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought Insight Communications in Columbus, Ohio was on the Road Runner network. It is. |
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dbmaven
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Sty in Sky
clubs: | Moved, therefore, to the Road Runner forum. |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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 ·DSL EXTREME
| reply to Twinbeam
quote:
Also when downloading from websites like rapidshare or the quicktime HD previews site, why is one download limited at about 3-5mb instead of downloading at a full 12mb at least? I have to have 4 or 5 downloads going at the same time to maximize my connection. Not only that but the download speed is not steady at all.
The faster your connection, the more you're going to see the limits of the servers you connect to. Also be sure you've tweaked your machine for 15mbps speeds. That can make a big difference with such a big pipe. |
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OSUGoose
join:2007-12-27
Columbus, OH
clubs: | reply to dbmaven
Yet why do outher mods take us out of the RR forum and dump us in the Insight BB forum? |
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dbmaven
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March 14th, @06:08PM
| The forum hosts pretty much know what belongs where.
If a post has been moved to the "wrong forum", it's a simple matter of using the "Hey Mods" link and asking for it to be moved (back).
In this case, the thread was started in the "wrong" forum and someone politely suggested in a Hey Mod that it was in the wrong place.
Nothing gets "dumped" - unless it's trolling/flaming garbage which needs to get "dumped" with the trash... |
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accounting
join:2008-02-29
Columbus, OH
| reply to Twinbeam
When I switched up to Turbo (15000/768) at first I only tested around 12000. After I downloaded new firmware for my router, and changed my RWIN, »/tweaks , up to 296960, I then started getting near the 15000 speeds. Also I've noticed large inconsistencies in the various speed tests, so keep that in mind as well. |
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Twinbeam
@huntington.com
|  reply to Twinbeam
Thanks to everyone that helped me out with the speed issue. After doing further testing and maxing out my connection speed ( 5 rapidshare downloads) i saw a limit of 17-18 mb which is GREAT as far as I’m concerned. I feel like I’m getting what I’m paying for.
My speedtest.net speed test is about 12mb. Next question. Why does one single download only come at about 4-5mb? This is every site I tried. From Rapidshare, to Quicktime HD movies site, to Napster? (yes I pay to be a sub) Is it the website server limiting me?
I understand if I have a bunch of people coming from Japan were the speed are much higher( around 50-100mb) and they are taking all the bandwidth. But what about everyone else here USA that has 6-10mb d/l speeds? Or is it my local provider limiting a single download speed to 4-5mb? |
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kshymkiw
join:2004-12-21
Columbus, OH
| said by Twinbeam :
My speedtest.net speed test is about 12mb. Next question. Why does one single download only come at about 4-5mb? This is every site I tried. From Rapidshare, to Quicktime HD movies site, to Napster? (yes I pay to be a sub) Is it the website server limiting me? The provider isn't limiting anything. It is the nature of TCP/IP. Since TCP IP works like this:
SYN
ACK
SYN+ACK
If you use a UDP Transfer, FTP, etc.. Then in one single session you would be able to see the full 15Mb. That is just the nature of having TCP/IP and it's error checking ability. The formula to figure out your possible bandwidth for TCP/Ip is:
Throughput=Window Size/RTT
So for example, if you latency to said site was 500ms then you have:
Throughput = 65535 bytes (The standard TCP/IP Frame/Window) / 500 ms ~ 1 Mbit/s
Hope that helps you out some. |
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