 jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | Speed Test? I'm not really interested in seeing a captured image from the results of some online speed test. Tests like those make Comcast service with Powerboost seem much better than it is, but the reality, from my own testing, suggests that the speed test sites don't tell me very much.
I would like to see a sustained download or upload with a larger file, and not just some quick flash of performance. This new Cablevision plan also will use "Boost", so who knows what the results would look like from Speed Test.net or a similar test site? How stable is the 15Mbps upload going to be when pushing a 200MB video file? Something like that would be much more useful to me for making a comparison.
I wish Verizon would stop with the bashing. The more they attack Cablevision's new tier as a "gimmick", the less likely it will be that they will offer something similar or better, at least in the short term. I'm definitely in the put up or shut up camp. |
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 joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | Forgive me for chiming in on an old thread. But I am lucky enough to have Paxio 100/100 service (which I love) and I live to oblige those who ask for speed tests...
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jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | Nice, but at least read the first sentence from my post. |
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joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | Well, from the Visualware site they have another speed test. It seems like a long test -- surely enough to get past any "boost" times if your provider does that trick (Paxio does not).
These results were somewhat compromised because my system kicked off an automatic backup while the test was running. (I re-ran them and they were only a little higher, see »mcssjc.visualware.com/myspeed/db···id=73393.)
Speed test statistics
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Download speed: 89160544 bps
Upload speed: 86288224 bps
Quality of service: 96 %
Download test type: socket
Upload test type: socket
Maximum download pause: 16 ms
Average download pause: 1 ms
Minimum round trip time to server: 2 ms
Average round trip time to server: 3 ms
Anyway, you can believe that Paxio is good or not. If I didn't have Paxio but could get FIOS I would not feel deprived. But Paxio is the real deal -- pure fiber w/o oversubscribing. 100% bandwidth, 100% of the time. |
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jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | I know Paxio is good, I've raved about it on more than one occasion on these very forums. I wish it were more widely available to others. My original comment was regarding those with boost and the inflated numbers reported from speed tests that take less than 30 seconds to come up with a score. In my post I offered a solution that anyone could try for free, that provided a more accurate test using real files.
Again, I believe Paxio is great, not simply good. I believe Cablevision and Comcast are good, too. It's just that with the cable company speed test results, those are inflated due to the boost included, and those speeds will drop after a short time. For me, with Comcast, the boost will only last for the first 20MB down and the first 10MB up. Typically this is more than enough to handle the short duration of any browser-based speed test most people use. |
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