kshymkiw
join:2004-12-21
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This site is BS.
I am at work where I have a 100Mb Fiber Internet connection and it says I don't have 7.5Mb.
I bet this is prob. made to only tell Verizon Fios Customers that they are capable of receiving the 7.5Mb downstream and this HDWeb. |
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jester121
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1 edit | The real fun will start with Verizon FIOS customers try it on a high traffic day and get the same message, and start calling tech support.
EDIT -- did you know your speed test is showing your roadrunner speeds? That's nice but not 100Mbps fiber.  |
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wifi4milez
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said by kshymkiw  :This site is BS. I am at work where I have a 100Mb Fiber Internet connection and it says I don't have 7.5Mb. I bet this is prob. made to only tell Verizon Fios Customers that they are capable of receiving the 7.5Mb downstream and this HDWeb. Either way, you certainly have more than enough download for this application.
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smcallah
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Road Runner Commercial certainly sells fiber connections.
I don't know if they sell 100mbit connections, but just because it says RR Commercial on his speed test doesn't exclude it being fiber.
And I believe what speed you get depends on where the Akamai servers are located that are "closest" to you routing-wise. |
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BosstonesOwn
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I was playing with this last nite from work and it sure as hell worked fine.
We have oc 192 carriers to all our buildings and even on the local g wifi it worked. So I know they aren't just advertising. It does a small download at first to see if it's capable , it is possible that you had other workers who where using the network while you tried.
I work night shift so I am literally 1 of 4 in the building and 2 are security guards
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TKJunkMail
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4 edits | reply to kshymkiw
said by kshymkiw :This site is BS. I am at work where I have a 100Mb Fiber Internet connection and it says I don't have 7.5Mb. I bet this is prob. made to only tell Verizon Fios Customers that they are capable of receiving the 7.5Mb downstream and this HDWeb. I have a Comcast 6600/384 connection and I connected and played HD content without any warnings at all. Way to go powerboost. BTW, the actual bandwidth used during download was about 5500 kbps and that was allowing buffering ahead for the streaming.
720P version
1080 version
My system and connection doesn't meet the posted minimum requirements, yet I had no problem with either 720 or 1080 streaming.
P.S.> that Nelly Furtado is one smokin' hot singer.
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I have loaded up that site a few dozen times now and have never got that message... and I'm on a 5Mb RR connection.
I never have any issues downloading stuff off Akamai's servers though, they always seem to support the full capacity of my connection.
The 720P video's stream perfectly. My computer doesn't quite make the 3Ghz requirement for 1080p though. 
I've seen better (cleaner/sharper) 720P video quality though on other sites like Divx. |
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DaSneaky1D
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said by smcallah :And I believe what speed you get depends on where the Akamai servers are located that are "closest" to you routing-wise. That's Akamai's whole marketing pitch...I wouldn't think that'll be the problem with his speed results.
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HiVolt
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It's working just fine here on my DSL connection, both 720p and 1080p streams.
I have 8000/800 sync rate, with about 6800/680kbps real world speed due to 15% overhead. It's maxing it out, but it plays smooth with no dropouts or re-buffering. I guess this is just at the edge.
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smcallah
join:2004-08-05
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said by DaSneaky1D :That's Akamai's whole marketing pitch...I wouldn't think that'll be the problem with his speed results. Right, but not everyone is located close to Akamai servers. His speed tests were great, sure, but he wasn't speed testing to the Akamai servers. So again, speed is certainly affected by what path you take to get to Akamai's servers that are nearest to you. |
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DaSneaky1D
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| If you're in the US, you're close to a server.
Latency across the US (continental) is less than 100ms. That sort of latency isn't going to drop a 19mbps speedtest down to less than 7mbps.
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| reply to kshymkiw
said by kshymkiw :This site is BS. I am at work where I have a 100Mb Fiber Internet connection and it says I don't have 7.5Mb. I bet this is prob. made to only tell Verizon Fios Customers that they are capable of receiving the 7.5Mb downstream and this HDWeb. worked fine for me
Roadrunner.... |
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dvd536
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said by jester121 :The real fun will start with Verizon FIOS customers try it on a high traffic day and get the same message, and start calling tech support. 7.5 * 32(max per node) = 240mbps in use out of 622mbps. i doubt there'll be any problems. and thats assuming EVERYONE on a node is streaming at once!
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JoeyDee
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join:2004-07-23
Las Vegas, NV | reply to TKJunkMail
Yeah, HTC. Comcast HSI (8Mbps) and it works super....
Now everything else is going to look dumb. Neli Furtado *is* hot.
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smcallah
join:2004-08-05
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| reply to DaSneaky1D
And again, that's only true if the path you're going on to get to the Akamai servers nearest to you is a good path.
If the peering between your ISP and the ISP it has to go to with Akamai servers is running near capacity, then you could have some TCP throttling occur.
If your speed test server is not on the same exact ISP where your Akamai servers are, don't expect them to both be 19mbps, that just isn't realistic.
Not everyone has optimal placement of Akamai servers, which is pretty obvious by the split of people that don't get the message on the HD site, and the ones that do.
Earlier today, I was being directed to Akamai servers that were very far from my ISP, about 70ms away, and I was on a 100mbit lan with multiple 10GE circuits outbound to the Internet, and I only got the 7.5mbit message
But now, the Akamai servers that I am directed to for www.thehdweb.com are extremely close, only 10ms away.
So not everyone is always optimal. Don't consider your personal experiences to be everyone's experience. Especially when there are people saying otherwise. |
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jester121
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Lake Zurich, IL
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| said by smcallah :Earlier today, I was being directed to Akamai servers that were very far from my ISP, about 70ms away ....... But now, the Akamai servers that I am directed to for www.thehdweb.com are extremely close, only 10ms away. hehe... how far is a ms?  |
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smcallah
join:2004-08-05
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| said by jester121 :hehe... how far is a ms? That would of course have to be figured from the speed of light through the media that your signal is going through, as well as the speed at which the routers and switches in between route and switch your packets for delivery. |
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jester121
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| said by smcallah :said by jester121 :hehe... how far is a ms? That would of course have to be figured from the speed of light through the media that your signal is going through, as well as the speed at which the routers and switches in between route and switch your packets for delivery. So probably not a great way to measure geographic distances, is my point. |
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smcallah
join:2004-08-05
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| Who was measuring geographic distances?
I was measuring network "distance" with milliseconds. I don't generally measure in geographic distance when talking networks.
I don't care WHERE the Akamai servers are in the world, as long as they are the ones I can reach fastest.
So in those terms, the ones with the lowest latency to me could be 500 miles away, while the highest latency could be on servers that are only 200 miles away. And I'm sure hoping that I'm using the "closest" ones network-wise.
I would swear I was pretty clear about that in my first post on the issue of Akamai "distance."
Did I once mention how many miles away something might be and mention that it would affect speed? I don't think so. |
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SilentMan
join:2002-07-15
New York, NY | reply to TKJunkMail
Seems like my video card cannot handle 720 much less 1080. What's a good fast AGP video card that could handle this type of videos? Anyone? |
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