What is your mbps? I've always thought broadband was faster than dial-up, but lately it hasn't been that way. For the past couple of days, whenever I try to load a page I have to wait ten minutes for it to access the IP, and even then I get a 'No page to display'. To top it off, it happens at least three times within five minutes.

Megabytes you can push per second over the cable line...

with T1 through my phone line 725 mbps, from off to Ironworks forum main page takes about 15 seconds then from forum page to page another 5-6 seconds, and when I post something like this post and I ckick Add reply it takes the longest 12 seconds so far. Just wish I new how to type and was a better speller oh well can't have everything!

3.1 Mbps download, 180 kbps upload.

Something is very wrong with your connection or your PC then. Do a tracert to ironworksforum.com and see what your ping is. It's gotta be more than 20 hops if it's taking THAT Long.

Mine varies. On a good day, I'm around 250-350 kbps to download, depending on the server on the other end. At bad times, I may be 10-20 kbps.

When you're on cable, you're actually sharing the cable bandwidth with everyone else who's on-line on that network segment -- IOW, your neighbors. If the total pipe is 1.544 mbps, 30 total people brings it to an average of 52 kbps, roughly.

Check your ping times (from command prompt, ping www.ironworksforums.com). Also check your tracert times (from same place, tracert www.ironworksforums.com). Ping shows how long a packet takes to get from you to there, but it can time out. Tracert will keep trying, and while it will time out, defaults to 30 hops or attempts. You may go the first ten or more before you get a hit.

When in doubt, call your cable company's support line and lodge a call. It may not help, but it won't hurt, and you may clue them in to a problem they need to address.

My cable company IS the problem. Adelphia has been on the verge of bankruptcy for some time now; their service reflects this.

Let's see: I was ready to post this at 11:21.. the time it was posted *checks above* ..yep..

It's nothing to complain about, but how often it happens is what frustrates me.

sorry its not T1 we don't get that hook up till aug I have DSL through the phone line and I'm getting 725 MegaBytes per second and all I Know is I down loaded the Darkest Day Mod in about 25 min and when I downloaded it the first time with the old dial up it took 22 hrs so 100 times faster or so is fine by me.
Also whats a ping? besides being the front half of pong! I just got this new hook up for a free trial and on the first of june if I want to keep it, I'll pay $29.00 per month for 6 months and then $39.00 a month after that. Aw Damn it's 11:30 and I go to work in 6 hours talk to you tomarrow I'll look here first and find out how to ping without a pong!

Sure, cable is shared with your neighboors, but they still guarantee a certain speed. What I posted is what mine guarantee.

Please note that I am from Australia. Optusnet Cable guarantees I will get 512kps to Australian websites. HEHEHEHEHEHE I get a heck of a lot better than that. If I'm using a p2p program like Winmx I might only get 5.5kps from a DSL download. Hence I always try to DL from Cable. I average about 20 to 45 kps on winmx.

On many sites, including European sites, my connection will download at 2 megabytes per second, average. Ive downloaded many files at that rate. Sometimes even faster. I downloaded a 57 meg file in about 19 seconds. Go figure.

Still there are the sites that wont let me download at anything faster than 40kps but line conditions and the number of users downloading from a site must be taken into consideration.

dont tempt me so much ED. :D i have one hell of a slow internet connection most would cry. :( ... comes with prepaid dial up ..

My connection is a 10 Mbit/s optic fiber. And it's all mine, no neighbours to share it with. Also, the download/upload ratios aren't fixed: I can download at 999 kb/s and upload at 1 kb/sec or vice versa, as long at the sum is 10 mbit (which is actually a bit more than 1000 kb/sec).


However it seems to me that there is a bit of confusion here: it doesn't matter how fast your connection is, if your data gets through a slow node, it will be slowed down. Hence it's perfectly normal that:

Originally posted by Earthdog

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there are the sites that wont let me download at anything faster than 40kps but line conditions and the number of users downloading from a site must be taken into consideration.

If the site has been allocated only a small amount of bandwidth, you won't get anything more than what it can spare.

And also:
Originally posted by Crimsomblade

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with T1 through my phone line 725 mbps, from off to Ironworks forum main page takes about 15 seconds then from forum page to page another 5-6 seconds...

As Ziroc (bow to the King) pointed out, there is something wrong: your data must be passing through too many internet nodes before getting to you. To get to ironworks I must get through at least 30 nodes, and I can get my pages in 3-4 secs. Maybe the route of the data isn't your only problem. Do you experience such slowdowns on other sites as well?

When trying to connect to ironworks, my ping times out. Still IW works as fast as any other site.

I have ISDN shared with big number of people, but as the students are moving out for summer download speeds have rocketed up. While 10kps has been a standard rate through winter, you can see rates over 70kps now.