For all those who use cable

[Harkoliar]

posted by ED ------------------------ 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.

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

[B_part]

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

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

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?

[NiceWorg]

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.