I am on a cable connection.. it is supposed to be 384 Kbps, but it is much higher than that.. i'd say on average it is about 500 to 600 Kbps.. and late at night i get stuff at about 1.5 Mbps or higher.. How fast is your connection?

how do i find out?

http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/default.asp

http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html

http://www.internetfrog.com/index.asp?

mine is 7.73MB

Are you serious? :o

Yeah I can upload a 100 MB file in as little as 2 minutes o_O

damn..

its that road runner BlTCHES

wow I though I had it fast, my download speed at the university is literally 2.2 megs per second... (i have the screenshot to prove it.)

at home it slows down to about 250 kilobytes per second, but thats still pretty good.

also beware when talking about megabytes vs megabits, a megabit is a different scale ( it's 1/8th of a megabyte ) because a bit is 1/8th of a byte.

its not only road runner(although that does help) its also the amount of space in memory we have i beleive it wus 12790 mb or sumthin, i forget...... :...: :idontknow:

Dang blazermax! that fast! I need a CPU like yours! And mine runs with about 2MB, I think...

My download speed is 1.07 mbps I thought it was much slower then that. I'm on Ethernet cable, or something like that.

My connection speed is 512KBPS.

It only takes me a few minutes to download huge files,but a hour to download Photoshop.

1526.9 kbps

Does it make a difference if I'm using my laptop, and not my main computer?

512 kbps

My universities measures at:

PCpitstop test-
1789 kilobits per second
Test details: 3200 kilobytes downloaded in 14.313 seconds.

Internetfrog test-
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/714/unisp...toct2007fa2.png

1.somethin' megabits accordin' t' ze internetfroggy.

umm... BA 7 mb is not exactly a surprising #

I have road runner to i am connected through a router which puts up a firewall(TAKE THAT HACKERS AND CRACKERS WHO'S DA MAN NOW!!) but everytime i watch my comp gain the connection it says connecting 100.0 mbps

road runner is supposed to go at an average speed of 5 mips. (note i have no idea how fast a mip is.) and FIOS goes on an average of 10. so FIOS IS worth it. I live in NY and there was a fios display at the fair. i used the internet for a while and it was amazing. u click and ur there. also a little thing about uploading and downloading. I really don't know wy but the upload speed always seems to be faster than ur download speed. also for the router ussers out there. some programs u use could be giving u a bad connection because u don't have ur port forwarding set up. if u need to open a port for a program be sure to close it when ur done. lest u leave it open and be hacked.. and thats all from me for now

I'd laugh if anyone hacked me, because there's nothin' worth hackin'. It'd be a complete waste of time and give me somethin' t' talk about at work, ... then again, not really.

Technogeek, hold there... Just having a firewall active doesn't mean your entirely hackproof... There are other methods to hack someone's computer... There are still ports that are open to in and outgoing traffic on your firewall... Port 80, maybe port 21, and then any other ports you've manually opened... If you use im, then there's a port for it open...

And yet another way is surf by downloads... (When you visit a page and it auto installs malware/viruses.)
EX- surf by downloads of chained viruses and trojan horse programs... such that a virus links you to install and activate a trojan horse program... fairly rare but not entirely unheard of either...

And as far as mips.... I think you might have that confused no net speed is measured in mips. (MIPS is Millions of Instructions Per Second... and it is a processor rating...)
Net speed is measure in MBPS (MegaBits Per Second... which translates to about .1 MegaByte Per Second... well speciffically, 1 Megabyte is 8 Megabits. So really one MegaBit Per Second would be closer to .125 Megabytes Per Second...)

And your computer may report that it's running 100.0 mbps but if thats connected via ethernet cable then thats not actually the speed it's running... The ethernet cable only knows 2 speeds... 10 mbps and 100mbps... And if the cable is plugged into it via router... then the router will tell the computer it's speed rating which will be much faster than the actual internet speed. (EX- my router speed speed is 54mbps but it reports to the computer 100 mbps when plugged in... because 54 is more than the 10mbps mode can handle so it automatically goes to the 100 mode. Make sense? )

okay well i'm still alittle confused about the mips thing because my father told me about that. everyhting i know, he taught me he is an electrician. so i still have stuff to learn

as far as the virus/router thing. I know i am not completley protected from hackers and i never said i was. its just harder for a hacker to get through to my comp. thats all i was implying.