Mozilla Firefox 21.0

[arthurking83]

LOL! Am .. one thing I totally detest is the US type date format

down speed from Melb for me was 101MB/s!!
Sydney was the slowest at 93MB/s tho.
If you're in Sydney, check how well the Brisbane server works for 'ya.
I got 100MB/s from Bris.

[ameerat42]

Kym.
Are you on NBN?
I'm on cable.
I checked them all today and found Syd still the best, though all others pretty close. Same as what I got yesterday
Am.

[Warbler]

Download Speed: 19420 kbps (2427.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 859 kbps (107.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 66 ms
Tuesday, 28 May 2013 9:49:28 PM

[arthurking83]

Test run on [*28/05/2013*] @ [*11:02 PM*])]

[(Mirror: [*Optus*]
Data: [*102 MB*]
Test Time: [*10 secs*])]

[(Your line speed is [*85.78 Mbps*] (85778 kbps).
Your download speed is [*10.47 MB/s*] (10722 KB/s). )]

Using IE10 on the Ozspeed links.
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Last Result:
Download Speed: 101111 kbps (12638.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1593 kbps (199.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 13 ms
Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:04:37 PM

Using FF21 on the direct Optus link(Melb server for me)
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Last Result:
Download Speed: 99704 kbps (12463 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1619 kbps (202.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 5 ms
Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:07:41 PM

Using IE10 on the direct Optus link(Melb server again)
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Test run on [*28/05/2013*] @ [*11:14 PM*])]

[(Mirror: [*iPrimus*]
Data: [*116 MB*]
Test Time: [*10 secs*])]

[(Your line speed is [*97.36 Mbps*] (97356 kbps).
Your download speed is [*11.88 MB/s*] (12170 KB/s). )]

Using IE10 on the iPrimus Melb server(9Mb)

[Warbler]

Pretty impressive results there Arthur. You'd be on cable? Around 20 is the fastest I can get on ADSL.

[arthurking83]

Yeah, cable. Had an old ... prehistoric cable modem in the SB4100 for a very long time, and wasn't on any plan.
But last Christmas, I decided I needed more bandwidth, so agreed to sign up to a new plan. They sent me a new cable modem, and also then explained that I'll be instantly upgraded to a faster connection as well.
Connection speed was initially of no concern to me, except that now I see the advantage.

My old SB4100 was about as fast, or sometimes even slower than ADLS2 .. usually in the 17-20Mb/s range.


Once you have that sort of connection, it's very hard to go back now to the slower speeds.

NBN!!! ... bring it on I say! ...... not this pissy, half assed, coathanger wire hack job the Libs want to endow us with

(oops sorry... rant over)

[ameerat42]

...Yeah, cable. Had an old ... prehistoric cable modem in the SB4100 for a very long time, and wasn't on any plan.
But last Christmas, I decided I needed more bandwidth, so agreed to sign up to a new plan....

Is your cable service with CEPHALPOD, er OCTOPUS, er OPTUS? If so, what plan are you now on?
Am.

[arthurking83]

I upgraded to the 5 billion gig plan .. no wait, it's more like 150G or so.

Apparently my old service was restricted to about 20Mb/s at the server end .. so no matter what modem I'd have used(and you can only use theirs, unless you know how to really hack) it'd have never achieved any greater speed back then. Didn't know this then.

I've been on the Optus cable network since about '99 and had never thought to enquire about it until my old 30G plan became inadequate.

My kids have gotten into this Minecraft game a while back and it seems that they're (both) downloading all these 'maps' or mods or whatever they seem to think is necessary, our average monthly bandwidth has now been approx 25-30G/mth for the past 6 months.
(I have checked their browsing history at random points in the past 6 months .. just to be sure, and they're doing OK.
They don't notice the speed tho as they're using wireless lappies which are pretty much limited.

And with all this I have to give a small tick of approval to the Netgear R6300 router too. I didn't really think it was going to be fully capable of allowing through the WAN port's 100Mb/s to my desktop either.
(I've had issues with older gen Netgear router's WAN port speeds)