giving dsl a try

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giving dsl a try

posted @ Monday, August 21, 2006 9:57 AM | 4 Comments |

a while back i ranted about my woes with high speed internet companies and choices. when is a monopoly not a monopoly? apparently when it is a utility. argh, i get frustrated thinking that i have 1 choice for electricity, 1 choice for telephone, 1 choice for gas, etc. -- argh.

anyhow, because of the cox acquisition of cableamerica and my concerns about cox services and customer service, i figured i'd jump on the opportunities presented to my by qwest dsl (higher speeds). anyhow after some bumpy starts (i placed the order 45 days ago and it is just getting connected today. hmmm...vision of what is to come on customer service?

anyhow, so it got connected (and i finally plugged everything in correctly -- yes, i had to open mouth, insert foot on one incident). so here's some speed results.

i first used bandwidthplace.com for my pre-tests:

cox internet:
[using setting: cable, arizona region]
first test: 795KB/second
second test: 1.2 MB/second

then i used speakeasy.net for comparison:

cox internet:
[using los angeles location]
first test: 1215KB/second
second test: 2184KB/second

now the same tests using dsl:

qwest dsl:
[bandwidthplace.com - same settings]
first test: 2.7MB/second
second test: 3.9MB/second

[speakeasy.net - same settings]
first test: 5881KB/second
second test: 6067KB/second

wow. i had to run a few more just for giggles...here's the results:

Download Speed: 5984 kbps (748 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 674 kbps (84.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Download Speed: 6000 kbps (750 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 741 kbps (92.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Download Speed: 6031 kbps (753.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 674 kbps (84.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Download Speed: 5709 kbps (713.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 475 kbps (59.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

so it's hooked up and piped through the house now (although i have to get a dsl filter for my patch panel, which is en route)...seems to be doing fine!
tags: dsl, cable america, cox, qwest, high speed internet

Monday, August 21, 2006 9:57 AM

Comments.

scott hodson said:

# re: giving dsl a try

Try SpeedTest.net, it's got a cool interface and allows you to share your speed results with others. Very Web 2....I almost said it!

http://www.speedtest.net/

9/5/2006 7:11 AM
Martin Plante said:

# re: giving dsl a try

You lucky!!! In Quebec, cable is generally much faster than DSL.

bandwidthplace.com gives me 2.1 Mbits/sec. for my DSL... and tells me it's great (avg. 1.34 Mbits/sec in Quebec)

8/21/2006 11:07 AM
Poldo said:

# re: giving dsl a try

Wow, that's really fast. I can only go as much as 1.2mbps here. :(

8/22/2006 12:27 AM
John C. Bland II said:

# re: giving dsl a try

Tim, I'm on cable so I thought I'd give it a try. Here are my results (same settings you used):

[bandwidthplace.com]
[***test1]
Communications 3.8 megabits per second
Storage 458 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 2.2 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

Date & time Wednesday, August 30, 1:08AM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Cable
Region Arizona
Data size 1024KB

[***test2]
Communications 4.4 megabits per second
Storage 535.3 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.9 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

Date & time Wednesday, August 30, 1:10AM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Cable
Region Arizona
Data size 1024KB

[speakeasy.net]
[***test1]
Download Speed: 7556 kbps (944.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 485 kbps (60.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

[***test2]
Download Speed: 6688 kbps (836 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 500 kbps (62.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

--
I didn't know my speeds were this good, never check. It does seem as if DSL rivals cable though, at least yours. :-) I'm a DSL skeptic at heart. lol.

Congrats on the situation though!

8/29/2006 8:14 PM