September poll: What is your Internet connection download speed?

For the month of September, we thought it would be fascinating to see what everyone's Internet connection speed is and maybe give everyone a place to brag about their Internet connection or envy others fast connections. If you want to test your Internet speed, I suggest using Speedtest. In addition to voting about your Internet connection speed feel free to post your results like my below example.



Other links for testing your Internet connection

All past monthly polls and results can also be found on the Computer Hope poll page.

First!

Using a cron job to test my broadband speed every 30 mins from http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html I see that my broadband speed didn't drop below 12Mb/s on Saturday

09/03/10 23:30:01 1.41 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 00:00:00 2.15 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 00:30:00 1.69 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 01:00:00 2.20 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 01:30:01 1.70 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 02:00:00 2.22 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 02:30:00 1.88 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 03:00:00 2.22 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 03:30:01 2.04 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 04:00:00 2.17 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 04:30:00 1.45 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 05:00:01 2.19 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 05:30:00 2.01 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 06:00:00 1.98 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 06:30:00 1.67 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 07:00:01 2.22 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 07:30:00 1.95 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 08:00:00 2.12 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 08:30:00 1.67 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 09:00:00 2.22 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 09:30:01 1.52 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 10:00:00 1.88 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 10:30:00 1.24 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 11:00:00 1.51 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 11:30:00 1.24 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 12:00:00 2.11 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 12:30:00 1.80 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 13:00:00 1.98 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 13:30:01 1.66 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 14:00:00 2.01 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 14:30:00 1.56 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 15:00:00 1.94 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 15:30:01 1.85 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 16:00:01 2.15 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 16:30:00 1.52 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 17:00:00 2.16 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 17:30:01 1.32 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 18:00:00 1.68 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 18:30:00 1.44 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 19:00:00 2.14 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 19:30:01 1.37 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 20:00:01 2.17 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 20:30:00 1.74 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 21:00:00 2.05 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 21:30:00 1.69 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 22:00:01 2.17 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 22:30:00 1.83 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 23:00:00 2.18 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/04/10 23:30:00 1.88 MB/s 20971520/20971520
09/05/10 00:00:00 2.14 MB/s 20971520/20971520

NB: speeds listed in megabytes not megabits. Assuming a couple of stop bits with every byte then I guess you need to multiply by 10 to convert.

Oddly, Calum and I are both on Virginmedia cable, but my speed test showed my ISP as "Telewest Broadband", a name which has been obsolete for quite a while, Feb 2007 to be exact.

I got .69 down and .25 up

It really sucks being on the west coast of Africa but, in a little over a week I will be home and if I can remember will test again from there.

It really sucks being on the west coast of Africa

It's totally worth it to get that inheritance!   

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It's totally worth it to get that inheritance!   

Ok you lost me.

Ok you lost me.

Nigerian 419 scams.

Nigerian 419 scams.

OK got you. However I am in Gabon this time and normally I work out of Angola. I will be so glad to get back to the good ole U.S.

Terrible.