Using Giganews a very typical speed would be ~5-7MB/sec download. I've noticed that Usenet downloads seem to vary based on what your actually downloading. That is, what actual articles. Of course, Giganews would have a distributed farm serving up articles. I think some of their servers are more saturated than others, and this is why speeds vary from saturating your connection to as low as ~2-3MB/sec.

I guess what I'm saying is that downloading from usenet, due to the multi-server architecture that would serve up different bits of data (since that data would be sharded) your speed varies based on what server you get, and how many other people are downloading from the same server.

Oh, and I'm also saying that the faster your internet gets the more you will be able to see what the upper bounds are of the capabilities of various servers on the internet. At 100mbps you usually need to grab data from a lot of different sources to cap out your connection.

Bittorrent would do it with a well seeded torrent.

cool, thanks for the insight. I am on usenetserver, and my speeds are very constant. Cheers.

Here's is a picture of a usenet download from FibreOp's 70 Mb/s connection. A nice flat line @72 Mb/s.

http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/ff500/habskilla/stats.png

sweet! I downloaded a 7.something GB "file" in 23 minutes at 37.6 MB/sec, very flat. with cable.

And to round things out. Here's a pic FibreOp's 30 Mb/s upload. Not as flat as the download but upload never is.

http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/ff500/habskilla/Upload.png

Is there a speedtest out there that lasts long enough to counteract the effect of speed boost?

I'd rather not have to search for a large file...I'm want something I can give to my provider if I'm not getting the sustained speeds I'm paying for.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1375123107.png

Just connected for the first time today.
Teksavvy
Premium Up to 5M/800k 300 GB/month $31.95/Month

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1381545547.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

47 dollars a month for Lightning from MTS.

Telus High Speed

I reliably get 6 Mbps down, 0.5 Mbps up, pings not so great at from 50 ms to 100 ms. Nominal cap of 125? GB per month but I don't think that Telus enforces this.

Price is $15 per month for the first 12 months (no contract) and $39/month after that.

Telus High Speed

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1383232222.png

Hmmm... not so good. :(

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1400290400.png

Just upgraded to a DOCIS 3.0 modem, on Rogers extreme plan

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1429596311.png

Teksavvy DSL 5M/800k 300 GB/month $31.95/Month

tried to download a file last night from a newsgroup for the first time. Absolutely brutal. 300 k bs. I really wish teksavvy cable was available here.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1435724417.png

Teksavvy
Cable Internet
Unlimited, 15 download / 1 upload
$54.95 + HST

East York Toronto

Shaw Broadband 50
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1435923435.png

WOW HWP 0 ping

Rogers High Speed Extreme (24Mbps down /1 Mbps up) with a new DOCSIS 3.0 Cisco modem:

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/1928/highspeedextreme.png

Not too shabby.

Use www.testmy.net.

The ISP's pay speedtest so it looks like you get great numbers.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1460064800.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Shaw Extreme 25/2.5.

I am in Edmonton and have been getting absolute horrid d/l speeds recently.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1481451072.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

pay $69.00 + HST or is it GST/PST, my province can't decide


hit 97mbps on terago

Use www.testmy.net.

The ISP's pay speedtest so it looks like you get great numbers.
site should change the web site to testmydialupspeed.net,
I hit a huge 2.4mbps or 300kB/s,
told me I could download a 1GB file in an hour, I know I can down load 1GB files in a few minutes