interesting test

Post by **nikos** » 2011 Nov 05, 07:47

http://www.speedtest.net/

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2011 Nov 06, 10:15

You only discovered this now? It's been the de-facto standard test for... well... years now. I reckon it's the reason schools like to have children wear uniforms - so there's no slagging the underclasses for their poverty in competitive clothing. For the rest of us, it's just a humiliating way for Romanians to show off their "three digit" results to my rather pathetic "one digit result" when I pay my ISP 5 times as much as they do.

I do so fondly remember my 300-baud I had 25 years ago though... I'm not sure why at the moment, but at the time it was cutting edge... and I so dreamed of 1200... then 3200... then I embraced my Rip Van Winkle years and stopped caring...

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2011 Nov 06, 12:59

' been using it for decades, too.

Post by **nikos** » 2011 Nov 06, 16:45

i was never too bothered with download speeds it has to be said. I can even manage with dialup if push came to shove

IneedHelp · Post by **IneedHelp** » 2011 Nov 10, 11:27

Kilmatead wrote:For the rest of us, it's just a humiliating way for Romanians to show off their "three digit" results to my rather pathetic "one digit result" when I pay my ISP 5 times as much as they do.

I plead guilty:

Post by **nikos** » 2011 Nov 10, 14:40

you made this up in paintshop, didn't you?

IneedHelp · Post by **IneedHelp** » 2011 Nov 10, 14:41

Phothoshop's my tool of trade, but you can check the image location: http://www.speedtest.net/result/1538851345.png

Here's a more recent result:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1584016892.png

Kilmatead · Post by **Kilmatead** » 2011 Nov 10, 21:13

nikos wrote:you made this up in paintshop, didn't you?

Unfortunately, I believe the lucky bastard. I tried to tell him that the rest of the world sees Romania as a backwater country with nothing more than French-drains for septic-tanks, but they do seem to have decent, if slightly OTT, fibre-optic nonsense. Guess they go through a lot of porn there.

IneedHelp · Post by **IneedHelp** » 2011 Nov 10, 21:30

The speed is good for foolish things like downloading at once a dozen video files from YouTube... or just one at 20MBytes/s.

And then there's RapidShare...