Internet speed

[The Jogger]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2073230918.png

The joys of living in the sticks

 

[The Jogger]

That's better although the speed isn't...........what's the ping?

 

[Norm]

.....what's the ping?

The length of time, in milliseconds (thousandths of a second) that it takes for a basic message to travel from your computer to another computer and back again (round trip time).

It's not very important for most things like general surfing, as you are unlikely to notice the difference between a 500ms and a 50ms ping in the time it takes a page to load, but it is critical if you do any form of online gaming as it is a measure of the game's responsiveness to your pulling the trigger etc.

The name comes from the noises that boats and subs make when using sonar. As seen in any stereotypical post-WWII navy film, that suspense filled period when the sub's crew all go quiet as the seeker passes directly over their heads and all you can hear is the "ping" of the sonar...

 

[gavintc]

not bad - am renting a room near Portsmouth, so I was interested to see what the speed was.

 

[HLaB]

That's very good, I'm in the folks till Sunday morning and their SKY gets a lot, lot less, particularly on the upload.

 

[marinyork]

That's better although the speed isn't...........what's the ping?

That's fine. Some urban folks don't get that speed. Could be faster, but that's the UK for you (then again some other countries are even worse).

 

[The Jogger]

Thanks MY, not too bad then good.

 

[Milo]

This makes me happy having lived on boats with mobile internet that felt like 56k most of the time.

 

[gaz]

Yeah yeah, thread resurrection and all. But I got my internet connections updated.

Fibre:

ADSL:

 

[dan_bo]

Wonder how fast Yenners is these days?

 

[TVC]

Impressive Gaz. BT have spent the last couple of weeks digging around all their cabinets round here, hopefully soon we'll go fibre optic and get better than the 6Mb that I'm used to.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

We're a slow bunch down under, so I have an ADSL2+ account, but I've deliberately left it on an ADSL1 speed profile, so as expected, I got:

Our government keeps rabbiting on about our upcoming National Broadband Network (NBN), but by the time they actually install the bloody thing, it will be decades out of date .

 

[Venod]

TalkTalk fibre, too far away from the box to get the higher option.

 

[Shortmember]

Using Firefox.

Using Chrome.

 

[GrasB]

Yeah yeah, thread resurrection and all. But I got my internet connections updated.

hum....