<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">All of this is BEYOND my point: Their speedtest engine is faulty. It claims speeds that it is *not* producing. <div><br></div><div>I checked my cable line and the DSL line against a number of other test providers, here are the results:</div><div><br></div><div><table frame="VOID" cellspacing="0" cols="21" rules="NONE" border="0">
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<td colspan="2" width="113" align="CENTER">Speedtest</td>
<td colspan="2" width="113" align="CENTER">Speakeasy</td>
<td colspan="2" width="113" align="CENTER">bandwidthplace</td>
<td colspan="2" width="113" align="CENTER"><a href="http://auditmypc.com">auditmypc.com</a></td>
<td colspan="2" width="113" align="CENTER">internetfrog</td>
<td colspan="2" width="115" align="CENTER">DSLreports</td>
<td colspan="2" width="113" align="CENTER"><a href="http://toast.net">toast.net</a></td>
<td colspan="2" width="113" align="CENTER"><a href="http://visualware.com">visualware.com</a></td>
<td colspan="2" width="132" align="CENTER">testinternetspeed</td>
<td colspan="2" width="113" align="CENTER"><a href="http://whatsmyip.com">whatsmyip.com</a></td>
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<td height="18" align="LEFT"><br></td>
<td align="LEFT">Down</td>
<td align="LEFT">Up</td>
<td align="LEFT">Down</td>
<td align="LEFT">Up</td>
<td align="LEFT">Down</td>
<td align="LEFT">Up</td>
<td align="LEFT">Down</td>
<td align="LEFT">Up</td>
<td align="LEFT">Down</td>
<td align="LEFT">Up</td>
<td align="LEFT">Down</td>
<td align="LEFT">Up</td>
<td align="LEFT">Down</td>
<td align="LEFT">Up</td>
<td align="LEFT">Down</td>
<td align="LEFT">Up</td>
<td align="LEFT">Down</td>
<td align="LEFT">Up</td>
<td align="LEFT">Down</td>
<td align="LEFT">Up</td>
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<td height="18" align="LEFT">Qwest</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="2.59" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">2.59</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="0.72" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">0.72</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="4.17" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">4.17</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="0.73" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">0.73</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="2.6669921875" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">2.67</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="0.69921875" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">0.70</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="18.26" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">18.26</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="0.76201171875" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">0.76</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="0.7958984375" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">0.80</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="0.599609375" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">0.60</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="2.8779296875" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">2.88</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="0.6923828125" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">0.69</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="0.7451171875" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">0.75</td>
<td align="LEFT" sdnum="1033;0;0.00"><br></td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="2.09" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">2.09</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="0.7177734375" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">0.72</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="1.8759765625" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">1.88</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="0.7001953125" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">0.70</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="6.6181640625" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">6.62</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="0.7119140625" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">0.71</td>
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<td height="18" align="LEFT">Comcast</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="22.01" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">22.01</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="2.66" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">2.66</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="5.1" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">5.10</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="2.62" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">2.62</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="12.2255859375" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">12.23</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="2.3466796875" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">2.35</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="20.87" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">20.87</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="3.51171875" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">3.51</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="5.09" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">5.09</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="1.53" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">1.53</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="22.1484375" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">22.15</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="2.5478515625" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">2.55</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="4.5576171875" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">4.56</td>
<td align="LEFT" sdnum="1033;0;0.00"><br></td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="9.37" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">9.37</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="2.58" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">2.58</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="1.7080078125" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">1.71</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="2.01953125" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">2.02</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="20.669921875" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">20.67</td>
<td align="RIGHT" sdval="2.4580078125" sdnum="1033;0;0.00">2.46</td>
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</div><div><br></div><div>All speeds are reported in Megabits (Mbps), some are calculated from Kilobits per second.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Ryan</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 17, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Nate Carlson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Just a bit of clarification - 20mb/896kbps is *not* FIOS - Qwest <br>advertises this as "Fiber optic fast", but what it really means is that <br>they run fiber to the DSLAM that serves your line. 20mbit/896kbit is <br>ADSL2+.<br><br>Qwest does offer VDSL in certain parts of the metro, which is available at <br>speeds of 40mbit/20mbit, 40mbit/5mbit, and also adds a 5mbit upstream <br>option to 20mbit, 12mbit, and 7mbit tiers. If you got 896k upstream, <br>however, you are ADSL2+, not VDSL.<br><br>As far as I know Qwest does not have any plans to roll out a real <br>fiber-to-the-home option - it's all fiber to the 'neighborhood' with <br>various technologies running over copper to deliver the service.<br><br>(Of course, Qwest does offer fiber services to businesses, but it's quite <br>a bit more money than we're talking for DSL.. *grin*)<br><br>On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Ryan Coleman wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">20Mbit. Which comes with an unreported upload cap of 896Kbps.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">But I'm probably calling them on Monday to tell them to pick everything up and take it back; Ran my own speed test through <a href="http://speedtest.net">speedtest.net</a> and the reported download speed was 3.2-4.5 Mbps. Same website on my cable modem reported 25+ Mbps on download.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ryan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 16, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Donovan wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Ryan Coleman <<a href="mailto:ryanjcole@me.com">ryanjcole@me.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I'll probably only end up cutting one of the two cable internet lines into my apartment...<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">16Mbit download -- pretty nice<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">600Kbit upload -- not so nice<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ran a speed test on our "public" cable line at home and got 30Mbit down and 3Mbit up.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Setting up a static IP on the Qwest website appears to be nearly impossible, that's a shock.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ryan<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Which package did you get?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Donovan Niesen<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">TCLUG Mailing List - 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