# Fastest download speed **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263 "2002-11-28T01:28:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/1 "2002-11-28T01:28:26Z")
I was just reminiscing about my days of perpetual fast connections to the net, and lamenting my pitiful dial-up speeds, and thought “I wonder how much faster other people are than poor, pitiful me.” My fastest speed was 112 kb/s, when I was downloading a 700 mb file from an ftp. Currently, I’m lucky if I hit 5 kb/s. So, how much better off are the rest of you? ---
**Author:** ![IGJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/igjoe/32/5420_2.png) [@IGJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IGJoe)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/2 "2002-11-28T01:37:57Z")
Not sure what my _fastest ever_ download speed is, but here’s my current connections stats, according to [DSL Reports](http://www.dslreports.com): Download: 1292 kbps Upload: 489 kbps This is pretty average for my connections, depending on the time of day, site, etc. ---
**Author:** ![IGJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/igjoe/32/5420_2.png) [@IGJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IGJoe)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/3 "2002-11-28T01:39:57Z")
Err, make that _connection_ stats, sans _s_. But you get the point. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/4 "2002-11-28T01:52:16Z")
Around 350 kbps is the speed limit around here. ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/5 "2002-11-28T01:55:10Z")
On my absolute fastest downloads I sometimes get in excess of 340KB/sec. This is sufficiently unusual to the point that I remark on it when it happens. I tend to get this from major places like Microsoft. I downloaded IE6 some time ago and it took longer to install than to download. I suppose a more typical speed for me would be around 75-150KB/sec. In practice I see between 0KB/sec and 350KB/sec or so. This is cable, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/6 "2002-11-28T02:02:32Z")
When I was in the Windows XP Beta Testing program, and downloaded Windows XP RC2, I was downloading at a consistent 500+ KB/s. 🙂 Back in the days of yore when I was using stone-age dialup, somehow I managed to download the nVidia graphics drivers at 22 KB/s! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/7 "2002-11-28T03:04:58Z")
Around 350 KB/s. ---
**Author:** ![Ankh\_Too](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Ankh\_Too](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ankh_Too)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/8 "2002-11-28T03:19:20Z")
Right now… 3360 kbit/s (410 KByte/s) download and 950 kbit/s (120 KByte/s) upload. Gotta love [dslreport.com](http://dslreport.com) ---
**Author:** ![barking\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@barking\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barking_frog)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/9 "2002-11-28T03:23:04Z")
I think somewhere around 400KB/s back when I was using Videotron (now owned by Shaw) in Alberta, which was from a corporate website (either Adobe or Microsoft). The fastest on my current connection is about 1100KB/s, but then again that’s on the network :D. The fastest Internet speed is probably around 130KB/s, but I haven’t hit that in about a month. Since then the internet has been very slow and has been getting gradually slower. The average fast speed two weeks ago was around 40, one week ago 30, and this week I’m lucky to hit 20. ---
**Author:** ![Stccrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Stccrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stccrd)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/10 "2002-11-28T03:44:47Z")
At school I get around 1.5 MB/s …its niiice At home I get around 80kb/s on average ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/11 "2002-11-28T04:33:27Z")
Wow. Even the speeds I got while I was at college sucked conpared to these. That 112 was over the college network, and I have NEVER seen it go faster than that. The speed at college would often be around 30 kb/s. I am speed-deprived. ---
**Author:** ![wei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@wei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wei)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/12 "2002-11-28T05:15:01Z")
I’ve seen my connection (Sprint Broadband [fixed wireless]) make it around 620 kilobytes/sec. Fastest DSLReports test I’ve seen was somewhere around 4000/100. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/13 "2002-11-28T05:39:47Z")
I just tested my speed (downloading) and the report said I was getting 1598.05 Kbps. Don’t know about upload, but it’s less, of course. OS X, using Comcast. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/14 "2002-11-28T09:10:48Z")
Download: 5078 kbps 🙂 Upload: 892 kbps Does everyone hate me now? I could tell you that my nephew’s computer (server actually) leaves me in the dust as far as speed goes. Let’s hate him… m’kay? ---
**Author:** ![Dunmurry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@Dunmurry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunmurry)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/15 "2002-11-28T18:00:30Z")
445.1 kbps, plus a 622Mbps connection to a 2.5Gbps backbone. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/16 "2002-11-28T19:44:14Z")
[DuMeter](http://www.dumeter.com/) is a pretty cool program that monitors the total speed of all your downloads and displays it as a realtime graph. You can also switch back and forth between displaying the speed in kilobits and kilobytes per second. It keeps totals by day, week, and month of how much you downloaded. It’s a pretty cool little program. My fastest download was about 400KB/s. At the time, I was also downloading a couple of other files. All told, I was sucking in a total of over 750KB/s. That was back on my old uncapped cable connection when practically nobody else in town had one. Now with my capped DSL, I never get more than 160KB/s. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fastest-download-speed/139263/17 "2002-11-29T07:59:25Z")
It usually evens out at about 2-4 kbs. I live in rural Oregon. There is no cable/dsl/anything else except modem access available, and our phone lines seem to date back to the early 1900’s. _sigh_ The result is a regular connection of 24.6k. This weekend, I connected at my all time record: the blazingly fast 31.2k!! I love where I live, I really do. It’s beautiful and quiet and private. But if there’s anything that could make me want to move, it’s the prospect of downloading an mp3 in less than 45 minutes. So Vanyel, feel better. No matter how horrible your speeds are, I doubt they’re worse than mine.