Yeah, I don’t know how to test it. It seems fast enough most of the time - I play MMORPGs without problems.
I just checked my modem page. Enter 192.168.1.1 into your browser, and you should see the speeds there. It’s possible that the page is 192.168.2.1 or something similar.
My speed is 2167.9 Kbps (I think that’s the same as 2 MBPS)
Fast. Very fast. See? Want me to show ya again? OK. Look. See?
Mine’s asynchronous DSL so it has two speeds, faster for download than for upload.
I assume that’s not uncommmon, so which speed are you asking about here?
2.99 Mb/s download
0.72 Mb/s upload
I have 1.5 from U-Verse, and I’m not that happy with it. It throttles my Netflix via PS3, which results in a pretty crappy picture. I’ve wanted to call and have them give me a higher rate for a weekend to test it, but I’m afraid that they’ll screw it up (1.5 isn’t offered anymore - the next level 3.0 is extra cash). Anyway, the PS3 gets Netflix via BD Live - hopefully once X-Box’s exclusive deal expires the PQ will improve.
Here in the UK you can log onto various websites which will do a quick speed test for you. Just Google “broadband speed test”.
Edit, just spotted the link above in post #25
20Mb/s down
1Mb up
No cap.
I usually get close to that anytime I test it.
Dial-up. And slow dial-up at that.
Yes, I am a dinosaur.
FiOS 25/25 here.
There are speed tests, but that’s actually not what I wanted to find out here. There are way too many variables involved with speed tests to make it meaningful, especially with such a small sample. I can do a speed test five times and get five completely different answers. It’s interesting in some sense, but just too variable.
I was curious what the provider tells you the speed is. Obviously, I misjudged how many people would know that, because I didn’t realize how many providers don’t basically force you to know.
Like I said earlier, every time I’ve bought Internet service in the past, I’ve had to consciously choose a tier, being sold by the speed. Like this.
I couldn’t have ordered the service without knowing the speed (it would be like going to the car lot and saying “ok, give me a car!”). But I looked at the current Comcast site, for example, and I see that you really have to dig in to find it. They don’t emphasize it at all (maybe because they realize people won’t actually get that speed in many cases).
So, in retrospect I completely understand why people don’t know. I just didn’t think about it when I wrote the poll 
I really have no idea. I do know it’s DSL, and I have the impression (correct or not) that the speed is more limited by my wireless router than the actual DSL. It was considered fast when I got it 5 years ago and haven’t given it another thought since.
We’re using DSL through our telcom company, too. I was going to do a trial of cable internet, and when the guy came out to show us how blazing fast cable was, he found out that as close as we are to a hub here, cable is slightly slower. 
The ping test is coming in around 13 Mb/s download, 0.84 upload, and 15ms ping. I don’t feel a need for anything faster.
Speed tests do work but you have to do them right. First of all you can’t be running anything but the browser. Make sure you’re not watching YouTube or something when you watch it.
In the USA you’re sold a tier and a max rate, which you rarely get.
For instace, I get a theoretical rate of 6.0 download. But when I signed up the CSR at AT&T said, based on your distance, you should get about 5.0. Speedtests (I like SpeakEasy confirm a consistant 5.1 rate.
The thing is the tiers on AT&T run from like 1.5 - 3.0 and then 3.0 to 6.0.
So as long as I get anything over 3.0 I pay a higher rate, even though I may be far enough from the DSL office so I can only get 3.1 I have to pay a higher rate or drop my tier level down.
Mine was 5.50 and it’s so fast already! I couldn’t imagine it any faster. I can already watch movies in one window while occasionally surfing in another. Is it even necessary to have a faster speed I wonder?
Thanks AHunter, Cool app!
My speed is 28.66 and plenty fast enough. The only time I bog a bit is on some videos.
My other speed is 2.43.
15Mb up and down, according to my ISP.
My actual speed is always a bit less than that, but close enough.
According to this site: http://testinternetspeed.org/
I have 7537 kbps download and 3783 kbps upload
Egads, you people are killing me. I bought a **‘Up to 5Mbps DSL’ **plan. It barely got running when I installed it and had a Bell tech come in. From the Central Office (local switch station) they figured I could max out at 4Mbps, but set me up at 3Mbps to ensure I would get consistent service (they said). I didn’t believe it, but I am a couple of miles from the CO and the copper wire is 40+ years old just in my neighbourhood, older closer to the CO. Right now, I get 1.3Mbps.
I want to change over to 10Mbps cable since our DSL provider is starting to offer that, but I’m afraid I’m going to have the same issue with the crappy co-ax that we’ve got.
Maybe I’ll just start poaching off my neighbours wi-fi…
At least I get 80Mbps at work…too bad I can’t use it much.
My ISP advertises their service as “up to 30 mbps.,” so I suppose it could actually be as little as 1 kbps without making a liar of them. But, in reality, it regularly tops out a little over 20 mbps down/5 mbps up.