Almost nine weeks ago, my cable modem was installed. Today, it finally started working. I have had the cable guys out to my house countless times, but they could never figure out the problem. Today, they finally figured out the problem and fixed it. So here I am, coming to you at 130 kb/sec.
:: Happy Dance ::
130 kb/sec? Bitch 
Not bad. I get 150+ on my ADSL.
Fun, ain’t it?
Two words come to mind:
Streaming Porn.
Probably best I don’t get a cable modem.
Well I’m coming at you at a rather leisurly 2100 kb/s.
Keith
But you still love me, right Coldfire?
Of course, at home it is a mere 28.8 modem 
Keith
I just found a web site that will test your bandwidth and according to it, I am actually getting 330 kb/sec.
(not that I’m gloating or anything)
Lucky You!!!
Mine is slooooooooooooooooooow.
It is awfull.
ethernet
such a lovely thing
Ethernet at school and I’ve gotten songs on Napster upwards of 350 kbps.
Where is this site at which you can test your kbps rate?
They are installing broadband (is that what it is called, BTW?) where I live. I’m counting the days until I get to toss my 28.8 modem out the window.
(59 days to go)
ADSL was up 'n running in two hours. Wait, it was actually 1 1/2 hours, including the internal wiring. Nice little 192K connection.
The T3 from work is also nice.
Disclaimer - no teasing or taunting of those with slower connections was intended in this post. Any occurrences of teasing or taunting are strictly coincidental.
I found it on the CNET download site.
http://webservices.cnet.com/bandwidth/
As to how accurate it is, I don’t know. I’ve been trying to download from Napster, but the best I seem to be getting is 20 kb/sec. Of course, there are a lot of people on the site now, so that may have something to do with it.
it says something about 1105.7kbps
i love ethernet.
Mine said 777.1 kbps. I wonder if it’d be bigger if the PC lab I’m in weren’t half full.
But still, substantially better than 28.8.
Hitting between 2100 and “You have a connection speed which is greater than most connections.” All right…
Heh. 1149.3 kbps. T1 from work. My ISP is 50 feet away.
I suppose you could call it that. What you are probably getting is what’s called an HFC network. HFC is Hybrid Fiber-Coax. Fiber optic cable transmitting digital data spreads out from the head-end, is converted to an analog signal at the optic/power node which serves approximately 500 homes, and finally comes to your house via analog RF signal on coaxial cable. Broadband really just refers to the transmitted RF range. CATV/Data HFC sytems are now sending signals ranging from about 50MHz through 850MHz. At least thats what my clients are doing.
[Edited by UncleBeer on 08-02-2000 at 04:31 PM]