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2.29...Im on one of those dongle thingies.
Gonna change when the contract runs out in 4 months

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http://www.speedtest.net/result/779430304.png



This is in from the North American Continent...some of the Oz speeds are impressive....this is what USD 45month gets you..no limits

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What are the top 10 countries? Uk and Aus seem very low.

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TPG do faster than that here for 49 Aud. Throttle speed after 130 gigs is 1 Mb, so Aus is slowly improving. They've just announced a totally unlimited high speed plan no Throttling.... the first in Aus I think 75 bucks. Hmmmm :sneaky:

http://www.tpg.com.au/products_servi...icing.php#80GB

Dammit can't get it in Coburg.... would people please check and tell me if they can ?


I'd get onto this if I was considering a change, they've done this before I think, and stopped the offer after a few months. They keep the plan alive for exisiting customers though.





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Last Result:
Download Speed: 24054 kbps (3006.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 818 kbps (102.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Monday, 12 April 2010 3:56:31 PM

Big pond ADSL2

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in essence the lower (faster) your ping the better at sending and receiving data your connection is.

if you play games online (MW2 anyone :D) then you want to have a fast ping so you dont suffer from lag. it is how quickly data is sent to a server and back again.

i think anyways :confused:

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Ping is the roundtrip time to send a packet to a server & get a response. It is used to check if a host is contactable and tells you the latency of your connection. The 3.95mb/s is your bandwidth, i.e. how much data can be transferred at a time (maximum throughput).

http://www.speedtest.net/result/779554287.png

This is from our temp rental home, not bad when you consider the broadband costs about £7pm (£18pm including line rental).

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Well my Ping is 28. I feel much better about the woeful 3.95mb now then. :p

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The one thing people don't do is the Pong Test ... one is useless without the other.

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I'm near to the exchange. Who needs the NBN anyway?

http://www.speedtest.net/result/779574122.png

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The ICMP reply packet is sometimes reffed to as the "pong".

Did you ever hear about using carrier pigeons as at network transport, its an official internet rfc (1149), issued on 1st April(!) 1990 - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html

And some saddo's actually implemented it (55% packet loss due to bad weather) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers - the average ping was 5222806.6 ms :D

OK, I'll get my coat!

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http://www.speedtest.net/result/779581162.png


How do I rate?

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OK for downloading large files, for gaming - not so much!

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Thanks, I don't game anyroad.

What I don't get is why giant NTT (Japan) use servers in Changchun (China?) :confused:

And as for that Ping....

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Nice! ... :thumbsup:

I'm just over 1k from the exchange and get this:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/779630836.png

Problem is, the meter flies to 10 so quick I'm wondering if i'm being throttled ... :unsure: