I'm on the weirdest system I've encountered in a while. One of those ones that makes you wonder how many goats were sacrificed to make it work.
I'm staying in a cabin at a resort in a relatively rural area. So. There is a wireless router in one end of the main lodge connected to the lodge wired network. This connects to a wireless repeater mounted in the rafters of a small maintenance hut. This connects to a wireless dongle mounted outside in a plastic bag. Which connects via USB (2.0) to my laptop - the walls of this cabin attenuate the signal enough that there is no wireless inside the cabin. All of these are omnidirectional, but the one in the main lodge has a pringles-can-tenna.
...And yet I've got less latency and higher speed than our home connection, and no noticeable packet loss. Go figure. (That being said, our home connection... Well, I can say that it is stable. And it only occasionally drops packets. And they don't throttle, not that that would really make much difference.)
3.63Mbps down / 2.72Mbps up / 17ms ping
Pinging www.google.ca [...] with 32 bytes of data:
...
Ping statistics for ...:
Packets: Sent = 25, Received = 25, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 47ms, Maximum = 122ms, Average = 57msI'm on fake Verizon FiOS at my apartment. My last apartment had real FiOS and it was amazing. 20-30 down consistently, never restarted the router, always great. This one's not as good and times out a lot and sometimes the ping is like 150+ms. They're doing real fios soon and we'll get a new router so I'm looking forward to that. At work, the 80 employees all share a single T1 from XO communications. The internet is fine - just not for that many people. The fucking VP of my company used to be a lawyer and the last time the contract with them was going to expire / be renegotiated he demanded to handle it. He didn't handle it and the contract auto renewed and they're cheap bastards and refuse to handle it. 3 months left before the contract is up again and we can some real fucking internet (hopefully). I still download large video / media packages at home. I'll post a screenshot of that in the morning.
Right now I'm at work. Our ISP has been flaky and when I came in this morning we were getting about half the bandwidth we normally do. 15mbs versus the usual 37 or so. We pay for 50 but of course we almost never see that. Seeing as I'm IT, I'm wired straight up to all the servers which are about... uh 7 feet away from me. Going through a switch which goes through the firewall which then goes to the modem. Pretty boring setup, we of course have a VPN setup on a separate connection.
At work, so I'm connected via ethernet, to our buildings router, which connects to a little communications shack down the way. The shack communicates with a directional antenna to a larger "hub" which is where the site's servers are. Then, I'm connected to the proxy servers 6 states away, and then out from there. This, for a document control department that handles 100's of gigs per day...
Connected through my home's wireless network, which is a vanilla setup. My ISP is AT&T, I have 12 Mbps down and 2 up. Latency to the nearest city is usually ~35 ms. I live twenty minutes from a major metropolitan area that has fiber access, and I feel left out.
Be careful what you post here. You could end up posting your location and/or IP address. IP address being worse, of course. $ speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from Comcast Cable ([W.X.Y.Z])...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Cellular One of [Local Company Name] ([Somewhere]) [119.17 km]: 14.702 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 37.16 Mbits/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 10.98 Mbits/s|
I was in the Alaskan Bush a little while ago and was getting some internet served via Satellite > DSL > home. We were limited to 512kbps down but it was supposed to be 1mbps and the latency was the worst part ( http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html for an entertaining read) anything to the lower 48 would give me about 900ms for ICMP and it was worse for some other protocols. I have screenshots of the horror somewhere, and I'll try to dig them up.