Cornell’s Internet = Super Fast
I tried the Speakeasy bandwidth test utility and got some amazing results:
This is on a 1.2MB/s LAN connection over 54Mb/s wifi, which either makes the Cornell internet connection prescient (it can guess bits?) or Speakeasy’s tool completely wrong.
Update
Don’t post when you’re sleepy! 5600kbs = .7 MB/s, so this is within the range of what should be happening. We were getting weird results that morning in the 300kbs range, as well, which make me think it was on some kind of different scale, as that would have been really really slow…
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on May 8th, 2006 at 11:56 am
I guess it has something to do with what they actually mean with speed:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 5117 kbps (639.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 627 kbps (78.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
That were my results. The ‘transfer rate’ values are correct, the ‘Speed’ values are bullshit.
on May 8th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
This is in simple response to the sheer stupidity of Bas’s comment. kbps/8 = KB/s. There are 8 bits in a byte therefore the numbers given are the exact same thing. So if one is correct so is the other.
on May 9th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
[…] Taking the cue from Elliot Back, I tried the speakeasy.net speed test and came up with the following results: […]
on May 19th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Wow, Cornell’s internet is slow. Depending on what dorm you live in at Georgia Tech, you can expect 30 to 65 megabits down and anywhere from 3 to 5 megabits up.