I was just reading the comments on thepiratebay, when i saw a commenter claimed that his 90kbps is slow. But i've been worse. My fastest torrent download speed is 20kbps which rarely happens. The usual speed i get is 5kbps. Come to think of it, maybe my ISP sucks. I took the speedtest.net, download speed is 0.6mbps while upload speed is 0.2mbps. When i read the comments on demonoid, the commenters display their screenshot of speedtest. Shockingly, their download speed and upload speed is 12mbps and 2mbps respectively (speedtest shows that he lived in New York). What is happening? can you tell? I live in Malaysia and currently using streamyx on 1mbps subscription, ADSL connection. Can you show your speedtest result?

Heres my Speed Test result

http://www.speedtest.net/result/685238301.png

How is it possible? 10mbps? can you describe your ISP?
Heres my result. sorry not to include it earlier.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/685340845.png

It might be your location. I would suggest calling your ISP provider and asking those questions.

Here are my results.

Good luck!

Hey Ahmad,

First things first.

Are you really a flutist? As I just noticed your email addy on your profile page (and yes ... 'Curious Les, I am').

Now then ... your internet connectivity issue or issues ...

You might be interested in this reply a customer received when they enquired about the 'slowness' of their own connectivity with streamyx:

Streamyx Slow Internet Connection Troubleshooting


And you might have answered your own question, so to speak, in making mention of the use of P2P application(s); as noted by one of the items listed in the above. Namely this one:

"12) Disable P2P application."

I would suggest trying all of the above noted suggestions (not just disabling P2P application(s)), and then doing another speedtest for comparative purposes.

My internet is High Speed Internet Standard:

Download speeds of up to 14 Mbps.
Data transfer capacity: 60 GB per month.


Now how about this package offered by my cable company; High Speed Internet Ultimate:

Download speeds of up to 50 Mbps.
Data transfer capacity: 150 GB per month

/\ "Oh to sleep, perchance to dream" ...

:oP

So my subscription is 1mbps. But i've never get 1mbps. The fastest from streamyx is 4mbps. While the fastest for jaring is 10mbps. But the fees are RM268 and RM1499 respectively. That's insane!!

1 Malaysian ringgit = 0.299267 U.S. dollars

USD $80.20 & $448.60 <-- is this correct, Ahmad?!?

That -is- insane!

Yes that is correct.
So how much does your ISP charge you every month? state in your currency and state the package description.

I live rurally, with no hi-speed currently available, so I have an all-you-can-stomach dial-up plan for $10(USD)/month. If I absolutely have to go fast, I lug the notebook to our public library for WI-FI (free).


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Approximately $60 CDN/month ... for the package listed above in my prior post.

My internet is "High Speed Internet Standard":

Download speeds of up to 14 Mbps.
Upload speeds of up to 1 Mbps.
Data transfer capacity: 60 GB per month.

Tested and I am well within, if not exceed advertised speeds, both download and upload.

You guys were so lucky.

Indeed we are, Ahmad.

It would appear though, that your posted speedtest is somewhat acceptable given your current subscription.

Download speeds of torrents is not an accurate indicator for the reasons listed above. Streamyx is most likely capping things there or throttling torrents.

"What throttling is is that ISPs have a Cisco based box that checks packets that are sent from your computer. If the packet is considered to be a torrent packet, the bandwidth is throttled, or lowered drastically. It creates a bottleneck type effect on your torrent."

A couple of things that might be of interest to you:

BitMeter II

A small utility that measures download and upload speeds and overall bandwidth usage. Statistics hourly, daily, weekly and monthly can be viewed. Amongst some other stuff.

Ping/Jitter Test

"What is Pingtest.net?

Use Pingtest.net to determine the quality of your broadband Internet connection. Streaming media, voice, video communications, and online gaming require more than just raw speed."

Sigh. I wish i could live with you guys.

Here are my results,i tried the test then i tried it again five minutes later.

result 1.

result 2.

Jerome,
Now what type of connection do you have? Fiber-optic? Satellite cable? That's the fastest I've ever seen. Faster that i imagine that would possibly unimaginable.

I have an ADSL2+ connection,if you want to learn more then see the following links.

ADSL.

ADSL2+.

Happy New Year to you.

I use cable with Maximale download speed...20 Mbps
Maximale upload speed...2.5 Mbps
Download is unlimited
I pay 50 Euro a month

my test

You have a very good connection too,Twinkel,your download speed is the same as ADSL2+ whereas your upload speed is higher than ADSL2+,the maximum upload speed is 1Mbps with ADSL2+.I pay 29.99 Euros a month.

They are busy to grade up the speed this year for the same amount of money...:oD

Sound like music in my ears...hehe.. :o))

Mine is ADSL too but,
Max download : 1mbps
Upload speed : (not sure)
I pay RM88 a month.