Pigeon Beats Broadband in Speed Test... Again

[megamanx00]

Heh. Funny, but sad for them ^_^

 

[Guest]

I thought this is why people moved to the rural areas, to get away from it all.

 

[ntrceptr]

I'm still reading the posts but the ISPs are run by idiots. Tech support is always the same script...have you unplugged you modem...have you plugged it directly into your computer without a router...blah blah blah. I know what im doing my network is not the problem although i check before calling them.

I've had one ISP that didnt realize that downloading required upload bandwidth. Ack packets people! I would max out my upstream doing a simple download via FTP. Some TCP tweaks help this but it would still happen from Fast sites. (Recieve window, selective ack, etc...)

I know here in the USA the cable companies and such are scamming the government thru the Broadband Initiative (not sure thats the name). The government is paying loads of money to improve the speeds and expand to rural areas.

This was intended to upgrade the actual networks (i.e. fiber to all homes, etc...) but the cable companies just pocket that money and their solution "Turbo Boost". What a joke that is. To get the USA average broadband speed up they just changed some settings to allow the first few seconds of a connection to be un-capped, therefor improving all speedtest scores. If those tests ran for more than a few seconds you'd see that nothing has changed.

Another thing, Why are they capping cable connections anyway...Didn't they pay a fortune for servers on their end that would loadbalance all the bandwidth anyway?

 

[borisof007]

[citation][nom]Haserath[/nom]Well, my download rate is 30 pigeons and my upload rate is 10 pigeons. What about you?[/citation]
LOL +1

 

[gm0n3y]

I have what my local cable company calls an 'Extreme' speed package that actually provides a decent down speed of 25mbps. Of course my upload is rated at 1mbps.

 

[o0RaidR0o]

[citation][nom]kelemvor4[/nom]They should install Jefferies tubes and get a bunch of mice running through them to solve the problem permanently.[/citation]
They tried that once, damn Black Plague!

 

[o0RaidR0o]

[citation][nom]bluekoala[/nom]I'm in Ottawa with 16mbps down with Bell Canada. I could pay 5$ extra a month to get more upload; but I never upload anything so I stick to 800k or whatever it is.[/citation]
Feed off the bottom much? Sounds like you never give back to the community, what a troll.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]o0RaidR0o[/nom]Feed off the bottom much? Sounds like you never give back to the community, what a troll.[/citation]
I have a 25/1 package and always seed to a minimum of 1:1, usually much more. You need fast download so you don't have to wait, but upload can just be on constantly. And we're talking about legal torrents here of course.

 

[eddieroolz]

The problem isn't yours alone, England. Every developed nation except Asia has crappy ISP speed.

 

[C00lIT]

Montreal Quebec Canada
With Bell Sympatico... I hate bell

7Mbit (I average 700KBPS) Down
1Mbit (Average 100KBPS) up

I eint complaining but Videotron Cable destroys it.

 

[awood28211]

Hmm. 2MBytes down (20 Mbit) and 200KBytes up (2 Mbit) for me.... 😀

 

[kronos_cornelius]

I hate to brag I get 2MB upload in a relative rural are in North Carolina 🙂

For redundant communication you can send two pigeons.

For DDOSA, you can just send a flock of pigeons to the destination.

For a trojan you can send an eagle with a pigeon suit. It it can eat all the packets/pigeons ?

 

[jimmysmitty]

[citation][nom]taidaan[/nom]Sounds like a problem that most of rural America may share. My upload speed is 250 Kbps on a good day.[/citation]

Thats nothing. My grandmas town that lies between Abeline and Midland TX has the lowest possible DSL speeds available, 768Kb down, 128Kb up and I doubt she ever gets anything beyond that.

Plus add in that AT&T is the only ISP in her area....

I think its sad really. We should be on something closer to FiOS by now but monopolies or just poor economic conditions hold back updated internet connections.

 

[tallpaul02]

[citation][nom]sykozis[/nom]If the rurals areas have cable tv....then offering cable internet doesn't add much to the cost at all, compared to the number of possible subscribers.[/citation]
two reasons youre blanket statement is not correct:
1 - just because an area has lines laid for cable tv does not mean they have the bandwidth for high speed internet (esp if were complaining about upload speed here)
2 - most rural areas do not have cable tv available. generally its OTA or satellite.

 

[dgingeri]

[citation][nom]taidaan[/nom]Sounds like a problem that most of rural America may share. My upload speed is 250 Kbps on a good day.[/citation]

Denver, Colorado with Comcast. While the kiddies are in school or early in the morning on weekends, I get 20Mb upload and 1.5 Mb download and about 125ms latency. When the kids are on, it's a totally different story. I get about 1Mb download and less than 150Kb upload with 350+ms latency. It gets so annoying trying to play WoW, only to get disconnected multiple times a day. I'm certain it's a movie/music pirate sharing files illegally. I hope the RIAA sues the crap out of them.

 

[feeddagoat]

Yea upload speeds are dreadful in the UK compared to what they should be tho Download has greatly improved. I get 0.37Mbps upload compared to 6.36Mbps (doubled in the last month) download on BT option 3 unlimited data for £27.99 Tho I'm only 15mins by motorway from the city centre.

 

[cekasone]

Now I feel like a king with my 25/25MB connection with FIOS.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]dgingeri[/nom]Denver, Colorado with Comcast. While the kiddies are in school or early in the morning on weekends, I get 20Mb upload and 1.5 Mb download and about 125ms latency. When the kids are on, it's a totally different story. I get about 1Mb download and less than 150Kb upload with 350+ms latency. It gets so annoying trying to play WoW, only to get disconnected multiple times a day. I'm certain it's a movie/music pirate sharing files illegally. I hope the RIAA sues the crap out of them.[/citation]
Yes, its the users' fault, not your crappy ISP's infrastructure.

 

[dgingeri]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]Yes, its the users' fault, not your crappy ISP's infrastructure.[/citation]

actually, yes, it is. It works great during off hours, and I get huge bandwidth and great latency during those hours. There is a precise drop off when something happens when someone gets on and uses far too much of those resources. It's like having someone comes in and parks a semi sized moving van right in the middle of the street at the entrance way to a neighborhood. Nobody would put up with that in the rest of the world, why on the internet?

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]dgingeri[/nom]actually, yes, it is. It works great during off hours, and I get huge bandwidth and great latency during those hours. There is a precise drop off when something happens when someone gets on and uses far too much of those resources. It's like having someone comes in and parks a semi sized moving van right in the middle of the street at the entrance way to a neighborhood. Nobody would put up with that in the rest of the world, why on the internet?[/citation]
Except that when I sign up for an ISP, I'm allowed to use my bandwidth to the limit that I've signed up for. If my ISP's infrastructure can't handle that, its not my fault. They shouldn't oversell their infrastructure.

In your analogy, the semi would have to fit within one lane of traffic, since that is the law. Just as I get 25down/1up and I can't take any more than that. Now if the pipe was completely open and everyone could use as much as they wanted, then sure, you'd have a valid argument.

 

[Antimatter79]

7 mega-pigeons down/768 kilo-pigeons up in North Georgia (USA, not Russia). Can't wait to get Uverse out here and enjoy 18 down/who cares up.

 

[techcurious]

As humorous as this test is, all it does is make a statement (And it really is humorous!). I could send a 32GB MicroSD card (less than 30GB usable) by pigeon to my next door neighbour, or from New York to (almost) the opposite side of the planet in Singapore. To my neighbour, it would take about 50 minutes to fill up the SD card, about 30 seconds to attach to pigeon, about 3 seconds for the pigeon to fly over and another 30 seconds to get the card off the pigeon, and finally about 20 minutes to download. Thats a total of about 1 hour and 11 minutes. Now add a travel time of about 8 days of travel time for my pigeon to get to Singapore (Source: Wikipedia+GoogleEarth). If uploading the same 30GB worth of files on my broadband to my neighbour would take about 9 hours to transfer, it would take at most 20 hours to transfer to Singapore? So the pigeon totally wins when sending the files to my neighbour, but looses pitifully when transfering the files to Singapore. I couldn't explain any clearer how irrelevant this pigeon experiment/test was. It's still funny though

 

[Krnt]

Amazing, more than an hour without loosing connection!
mine disconnects for a while every 45 minutes in daylight, stable connection is only at night.
(Cable and Wireless Panama IS, 300k Up, 3000k Down)

 

[danny69t]

[citation][nom]azgard[/nom]256k down 160k upfor $55 rural America at its best.[/citation]
20 Mbits up & down speed for ~ $20 in rural Romania. A few days ago i downloaded some bittorrent with 100Mbits/s 😀.

Way to go pidgeon, show'em they need to bring faster internet speed for the people!!!