BLHTAZ Posted February 20, 2009 Posted February 20, 2009 Anyone else using it? I just upgraded to it about an hour ago from the standard Roadrunner and all I can say is ...WOW!!! This is fast... :clapping: :banana: I downgraded my TV services to just a couple movie channels (don't need 8 of them :shake: ), upgraded my Roadrunner and upgraded to HD cable service. After all was said & done, I saved $5 a month :yes:
possum Posted February 20, 2009 Posted February 20, 2009 Dang I thought I was gonna see a sweet mopar. :dunno:
BLHTAZ Posted February 20, 2009 Author Posted February 20, 2009 Dang I thought I was gonna see a sweet mopar. :dunno:I never though of someone thinking that...I'll go change the title a little right now. Sorry... ;)
mvusse Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 I am paying for the regular Roadrunner, but when I downloaded a 5MB file in about 3 seconds a few months ago I decided to run a speed test again. I used to get 7Mb/s, getting 15 now. So pay for the regular, but have turbo. I decided that's not a problem for me. About 100 MB/minute on large downloads, but only in the wee hours of the morning when the net is quiet.
BLHTAZ Posted February 21, 2009 Author Posted February 21, 2009 I ran a speed test on mine just now... Not bad... :thumbsup: Click on the pic and test yours if you want. :cheers:
SuperWade2 Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 I ran a speed test on mine just now... Not bad... :thumbsup: Click on the pic and test yours if you want. :cheers: SW2 > BLHTAZ
Wildman Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 Yea......I've been running roadrunner turbo for almost 4 years now........and would not change it for anything else :yes: Is it worth the extra $$$....... Hell yea :D
jtdesigns Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 you guys are going to roll on the floor... I live in the sticks,,,, cable has not even made it anywhere near me... And I have the highest DSL offered here.. :shake: :rant:
WahooSteeler Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 uhhh, ok, what i'm i doing wrong. i click on it and the screen loads, but the program doesn't run?? :wall: **Edit: ok, got it to load. Now I'm embarrassed and ready for a lesson from you tech guys. 1347 download and 426 upload. I have DSL, can't honestly say I remember what level of speed I am supposed to be getting. My provider also offers Broadband and as of about a month ago, fiber optic. **Edit #2: didn't mention on my wife's laptop tonight and on our wi-fi. i assume the wi-fi makes a big difference. i'll go down and try it on our desktop. **Edit #3: about the same results on desktop, i.e. ethernet connection. Beat.
BLHTAZ Posted February 21, 2009 Author Posted February 21, 2009 It's strange, but I have gone to 6-7 different test sites and get widely varying results. I have gotten near the 22 like SW2 on this one and as low as 7.5 on others when testing at the same time of day only a few minutes apart... :dunno: . Guess there is no trust worthy way to know for sure with these free sites.
aemsee Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 Brent, did you try the system checker on dealerconnect?
BLHTAZ Posted February 21, 2009 Author Posted February 21, 2009 Brent, did you try the system checker on dealerconnect? I did now... :dunno: :hmm: . Maybe I just don't understand the results, but this looks slow to me...
jtdesigns Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 Brent, did you try the system checker on dealerconnect? I did now... :dunno: :hmm: . Maybe I just don't understand the results, but this looks slow to me... 100 MPH at 6800... ummmm I think you need to change to fourth.... :rotfl2:
aemsee Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 I wonder if it is how the tool loads your system? The 22,000 that SW shows seems to be incrdedibly fast. I have regular Roadrunner and both tools show about 2,800 to 3,800 depending on when I test.
WahooSteeler Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 well i assumed i was missing something, and at home it IS slower than it should be. my DSL is SUPPOSED to be able to reach downloads of UP TO 6mbs, or 6000kbs as shown on speedtest.net (although i saved settings to show results in megabits). and the provider will even tell you that that is inconsistent with DSL, more consistent with cable broadband, and very consistent with fiber optic. when they got f/o to my neighborhood a few months ago, i called in for the details. i guess i don't know why i haven't pulled the trigger, because i can actually get the same 6mbs on fiber at the SAME price as DSL, and as they explained it to me, it's basically 6mbs ALL the time, vs. what appears to be "rarely" on DSL. I don't know a ton about this stuff, but i do know it's definitely something that "you get what you pay for". i pay $29 as a bundle price w/our land line so i guess i can't complain. i'm at my office right now and just did a check and the first one was around 1.5mbs but about 5 mins later i did it again and it was at 2.5mbs. We pay for speeds up to 3mbs, so at least within a couple of tests it was bumping up against our capacity. SW2, I assume being the tech guy you are, you either pay a substantial amount (compared to what most people pay) for your speed, or possibly you know how to, uh, "get more for less"? :brows: 20mbs download speed is available through my provider for $95/month, and that ain't happening. i think i may be making the call for fiber this week, because even if I have to pay a set up fee, I should get a true 6mbs, and being that that is @4 times faster than what I seem to be testing at, not only is 6mbs more than sufficient for my needs, it's a no brainer at the same monthly fee. where i get lost though in the tech side of this stuff is where the hardware in our computers is below the capacity of the available speed, if at all. enlighten me...........
aemsee Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 I guess the important question is "are you satisfied" with the speed of what you have now? I really cannot justify extra cost for what I use my computer for.
SuperWade2 Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 SW2, I assume being the tech guy you are, you either pay a substantial amount (compared to what most people pay) for your speed, or possibly you know how to, uh, "get more for less"? :brows: 20mbs download speed is available through my provider for $95/month, and that ain't happening. i think i may be making the call for fiber this week, because even if I have to pay a set up fee, I should get a true 6mbs, and being that that is @4 times faster than what I seem to be testing at, not only is 6mbs more than sufficient for my needs, it's a no brainer at the same monthly fee. I pay like $65/mth for what Comcast calls the "Boost" 16mbs...so they have some kind of speed boosting (proxy) thing that the the first few hundred MB of a new connection gets really really fast (like 22mbs), then it slows down to something closer to the 16mbs. So it kind of "fools" those speed tests into thinking it's faster than it really is... Good for browsing and popping up web pages and stuff extra fast. When I'm downloading something large, it goes fast for the first chunk, then it settles down... I went to downgrade to save a couple $$$ and because I don't get my phone or TV from Comcast, it was only like $6/mth cheaper to drop down to their 6-8Mbs package, which didn't seem like much savings, so I decided to try to cut expenses elsewhere.
mvusse Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 uhhh, ok, what i'm i doing wrong. i click on it and the screen loads, but the program doesn't run?? :wall: **Edit: ok, got it to load. Now I'm embarrassed and ready for a lesson from you tech guys. 1347 download and 426 upload. I have DSL, can't honestly say I remember what level of speed I am supposed to be getting. My provider also offers Broadband and as of about a month ago, fiber optic. **Edit #2: didn't mention on my wife's laptop tonight and on our wi-fi. i assume the wi-fi makes a big difference. i'll go down and try it on our desktop. **Edit #3: about the same results on desktop, i.e. ethernet connection. Beat. 1347 would most likely be 1.5Mb/s, which is a common DSL speed. Most DSL providers have an "economy" 768Kb/s package and their 3.0Mb/s high end. 1.5Mb/s is halfway in between. My parents live in the middle of nowhere in Canada and get 8Mb/s DSL for $15 per month. That's the normal rate, not some advertised low introductory rate that goes up after a while. I guess not *everything* in Canada is more expensive. In the US we pay more for high speed internet than almost anywhere else in the world.
Geonovast Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 Brent, did you try the system checker on dealerconnect? I did now... :dunno: :hmm: . Maybe I just don't understand the results, but this looks slow to me... 100 MPH at 6800... ummmm I think you need to change to fourth.... :rotfl2: It's also in Park...
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