Cell C Speed Test Results

just averaged my last 100 speedtest results

Down 2.12 Mbps, up 0.61 Mbps, ping 131.61

Breakdown of results as follows:
25 results below 1Mbps (25%) 35 results between 1 & 2 Mbps (35%), 16 results between 2 & 3 Mbps (16%), 13 results between 3 & 4 Mbps (13%), 5 results between 4 & 5 Mbps (5%), 6 results over 5 Mbps (6%), so 60% of the time I'm running at less than 2 Mbps

Is this really whoosh?
 
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Cell C - The Right Stuff !
 
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Khanya said:


Heart of East London.
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The term broadband refers to a telecommunications signal or device of greater bandwidth. Throughput and bandwith are two different things


ocleroux said:
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URG!!!!!
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Proximity on the Internet means nothing. The server might be on your city but its on a different network. The road on the network might be thin and full of put holes so a server a 1000 miles away might give you better speeds as the network and the roads on it maybe better
 
dadiggle said:
The term broadband refers to a telecommunications signal or device of greater bandwidth. Throughput and bandwith are two different things



Proximity on the Internet means nothing. The server might be on your city but its on a different network. The road on the network might be thin and full of put holes so a server a 1000 miles away might give you better speeds as the network and the roads on it maybe better
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Thank you Mr. Wikipedia. I bet the guys here posted in this thread for exactly the purpose that you are headmaster.

Go figure... :rolleyes: seriously.
 
Anyone else having problems tonight. I connect to a website, but then firefox says waiting and then time out
 
dadiggle said:
Well that's througput not bandwidth.
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learn the difference
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Great for you Mr. Wikipedia,

Could you please refer me to the post where ocleroux or Kyanya had a problem with bandwidth? Did they mention bandwidth specifically? Did they mention throughput?

Since you love dishing out the lessons, please show me where they asked you to correct them? Please, I'm all ears.
 
teraside said:
Great for you Mr. Wikipedia,

Could you please refer me to the post where ocleroux or Kyanya had a problem with bandwidth? Did they mention bandwidth specifically? Did they mention throughput?

Since you love dishing out the lessons, please show me where they asked you to correct them? Please, I'm all ears.
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Actually I was referring to your sig of under 3Mbs aint broadband.

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That is a server in the US. Didn't correct them just explained why he had a poor result maybe as proximity on the internet means squad. It depends on what network the server is.

The number that you see on your broadband plan (i.e. 512Kbps, 100Mbps, etc.) is only referring to the “last mile” of your Internet journey. Think of it like getting from your home to the freeway. But it does not tell you the condition of the roads on the rest of your journey beyond the freeway. What is important is to know your end-to-end rate of data transmission – i.e. the amount of data thatactually gets transmitted from your PC, through the Internet to the web server and back in a single unit of time. This is known as throughput. When you download files, you will see a bar that shows the progress of your download and a number that shows your rate of download. This is your throughput
Do you know how mobile broadband works? You know it starts of slower then it accelerates as it goes over to hspda and others.
 
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In the 1st quarter of the year, speeds in Stellenbosch seldomly exceeded 2 mbit/sec for me. Uploads were abysmal - around 100 kbit/sec. Cell C listened. They even erected UMTS 2100 towers. Things have been looking a lot better. Even with all the students back from holiday.



Note according to Cell C I fall outside the coverage area, but my antenna sorted that out.
 
Test conducted on Sat Jul 23 12:10:36 2011

Download Speed: 2792 kbps (349 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 747 kbps (93.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 122 ms
 
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