HSDPA 3.6 vs ADSL 4mbit

[Dolby]

I've got Vodacom 3G HSDPA 3.6mbit and some people have tried comparing it speedwise to ADSL 4mbit. I'm convinced it's a 1/3 of the speed though - and I'm looking for someone to help me prove it?

It's now 19 April 19:05 and I'm looking for an HTTP site that both you & I can download from now so I can compare. If we do it at the same time, on the same site, people cannot say it's busy when I tested and empty when you tested it.

Any site recommendations that I we can download from now and test speeds? Let me know the sites you feel have the best b/w available (local and/or international)

Thanks

 

[davidpey]

Ok I've got 8:00pm. How about doing the Seattle test on http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ ?

Let's do it at 8:02

EDIT: I'm on 4mbps

 

[davidpey]

Ok I just got very poor results.

Download Speed: 822 kbps (102.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 249 kbps (31.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

 

[davidpey]

Just tested on the Chicago server. Got:

Download Speed: 1264 kbps (158 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 279 kbps (34.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

 

[MogenNaidoo]

And even poorer results on my 4Mb line:
Download Speed: 672 kbps (84 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 215 kbps (26.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

 

[[OUPA]MrNutz]

2048/512 ADSL - using verizon unshaped with seattle,WA server

1487 kbps down
269 kbps up

 

[davidpey]

And even poorer results on my 4Mb line:
Download Speed: 672 kbps (84 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 215 kbps (26.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

Which server did you do it on?

 

[MogenNaidoo]

I've got for washington DC:
Download Speed: 2726 kbps (340.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 116 kbps (14.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

 

[MogenNaidoo]

Which server did you do it on?

Seattle.

 

[davidpey]

I also just did a Washington test and got:

Download Speed: 2057 kbps (257.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 276 kbps (34.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

 

[MogenNaidoo]

New York:
Download Speed: 2716 kbps (339.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 117 kbps (14.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload speeds seem just pathetic. I don't see how a 640kpbs gonna make any real difference.

 

[MogenNaidoo]

wierd your upload speeds way higher than mine.

 

[MogenNaidoo]

I'm with telkomISP.
Lemme switch to my unshaped Webafrica account and give it a go.

 

[davidpey]

This 4mbps story is not the greatest hey. We've just recently upgraded and I'm not all that impressed. Doing the http://www.telkom.co.za/athome/products/dsl/speed.html test, I get 400kb/s consistently. But on international servers, I certainly don't ever get throughput as fast as that.

Other people with 4mbps, please do tests on http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and let us know. Dolby can compare his HSDPA with our results

 

[davidpey]

I'm with telkomISP.
Lemme switch to my unshaped Webafrica account and give it a go.

I'm on unshaped Telkom Internet. How far are you from your exchange? I'm 2.37km

 

[MogenNaidoo]

Are you on shaped or unshaped account?

 

[davidpey]

Unshaped

 

[MogenNaidoo]

hmmm...I think around 3km.

 

[Dolby]

Wow ... I didn't see all of this

Anyone still on?

I got 58kb/sec transfer (3m 18 sec) on this download http://sourceforge.net/project/down...eanet&filename=MeshLabSetup_v111.exe&40807948
at 20.12 ... and 4mbit ADSL got the same :/

I thought you ADSLers would kill me in downloads

 

[MogenNaidoo]

lol...Living in South Africa is the greatest thing ever hey guys