How fast is your internet connection?

Adrian Bye

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After the success of the exchange rate thread (started in 2003) where we've
collaborated on exchange rates around the country, I am starting this thread
for people who want to find out if they're getting the speed they're paying
for. Does this matter? Well, it already helped me to get a 20X increase in
the speed of my internet connection.

All ISPs (Codetel, Aster, Tricom, Wind, etc) have different routes out of
the country and if you're on the wrong routing it can have a huge impact on
your internet performance. This thread isn't intended to be posted to every
day, but if you're installing a new line or want to benchmark your
connection with what other people are getting, this is the place to go to.
Please post your own results so we can continue to monitor the situation
around the country. You'll be glad you did, since you'll have a record of
your own internet connection performance in case you have problems in the
future with your internet and need to compare it.

To share your information, please answer these simple questions:
1. ISP, reported speed, location
2. Run this test via the NYC server: Speakeasy-
Speed Test

3. Watch this video and note the time when the entire video is buffered:
YouTube-
The Bartender Says...

4. Post your traceroute to yahoo (windows: tracert yahoo.com, mac:
traceroute yahoo.com)
 
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Adrian Bye

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1. Codetel, 5mb/s, Santo Domingo
2. Down: 4731 kbps, Up: 716 bps
3. 35 seconds
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4 10.15.253.2 (10.15.253.2) 22.056 ms 21.870 ms 22.033 ms
5 172.23.24.17 (172.23.24.17) 22.614 ms 22.610 ms 21.885 ms
6 12.89.57.14 (12.89.57.14) 48.576 ms 48.581 ms 49.134 ms
7 12.89.57.13 (12.89.57.13) 45.003 ms 45.070 ms 45.021 ms
8 cr1.ormfl.ip.att.net (12.122.106.54) 133.621 ms 133.646 ms 133.199 ms
9 cr1.hs1tx.ip.att.net (12.122.31.241) 123.276 ms 123.976 ms 123.255 ms
10 cr2.hs1tx.ip.att.net (12.122.5.190) 121.932 ms 122.473 ms 121.962 ms
11 cr1.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.28.157) 125.113 ms 124.308 ms 124.833 ms
12 cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.1.210) 125.732 ms 125.048 ms 125.132 ms
13 cr2.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.28.178) 123.942 ms 123.500 ms 123.295 ms
14 cr2.sffca.ip.att.net (12.122.31.134) 125.284 ms 124.854 ms 125.409 ms
15 tbr2.sffca.ip.att.net (12.122.19.86) 121.686 ms 122.490 ms 123.652 ms
16 gar9.sffca.ip.att.net (12.122.114.73) 120.206 ms 120.113 ms 120.093 ms
17 12.86.154.18 (12.86.154.18) 125.591 ms 125.530 ms 125.682 ms
18 ae0-p150.msr2.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.73) 123.780 ms 123.354 ms ae1-p140.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.53) 134.142 ms
19 te-9-1.bas-a1.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.21) 126.594 ms 126.134 ms 126.309 ms
 

Adrian Bye

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1. Tricom, 2mb/s, Santo Domingo
2. Down: 1482 kbps, up: 600kpbs
3. 39 seconds
4.

4 200.42.213.161 (200.42.213.161) 69.848 ms 45.293 ms 42.314 ms
5 t3-13-11-nmi-edge03.nwnnetwork.net (63.245.20.157) 31.535 ms 38.058 ms 68.197 ms
6 ge-2-0-3-nmi-core02.nwnnetwork.net (63.245.5.18) 42.521 ms 104.123 ms 40.959 ms
7 63.245.5.71 (63.245.5.71) 33.312 ms 44.809 ms 53.651 ms
8 ge-0-2-0-nam-core02-ce.nwnnetwork.net (63.245.47.50) 57.309 ms 47.743 ms 31.771 ms
9 UNKNOWN-216-115-101-0.yahoo.com (216.115.101.0) 70.717 ms 68.197 ms 76.668 ms
10 ae0.pat2.da3.yahoo.com (216.115.105.161) 78.483 ms 66.591 ms 75.185 ms
11 as1.pat2.sjc.yahoo.com (216.115.101.151) 117.572 ms 113.942 ms 150.868 ms
12 ae0-p171.msr2.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.83) 111.817 ms ae1-p161.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.63) 126.552 ms ae1-p171.msr2.sp1.yahoo.com (216.115.107.87) 121.046 ms
13 te-8-1.bas-a2.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.19) 114.109 ms te-9-1.bas-a1.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.21) 117.198 ms te-8-1.bas-a2.sp1.yahoo.com (209.131.32.19) 125.870 ms
 

Hillbilly

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My puny connection gets 105 Kbp down in the early morning and around 65-97 during the day...
I got the down load in less than 40 secs...

HB
 

jinty05

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Codetel - Santiago

Last Result:
Download Speed: 1503 kbps (187.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 674 kbps (84.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
 

jrhartley

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the speedtest site didnt come up...oooops the u tube site didnt come up either ...must be very slow connection
 

track

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All ISPs (Codetel, Aster, Tricom, Wind, etc) have different routes out of
the country and if you're on the wrong routing it can have a huge impact on
your internet performance.

This information is not true.

Almost all use the same international connection to the internet via Puerto Plata.
The routing is another issue, it could be transparent via VPN or it could be public via routing.

The problem you had, was probably a bad connection to the DsLAM, or local network. In this case, you are admiting that Codetel was not limiting the bandwidth to a specific site (YouTube.com) but a problem of routing, ider loqical or virtual.
 

Adrian Bye

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track, this is a thread for posting internet testing results only. if you'd like to discuss this point (which what you say doesn't fit my experience), please post it to a new or different thread.
 

track

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track, this is a thread for posting internet testing results only. if you'd like to discuss this point (which what you say doesn't fit my experience), please post it to a new or different thread.

I'm sorry!
Next time I have a communication problem, I will ask you, and see if you, could help me, diagnose the problem.

I was only TTCYI.
 

POP Bad Boy

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Fyi...........

This is the speedtest that the Codetel tech used when at our house yesterday testing the internet line..............

I haven't seen this site posted here before and you might find it helpful to use before / during / after you deal with Codetel..............

..........Since it is "their" test site, they really shouldn't be able to argue about the results...............although you never know!!!! :ermm::ermm:

CODETEL Bandwidth Speed Test
 

Adrian Bye

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I know about the codetel test and don't trust it because you may have great bandwidth locally but not good access outside the DR. Certainly thanks for posting it, but its better to use the steps we listed above.
 

Luperon

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I think Rocky should take his tweaking service on the road.
 

jaguarbob

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This is the speedtest that the Codetel tech used when at our house yesterday testing the internet line..............

I haven't seen this site posted here before and you might find it helpful to use before / during / after you deal with Codetel..............

..........Since it is "their" test site, they really shouldn't be able to argue about the results...............although you never know!!!! :ermm::ermm:

so,what does this tell me...what are good and not so good speeds....mine is 488 down,134 up...and I donot seem to have any problems with my internet...
bob

CODETEL Bandwidth Speed Test

so,what does this tell me...what are good and not so good speeds....mine is 488 down,134 up...and I donot seem to have any problems with my internet...
bob
 

Adrian Bye

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we are all busy here. There are steps to follow, outlined in the first post. If you want to answer all those questions with accurate answers then you will get good feedback.