Broadband

The following measurement was taken today with Speakeasy’s speed test page while connected to the Internet over AT&T’s HSPA network in Denver. My system was using a Mercury USB adapter in a notebook PC running Windows 7. I am about a mile outside of the downtown area and the speed is good. The following screen-snip represents the best of about five runs while trying to time the image capture. Each run had inbound speed at 3.5 Mbps and faster. I also believe doing this test early on Saturday morning helped avoid some network congestion and get me favorable results. From at&t At about 11 AM, I checked the speeds again this time with speedtest.net. From at&t Here is the general location for these results. View Larger Map My testing conditions are a stationary location in a second floor office of a 100+ year old brick structure. ...

Rock solid, fast, affordable, get it if you can. I had VDSL2 installed by Qwest this past August 3rd. I am a work-at-home IT Specialist. This means I live and die by my Internet connection to communicate with co-workers, gain access to the corporate network, design software and deploy it to servers in different parts of the country. Since the VDSL2 installation almost two weeks ago, the service has been used for web browsing, email, connecting to work through my employer’s VPN service, screen sharing with co-workers, backing up computers via Jungle Disk and Tivoli Storage Manager, listening to Pandora Radio, watching some TV through our Roku player and playing a couple of games of BZFlag. To recap, we are getting 20 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream. Our residence is in the 80205 zip code and less than 0.5 km from the fiber node. We are qualified for 40 Mbps downstream in this location. The connection has been up continuously since installation and we have yet to experience any network congestion during the day or evening. Here are some metrics from the Q1000: From Jim’s Software Engineering Blog Today I performed a new speed test from Denver to Dallas: ...

Today our home Internet service was upgraded to VDSL2 from Qwest. We are located in the Whittier neighborhood of Denver - specifically in the 80205 zip code. I was told by Qwest this area is qualified now for up to 40 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream VDSL2 service. I started with ADSL service about 2 months ago at 7 Mbps downstream and 896 Kbps upstream. I chose to move to the 20 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream tier. The ADSL service was cut off this morning while work was performed at the fiber node and before 3 PM the installer came by to hook up the new modem. The Qwest installer said my home was less than three blocks from the cabinet. From Jim's Software Engineering Blog The modem connected at the correct speed immediately. Below is a screen snip of the SNR numbers from the Q1000 modem. These numbers are more than double the SNR reported by the M1000 ADSL modem. The ADSL link had a much longer haul over copper than the VDSL2 link. I was surprised to see the 0 dB attenuation in both directions. I had 20-30 dB attenuation with ADSL. From Jim’s Software Engineering Blog The final step before letting the installer loose was to speed test the link back to Qwest. I would call it a success. From Jim's Software Engineering Blog ...