How fast is the internet on your work computer?

Ours is 4 megs in both directions, shared between 8 people all working all day long on an online CMS system. It's painful, and that costs us £200 a month.

You'd think a business centre would have a decent Internet connection.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Tell me about it! What spec is your NHS PC? Mine is a P4 2.8 which must make it 11 years old, which is a spec that I built myself in December 2003, and even back then it was only an 'average' spec for a new PC for its time. Can you beat that? :p
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Gutted, we give i5 with 4GB RAM with 22" widescreen as standard to pretty much our entire site (1,600) even the secretaries that use ermm Word and Outlook and the odd blast on SystmOne :D
 
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Anywhere from the dizzy heights of 4Mb/s to as low as ~56kb/s. It makes me want to hurt people.

That's D/L speed. Don't even want to think how AIDS-riddenly slow upload is.
 
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Internet 1.23Mbps up and 0.33Mbps down.

I have one of the best (read newest) computers in my remit.

E2160 @ 1.8 with a whopping 0.99GB of RAM. With this I am expected to run Photoshop and various other programs.

Got to love Government Contracts, the computers are so old now, when they die the company we have contracted to fix them (everything is sub contracted, they can't trust me to to do it, someone would lose their back hander) struggle to find the actual parts. The bloke has told me he searches auction sites for the hardware we need now.

Shocking
 
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In the office, quite slow due to the link from the office into the main company infrastructure and having to route through a proxy in another country. If I download something remotely to a server in the data center then it's a lot faster.

Often if i need an ISO locally it's easier to download it at home.
 
JOSH86 said:
Internet 1.23Mbps up and 0.33Mbps down.

I have one of the best (read newest) computers in my remit.

E2160 @ 1.8 with a whopping 0.99GB of RAM. With this I am expected to run Photoshop and various other programs.

Got to love Government Contracts, the computers are so old now, when they die the company we have contracted to fix them (everything is sub contracted, they can't trust me to to do it, someone would lose their back hander) struggle to find the actual parts. The bloke has told me he searches auction sites for the hardware we need now.

Shocking
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For a minute I thought you might be in my office!

im at 1.0 up / 0.6 down and im typing this on a e2180 with 1gb!
 
MooMoo444 said:
They're also highly, and I mean highly, monitored. If you were to download an ep of Game of Thrones on it, the ISP would be contacting your IT dept almost immediately. We've had a few...instances like that.
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Id love to know which business orientated service provider you're with as we deal with all the UK based ones and they do not do this. Can only imagine you're on borrowed IP space and any copyright infringements notices are reaching the underlying ISP and being forwarded on, as they certainly won't be monitoring the traffic themselves.
 
1:1 leased line, 100/100, it's for a school so that's shared between about 600 devices, of which roughly 250 are logged on at this present moment in time and im speedtesting at 78 down 80 up.
 
Not very. 42mbps up 12mbps down x 3 lines.

We're in a small market town. We have limited connection options and a director who's kinda like Arkwright.
 
400 mb.. lol

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We have two gateways at my place, one via uni and one via a hospital.. I might switch connections and try the other gateway. :)
 
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