And you thought you were fast!!!!

[Quicktimederby]

Here's a picture of the internet connection speeds at the new race shop, that John sent me today. With a upload speed like that there SHOULD be no viewing problems. I know you had to pay a lot extra for those upload speeds but we all THANK YOU!!!

 

[GravityX]

Sweet! That is ridiculously fast!

Is that a T1 service?

 

[davevg]

T1 is only 1.54Mb, ds3 is 45Mb. That is a little faster than that. Nice Speeds! It is not cable or dsl as those have capped uploads. FIOS?

 

[B_Regal Racing]

A full T1 can be ridiculously expensive ($250 / month or more) but does not necessarily give you faster speed than today's cable and/or DSL. The main advantage to a T1 line is that unlike DSL or cable internet, T1 "channels" cannot be shared by another. Believe there are 24 to a T1 line. Speed can never be degraded by others' usage - guaranteed connection speed (supposedly), which is why many businesses use T1 connections.

That's a crazy fast upload speed.

 

[Rocket car]

SWEET!!! Proxy racers will now have the best viewing. The last few races were "Bad,very bad"

 

[down4derby]

Sweet! Things are coming together nicely.

 

[Eliminator Racing]

Thanks John,
For taking the NPWDRL and PWD products to the next level!! /images/boards/smilies/thumb.gif

 

[Papa V Racing]

Way to go John!!!!!

I know the Proxy racers and viewers Shout out a Great Big Thank You!!!!!

 

[cygnus]

Man that is beautiful! Thanks John for listening to us and making the improvements that just a couple months ago seemed like a dream.

 

[ngyoung]

Beatcha! Don't feel bad, it helps when you work for a tech company that trades on the Dow Jones.

 

[derbychip]

IHave No Idea If Those Numbers Are Fast...... I'll Take Everyones Word

 

[ngyoung]

Well just google internet speed test and you should be able to find a site to run it on your own connection. Most basic residential cable internet download speeds are like 30mb/s now but the upload speeds are usually only 2mb/s. So they can download stuff from the web at a decent speed but sending out a signal, like a video stream or uploading something to youtube, would be really slow. Commercial accounts you can usually get more upload since you are hosting content for customers to download. I am not sure how good the upload speeds are in a typical hotel setting. They are probably better then most residential if they host a lot of business functions but unlikely that it would be as high as what John has. Plus he won't have to compete with a whole hotel full of guests also using the connection. Since he likely has his own business account he should also be getting a more guaranteed connection speed.

 

[GravityX]

OK, it appears that we have some techies onboard here. I am considering a new wireless router for the house. I believe that I know that the internet speed is only as fast as your slowest component. I've got fiber optic leading to the house with the fastest residential service and I believe that I may be hampered by my wireless router. Are there routers out there that can help my speeds out? Been looking at the WRT1900AC router from Linksys. Any good?

On a side note, I use a gaming computer to view the LIVE feed on raceday, it's fast, plenty of memory on 2 SLI video cards with 1GB, and system has 12GB of RAM

 

[ngyoung]

Routers, even wireless with good signal, were rated at 100mb/s 10 years ago. The bottle neck has always been the connection leaving the house.

 

[B_Regal Racing]

Yeah baby!

 

[HurriCrane Racing]

Can't wait for Saturday!

 

[GravityX]

What in the world??? What type of connection do you have there? My download and uploads are puny compared to this.

Yeah baby!

 

[Papa V Racing]

I guess the saying goes .. You get what you pay for!!!

.........

.... Guess it is time to call up ole' Comcast.... The Ping Test had EPIC FAILURE!!!!

 

[Kinser Racing]

Ha! You guys all have nothing on me!

 

[B_Regal Racing]

What in the world??? What type of connection do you have there? My download and uploads are puny compared to this.

I was at work when I ran that test. I have nothing like that at home. Honestly, I have no idea what type of connection that is - could be an OC-3 or OC-12. We used to have a number of T3 connections many years ago but it was upgraded. There is 4000 people in the building in which I work in, so I'm sure the connection is "tastey." Its lightning fast except there are restrictions as to which web sites I can visit. PWDO is not one of them...