OT: Speed Tests

[Atrocities]

I wanted to test my DSL speeds so I went to DSL Reports and this was the report I got.

LINK

I have a DSL connection. How does this fare to others?

[Sivran]

I can do better on downstream, that's for sure, but your upload totally 0wns compared to mine.

My best speed test, when I had my box all tweaked up for my connection, had me at pretty close to my max of 3 megabits. Unfortunately I've reinstalled since then and still haven't gotten the settings quite right...think my math's off..

[Atrocities]

I did this test to see if I could host a Tribes Veng Server, but because they put SecureRom on the disk, I can neither play T:V or run a dedicated server. I would have to have two copies of the game to do that.

I tried to play America's army and found it to be a nice looking game with no playabilty. You get kicked from the servers after only a few seconds if you do not meet an object, and they do not tell you what the objective is. I have been trying to play it for weeks and finally tonight just uninstalled it after a hissy fit.

Why can't we just have a game that is a lot of fun to play without all of the uber BS that seems to be dilibratly installed in games these days?

KOTOR = Boring 3 out of 5
Americas Army = Furstrating 2 out of 5
Tribes Vengeance = Fun (But flawed) 3 out of 5
Doom 3 = repetatively boring 2 out of 5
Halo = Fun 4 out of 5

These are all games I have tried lately. I am so depressed We need better games.

[David E. Gervais]

AT, go back to the old "One more turn" type games.. Heroes of Might and Magic come to mind. Lots of fun, and currently not expensive. (can be found in bargain bins)

If you want a great FPS game, go back and play Deus Ex. It's probably the best FPS I have ever played. (I haven't tried Deus Ex 2, it wants higher sys specs than I currently have.)

Anyway, you know the deal, when boared make models LOL

Cheers!

[Atrocities]

Check this crap out.

I was gone for about an hour today and when I came back my computer had automatically UPDATED to SP2.

Don't ask me how I honestly don't know. I just now figured it out. All day today my system has been running really sluggish and now I know why. I will have to uninstall all of my games and re-install them in the hopes that they will work without crashing me to a reboot or desk top.

What I want to say I would like to do but will not is: KILL EVERY MTF'ING MICROSOFT EMPLOYEE WHO CAUSED THIS PROBLEM!

And then STRING THAT SKINNY SOB - FOUNDER OF MS - UP TO THE NEAREST TELEPHONE POLL WITH A SIGN AROUND HIS NECK THAT READS "I was a greedy bastard!"

There ought to be a law against this kind of update and break your PC crap. The law should allow people to sue for damages and such if the update causes problems.

[Mephisto]

I always found Americas Army quite neat. Anyway, why do you want to re-install your games on the SP2 patched system? You shouldn't need to do this. I certainly didn't need to do it on my machine...

[Ragnarok]

Atrocities said:
I was gone for about an hour today and when I came back my computer had automatically UPDATED to SP2.

AT, did you have the settings in automatic update to either notify you before updating or to avoid downloading the news patches completely? If not then that is why it automatically updated, it downloaded the SP and installed without notifying you because that is what it was set to do.

But if you indeed had this set to notify you before installing the patch or not download any new patches completely that is indeed a intriguing problem.

[Arkcon]

Couldn't get it to work. Last time I was there, I had to use IE and and download Sun's newest Version of Java. Sheesh.

I just want to test my connection, sometimes it goes down for no reason -- often for days. I'd like to keep tabs on speed and try to figure it out, or see if a slowdown preceeds the shutdown.

What ever happend to the good old days, where you loaded a web page, it did an autosearch of another page, and just spit back your speed?

[Gandalf Parker]

1240 down and 838 up

It supports 5 windows machines and 1 linux server on a network. The server supports 6 domains, almost 100 email accounts, personal web pages, ftp, dns, elists, a small news feed, acts as a server for a MUD game and for various other PbEM games I might get into. I dont rely on any ISP for anyything.

[mottlee]

I am supose to have 3 meg down with this