From Comcast to FIOS with speed test documentary

Below is a link to a Youtube video made by me recently. It is a documentary of switching from Comcast to Verizon FIOS in the month of August 2011. It included installation details and speed tests.
Comcast speed test was done on a 25 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up.
FIOS speed test was done on a 35 Mbps down and 35 Mbps up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifYTD2i0pyw

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Hi,
Aplogies to the CL's if this is not the right forum but it definitely is speed related related. I tossed up where to post it but decided on here fuguring you will soon move it if you want to.
As the title suggests, and for a bit of fun, what is the fastest result you have got from the new BT Wholesale Speed Test ?
I'll kick off with this :-
Best regards,
dfenceman

Hi Keith,
I typed a long response but have lost it now ???
Right, I'll type it all again. You are right I am on ADSL as is the whole village. This result was obtained from the village school.
As you know, every speed test I have run on the "new" speed tester has returned a download speed in excess of my IP Profile and at times in excess of my downstream speed.
Under the County Councils cost saving, performance enhancing project the school has just had its wireless link replaced with 16 bonded copper pairs. This was projected to provide the school with 8Mbps, 2Mbps below all the other 250 odd in the county. I therefore asked the school to run a speed test to find out what it is actually getting and this was the result.
I thought it would provide a little light relief from what can be a very serious forum.
As I said in my OP I was unsure where to post it but I never expected you to move it ti Infinity, I thought it might be The Lounge. Neith of these are visited so frequently as the Speed/connection forum though.
Best regards,
dfenceman

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I've been fascinated by the various reports of variable speeds being seen on various different speed testing sites, so I've been having a play, and the results have been, shall we say, interesting.
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Yes indeed, none of the speedtests are reliably accurate all the time as their servers and routes to the server are subject to varying conditions. Speedtest.net is very dependent on which server you select, as their automatic server selection chooses based on ping results, which does not always give you a server with the fastest data rates (my results vary from 35 to 70Mbps, or as low as 2Mbps if you go out as far as New Zealand ). BT's main http://speedtester.bt.com/ (diagnostics) is up the pole for most of the day and is only any use for finding out your profile. However, their beta test is pretty good and is always worth trying: http://speedtester.bt.com/beta/speedtest-remote.jsp
BBMax is often said to be the best one but that could just be because it uses a much smaller download file and the test lasts for a shorter period of time. That means there is less scope for varying line and server conditions to intervene, and for Internet Security programs to slow things down.
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I could not find a simple example that implements simple counting either, but it should be straightforward enough for us to try. Do you have the CTR module configured properly in MAX? If so, can you monitor the channels on your CTR 502 for input? Try connecting a square wave or some other digital pulse to the terminal to test the functionality of the counter module first (before programming). If you monitor the input channels with somethign connected you should see the count increment each time it sees a rising edge (assuming default configuration).
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How to get an answer about internet speed from Comcast?

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Using mac mini nearly for 3yrs. From few weeks i feel electric stock over it surface and on keyboard too. I Tested with current tester it showed electric flow

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H.Kiran wrote:
Thank First
I just plug it to any plug in my house or my friend house before powering mac mini there is electric stock near power button
I took it to apple care center strangely there i could't feel too much as in my house the service center guy recommend me to go with three pin power cable.
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