How many megz is my Internet running on?

Question

I have verizon fios and I was wondering how fast it probably is

Answer 1

http://www.speedtest.net

Answer 2

Download Speed depends on SOOO many things.

1)  The speed of your connection to the Internet is one of the main factors.  The faster you are, the better your chances of getting the "speed" your desiring.

2)  The distance between you and the distant end your surfing.  THe longer the distances, the bigger the chance that you will hit congestion.  If any router between you and the server your making request from is busy, your speed halts BIG TIME!  Also, what time of day is it?  Early in the morning on the east coast will usually have better surfing than later when the west coast wakes up!

3)  The type of traffic.  TCP traffic requires a response for EACH and every packet.  UDP (sound / video) doesnt care.  However, if the quality is low, you will see/hear it on your end (lagging, buffering).

4)  The speed of the distant end connection to the Internet.  Usually this is quite large since they sometimes have a server farm of services (not just one site).

5)  The final factor is how busy the site is that your making a request from.  If 1000's of people are going to it, and they only have one web server, your going to once again see your speed be diminished!

If at any point you go above 60 percent on any of the above, you start to have queuing.  Think of queuing as going into a grocery store and the manger trying to guess how many people will be shopping at any given time.  He will have so many checkout counters open.  Sometimes you will be able to walk RIGHT up, other times, he might get stuck in the queue!

Try going to:

http://www.speedtest.net/

or

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

to show what speed you are really getting.  Test it on sites that are further away and you will start to see your speed fall as you hit congestion somewhere!  

I have Verizon FIOS and get 10.5 Mbps down and about 1.9 Mbps up.

Additionally, connection speeds on the internet are measured in bits (with a lower case b).  File sizes are measured in Bytes (upper case Bs).  There are 8 bits in a Byte.  So, if you have a 100MB file, its actually 800Mb.  The speeds you listed are close to matching that.  So maybe your mixing your bits and Bytes!