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checking adsl speed

Discussion in 'Tilted Gear' started by Strange Famous, Aug 14, 2012.

  1. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

    Location:
    Ipswich, UK
    Does anyone know a legit site I can check my ADSL speed?

    On my laptop firefox is close to unuseable its so slow. When I look at task manager it isnt using a lot of the memory or CPU and there is tons of CPU spare... but it just constantly freezes

    Its a year old laptop and I also cant play WOW on the lowest graphic settings it freezes so much also, so it cant just be firefox being a shit program?
     
    Strange Famous, Aug 14, 2012
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  2. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    cynthetiq, Aug 14, 2012
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  3. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

    Location:
    Ipswich, UK
    ping 29 ms
    download speed 1.75 Mbps
    upload speed 0.71 Mbps

    Firefox froze and stopped responding twice in the test.

    Are these bad speeds?
     
    Strange Famous, Aug 14, 2012
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  4. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    from a gamer perspective yes, but not horrible they are DSL speeds.

    what make/model laptop is it?
     
    cynthetiq, Aug 14, 2012
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  5. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

    Location:
    Ipswich, UK
    Their site is giving me a D-

    I guess that isnt good.
     
    Strange Famous, Aug 14, 2012
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  6. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    It's good for getting email and surfing pages. Doing gaming and watching video, not so much.
     
    cynthetiq, Aug 14, 2012
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  7. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

    Location:
    Ipswich, UK
    Toshiba Satelite C660 - 237

    4GB of RAM and it has Windows 7

    When I go in Control Panel there is a thing where Windows rates the computer and it scores it:

    processor = 5.3
    RAM = 5.3
    Graphics =3.6
    Gaming Graphics = 3.3
    Primary Hard Disk = 5.5
     
    Strange Famous, Aug 14, 2012
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  8. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    the built in graphics are not up to par for WoW. Depending on what you are asking FF to render, video, flash, etc. It's going to suck wind.

    Intel® Core™ i3-380M Processor (3M Cache, 2.53 GHz)
    2GB DDR3 RAM 1066MHz
    320GB HDD 5400 rpm
    DVDRW DL drive
    15.6" TruBrite® WXGA TFT LED display (1366x768)
    Intel HD GMA 3000 up to 761MB
    Web Camera
    WiFi - Bluetooth - USB - Ethernet 10/100
    Memory card reader
    6 cell battery
    No operating system
     
    cynthetiq, Aug 14, 2012
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  9. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

    Location:
    Ipswich, UK
    I guess thats why it was pretty cheap.

    Someone at work said the problem might be something like that, that it didnt have a discrete graphics card but the main processor also had the graphics card built in. But I dont know if you can easily fit a new graphics card into it.
     
    Strange Famous, Aug 14, 2012
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  10. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    no, you cannot put in a new graphics card into a laptop. even if one has a discrete graphics card, "one does not just simply replace the graphics card".
     
    cynthetiq, Aug 14, 2012
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  11. Strange Famous

    Strange Famous it depends on who is looking...

    Location:
    Ipswich, UK
    Ok, thanks. I am thinking of replacing the thing. Its only a year old, but it was really cheap - and I guess like most things in life you get what you pay for.
     
    Strange Famous, Aug 14, 2012
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  12. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    Tested my connection again just 'cause. Current DL - 23.23 Mbps, Current Upload - 0.95 Mbps
    My laptop would suck for any current games. It was a budget system three years ago but still works beautifully graphically for both Ubuntu 12.04 and win 7. For the gaming angle, it runs Red Alert: Yuri's Revenge just fine but that is what you expect when you have to run a game in compatibility mode just to make it run in Win 7. My "latest game" is still Doom 3 and that system would handle that decently too I strongly suspect.
     
    Speed_Gibson, Aug 14, 2012
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