How Fast is your Smartbro internet connection?

The Speed I get from Smartbro

One of the reason why come up with this blog "share a software" is because there are softwares out there that can be used to optimize our computer performance. These go as well to optimize Internet speed.

I've been a subscriber of SmartBro for a month now, and to be honest, I'm not satisfied with it.

I always keep track of my Internet Speed by visiting websites that would measure my bandwidth. These website run a test to measure your upload and download speed.

I ran a test for the first time with testmy.net and here's the result:

April 27 8:48pm

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 108 Kbps about 0.11 Mbps (tested with 512 kB)
Download Speed is:: 13 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 146 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 18 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2009/04/27 - 6:30am
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-ZBYV4SHAN
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-DI5XL3WAG
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9 [!]

I know patience is a virtue but I also know for sure that time is money. Having download speed as less as 13 kB/s would take you forever when you are going to download large files. This is going to waste much of your valuable time. That's not the worst speed that I got because my Smartbro speed continues to drop the succeeding days.

April 28 1:36pm

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 110 Kbps about 0.11 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)
Download Speed is:: 13 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 128 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 16 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)

May 3 11:53am

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 63 Kbps about 0.06 Mbps (tested with 512 kB)
Download Speed is:: 8 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 153 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 19 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)

May 3 7:15pm

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 48 Kbps about 0.05 Mbps (tested with 512 kB)
Download Speed is:: 6 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 165 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 20 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)


May 5 1:56pm

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 45 Kbps about 0.05 Mbps (tested with 97 kB)
Download Speed is:: 5 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 181 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 22 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)

These are the speed test results I get from my Internet provider SmartBro without doing any optimization procedures or tweaks. That is not even half of their advertise speed such as 384

It saddens me that we, the subscribers have to do a lot of research and work just to have quality Internet connection where the personnel of these Internet providers should be the ones doing all these for us.


In your case, how much speed do you get with your SmartBro connection?