Firstly, as of today my blog passed the 1000 views mark. Thank you to everyone who's viewed my blog, especially those who have visited it and came back for more!
Now, I was so wrong when I said I wasn't excited about Pandaria. I actually started playing it last night, and it is so much fun! I've only really just got into it, but I've hanging out in Honeydew Village, and I am seriously loving the pet battles! Win!
A week or so back I decided to get a new, proper broadband cable to replace the thin, almost invisible telephone extension that we connect our router to upstairs.
I ran a speed test of the old cable (at www.speedtest.net), and found that I got download speed of 5.7 Mbps per second. Not bad.
Then, I disconnected the old cable, plugged in the newer, better, and shorter (length is important when it comes to cabling, and the shorter the better) RJ11 high speed broadband cable, and tested again.
8.2 Mbps!
Yes, that's right. A whole 2.3 Mbps faster. Something like a 44% speed increase.
Anyhow, I was happy. But, I would have to take up laminate flooring, and glue the new cable carefully along sides of bannisters and the like, so I decided to plug the old cable back in for the time being.
I got 8.2 Mbps again.
So, we're sticking with the old cable. If anyone would like a 10m RJ11 high speed broadband cable for going from your microfilter to your router, do drop me a line and I'll get it out to you. Obviously some love for the blog in return would be cool!
If you really want to know, here's the stats in full:
15m basic cable, 060912 @ 0753 10m RJ11 high speed broadband cable, 060912 @ 0757 15m basic cable, 060912 @ 0801
DOWNSTREAM
DATA RATE (KBPS) 5717 8191 8191
NOISE MARGIN 15 7 7
OUTPUT POWER (dBm) 123 122 123
ATTENUATION (Db) 45 45 45
UPSTREAM
DATA RATE (KBPS) 1021 1021 1021
NOISE MARGIN 11 11 10
OUTPUT POWER (dBm) 189 168 167
ATTENUATION (Db) 23 23 23
Speed test from www.speedtest.net
ping 22ms 26ms 23ms
Download speed 5.06Mbps 7.22Mbps 7.12Mbps
Upload speed 0.84 Mbps 0.82 Mbps 0.83 Mbps