Hello everybody!

I have been wondering, what type of internet connection and speed
everyone who's running s BBS has? Please post what you have.

Over a VPN:

Hosted by fdcservers.net (Seattle, WA) [0.76 km]: 38.246 ms
Testing download speed........................................................................
Download: 133.74 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed........................................................................
Upload: 22.06 Mbit/s

Rawdog:

Hosted by Sherwood Broadband (Sherwood, OR) [20.92 km]: 29.1 ms
Testing download speed........................................................................
Download: 576.54 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed........................................................................
Upload: 37.15 Mbit/s



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Re: Internet speed
By: RickV to All on Mon Nov 24 2025 10:12 am

Hi Rick,

I have been wondering, what type of internet connection and speed everyone who's running s BBS has? Please post what you have.

SEEN-BY: 1/100 101 102 103 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 116 117 118 SEEN-BY: 1/119 120 121 122 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 133 136 137

Can you fix your GoldED configuration so we dont get a dump of SEEN-BY's in your messages.

X-FTN-TID Mystic BBS 1.12 A48
X-FTN-MSGID 21:1/206@fsxnet.org 69248414
X-FTN-PID GED+W64 1.1.5-b20250409

Thanks


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Re: Internet speed
By: Oli to deon on Tue Nov 25 2025 09:28 am

Hey Oli,

Good ${greeting_time}, deon!

25 Nov 25 13:14, you wrote to RickV:

Can you fix your GoldED configuration so we dont get a dump of SEEN-BY's in your messages.

I have not received RickVs message. Did your system not route it?

Correct, no node in Hub 3 would have received it, because it failed validation as a bad packet. Any other messages in the packet (if there were any) would not have been passed on either.


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Re: Internet speed
By: Mindsurfer to TheCivvie on Tue Nov 25 2025 11:18 am

Howdy,

I have been wondering, what type of internet connection and speed
everyone who's running s BBS has? Please post what you have.

I don't have RickV's original Message. Is the message routing working correctly?

No nodes in Hub 3 would have received the original message (and any others after it in the same packet).


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Hey deon!

On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:06:36 +1100, you wrote:

Correct, no node in Hub 3 would have received it, because it failed validation as a bad packet. Any other messages in the packet (if there
were any) would not have been passed on either.

The fact that you're not passing on valid messages is probably a very bad idea, though.

Regards,
Nick

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My Internet Speed is DSL

100down/40up

I have cable internet at my house
which is supposed to be 1.5Gb down
and 50Mb up. My modem only has a
gigabit wan port on it, so I only
see about ¢940Mb down.

I have cable internet here as well but my god is it terrible.

I just ran a speed test and got 9.4Mbps down and 15.4Mbps up.

I haven't had any issues with my BBS or the internet here but those numbers are so bad I might actually have to call my ISP to check it out. (It's a fiber line! lol)


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Hello everybody!

I have been wondering, what type of internet connection and speed everyone who's running s BBS has? Please post what you have.

RickV


SEEN-BY: 1/100 101 102 103 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 116 117 118 SEEN-BY: 1/119 120 121 122 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 133 136 137 138 139 SEEN-BY: 1/140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 152 153 155 156 157 158 SEEN-BY: 1/159 160 161 162 163 164 166 168 169 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 181 SEEN-BY: 1/182 183 186 187 188 189 190 191 193 194 195 197 198 199 200 201 202 SEEN-BY: 1/203 204 205 206 207 208 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 SEEN-BY: 1/222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 234 235 236 237 238 239 SEEN-BY: 1/240 241 242 244 245 246 247 248 249 616 995 2/100 101 103 104 106 SEEN-BY: 2/107 108 109 111 112 114 115 116 118 120 1202 121 122 123 124 125 126 SEEN-BY: 2/127 128 129 130 131 132 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 145 SEEN-BY: 2/146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 SEEN-BY: 2/163 164 165 166 167 168 3/100 4/100 106 5/100

Hello RickV!

24 Nov 25 10:12, you wrote to all:

I have been wondering, what type of internet connection and speed
everyone who's running s BBS has? Please post what you have.

I have 1gbs here but may flick down to 500 as I have gone mail only

TheCivvie


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Hello RickV!

I have been wondering, what type of internet connection and speed
everyone who's running s BBS has? Please post what you have.

Wired (Ethernet) from a fiber converter/switch in the basement, 500/500 Mbps.

Best regards
Zip

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Re: Internet speed
By: TheCivvie to RickV on Mon Nov 24 2025 04:30 pm

I have 1gbs here but may flick down to 500 as I have gone mail only

I'd like it if my ISP offered a 500gb speed tier. It's either 300 megabit or gigabit (and they have some tiers lower than 300 too). I'm currently using their 300 megabit tier. But I suppose going from 300 to 500 wouldn't be much of a difference; I just think it would be nice to have more tiers so that the difference in price isn't so great.

Nightfox
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Re: Internet speed
By: RickV to All on Mon Nov 24 2025 10:12 am

I have been wondering, what type of internet connection and speed everyone who's running s BBS has? Please post what you have.

I currently have fiber internet at 300 megabit (and since it's fiber, that's the same speed for both download & upload). My BBS is on a dedicated PC that's connected via ethernet.

Nightfox
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Hello Nightfox!

24 Nov 25 10:06, you wrote to me:

I have 1gbs here but may flick down to 500 as I have gone mail
only

I'd like it if my ISP offered a 500gb speed tier. It's either 300
megabit or gigabit (and they have some tiers lower than 300 too). I'm currently using their 300 megabit tier. But I suppose going from 300
to 500 wouldn't be much of a difference; I just think it would be nice
to have more tiers so that the difference in price isn't so great.

I have a feeling that the 500mb band will be phased out in favour of having 1gb/2.5gb and upwards

TheCivvie


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I have been wondering, what type of internet connection and speed everyone who's running s BBS has? Please post what you have.

I have 100 down and 30 up, as far as I remember. Quite old fashioned, I know!

There is fiber in my area but my building is not wired for it so it is not an option for me.

The speed has never been an issue though and everthing moves along as you'd expect.

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Re: Internet speed
By: TheCivvie to RickV on Mon Nov 24 2025 16:30:26

I have been wondering, what type of internet connection and speed
everyone who's running s BBS has? Please post what you have.

I don't have RickV's original Message. Is the message routing working correctly?

My Internet Speed is DSL 100down/40up

Mindsurfer
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Hey Mindsurfer!

On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:18:18 +0100, you wrote:

I don't have RickV's original Message. Is the message routing working correctly?

Your uplink doesn't forward on echomail messages that don't include an origin line. RickV's message was broken, so only some people got it.

Regards,
Nick

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Hello Mindsurfer!

25 Nov 25 11:18, you wrote to me:

Re: Internet speed
By: TheCivvie to RickV on Mon Nov 24 2025 16:30:26

I have been wondering, what type of internet connection and
speed everyone who's running s BBS has? Please post what you
have.

I don't have RickV's original Message. Is the message routing working correctly?

weird, maybe it went in dupes or something

My Internet Speed is DSL 100down/40up

TheCivvie


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Hello Accession!

25 Nov 25 07:43, you wrote to Mindsurfer:

I don't have RickV's original Message. Is the message routing
working correctly?

Your uplink doesn't forward on echomail messages that don't include an origin line. RickV's message was broken, so only some people got it.

Ahhhhh
TheCivvie


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Good ${greeting_time}, deon!

25 Nov 25 13:14, you wrote to RickV:

Can you fix your GoldED configuration so we dont get a dump of
SEEN-BY's in your messages.

I have not received RickVs message. Did your system not route it?

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On 25 Nov 2025, Mindsurfer said the following...

I don't have RickV's original Message. Is the message routing working correctly?

My Internet Speed is DSL 100down/40up

I have cable internet at my house which is supposed to be 1.5Gb down and 50Mb up. My modem only has a gigabit wan port on it, so I only see about ~940Mb down.

Bell did run fibre directly to our house and they've been knocking on my door almost weekly. Bell is in the habit of signing you up at once price and then raising it 2 months later, so I have no intention of switching to them anytime soon.

Bell initially offered to hook up the fibre for $60 /mo, called up Rogers and they matched that price for two years.


Jay

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Re: Internet speed
By: Accession to deon on Tue Nov 25 2025 20:09:48

Correct, no node in Hub 3 would have received it, because it failed validation as a bad packet. Any other messages in the packet (if there were any) would not have been passed on either.

The fact that you're not passing on valid messages is probably a very bad id

I am not 100% certain but suspect that at least some other FTN tossers also behave in this manner, i.e. one bad message spoils the whole packet.
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Hey Dumas!

On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:04:00 -0500, you wrote:

I am not 100% certain but suspect that at least some other FTN tossers
also behave in this manner, i.e. one bad message spoils the whole
packet.

I haven't really heard anything in this regard until recently with clrghauz. Unless they were old or abandoned tossers that most people don't use any more.

Either way, I'd imagine most people would steer clear of those tossers if they were made aware of the issue.

Regards,
Nick

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My Internet Speed is DSL 100down/40up

I've internet fiber. 2Gb down and 1Gb upload. But the modem/router only have
4x 1Gb RJ45 sockets so i'am limited to +/- 950Mb down and upload speed.
This give me data download speed of 105 MB/s.

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I have been wondering, what type of internet connection and speed
everyone who's running s BBS has? Please post what you have.

500 mb for me.

Lloyd (neoshock) sysop @ Classic Computing BBS
bbs.classiccomputing.net

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