Fun day at the office this morning. After months of watching various contractors dig, bury and pull fiber optic cables from the street, down the alley, up the side of the building and into our office: we’re live on fiber optic. Without any further ado, here are the speed results.

Lisco - local.  This actually tests your speed all the way from the Men’s room.

Speakeasy - Dallas, TX.

We need to work out some router issues. We tried a D-Link, which capped out at 15mb, then swapped in a Linksys WRT54G and that more than doubled our speed. Up to 32mb locally and 13mb to Bush country. However if we set up a laptop in front of the router, with only 100 ft of Cat5e between the fiber box and the browser, we get 95mb locally. I need to do some Flickr upload tests to see how this extra bandwidth locally translates to using the greater Internet.

Ok, so this photo below, uploaded to Flickr in 4 seconds. A task that normally takes sometimes over a minute. Sweet! Now I just need this connection at home.