I logged on with my Safcon modem in Parklands and did a speedtest with both www.testmy.net and www.speedtest.net

I managed 2mbps on both. So this means that only some areas have increased speeds. Maybe Safcon is increasing speed area by area.

@ptor Please give us a clue...am dying to know more

anyone saying that they are having good speeds,please give us full stats. esp. from speedtest.net . especially the milliseconds it takes to ping servers oversees.

Relax guys.The company i work for migrated from some ISP that was charging us 200k/month for very slow and unreliable internet.We moved to KDN about 3months ago and they put us on fibre.....the speeds are crazy and exactly half the price (they say it will even reduce further)!I used to download files at a max of 27kbps.....now during the day im doing 700kbps and at night around 1.3Mbps.What that means is i can download a 3GB movie in around 40mins flat!

Since im in the IT department i talked to the KDN guys and KDN is no longer an ISP,they are a Data Carrying Company.You will be shocked to find out that even Safaricom is using KDN cable connections to carry their traffic.So i would forget about Access Kenya and other former big boys like UUNET,Africa Online,Wananchi.....their time is over,the game ended when they did not invest in laying fibre while KDN was laying and digging trenches from the Mombasa to Kigali.

Right now companies like Safaricom (through OneCom),KDN and Access Kenya are busy trying to get corporate contracts and any new connections are being made on fibre with very high speeds.This makes more sense than advertising all over on TV/Newspapers only to get 100,000 customers who consume 1gb/2months.....which is what some corporate will consume within hours.....and without the headache of customer care.My thoughts.

Ping results have nothing to do with your speed....technically.

You could have a high latency time (ping time) for a data packet to travel a round trip from your comp-ISP-internet web page server-and then back.That is why your ping to Mumbai will always be higher than a ping to Nairobi or even Uganda even though your download speeds and upload speeds could be extremely high.And such is the case here.Browsing is not thaaat much faster......but when you try download you get amazed till you think something is wrong or you are getting speeds you didn't pay for.Before i would have spent a day downloading say the 40something MB kaspersky software........now i spend 2mins max!

Anyway,if you insist on speedtest.net....my results are as follows:

Run1:
Download 9.87Mb/s
Upload 5.24Mb/s
Ping 30ms

Run2:
Download 9.57Mb/s
Upload 4.64Mb/s
Ping 27ms

http://www.speedtest.net/result/527647434.png (Just Copy/Paste kwa browser manually)

And how conclusive is speedtest.net as a test?