cmbeid's discussions

Technically, it IS external. It snaps onto the top of the Xbox and is visible from the outside. Read more

As I was developing this, I had my girlfriend test on her Thunderbolt...10Mbps. Faster than my home internet. Read more

Actually, a lot of people had Wi-Fi enabled. Those results will be tossed out shortly. Read more

We had about 75 results going up to 20Mbps that I manually deleted (clearly Wi-Fi). The script now automatically rejects speeds greater than HSPA+, so we might have had even more submitted. Based on my research, CloudFront's performance was more than acceptable for this test. Read more

People were submitting data while on Wi-Fi. Data is being corrected. Read more

As new phones get released, we might add them to the speedtest. Read more

Haha I was actually thinking the same thing... Read more

We allow iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, so I want to keep non-iOS5 results. Read more

No, I am pretty sure it's the cigarettes. Read more

We use Amazon Cloudfront to serve the images, so it can only transfer as fast as Cloudfront allows. Read more

Yeah I guess it should be kilobits. I wrote the image generation code more recently than the actual speedtest. Read more

Unfortunately, there is no way to verify that Wi-Fi is disabled. I figured people would take notice to the messages of "ensure wifi is disabled," but apparently I was wrong. Read more

I go hours without email, then it vibrates for 2 minutes straight while downloading 20...then hours and another 2 minutes of vibrating for new emails. Read more

There are some Giz writers that have Blackberry devices... Read more

I should clarify: I have a 2 year old netbook running Ubuntu, and a Macbook running Ubuntu. Read more

You know, the ONE day I do not login to see what Steam has, they undermine my chosen deal. Still, I would rather play it on my 360, since my PC is quite underpowered. Read more

Well damn, that makes me feel stupid. Read more

Technically, Macs are Personal Computers too. Read more

Dude, by replying to his comment, you just approved him as a commenter.... Read more

You know what, I will promote this. Read more