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Hoetan

Hoetan

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Post a speedtest of your internet!

Also tell us:
- Provider
- Speed plan
- Price
- Location
- How you are connected (fibre, copper, satellite, etc)
 
1mB/sec Sydney, Australia.
cable speeds are woeful in peak times in my area so ADSL it is.
Not much has changed , back in 2000 i was early adopter of cable and got 750kB/s. 18 years, TONS of progress! Behold
 
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- Provider --> COSMOTE GR
- Speed plan --> 24MBPS
- Price --> 40 EUROS per month (comes along with telephone services).
- Location --> ATHENS, GREECE
- How you are connected -->COPPER
 
I fear this thread isn't going to be helpful to most posters given that Tom's spans the globe and so far, the two responses are from different countries, continents and even different hemispheres.

Hoetan. What did you hope to gain from asking your question and what are your statistics and country?

Personally, I live in England and pay Sky Broadband around £25 for 39mbps but rarely see over 30. My Sky bill for ADSL, TV and landline telephone is around £80.
 


I didn't hope to gain anything. It was just a thread to see what internet speeds different users on this forum had.

Feel free to delete thread.
 
@mdd1963, that makes me cry. The fastest mainstream internet you can get in UK is from Virgin and it's 350Mbps. There are some that offer 1Gbps but you have to be super lucky and live in select places for it.

My birth country though, Latvia, is in Top 10 globally when it comes to internet speed as all ISP's provide 1Gbps (even in the woods, you can get solid 50Mbps as a minimum). When I moved to UK, I got a big surprise as you can see, lol.
 
It shames me to admit this but the UK is leading the Third World when it comes to Broadband speeds.

Example: The Government expects farmers to submit all their records through the Net but rural areas are the worst most sparcely catered for in the entire country.

I'm not surprised about Latvia. Another Baltic country, Estonia, leads the world in carrying out official recording via the Net.
 


At least you CAN get 350mbps. Max you can get in Australia over our NBN network is 100/40, and that's if your bloody lucky in terms of technology in your area!! Just cause ISPs sell it doesn't mean you will get it 🙁
 
they not exactly same subject, one thread is fastest in city, other is how fast is YOUR connection - not exactly same.

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Also tell us:
- Provider - Iinet
- Speed plan - 75/25
- Price - $90AUD (Includes cost of VOIP phone)
- Location - Canberra ACT
- How you are connected (fibre, copper, satellite, etc) - VDSL2 (Copper to node, which is just behind the house so not a long distance)

while I never go over dl max, my current upload speed is 30 which seems odd. Shame its pretty pointless for me.

I can get NBN but while it has no cap, my current plan speeds are faster so think I will pass. I never dl enough to worry about a usage cap.
 


Aye @Colif, didn't know you were Aussie too! 😀
 
to people posting their speedtest record, you might want to hide your IP addresses showing on your tests.... just saying.

I pay a bundle, so I cannot tell you what I pay for the speed I get, but cable with extended channels, Internet, 2 TV boxes (with DVR), 3 Cell phones, 3 recording cameras home security with 30 days storage I pay 188$/month USD

provider Xfinity Cable Corp.

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My connection speed before getting VDSL2 was 1.82mbit per second. Jumping to 69 put me in shock and I have never felt slow since (excluding a few times we had outages) so 175 or 800 is nice but I don't feel the driving desire to move to South Korea and get 1gbps

As of 2017, South Korea had the fastest average internet connection in the world at 28.6 Mbit/s, according to the report State of the Internet published by Akamai Technologies.[10] South Korea's speed is four times faster than the world average of 7.0 Mbit/s.[11] It is important to note that 100 Mbit/s services are the average standard in urban South Korean homes and the country is rapidly rolling out 1Gbit/s connections or 1,000 Mbit/s, at $20 per month,[12] which is roughly 142 times as fast as the world average and 79 times as fast as the average speed in the United States.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_South_Korea#Internet_speed

I can remember dial up when downloading 40mb file would take over 4 hours, so I appreciate the speed I have now.
 
hey the nbn is expected to rollout in my area - 2016, 2017, 2018.
Now building has finally commenced!
expected ready date? June 2019. (2020, 2021, .......)

Apparently in nearby areas its down to 250kB/s during peak when everyone home from work. This is sydney, not the bush.
 
NBN is a cruel joke, they only want an average speed of 25 Mbit per second across entire country, and yet they can't even achieve that much except in city centres, everyone else is getting ripped off. I have friends in the country and they only have WiFi access to NBN, not even a cable to house. Its like a carrot on the stick, keep people wanting more.

25 is too low, should be way higher as with more things on the net, people will be wanting more bandwidth and they will need NBN 2 in a few years just to replace this.
 

- Provider --> Plusnet
- Speed plan --> (Up to) 17 Meg Unlimited
- Price --> £40-ish, including line rental, call plan, call features, website, domain.
- Location --> Fife, UK.
- How you are connected --> Copper


I could have speed of around 45-50 Meg down, 10-15 Meg up, if I went for fibre, but have been dragging my feet, cos I'm not a leech. 😀

Oh, and on the far edge of a village in rural Fife. Not all rural places are badly served. It's all about solid kit and postcode luck. I'm about 2.2km from my exchange and 0.65km from my cab.
 
you probably could have beeped n booped into the phone quicker than the modem. Or hired one of those guys with the green visor & black armband at the telegram office.
infamous el guapo stop
 


In my office in 1994, a chap who worked for me wanted to test the Internet against existing technolgies. He sent a Fax to a girl next door while I e-mailed her. She replied to the fax after three minutes while the MODEM in my place was still doing its Tarzan imitation.

I recall saying this Interwebthingie just ain't going to catch on.
 
hehe, well I recall being on Datapac & ARPANET (through the commercial Telenet services), using a crawler (search engine as they call it now) meant getting text results not graphics (that came later in 95 with the first web browsers emerging) , saw the speeds of data go from 110, to 2400, to 9600 to 28800, ran my own bulletin board system before the "internet" came online, and USENET was the forums carried by BBS, connecting to a long distance regional hub to shuffle messages from our region to their region and collect messages from over 2500 BBS across North America and more in Europe. to communicate

Yes speeds have changed since early 80's no doubt. and to be honest I would give a pretty penny to go back to the slower BBS era, where youths were polite, replies to messages where thoughtful, useful, queries about issues where "elaborated in details", and making sure you did not offend your peer was most important in all communications, as a complaint from other uses would mean you access to your "internet" would be revoked forcing you to register at another BBS and if they are part of that network would be under scrutiny. (black listed user were passed around), being online was a privilege… another thing lost with politeness... but I digress..
 
I have to agree with you on the "politeness" issue. We're breeding a generation that is so used to immediate gratification that many of them have become mega impatient on a grand scale. It can only end in tears.
 
i think 1st modem I had was 56k, I didn't have a PC until 1999, so I missed all the really slow stuff. Going from 56k to 69 Mbit is a massive jump in just 20 years.

They all faster than telegram so stop complaining :)
Beats sending a letter.... or now it does anyway, early days it depended on how far letter had to go.
 
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