Pigeon Beats Broadband in Speed Test... Again

[bavman]

60 mb/s down
55 mb/s up

Dang its great to be in college =)
Its also $100/semester which comes to around $20/month

 

[firebee1991]

I'm fortunate enough to have DSL access in a rural area, but they charge $70/month for 5 mbps Internet, with extremely spotty service. I often find that tethering my smartphone and just using the 3G gives me more reliable Internet access.

 

[winner4455]

[citation][nom]Haserath[/nom]Well, my download rate is 30 pigeons and my upload rate is 10 pigeons. What about you?[/citation]

Mines only 8.5 pigeons download and 2 upload... Wait .5... Ouch.

 

[kelemvor4]

[citation][nom]towely[/nom]I guess you've never been to Africa?[/citation]
Dragons Be There.

 

[lmn8r]

verizon fios here: 25mbps upload

I used to live in the sticks and paid the same for 384kbps upload.

 

[exodite]

100 Mbit full duplex, 69SEK or ~$10 a month. 10 Mbit is free but for me it's worth paying the premium for 100.

And I actually get 100 Mbit too, ain't fiber grand?

Anyway, aside from gloating my point is really that the term 'broadband' is (ab)used rather loosely in the article as I can transfer 4 GByte of data over FTP in roughly 5 minutes.

What we need isn't more pigeons, it's a better definition of 'broadband'.

Of course in my neck of the woods 'broadband' equals Ethernet, sadly that's far from universal.

 

[Guest]

living in Lithuania - ~80/10Mbit local(Lithuania)/world connection for ~10$ in capital and 2nd biggest city if you are lucky to get good deal, if not - ~20-30$, you may pay ~35-45$ for this in small town ~20k population, in villages with any cable type available - 10/1Mbit - ~50$ is possible... GPRS is available everywhere, 3G in half of an area, 4G - in suburbs. Prices are affordable also... Oh yeah in capital, you can get internet of 256kbit for free, if you sign for cable tv, ~7$ per month,
not bad for 3rd world country, huh?

 

[TomTomz]

[citation][nom]duk3[/nom]20mbs up, 3 downI like comcast[/citation]
I do too.

 

[mlopinto2k1]

FioS. FTW

 

[guantan]

[citation][nom]nurgletheunclean[/nom]That's really not that bad. Many people in rural areas are relegated to using satellite for their internet and upload speeds are slower than dialup.[/citation]

That is what I have at home. Pay $80 a month to have 15Gb of total transfer data. The service is completely horrid but its all we have available.

 

[JD13]

The real problem is; the providers trying to stretch the network as far & as thin as it will go without any upgrades. I had to have a tech come out twice to confirm what I've said all along: too many people with cable internet in my area. They ended up gaving me a DOCSIS 3.0 modem. We have the basic 15/2 Mbps but was only getting 0.68 to 3.25 down & 2.10 up. after the new modem I was getting almost 25 until they cranked it back & now get 15-17. Unless there is another federal mandate on broadband you're stuck with what they give you unless you kick & scream & make a whole lot of noise.

 

[willgart]

I've the 50mbps set (and 2mbps upload), but my ISP now propose the 120Mbps option with a 20mbps upload speed ! (150$)
but its just to beat the other providers, they always propose a speed just higher than the competitors, instead of focusing on the customer needs! (and the price is high)
and they says "oohhh... its the limit of the technology"... well explain to me why a new technology is slower than the previous one? (and the cost still the same for them)

well... they get our money...

 

[Lutfij]

lol - le pigeon expert!

 

[WarraWarra]

WOW old info re-posted as new news WT ????
Just check the forums.
http://www.techeye.net/internet/head-to-head-broadband-versus-pigeon-power

Either way if your internet is so slow just move to Africa or Mexico at least there you have decent internet not as slow as the USA / Arizona.

Try the Motorola SB6120 it uses your slow cable connection to optimally connect to your ISP and get real results.
MOTOROLA SB6120 Up to 160 Mbps Downstream, up to 120 Mbps Upstream Ethernet Port Broadscape DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem

Or VDSL2+ Zyxel wifi modems that is backwards compatible.
"up to 100/100Mbps, the P-870M-I V2 series"
http://us.zyxel.com/Products/Details.aspx?CategoryGroupNo=4B84BD2B-12CA-4A20-9247-3A214B94B578

P-2802HWL-I Series
802.11g Wireless VDSL2 VoIP IAD "VoIP router that offers up to 100Mbps upstream and downstream bandwidths"

No reasons to complain about speed if you use ISP's 50th hand old modem junk resold to you as new.

Not sure why Toms have not tested stuff like this or are they payed to NOT review hardware like this by USA ISP's..........

 

[dEAne]

It's a problems for engineers.

 

[tentaxlbunga]

I live in Jakarta-Indonesia.
with 2.5mbps-down and 1.09mbps-up, i guess it was good enough, consider that im using wireless broadband.
But i also have several highly trained race pigeons and mail pigeons, and one of them (wins several trophy and championship)can travel 20miles in 10 minutes less, so for 64gb data i guess the pigeons still the winner here in my place.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Hmm, it's not a big surprice that some less wealthy countries on other continents have really slow connections, but in england ?
C'mon ! I'm sitting on a 50/50Mbit fiber connection that at times hits 300Mbit ..... and it doesn't cost me more than a 2Mbit/512Kbit connection did in 2002

 

[bluekoala]

[citation][nom]idisarmu[/nom]That's still 10 times my average. According to speedtest, I usually get about 0.7-1.2 mbits down and 0.25-0.5 mbits up. I pay $45/month for something advertised to be 2.0 mbits down and 768 kbits up. Rural Canada blows.[/citation]

I'm in Ottawa with 16mbps down with Bell Canada. I could pay 5$ extra a month to get more upload; but I never upload anything so I stick to 800k or whatever it is.

 

[djmik21]

Tell me about it i pay 40 euros for "up to 24 mbits" of download speed and i get 1.8 mbits. And then i think about it and realize i've been trolled really bad because up to 24 mbit/s also means you could get 1kbit/s So there's nothing i can do untill the contract expires.

 

[iamtheking123]

[citation][nom]bavman[/nom]60 mb/s down55 mb/s upDang its great to be in college =)Its also $100/semester which comes to around $20/month[/citation]
See you and raise. I've maxed 100 mbit ethernet at 85 mbit down / 85 mbit up while on campus (real downloading from Hotfile premium, not Speedtests). Speedtest breaks at those speeds though and it'll sometimes register 150/85 even though that's not possible.

 

[Travis Beane]

[citation][nom]duk3[/nom]20mbs up, 3 downI like comcast[/citation]
20mbs up, 1 down.
It's a bitch to keep my seeding status at anything decent.

 

[thebigt42]

The problem with the pigeon ISP is it is UDP no error correction! If some dumb kid shoots your packet/pigeon down the resend wait time is very large!

 

[jkeelsnc]

I think we should use owls. They are very fast. And also they can feed themselves along through life. So they are low maintenance. It is also a good "green" alternative, right?

 

[xantek24]

yawn... 5mbit down 800kbs up....T-Mobile 3g

 

[irtehyar]

With a pigeon you're also much less likely to get crap on you than with a direct internet connection.