QOTD: How Fast is Your Net Connection?

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Download = 10Mb/Sec. Get anywhere from 60 to 98% of that typically.
Upload = 1Mb/Sec. Pretty much get all of that all the time.

ISP = Charter
Region = South East USA

We have had some incredibly long outages. It seems if I have nothing important to do, it won't fail. If I have something I HAVE to do via the web, that's when it'll be down. :0(

Occasionally changing my DNS settings on router will help.
 
I'm in a rural area and have one option for cable and one for dsl. Cable is regularly $42/mo and my download tops out at 180kbps (1.5meg?). I think that's terribly for the money. DSL is no faster and costs more. I wish there were more competition around here.

They called me with a survey about a month after my connection was activated. When she asked for my general opinions I told the lady that I felt the speed:cost ratio was poor and she immediately got defensive. I guess they have no plan of improving.

I am in northeastern Pennsylvania and my supplier is Penteledata through Blue Ridge Cable.
 
Oh, cost on mine is right now about $55/month for web, basic cable, and a digital cable box (gives access to "on demand"). That's just a particular deal I locked in for about 12 months...
 
12Mbit/320Kbit subscription, syncs at 9Mbit/320Kbit because of distance to DSLAM.
(Belgium, Flemish part)

Any users commenting that are on an ADSL/ADSL2(+) or VDSL network should state the speed they sync at, this degrades when increasing the distance to the DSLAM (meaning, total lenght over RJ11 copper telephone wire)
 
[citation][nom]leo2kp[/nom]I don't have internet access at home. Sooooo, zero up and zero down! And it's free![/citation]
Im Sure the day will come that NO access isn't free, lol. youll get taxed for NOT using the internet!

I get 15 Mbps download speed, 1 Mbps up. Its Cable, these are my lows, often late at night i have a higher download speed.
 
If connecting with ADSL/ADSL2(+) or VDSL, note the speed your router/modem syncs at. Since this is influinced heavely with how long the telephone cable is between you and the DSLAM
 
Ten Mb up and down all the time. Fiber optic gives me phone internet and tv and all for around $115 a month. Brand new service being offered by the city I am in, so it comes with my utility bill.
 
10Mbps down, currently paying $25/mo, after my promotion that will go up to $50/mo and I will probably cancel the service. No effing way I will pay $50/mo for anything short of a T1 line.
 
I get actual speeds of about 10 mbps down and 2 mbps up from Comcast. $45/month.

If I try to use these maximum speeds for more than a few minutes, throughput decreases.
 
1.5Mb/256kb using a PCMCIA Sprint mobile broadband card in a Linksys mobile broadband router to feed the house. Luckily I got in before sprint started capping the bandwidth on that plan. Hopefully when my contract is up, we'll have cable or DSL in our area. I have contemplated on more than one occasion to get a T1 run out there...but I'd probably have to sell an organ to afford it. Most of the time I get between 800kb and 1.2mb, sometimes dips down into the 300s during peak time. Average ping times are between 150ms and 165ms which is enough to decently play online games and normally I can stream NetFlix. it's not bad considering that the only other option is satellite...and 1 to 2 SECOND ping times don't do well in online games. Paying about $60/mo for the mobile broadband...hey, at least I can take it on the road with me :)
 
I just switched from Mediacomm which was $45 a month for 7mbs down and 768kbs up. That's when it was working.

My new provider the local telecom company is $50 a month for DSL. I get a consistent 10mbs down and 1mbs up
 
Ya'll shouldn't be complaining!! I live in South Africa where I have the fastest internet currently available with speeds of 3.0Mpbs down and 0.7Mpbs up!! Plus I'm paying the equivalent of $150 per month! even bigger plus is that it's not even uncapped!! I have 15GB limit!!
 
My school has 100Mbps of bandwidth. Of course the bandwidth is widely shared, but at the times when no one is really using it, it flies.

At home I have a 3Mbps connection, which is good enough for me.
 
I live in portugal, which is one of the worst places to live in in europe (depending on likings), but somehow we have very decent broadband acess, m connection is 24/1, i'm only at 21Mbs download but the full 1Mb upload, i pay around 40€ with unlimited traffic, and if this isnt sweet enough, there is already optic fibre on the horizon with a full 100down and 10upload for around 45€ with more 200Gbs of download i'm really sorry about all you poor american and canadian folk =)
 
I'm from the UK

I get 3Mb's Down and 256K up, my ISP is Sky and it's included in a package with line rental, Sky TV Premier Package, BB, and phone.
 
I have cable internet through a local cable company that buys it's bandwidth through Comcast. Comcast fequently throttles down the bandwidth to my provider reducing my speeds to 800kbps. In the early morning my speeds hit 6.7mb, night 800kbps -1.2kbps. I am at work during the day, at night is the time when I actually use my service and I am reduced to near isdn speeds. I pay 60 bucks a month for this crap. It's either this or dial up since dsl is unavailable. I would like to know how much Japanese customers pay per megabit compared to Americans?
 
I am getting raped by Time Warner. I only get 7Mbs\s (5mbs realistically) down but only 368kbs\s (200-250Kbs realistically) up. Costs $50 a month. People in the next city over get Verizon's FIOS and for $48 they get 10mbs\s down and 2Mbs\s up. I don't live in some little poe dunk town either. I live in the state capitol. Frack'n BS!
 
I'm supposed to get 256k down, but i don't. And I pay $64 a month for it. This doesn't include TV, only local phone service (no long distance). There is only one ISP here, and their service frequently blinks in and out.
 
According to http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ I am getting 8.7 up and 3.0 down which is actually pretty good since I have the 6meg service from Comcast.

However, the only reason why it is good right now is because it is 1:30 in the afternoon. As soon as people start coming home from work/school my connection will go down to 1.5meg down or even sometimes even below 1meg down and cause hulu to lag like crazy while if I used hulu right now everything would be fine.

Stupid Comcast needs to upgrade there infrastructure around her.

I live in Northern Colorado near Ft.Collins.
 
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