QOTD: How Fast is Your Net Connection?

[dravis12]

5 Mbps down 512 kbps up. Paying ~ $40 /mo. N/Eastern US from local cable company.

 

[bertschkid]

Correction to my previous comment. That's 8.7 down and 3.0 up.

 

[hellwig]

Comcast w/ Speedboost. I get bursts up to 20mbps (up to first 10MB), then it drops to about 8mbps for big downloads. I get about 2mbps up. $60/month basic cable + internet, my rate will probably double after a year.

 

[Grims]

small town texas 10/1 65 a month.

 

[baddad]

7.5mbps down 480kps up and pay $55 a month with Mediacom I live in a small town in Iowa.

 

[rodney_ws]

1.5 mbs down / 128 kbs up.

Location: Cobb, Georgia
ISP: Sowega.net
Reliability: Shockingly good. One minor outage in 1.5 years.

 

[Guest]

Here in São Paulo (Brazil) I have a 4Mbps down / 600 kbps up cable connection for about US$60. The speed is very close to nominal and at my home is pretty stable, some friends have problem with the stability in similar connections. You can get an equivalent ADSL connection for the same price.

 

[Shadow703793]

At School (Fair Fax County, VA) with out many users : 10-16Mbps

At Home : 1.5-3.5Mbps

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Above speeds are Download Speeds.

 

[Guest]

3Mbps down 756Kbps up. DSL unlimited D/L's Paying ~ $110
Had 5Mbps down 512Kbps up, Cable limited 5GB DL/Month. ~$150

I live in Juneau, Alaska we have 3 options DSL through ACS Alaska, Cable Modem via GCI Cable (there is an unlimited plan, but I think it starts at $180 and you have to have a certain tier of cable with it. Or finally WiMax via ATT which only covers the downtown area at this point although they are trying to expand to the valley's suburban locations too. I've had both ACS (DSL) & GCI (cable) at multiple apartments and houses in Juneau and they both generally get very close to their DL & UL speeds in speed tests and prolonged downloading binges. The big catch is latency for us Alaskans, when I had a cable modem my pings to WoW servers and Team Fortress 2 servers in the Seattle area were usually sub 100ms which is great for Alaska. Now that I have DSL through ACS Alaska my ping is almost always over 350ms, most games with any kind of speed are unplayable. ACS seems to route all their traffic through their Anchorage offices so a single server gets all of ACS's traffic through it. Everytime I do a traceroute I hit this server (s2-5-gsr1.sea.acsalaska.net [209.112.128.73]) and my ping goes from sub 100ms to an excess of 400ms. So the choice is unlimited DL's and no online play or DL restrictions (5GB/Mo) and higher costs for online play. I will hopefully have a chance to check out WiMax later this summer '09 when they get the expanded reach into the valley suburbs.

 

[kittle]

6mb down and 768k up with Comcast paying $60/mo
(I need to call and get on a different plan so its cheaper).

 

[Aerobernardo]

In Brazil I used to live in a regular city with speeds from .5 to 20mb/s. I had true 2mb for U$20,00. Now I live in a city that's supposed to be the brazilian's Houston (lots of oil, lots of industries), but the fastest you can go is 600kb/s. And you cannot have anything more then that, even for U$1000 monthly. Welcome to the third world: where nothing makes sense!!!

 

[wickedsnow]

x5 22Mbit Down/4Mbit Up bonded together on my home game rig for $23 dollars per month, per line.

$115 for 110Mbit Down / 20Mbit Up is not bad I think.

 

[chaosgs]

10 Mbs down 1 Mbs up Charter for $35 a month.

 

[Greatwalrus]

I get about 20-30Mbps with Comcast high speed internet.

 

[xyzionz]

I think mine is the suckiest
advertised speed 1Mbps download/384kbps upload for like 25USD per month
ACTUAL SPEED = 6~10% of the advertised speed
and the best part is, the ISP customer service keep telling me that my computer is slow or got virus, and treat me like i'm only used computer for a day, and i'm very pissed with it.

The main cause of the problem is because the ISP is privatize and doesn't belong to government anymore (it used to be back in the 28.8kbps dial up days), BUT they're getting A LOT of budget and support to monopolize the ISP market that doesn't allow any other ISP service to compete with them, they're the only ISP in the country that can provide a fixed line broadband, other company only allows to provide wireless/wimax broadband which really sucks..in my country. AND yet they can't even keep up with the demands, with the given budget and monopolization of the market.

If u're smart, I think u'll figured where does that budget or money actually goes, those employer's pocket.

lol and my specs are
i7 920@3.7GHz
P6T
3GB ddr3
is that really that slow to cause firefox to malfunction ?
god bless..

 

[The Schnoz]

I have 8megs down and 1 meg up that I have connected to a router for my modded xbox, modded xbox 360, and PS3. Then I have another modem connected to my PC that I can switch from 5 megs down/5 megs up or 17 megs down/2 megs up, depending on what i'm using it for.

 

[jonpaul37]

25 down, 10 up

 

[commonlove1985]

I live in Iran, and my bandwidth is 128 kbps, costing me the equivalent of $25 per month. So who's getting ripped off here? :-D

 

[xyzionz]

We're on the same boat lol
6~10% of Mbps is more or less the same with you

 

[MetzMan007]

i am With Shaw Cable Calgary they have 4 speeds, shaw lite is 256kbs/128kbs for $29.95/month CAD. shaw high speed is 7.5mbps/512kbps for $40.95 CAD. Shaw Exteme-I is 15mbps/1mbps for $50.95 CAD. And High Speed Nitro now called WARP is 25mbps/2mbps for $93.00 CAD a month.

I have Extreme-I its the best for the money that they offer. because only haveing like 3 computers in the house and usualy only downloading on one and maybe playing some games 93.00 a month seems like alot.

Now those are all stand alone prices but if you bundle your phone and tv and internet together you get better prices. but there cable tv only has like 25 - 30 HD channels. so i canceled my tv and got free to Air much cheaper and like 175 to 200 HD channels alot are repeats but still a hell of alot cheaper.

 

[Guest]

50 Mbps down and 10Mbps up here and I pay $150 a month. Minnesota Comcast.

 

[gamerk316]

I get 10Mb, Cablevision, LI NY. Switching to FIOS in 4 years (we're buried lines, so we get FIOS last...)

 

[Animebando]

786k down / 128k up... $20 a month

 

[xeensd]

20down, 2up Charter. Newsgroups confirm with a topout dl rate of 2.4 mbytes per second and an average of 2.12mbytes per second.
Up averages 250kbytes (have seen 500k on low load days).

 

[thomaseron]

I live in sweden and I have a 30/3 connection. I pay about $37. I live on the countryside so it's quite good. 🙂