QOTD: How Fast is Your Net Connection?

[czar1020]

5 down 128k up time warner indiana..

 

[czar1020]

psshh i forgot its around 45$

 

[androto]

I've got 177459Kbps Down and 20174Kbps Up. Hopefully the below image works. If not just copy past the URL to see it.

 

[androto]

OK... Here is attemp 2 (last try):

 

[michaelahess]

[citation][nom]deuce271[/nom]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.[/citation]

Good luck with that, minimun of $200 probably more like $400-$500 for a real T1, and other than better latency, it will be slower than an 8x3 cable connection.

I've got an 8mx384k and a 10mx3m, both max out and sometimes burst a bit higher.

 

[etrnl_frost]

Comcast, Northern Illinois.

12-18Mbps down, 4-8Mbps up, with 15/5 being average. $33 a month as long as I continue to complain. Caps at about 2.1Mbps down per site, I've noticed.

ATnT came up to us a few weeks back. Tried to sell us fiber. I thought it was awesome until they were giving me 18Mbps down and 4Mbps - GUARANTEED!

...

I ran speedtest a few times to show them that I wasn't interested unless they were talking about higher speeds. Fiber my monkey.

 

[Guest]

I live in qatar and i have a 1 Mbit connection.
I pay 83 dollars per month

 

[KyleSTL]

Charter 10mbps service, Speedtest showed 10.94 up/0.96 down with a 119ms ping to ~200 mi. I have not lost any connection since getting it in December. I own a Linksys DOCSIS 2.0 modem and Wireless G router. Nothing says reliability like owning your own equipment.

 

[badaxe2]

6 megs down, 2 megs up. Real world speeds average about 20% of that.

 

[hurbt]

6mb/s down, 1mb up.

AT&T, formerly known as Bellsouth, ADSL.

I used to have Charter, but as an above poster said, you only get connection 1/2 the time. Oh and Charter just went bankrupt, which means one of 2 things. Either the OP is wrong in his assertion that ISPs are ripping us off, or Charter is just the worst run company on the planet and could make a buck off a money tree. (I'd put my money on the latter... no pun intended).

 

[mavroxur]

I suggest a new QOTD:

"How fast is your neighbor's unsecured wireless AP's connection" ?

 

[Guest]

24Mbit/1280 kbit for € 38,-. Downloads top at 20Mbit MB/s max. (The Netherlands)

 

[zdzichu]

I'm in Poland. I've got 2Mbits delivered by ethernet (with 100Mb/s LAN shares) for about 20$. Upload is 256kbps IIRC. I pay additional 2$ for permanent, external IP address.

 

[vladoone_]

16 mb/s.I think it's ok for around 12$.
Bulgaria(Eastern Europe)

 

[thedipper]

Paying for: 15mbit
Getting: 35mbit

Upload is only 1.7mbit, but I rarely upload.

 

[jtsx1]

very slow usually, sometimes its fast. The connection is like Houston rush hour traffic: fast for bit, then almost seems to halt. $40-50 a month is a rip-off for this kind of performance. Weird thing is that I had a much faster and more consistent connection when living in a "bad" neighborhood. I hate cox and their sub par services.

 

[The Schnoz]

My internet is so slow I would have been the first to comment but it took this long to upload.

 

[Guest]

I live in Toronto, Canada (North America if u don't know) i am using Rogers which gives me 7 MB/s and i tested it using speedtest.net and i get about 6.9 MB/s which is decent but i have the 60 Gigs per month cap so i want to switch to perhaps primus

 

[mlcloud]

They mention Japan, but don't mention Korea? Lol. Korea enjoys direct LAN and FTTH bragging speeds of 100mbit and 50mbit parallel bandwidth for the American equivalent of ~$30 a month. Too bad I recently moved out of Korea into Maryland, where Comcast offers me a somewhat decent speed of 20mbit down and 4mbit up.

 

[liemfukliang]

137.000 IDR at 150 KB/s HSDPA. Ya right HSDPA 3,6 mbps with just 1,2 mpbs. Realy a rif off. If you thing 137 thoulsand Rupiah is cheap, thing again. How much the BigMac price at your country and compared at my country. That Fair. I live at Indonesia. Normal eating + drink in big city is about 7.500 (seventy five hundred rupiah). So the Internet a month can be use to eat about 18 times. With 3x eat a day, it will be last about 6 days. How about you?

 

[curnel_D]

Rural areas are ripped off the most. In areas where only one telephone provider or one cable provider holds the monopoly, they charge 50-70 dollars for next to no speed.

For instance, in my area, I cant get cable. Only DSL. The DSL prices are 55USD for 512kbps down 128kbps up, 65USD for 1024kbps down and 256k up, and I currently pay 76 for the business line DSL, just simply for the static IP. Infact, when I first upgraded, the local frontier office cancelled my account. When I called to ask why, they said that they dont support buisness line. And I'm farily certain that gentleman was fired after my next call to frontier, where they did support buisness line, but werent going to increase my speeds at all. So now I'm paying 11 dollars just for static ip. Fun.

Even better? Talked to a friend in a metropolitan area who also uses frontier. He is getting 15meg down, 3/meg up for 45 right now.

Frontier and every other ISP who rips off everyone every chance they get can all go to hell.

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

Im using AT&T U-Verse Fiber Optics (Sacramento CA) and I LOVE IT. I have the next to highest connection with them at 16mbs download 3mbs upload for only $35 month. They have a 18mbs but o well.

 

[jerreece]

I have a 14TB/s download bandwidth. However, in actual real world use it's more like 3Mbps.

Okay in all sincerity, my Cable company provides me 8Mbps (can upgrade to 15Mbps), but whenever I use www.speakeasy.net or similar site to test, I don't get much more than 3Mbps in actuality. I do get all 8Mbps from my house to my ISP though, albeit a short run. 😉

Even with some of these Fiber Optic companies, you may not get super download bandwidth. We have a fiber company up here in Montana too (not in my neighborhood yet). However, you're still relying on all the infrastructure from your home town to whatever ISP / server you're downloading from.

 

[jerreece]

[citation][nom]Radio_Active[/nom]Im using AT&T U-Verse Fiber Optics (Sacramento CA) and I LOVE IT. I have the next to highest connection with them at 16mbs download 3mbs upload for only $35 month. They have a 18mbs but o well.[/citation]

I wish I even had 1Mbps upload!! I think mine technically caps at 256Kbps, though I often test out at ~315Kbps or so. Takes forever to upload videos to my YouTube for family to watch.

LOL If I had 3Mbps upload I'd be uploading much higher resolution videos to my YouTube.

 

[Tekkamanraiden]

Supposed to be 5mbps, at get at most 600kbps. Granted it still beats 56kbps.