What's your internet speed? (Page 1 of 4)

they advertize it as 12 mb/s download / 2mb/s upload and it costs 12$ / month wireless included
my sister has a 24 mb/s / 4 mb/s connection and her costs 16 $ / month without wireless (the wireless feature is 2.5 usd / month extra)
the tv/phone/internet pack with 12mb/s costs 29.5$ (2.5 extra for wireless)
and for the tv/phone/internet with 24mb/s you have to pay 38.8 (extra for wireless of course)

Last edited by ali (2010-08-03 04:03:58)

My latest test was 1.17 down and 0.15 up. We have Sprint PCS mobile broadband cards out here in the boonies for 65 bucks a pop for the "real" unlimited use that they soon discontinued shortly after we signed our 2 year deal. The speed varies ALOT, and they are real annoying. I just found out that DSL is now available here, so when our contract expires we should be doing a tad better.

:cough:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … t-so-fast/

We do the Triple-Play deal with Optimum Online, I think it's like 25 dollars each a month with iO, Optimum Voice and Optimum Online. Unlimited bandwidth and all that too so I can download as many distros as my little heart desires.

Cross Atlantic :

I am from Romania, Cluj-Napoca but I tested on Frankfurt, Germany and London, UK to be sure that I test my internet speed, not metropolitan speed. Also my peering with US is very good and with Australia, Canberra is acceptable, considering it's in the other end of the world.

I pay 13$ for each month for 100 Mb/s broadband and a 3G modem with 7.2 Mb/s. (when it's night I can download with maximum 90 mb/s and upload with like 30 Mb/s). Unlimited bandwith.

Last edited by IsTI37 (2010-08-04 17:04:17)

So here's the internet connection i get at work:

It's definitely interesting to see how much people's connections vary.  70Mbps is pretty intense, I can't imagine having a connection with that much bandwidth.  I was pretty happy with my previous 4Mbps connection and thought that was smoking fast

Last edited by Invictus51 (2010-08-04 20:25:50)

Yeah this is by far the worst internet i've ever had (dial up excluded), but i'm trying to think of somewhere in the state where you can't get internet and am coming up with nothing.  I have some friends that live far enough out that they aren't connected to the power grid and have to generate their own electricity, and even they have internet.  Although it's only about as fast as mine...  Still even in the remote "fly in only" communities in alaska, people have internet, albeit satellite internet.  I think the fastest connection offered here in fairbanks is 10Mbps connection, and it would cost about $200 a month with the associated cable and phone package, not to mention you have to be relatively close to town (e.g. within 5-10 of the center of town). 

I'm wondering... with a 70Mbps connection, do you regularly max out a download server's speed limit?  I know i've downloaded stuff in the past where the server had limited the speed of the download to about 100Kb/s, just curious if you run into that a lot.

Last edited by Invictus51 (2010-08-05 05:36:38)

I almost always max out the servers upload limit, with peer to peer networks I can download with upto 12 Mb/s and from most servers with 5 Mb/s if I am lucky, if I am not I download only with 1 or 2 Mb/s or even 300-500kb/s.

Also from most repositories I download with 6-8 Mb/s.
Some are exceptions, when the file is small the speed can reach 12 Mb/s.

Also I tested today on Hungary :

Last edited by IsTI37 (2010-08-05 11:19:51)

Might be more, but my neighbour and me are splitting a 24...he might be downloading pr0n or something hehe

Last edited by friTTe (2010-08-05 13:15:35)

Yeah but its strange that the ping and distance isnt the same on the tests, must try again with same server.
Just took the default one for the test

Ping and Speed test have different servers and the default is usually the closest to you. They probably don't have a ping test that's 100 miles away like they did for the speed test.