Approximately how speedy is your Internet connection?
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incomplete question (Score:5, Insightful)
I care about upload speed too.. which is typical 512kb which sucks.
Re:incomplete question (Score:4, Interesting)
Don't feel bad. I've got 10Mb down but only about 250k up.
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I think I am supposed to be on a 10Mb connection. One of the few advantages of living surrounded by retired people.
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If it's available in your area, Verizon's FIOS has good upload speeds. I'm paying about $60/mo for a 30Mb synchronous connection in Indio, CA. Testing shows my actual speeds at around 40Mb/s down, and 35Mb/s up. It beats the hell out of anything that the cable company is offering.
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I agree! Upstream should typically be about 1/4 of the downstream speed to be reasonable, I think. If I need 20Mbit IN, It's pretty likely I'll be sending some data out as well. (Yes, most people probably use it for stealing music and movies, but some of us actually produce data as well.)
This is why I'm stuck on 2Mbit G.SHDSL, which is the fastest up speed available where I live. :-/ I could get som more download speed, but that would cost me the up speed.
Geez! (Score:2)
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That's sort of the situation I'm in. I've been stuck with 5mbps connection because the alternative is Comcast. With all the Centurylink trucks I see around these days, I have a feeling that they're about to upgrade capacity, but it could just be them fixing all the things that went unfixed when Qwest owned the infrastructure.
On the plus side I'm getting much closer to the 5mbps that I've been paying for and the up went from 512kbps to 896kbps.
Fios - but the frontier flavor (Score:2)
fast enough (Score:2)
I have 50Mbps but I could buy 250Mbps in my area over docsis 3.0. It's the data cap that bugs me, only 250GB a month on the 50 plan, no cap is an extra $50 a month
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Rounding (Score:3)
Okay so I have 60 Mbit which is almost close enough to 100 Mbit that it's okay, but my last connection was 25 Mbit. I'd be insulting it by saying it's "approximately" 10 Mbit when it's 150% faster and laughing at my self if I claimed it was "approximately" 100 Mbit when it's 25% of that. What's wrong with simple less than/greater than? At least then everything would fit into a category...
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Orders of magnitude: 25 is 10. 60 is 100.
Slashdot bingo (Score:2)
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That's what we had for many years around here. We started out with a cable modem with Viacom for 4mbps and we stayed 4mbps when we moved over to Earthlink DSL and stayed at 4mbps when we moved to Qwest. We did eventually get to upgrade to 5mbps and now I can upgrade to 7mbps if I want to.
Hopefully with Centurylink choosing Seattle as their regional headquarters they'll be too embarrassed if they leave us at such slow speeds.
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Not saying that this applies to the parent you're referring to, but in many (most?) countries, the speed you get from DSL is arbitrary and depends on the length and condition of your phone line (longer phone line = more attenuation = slower speed). They just purchase a DSL plan from their ISP (might be ADSL1, ADSL2/2+, VDSL etc.) and they get "whatever speed your line is capable of". So someone's home DSL connection could be any random speed (within the range of the ADSL specification at least).
For instance
CowboyNeal Option (Score:3)
The CowboyNeal Option:
CowboyNeal's smoke signals smell mighty peculiar.
Over 10Mb/s (Score:2)
I've got Time Warner and live in a town of about 25,000 people in Ohio. I think they gave me a free "boost" upgrade a year or two ago.
Complaining about the option-fast (Score:3, Insightful)
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Agreed that that's a stupid gap to have. The majority of residential access technologies at the moment sit in that >10 but 100 range. Most cable providers (except for DOCSIS3 ones) have tiers of like 15, 30, 60 Mbps. DSL technology in most of the world is most commonly ADSL2+, which is 24 Mbps down (in the US though it seems ADSL2+ never really happened and vast areas of the country are still on ADSL1 capped at 6 Mbit or lower). On top of that you have various FTTN+VDSL1/2 networks which typically do sp
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I know it's not like this everywhere, but where I live (Southwest Virginia), the fastest speed offered is 20 Mbps and it's $63/month (and then you still have to pay for cable TV, which is an additional rate). And I guarantee you that you still won't get anywhere near 20Mbps. Those of us who are [responsible] college students simply can't afford that. Also, the market is pretty much monopolized by one company.
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Oh, well I guess that's the difference. I pay about as much as you do for an advertised speed of 10 Mbps, and I usually get around 3 Mbps. So I guess in that regard my provider is "more honest". We're supposed to be getting Verizon FiOs (fiber) pretty soon, so maybe that will change things.
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I'm a Computer Science major. Uppercase means byte and lowercase means bit, as always.
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My parents can't see the point of broadband and still have dialup.
Cheaper than satellite (Score:2)
Don't tell me they also pay for a second line so that doesn't happen?!?
If you live where DSL and cable are unavailable, a second telephone line over which to run dial-up can be cheaper than satellite Internet.
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Around here the best I can hope for is 7mbps, it always gets on my nerves how spoiled you people are. And I've got it fairly good, there's folks in the same city as me who only get 1.5mbps down and 896kbps up.
Up or Down? (Score:5, Informative)
It is one choice for up and another for down. And I care about both directions as I work from home a lot.
Depends on where I am (Score:2)
2Mb/256Kb at one place, in a little village, via DOCSIS hackery wireless. Beats the hell out of dial up and way cheaper/lower latency than satellite.
10Mb/1Mb in the city.
FTTP with up to 200Mb/40Mb is supposedly coming Real Soon Now, supposedly everywhere in the major cities by 2017. With my luck, it'll probably be available to me on December 31, 2016.
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Using Consumer Broadband test (Score:2)
Envy (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm not up to 512 kb, but I get significantly faster latency than Pony Express. Think of the amount of information that can be stored in one Pony Express "packet": a saddlebag of backup tape can deliver the entire Library of Congress - assuming the catalog of the LoC circa 1985!
Fast, or big? (Score:2)
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Re:Fast, or big? (Score:5, Funny)
(Just what we needed! A disturbing pony analogy!)
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Indeed, don't underestimate the bandwidth of a pony laden with backup tapes!
IPoAC (Score:5, Funny)
I just wish the latency was better.
Re:IPoAC (Score:4, Informative)
That's what RFC 2549 [ietf.org] is for.
I'm at work (Score:2)
So my desktop connection is 1gbps.
At home, when I've measured it via Speakeasy's speed test - it usually falls somewhere around 20-25mbps.
I have COX Cable (Score:2)
So my connection could be anywhere from -1Mb/sec to +63Mb/sec... I usually get around 6.3MB/sec downloads... When it's up....
infinte (Score:2)
using my neutrino net. In fact, when I get home I will have already downloaded things I have thought to ask for... you heard me.
WebPass FTW (Score:2)
So happy since I moved from Comcast to local San Francisco ISP WebPass. And on top of great speed, when you call them you can tell they're people who enjoy their jobs.
upload matters not download (Score:2)
Surewest fiber in my neighborhood (Score:2)
I've been using Uverse for the last 4 years or so, but they never had true end-to-end fiber and their internet connectivity speeds sucked. So, this summer Surewest started laying line for fiber in our backyards. I wanted to upgrade my connectivity anyway to start hosting my own servers, but Uverse upload maxed out at 3Mb/s and 1.5Mb/s in my neighborhood. I took a look at Surewest and they were offering 24Mb/s down and UP for about what I was willing to pay for the upgrade to 1.5Mb/s. No-brainer for me.
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Ponies are underrated (Score:2)
But the ping-time... oh, my.
Correction? (Score:2)
Approximately how speedy are your Internet connections?
Home is about 16mbit. Work is 50mbit. Phones are 3G and LTE. I can also remotely make use of my family's networks which range from 5mbit to 10mbit typically. I also administer quite a few other networks which I can make use of if necessary, each ranging from 512kbit up to 50mbit+. And these connections are all over the world, which comes in handy as well.
*sigh* (Score:2)
Meanwhile in Japan... (Score:5, Interesting)
100Mb/s dowload, no cap
100Mb/s upload, 30GB/day (yes day) cap
Cost is about US$50/month, for only a bit more 1Gbps is available but I thougt that was slightly excessive.
It's good to live in a civilised country!
Re:Meanwhile in Japan... (Score:4, Informative)
Capped connection - sucks.
My connection (Lithuania):
300Mbps up/down with no cap
~29USD/month (VAT included)
I regularly upload 600-1200GB/day, most was 1482GB/day. I don't download much though.
Re:Which service in Lithuania provides that? (Score:4, Interesting)
The telecom, this service is available for anyone who can get FTTH. Citation [zebra.lt] (no English version though). The company is trying to get away from ADSL, so they are laying new fiber fast.
Last year I was getting 200Mbps to Lithuania and 80Mbps to everywhere else (and playing ~37USD/month), but the ISP upgraded its plans, increased the bandwidth to 300mbps to everywhere and reduced the price.
Are you asking UP or DOWN? (Score:2)
Comcast.
Speedtest.net says 23 Mbps down, 4 Mbps up.
I answered 4 Mbps, because networks should be symmetrical, damn it.
I had 10Mbits (Score:2)
but then the promotion ran out, and since I am shoestringing the budget due to lack of a stable job the economy service is fine, which is 1.5Mbits ... sad thing is if I were in an area where I had more choices than COMCAST! and ATT it probably would be better and cheaper
right now I get fuck you we are expensive and like to play with your mind, or fuck you we are going to charge you for 1Mbs service and its going to be less than 128k ON A GOOD DAY, on a bad day just fuck you, you should be glad you sometimes
25 Mb down, 35 Mb up (Score:3)
A 25/25 FIOS plan including HDTV. I'm just north of Philly. Had it about 12 months. Reliable. No complaints. Prior Comcast service was less than 10 Mb down with lousy up.
Wireless (Score:2)
12/2 Mbps, VDSL (Score:2)
Australia here.
12 Mbps downstream / 2 Mbps upstream, via a VDSL2 network (i.e. fibre-to-the-node). I do actually get those speeds too.
Could upgrade to 30/10 Mbps (I'd like that more for the upstream than the downstream) but I am happy with current speeds. Awaiting rollout of the National Broadband Network which should happen in this area in a few years, at which point I'll probably jump on the 50/20 Mbps tier.
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Australia here.
12 Mbps downstream / 2 Mbps upstream, via a VDSL2 network (i.e. fibre-to-the-node). I do actually get those speeds too.
Sorry, networking guy here. VDSL is copper not fibre. FTTN is the NBN, which is fibre. If you're on VDSL and getting those speeds it's very bad. I'm still on ADSL 2+ about 750 Metres from the exchange and I get 19,500 down and 750 up. VDSL (Very high bitrate DSL) has a range of about 1 KM before the speed attenuates below ADSL 2+ speeds.
There are three significant consumer wired broadband technologies, 1. ADSL - Copper and takes the lions share of the market. 2. Cable - Copper and has little market sha
Metropolitan or not? (Score:2)
It makes a big difference between metropolitan speed and "rest of world".
I have a metropolitan speed of 100 Mb/s, reaching a constant 11.1 MB/s download rate while downloading a very well seeded ISO with more than 10 local seeders; thing is, "metropolitan" means not only the local ISP network, but a LOT of peered networks, covering roughly half a country. I have established a peer-to-peer video connection with a friend 300 miles away and we were using full HD video transmission at 18-20 FPS with 75-85 ms d
Next Week's Poll: How fast COULD your interent be (Score:2)
I voted for 4Mb/s, because at 2km from the exchange that is about the best it can do.
I wish we had fibre, or cable, or something other than crappy old copper. I'd take the 100/40Mb option if the NBN [nbnco.com.au] were laid past my house tomorrow.
I voted 100Mb/s... (Score:2)
Poll Design (Score:2)
Asymmetric (Score:3)
It's ADSL. The A means asymmetric.
It can't be meaningfully expressed in a single number dammit.
RFC 1149 (Score:3)
Re:bits or bytes (Score:5, Informative)
Does it mean megabits or megabytes?
Little 'b' = bits, Big 'B' = bytes. At least since I was a kid in the 1980s.
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I was curious if they meant download or upload speeds....I guessed they meant download and answered that.
Actually, the upload speed is important for anything beyond browsing and related simple consumption of media. If you're running any kind of server (httpd, ftpd, etc.) or just uploading a bunch of photos to a print house, then the upload speed is critical. We have a symmetric uncapped 100Mbps/100Mbps fiber connection, FWIW.
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context.
Re:bits or bytes (Score:5, Funny)
The sync speed on my DSL modem after a rainstorm.
slow connection after rain (Score:3)
A slow connection after a rain means your phone line has a damaged casing and gets water inside. I worked at a store with this problem we would loose phone, data, credit card processing....horrible.
They eventually had to replace the whole trunk from the building to the pole.
Phil
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Erm you're seriously asking that?
1. Little 'b' is bits. Big 'B' is bytes.
2. Even if you didn't know the above, it is bits that are always used to measure things in the networking/communications industry. Always. Never bytes.
Re:bits or bytes (Score:5, Informative)
Arrggg!!! I meant: Little 'b' means 'bits'.
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Arrggg!!! I meant: Little 'b' means 'bits'.
What if he wants 1-bit bytes ?
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So technically he means octet. Practically, I almost never see "octet" used for 8 bits instead of "byte" unless I'm looking at something in heavy standardese or a particularly pedantic discussion of network protocols. Not that either of those things is bad, but it's pretty safe to assume most people are referring to 8 bit bytes unless context or a specific declaration indicates otherwise.
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I always thought that an octet was a musical group with 8 members
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I thought the maximum baud rate was 1200, and that to get more than 1200 bps you must create multiple "streams" at different frequency bands.
Re:bits or bytes (Score:5, Informative)
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You're confusing baud rate with bit rate. Only in really old (older even than 9600bps) modems does baud rate == bps.
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As an example, my DSL connection goes at about 4mbps down.
It has a baud rate of 4312.5 Hz.
There are up to 14 bits per channel, per baud, and quite a few channels.
Re:bits or bytes or how I followed Erin Grey (Score:5, Funny)
Bd Bd Bd Bd
Hi! I'm Buck Rogers' robot friend!
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Re:Kind of... (Score:5, Informative)
Road Runner (via Time Warner Cable) says I'm paying for 20 Mbps. However, they also say that I can achieve that speed only when accessing a nearby server. So I get 24 Mbps with a server in Los Angeles (17 hops and 30 miles away) but only 6 Mbps with a server in New York (one additional hop but 3,000 miles away). I frequently communicate over the Internet with my daughter, who lives in the central prairies of Canada; then I get 3 Mbps across 21 hops and 2,500 miles.
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I pay for 15MBps and get about 12Mbps (wget of ISO files shows a sustained 1.5MBps). Yay Cox New Orleans!
Except they're pretty expensive... :(
Re:Kind of... (Score:5, Insightful)
Competition helps. I had a fun revelation of relation of commercial posibilities vs. technical possibilities very recently. Been using ADSL for years, paying for a 20 Mb/s connection and getting only 8 Mb/s. Official excuses was always that there were technical limitations in the local endpoint bla bla bla. I live in rural Netherlands (as far as that exists ... town with 10.000 inhabitants is considered rural here) so I thought oh well ok they'll upgrade eventually.
Then a company starts a trial with fiber to the home: if 30% of the inhabitants presubscribe to FTTH, they'll lay down the infrastructure and connect all the houses in the town to fiber.
Two weeks later ... presto ... my ADSL connection suddenly jumps to the previously technically impossibly to achieve speed of 20 Mb/s.
Needless to say I gave my ADSL provider the finger and am now happily connected to the world at large by glass&light.
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200/10 cable in Helsinki/finland ;D
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3 Mbps / 0.75 Mbps cable in Southwest Virginia (USA)... and it's expensive too...
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Though, it does cost me about $5 (USD) for about an hour's worth of service.
So this would be your $0.02 worth on the topic?
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Big talk there, buddy.
Go ahead. Turn on JavaScript when you use Slashdot. I dare ya!
Technical query: (Score:5, Funny)
We tried greasing our lightning at the university I work at. But even the high temp lubricants all seem to burn off immediately. We tried molten lead till OSHA shut us down because of the inhalation hazard.
If you have any suggestions, please send them because our ungreased lightning keeps getting stuck.
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Might I recommend placing your lightning in a vacuum? That way there's nothing to bump into, and hence no friction!
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Might I recommend placing your lightning in a vacuum? That way there's nothing to bump into, and hence no friction!
I see... so if we get rid of all the atmosphere, we can have lightning based internet everywhere? Sounds kind of awesome, and losing the ability to leave your house seems like a small price to pay (and why would you want to leave your house with lightning fast internet?). Even better, the greenhouse effect wouldn't be a problem anymore which would finally shut those whining environmentalists up once and for all... unless they object to the stripping of Earths atmosphere, but I can't imagine why they would.
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I selected 100 Mbps because that was closest in orders of magnitude, but I will vote again (what? voting twice? the nerve!) for Greased Lightning since I've got ~200Mbps and doubling the previous option should be enough to take into that category.
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its their little boost thing dumbass, it only works for the first and last 10 meg of a transfer
read the fucking fine print
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Don't know about the parent's connection but I have a 100 Mbps connection from Bahnhof [bahnhof.se] and most of the time I'm pretty close to 100 Mbps in both directions.
In fact, I'd say the main problem for me is that I've found that unless a torrent has a very large swarm you're likely to get stuck downloading at 20-30 Mbps because the others in the swarm just haven't dedicated enough bandwidth for seeding.
As for other things than torrents, it varies wildly. There are definitely places in both the US and Asia that I ca
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Talking of Asia, I thought Singapore was a broadband paradise when people told me that everyone has 100 Mbps or even 1 Gbps fibre to the home. When I actually went there though, I realised that what they don't tell you is that that speed is only for local (in-country) data. It's artificially capped at a much, much lower rate (typically at 5 Mbps or 10 Mbps or something) for all international data.
There's always a catch! :P