What's Your Internet Connection?

[winstontj]

3 up
3 down

Its a wireless T1 or some such here at work. Connection drops all of the time. They shoulda got a land line!

how is wireless T1? is it a joke?

[daseto]

someone had to do the slowest

wow and youre stuck at dialup..

wireless ??

Dont have a cell phone that works at my house. Had a customer bring her laptop over with a sprint wireless 3g card and my dialup was faster than it, only reason i got a signal was cause it was overcast and it kept cutting out. To use a cell phone you have to go about a mile and a half away to get a signal.

What makes it worse is that im paying $35 a month for this to. $25 for the phone line and that is the cheapest plan they have through verizon, and then $10 a month for the dialup access. The only other alternative is satalite, but that is triple the cost of what i pay now, and i couldnt game on satalite like i can on dialup. Lets just say i have a hell of a lot of temporary internet files cached so FF loads things that i visit frequently almost as fast as broadband.

[Bitemarks666]

O2 ADSL 20/1 for £10/month getting

[Muunsyr]

Dont have a cell phone that works at my house. Had a customer bring her laptop over with a sprint wireless 3g card and my dialup was faster than it, only reason i got a signal was cause it was overcast and it kept cutting out. To use a cell phone you have to go about a mile and a half away to get a signal.

What makes it worse is that im paying $35 a month for this to. $25 for the phone line and that is the cheapest plan they have through verizon, and then $10 a month for the dialup access. The only other alternative is satalite, but that is triple the cost of what i pay now, and i couldnt game on satalite like i can on dialup. Lets just say i have a hell of a lot of temporary internet files cached so FF loads things that i visit frequently almost as fast as broadband.

I feel for you. My parents are out in the middle of nowhere. Thus far they have had the choice of satellite or dial-up. They are on sat because they don't use any latency sensitive apps, but there have been a few problems (some websites timeout, etc). Ping times are so bad that I just get timeouts when I try to remotely log in to help them out.

Having said that, I believe the telecom towers have just been upgraded - I am sending them a 3G card to test the reception. With any luck, that will work.

Back on topic - I have a 13Mb/1Mb ADSL2+ connection here. I think my modem is suffering a little from age - or maybe there are more people these days. Either way, I used to get about 16Mb down.

[Xyllian]

50/50 fibre over here, amazing ping, no packet loss and great stability and speed.

[little_scrapper]

Here is what i get from the computer lab at school.




Here is what the University provides me with for free in my Graduate Student Housing townhouse. Hehe

[zalbard]

1.5 mbit up, 1.5 mbit down, nothing spectacular. Around $30/month. I could pay much more to get a bit faster connection, but nah...

[OldChap]

Apart from one or two living in London This is supposed to be the best one can get in UK and costs about $55. The down side is that a more typical result has been 35-40 download (for me at least)

[TurboDiv]

15mbps down, 1mbps up. This was tested at the peak hours of the day (18:47). Otherwise it is around 150 Mb/s during off peak hours thanks to powerboost which gives me unlimited download (w/e the network supports) for the first few minutes of each download- it goes to around 6-9 MB/sec. uTorrent torrents go up to around 2.1 MB/sec but they can't use powerboost. That's for 45$/month.



60Mb/s is = 7.5 megabytes per second but that's only because of powerboost, after the first 2 minutes it goes down to around 15Mbps (2 MB/sec).

This below is my best result so far. Yes i know its impossible, i think my Ethernet controller can't even dream of such speeds since it is 100Mbit limited but it looks cool tho.



330 Mb/s is = 41.25 megabytes per second which is complete nonsense...

[winstontj]

Does anyone have experience with wireless T1 or anything else similar?

[noroger]

main line from Rogers, the most expensive lame internet. $57 for 10mbit down/0.5mbit with a 60GB cap, up to $50 extra when you go over 60GB.



torrent line (goes through SSH) from acanac, unlimited 5mbit down/0.8mbit up, $320/year dry loop included.


Taken during peak hours, ~7-8pm.

[ben0]

Does anyone have experience with wireless T1 or anything else similar?

A little, what do you need to know?

[madman2233]

i think i'll stick with my metro ethernet

[Dahmer]

Cable connection here and right now it's 20Mbit down / 1Mbit up with a traffic limit of 45GB
Sometime this month they're changing it to 30 / 1,25 with a limit of 50GB limit and in july they're making the limit 80GB

I'll do a speedtest when I'm home, can hower show speed at work



20/20 fiber

[RPGWiZaRD]

Nothing special here just a bit more uncommon connection type. Been using 5/5Mbit (~600KB/s is the max) G.HSDSL since last summer, fibre internal network connected to external network with that type in this student appartment area. Previous school year I had 1/1 - 2/2 Mbit still so this is a nice free upgrade for me concidering I got internet, water and electricity expenses all included in the rent (268 EUR/month) so it's always a static monthly price and very low rent as well comparing to other places and the rent wasn't raised this year. \o/

No b/w caps ofc, at least I've uploaded like maybe 300 ~ 400GB a month (I don't download that much at all, maybe 50GB, without any complaints so I'm not complaining.

[aztec]

Just got FiOS 15/5 a couple days ago, $60./mo. with phone, no install fee.







Much better and more consistent pings than previous Roadrunner 15/2 copper, no slow down at peak times, and went from $163./mo. to $130./mo. including TV service from Time-Warner. Still waiting for FiOS TV here tho'.

Hey whaddaya gonna do...they're still gouging us.

[MrDiaz]

Below

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

I'm paying for 10mbps down I believe, although It could have been upgraded to 12mbps.

So here's what I get locally:



Here's what I get connecting to other places far and wide. Shocked at what I am actually getting:





I'm pleased with what I pay for and what I get. I just don't recall the cost off hand lol.

[Mash]

25mbit up/down
~$16/month

[lkiller123]

Does anyone have a good ISP in California that gives good service and bang for the $$?

Mine sucks.

[ChristianGordon]

This is work... I am not sure the cost

[ChristianGordon]

at home I have AT&T pay 33/month and get 2.2 down and .45 up

[lkiller123]

at home I have AT&T pay 33/month and get 2.2 down and .45 up

Yeah, ATT is so bull..

[ChristianGordon]

Yeah, ATT is so bull..

when are they going to do something about the advertised speed vs what you actually get?

when I had comcast I paid for 10 and 1 but got 22 and 4 for $40/month

[lkiller123]

I paid of 3200 and what I got is around 2300... It also fails occasionally, and it gets really annoying sometimes.