I think I set the record for slowest broadband in history...

[Timorous]

In the UK a speed that slow would not be classed as broadband. If your provider was selling you broadband and you got that speed you could cancel the contract without any fees because the service they are promising is not the same as the service they are providing. If you could prove it was an ongoing issue you could probably also get a refund for all the months that the service was below what they are promising.

My ADSL provider is shoddy but I live a distance away from an old exchange so it is the best they can do but I am going to get it cut off at the end of the contract period. I am really pleased with my mobile operator because they have a really good tariff, it costs £25/month and for that you get 2000 mins, 3000 in network mins, 5000 txts and unlimited data. This is properly unlimited data though as last month I used 160GB without any throttling or warnings. It is also fast with speeds of between 10-15 Mbit in good conditions which is about twice as fast as my ADSL.

 

[Ksyder]

Me: ping = 54, down = 5.24, up = 0.44

$25 DSL naked ( no phone line service).

OP needs to do a test with a stand alone computer connects via cat5 cable directly to the modem and nothing else is attached to or running.

agreed.... I've seen the same thing happen with poor quality router installed, the one we have from our ISP would sometimes do that and
a power cycle might help.

 

[DrPizza]

That's far from the slowest broadband. Every once in a while, with Wild Blue, I couldn't even open Google's search page, let alone speedtest.net - they would time out. It was truly unusably slow.

 

[Sonikku]

Anyone ever notice how in places where Fios is available Time Warner some how manages not to suck?

 

[Arcadio]

 

[Mixolydian]

Mine is good.

 

[vshah]

pay for 75/35 fios, get more like 85/35. i <3 fios.

 

[Arik5405]

 

[vshah]

Anyone ever notice how in places where Fios is available Time Warner some how manages not to suck?

its no coincidence. comcast/time warner offer their highest tiers/best pricing only where fios is available

 

[Crusty]

its no coincidence. comcast/time warner offer their highest tiers/best pricing only where fios is available

No FIOS available here and I can get the TWC wideband 50+mbps service if I so wanted.

 

[Anonemous]

its no coincidence. comcast/time warner offer their highest tiers/best pricing only where fios is available

Yea it's called Monopoly/Duopoly...

The cable co/telco's are lobbying like crazy to stop Google fiber.

 

[vshah]

No FIOS available here and I can get the TWC wideband 50+mbps service if I so wanted.

i don't think those are their highest tiers. i think i've seen 100mbps offered on both comcast and twc

 

[onza]

Bandwidth wars

 

[raasco]

I've been with Charter. Can't complain.

 

[onza]

50.00 per month brings me this.

 

[Lemon law]

Seriously, CA19100, are you crazy or just living on fantasy island? When you say, "Have you called them? Something's broken. They'll fix it!"

When your recommendation only works about 5% of the time.

When the usual cause of such suckie broadband performance in fact does not involve the technology as such, and instead is the direct result of overselling their spectrum capacity in terms of front load and download capabilities.

As I had a very bad experience with such a broadband carrier. As I could get stellar performance with them between the hours of 3AM and 6 AM, but as more and more users started using that same spectrum, I would soon go below dial up speeds, and it would totally turn worse later on in the day, because I would be lucky to connect at all as even more users shared the same spectrum, and if I could, I would be promptly booted off.

Yes I reported it promptly, but such problems are very difficult and expensive to fix. Finally the law of supply levels the playing field as enough paying customers vote with their feet. Which I did, but was luckier in finding another provider who could deliver the bacon 24/7/365.

 

[Ketchup]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2252895611.png

 

[Clinkster]

Go fix it before the broadband circlejerk consumes you.

 

[iamwiz82]

Not too bad

 

[wirednuts]

Anyone ever notice how in places where Fios is available Time Warner some how manages not to suck?

anyone noticed how wireless companies are hot on the heels of cable providers? WIRELESS companies. wireless! the amount of information you can pack onto a single coax destroys the feasibility of wireless. the only reason it should be there is convenience, but its getting very close to being more economical to use cellular data and thats just absurd.

 

[iamwiz82]

anyone noticed how wireless companies are hot on the heels of cable providers? WIRELESS companies. wireless! the amount of information you can pack onto a single coax destroys the feasibility of wireless. the only reason it should be there is convenience, but its getting very close to being more economical to use cellular data and thats just absurd.

See my test, wireless connection. It's also not dropped more than one ping in the past 6 months.

 

[Svnla]

See my test, wireless connection. It's also not dropped more than one ping in the past 6 months.

Wireless for that much speed? How much is the cost for that?

Look like I am only faster than the OP <sad panda>.

 

[jpiniero]

anyone noticed how wireless companies are hot on the heels of cable providers? WIRELESS companies. wireless! the amount of information you can pack onto a single coax destroys the feasibility of wireless. the only reason it should be there is convenience, but its getting very close to being more economical to use cellular data and thats just absurd.

The cost of the Last Mile is astronomical. Any investment would likely lead to disaster, as Verizon found out with FiOS. Especially now with cord cutting increasing.

 

[Corporate Thug]

after 3 separate near 1 hour long calls w/ the company, they tell me that the modem is broken (i.e. not communicating properly) and I should go in to exchange it...I don't understand why they couldn't figure that out a month ago.

EDIT: Also, the tech support guy was trying to convince me that I shouldn't be running their "modem/router" through another router...it took me 10 minutes to explain to him that I only had a time warner modem, not a modem/router combo...literally made to tell me that modem does not have any antennae and that there is one single port in the back.

 

[wirednuts]

The cost of the Last Mile is astronomical. Any investment would likely lead to disaster, as Verizon found out with FiOS. Especially now with cord cutting increasing.

i already have cable though. and its backboned by fiber. yet a $55 t mobile plan can do the almost the same as a $40 charter plan. it just doesnt make sense to me.