**POLL** Your Internet Speed...

[Sid59]

1300 / 210 - DSL - $26.95 / month

 

[kd2777]

DSL 1.5 down / 256 up

 

[Rafael]

OMG! That can be called broadband, you all got fast connections there!

I got 300 kbps/150kbps ADSL service here.

 

[blodhi74]

Comcast cable .... 3000 download and 128 upload

just ran the bandwidth meter

 

[Baronz]

Have adelphia cable, capped at 3000/256, and that's exactly what i get

 

[Ardan]

I have Charter cable with advertised rates of 2000/256 and I exceed them often. Day or night, afternoon or evening, weekday or weekend, I don't know if I ever go below 270kb/second downstream and 27Kb/second upstream. Here is my most recent speed test.

Usually those test sites are so bogged down that I usually get them slower than what they normally are to other sites. When I download an ISO of Mandrake 10 Beta 1, for instance, the sustained rate is around 290-310Kb/second. Most of the people in my area of Minnesota on Charter exceed the rated speeds. As recently as a year ago, they used to have horrible reliability issues, so I switched to Frontier DSL for 2 years. I had previously used Charter's cable service since 1998 when it was introduced and it was great until 2001 so I had switched. I heard they newly revamped the area and built it up and it has been FANTASTIC. As for pings, I am generally in the area of 25-50ms and get a 60ms average time to East coast game servers, and 50-65ms to west coast ones. I am glad they returned to the way they were in my area. We are paying $35/month too...will probably be $45/mo after April (Best Buy promos for it).

 

[everman]

My cable speed isn't capped as far as I can tell. A few days ago I was downloading some Debian ISOs with Jigdo off a particularly fast mirror close by, I'm not sure if it's reporting incorrect speeds or what, but some files reported being downloaded at around 21-22m/s ! :Q
(Jigdo downloads individual files, then creates an iso out of them)

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

mediacom cable, was 1.5/128 until a few days ago, when they raised it to 3/256

 

[compudog]

2.8MB down 350KBps up Comcast Hi-Speed

 

[Falloutboy525a]

1mb down 200k up I wish I had more upload!! I can't use my vonage account or xbox live while something else is taking up upload bandwidth (even if its under 10K

 

[LouPoir]

Comcast 3mb down, 256kb up - Sweet

 

[Dean]

Eastlink Cable

5 Megabits down, 1 Megabit up.


here is my speed test: results

 

[sauria]

Up to 5 Mbits down 256Kbits up

 

[Rogerdoger40]

I have OptimumOnline cable 9321 kbps DOWN 900 kbps UP

 

[AFB]

Verizon dsl 1300 down 128 up and comcast cable 3000 down 256 up

 

[Slogun]

5448 / 774 according to dslreports.com speedtest

 

[Varun]

Accesscomm cable (local cable company) 1mbit down 1mbit up. I could pay a bit extra for 1.5mbit down but I don't need it.

Static IP is also part of the package.

 

[Nab]

56k....3/sec if i'm lucky

 

[nick1985]

t1 @ college

 

[nowayout99]

cable...

1.5Mb download
400 kbps up.

 

[Gerbil333]

ADSL: 1500/128 kbps. I get up to 163 Kb/s downloads, which is actually ~1300kbps. Not bad.

It's the best broadband I can get in my area, and it's only $27 a month. Charter cable is the other option. I have a friend who has it, and it's terrible. He loses his connection all the time, experiences outages, and all sorts of trouble. It's even slower than the SBC Yahoo DSL I have.

I'm pretty happy with what I've got. I wish my upload speed was higher, but it's alright.

 

[Morfik]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
I think he got his bandwidth speeds confused Morfik. He probably meant that his cable internet rated at 3Mbps can sustain download speeds of 350-375KBs. And I would think (based off of most Cable providers) that his upload is still at a much slower 256Kbs.

The reason that is is because of bits and bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte, so internet rated at 3000Kilobits per second will have a download speed of around 375Kilobytes per second. Likewise your wireless rated at 375Kilobits per second will have a download speed of around 47Kilobytes per second.

-Por

ahh no, maybe I got the question wrong. What I meant by being on Wireless is having a 802.11b on the second floor connected to cable (Comcast) and then connecting to it wirelessly from my PC in the basement and I do get download speeds of ~350 kiloBYTES per second (depends on server too obviously). I have no clue what my connection is "rated" at, but this is what I am literally getting by downloading from the net.

 

[mrweirdo]

still using 56k here I cant afford it myself and my parents athough they could easily afford it are to cheap to so i just hog the phone line all day long and no one can get through to our house

 

[MDE]

Comcast cable at 2200\256 (rated at 3000\256).

 

[joeryu]

roadrunner cable here (san diego, ca) and i get consistent rated speeds of 3000/384