What is your home internet speed?

[yoda313]

So what is your at home internet speed (or apartment - not splitting hairs here).

I am at dsl 384kps. I am looking to upgrade but not ready to pull the trigger just yet.

How about you?

[Soopafresh]

Check out http://speedtest.net to benchmark your performance. Sometimes the results can be interesting.

[redwudz]

Microwave link from a tower about 3 miles away. Rated at 1 MB/s down and 500 KB/s up. It's usually 1.4 MB/s down, though. Never dropped below 1 MB/s down. It's about $50US, and for another $20US, I can up it to 1.5 MB/s down and 1 MB/s up. Cable internet isn't available here and DSL is a bit slower and about the same price. (Besides, I don't have a phone line. Cell only. )

Where I lived before, we had cable internet at 8 MB/s down and 2 MB/s up. Never saw that it was much faster, that depends on other internet factors more. But you could have more internet connections running with a higher speed access and still not take much of a hit on speed for each connection. There was more bandwidth, but not necessarily more speed.

[Number Six]

Check out http://speedtest.net to benchmark your performance. Sometimes the results can be interesting.

I tried this test 3 times and got 3 different download speeds - 5Mb/s to 8.55 Mb/s, ping from 14ms to 21ms.

My actual download speeds are usually between 500Kb/s to 1.5Mb/s, and around 2Mb/s in the middle of the night. These are average results, but some sites download extremely slow and very few are higher - it all depends on the time of day and the site itself.

[johns0]

My speed is 1.7megabytes.Number Six,its testing your speed in bits
where as you are talking about your speed in bytes.

[Number Six]

My speed is 1.7megabytes.Number Six,its testing your speed in bits
where as you are talking about your speed in bytes.

I wasn't paying attention to the abbreviations and did not catch that - thanks johns0

[jagabo]

By Speedtest.net I get about 7 Mb/s down, 3 Mb/s up. My ISP claims 9 Mb/s down (12 Mb/s with short term "Speedburst") and 768 Kb/s up.

[fritzi93]

Check out http://speedtest.net to benchmark your performance. Sometimes the results can be interesting.

The test here (Comcast) showed:

Down: 16.78 Mb/s
Up: 2.04 Mb/s
Ping: 25 ms

Fastest speed I've actually gotten is with the DownThemAll Mozilla plugin: over 700 kB/s.

[gadgetguy]

Cheapest DSL whatever that is...

[Noahtuck]

I was going to choose

I don't have home internet service

Then while i was typing this it hit me



yoda313

What DSL do you have for how much ??

I'm over by GR and have AT&T or whatever they are calling themselves now

I pay $35.00 a month for the 6.0 Mbps.
I had the 1.5 Mbps service for $25.00 for a little while then i said screw this!!
$10.00 more a month and i quadrupled my speed.

Yep, sure is nice watching those KB/s flying by like greased lightning

[Noahtuck]

Cheapest DSL whatever that is...

Seeing as you are pretty close to me that would be the Up to 768 Kbps for 19.95

But it's funny because i had the Up to 1.5 Mbps and i never came close to that, something like 150KBs but after upgrading to the 6.0 Mbps i consistently get 1000+ KB/s DL speed.
Usually through torrents, i don't pay much attention when DLing from a site.

Unless i'm confused somewhere

[Number Six]

I was going to choose

I don't have home internet service

Then while i was typing this it hit me

Not really an invalid or trick choice - you could be at work, or you could have a home business with business class internet service.

[Noahtuck]

Not really an invalid or trick choice - you could be at work, or you could have a home business with business class internet service.

I know, it was a joke


Or you could be my freak son on that damn sidekick phone of his surfing all the time when he has a killer PC with a 19" monitor sitting in his room


But if you had a home business with business class internet service.
You are still at home
:P

[Number Six]

But if you had a home business with business class internet service.
You are still at home
:P

NOT according to the IRS :P :P

[mocap3069]

ATT UVERSE FIBRE CONNECTION!!!!!

I have downloaded at up to 1.8 mbps on faster sites.

[gadgetguy]

Seeing as you are pretty close to me that would be the Up to 768 Kbps for 19.95

Sounds right, but I'm more interested in "Always On" than "High Speed", so I really don't pay that much attention.

[Noahtuck]

But if you had a home business with business class internet service.
You are still at home
:P

NOT according to the IRS :P :P

[Xylob the Destroyer]

4 tests in a row:

[valvehead]

6Mb/s ADSL here. I upgraded from 3Mb/s recently because my downloads were frequently maxing out the connection. It's rare that I hit max speed on any single downloads now, but I hit it today with the OS X 10.5.7 update from Apple. It stayed at about 800KB/s for the whole download.

The downside to ADSL: my upload speeds are weak. It maxes out around 55kB/s. Fortunately I don't upload large files too often.

[johns0]

My upload speed sucks,shaw caps it too low.

[Verify]

Pay for 10, get:

[Baldrick]

10 up and down.

[buzzqw]

20 mb down ( download speed at 1.5 Mbytes/Sec with torrent)
1 mb up (upload at 100kbytes/s=

at 20€ at month

BHH

[cd090580]

12 mbps down
440 kbps up (soon 1 mbps)

for 41 €/month + 17 €/month for the phone line

[pstedman]

6Mb DSL - I realistically get about 5.5.

Another good speed test here:
http://testmy.net/speedtest/download_broadband_test.php

It lets you do a test of large files so you can see what your sustained download speed is. Speedtest.net often gives me results of 20Mb on my 6mb connection. (Oh I wish!)

You can do up to the 25MB test without needing to register on the site.

[Jim44]

16Mb/2Mb Comcast plan here.

[edong]

This has mbps, kbps and KBps information. I usually see KBps in my downloads.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

[TBoneit]

At work or home I get about the same most of the time 23Mb down and 4Mb up, Occasional bursts when the planets are aligned right to 30 Mb down, once in a while speed drops to around 10Mb for a short while and then returns to normal. The home results are measured using software to download a 1 GB file. Realisticly I could download about 10 Gb a hour is I were so minded. I pay for boost because I hate waiting more than anuything else. OTOH at another location the business Cable internet just seems slow compared to here where I am. The speed is great when I'm downloading drivers and security updates while repairing PCs.

Cable modem, Optonline with Boost as the provider.

Cheers

Addendum, I just did the speakeasy test and it showed 24427kbps down and 4352 kbps up

reading the speds above I'm beginning to feel better About not jumping on FIOS

[yoda313]

@noahtuck

yoda313

What DSL do you have for how much ??

At&t - the entry level dsl.

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]