What is your home internet speed?

[zoobie]

while speed is interesting, cost would be more revealing

[Xylob the Destroyer]

Very true.
I pay $50.00 a month for this:

4 tests in a row:

I honestly have no idea what they are advertising the service as. I do know that when I switched from Qwest DSL to Comcast it was like going from dial-up to DSL.

[zoobie]

when I pay $600 a year for e-losers on the internet or $720 a year for commercial-saturated television, take a ball peen hammer to my head...

I'll spend the $1320 towards yearly vacations in Hawaii

Thx

[usually_quiet]

I pay $20 per month for Verizon DSL. I guess my answer depends on who I ask to test my connection.

Using Speakeasy Speed Test:
Download Speed: 770 kbps
Upload Speed: 120 kbps

Using Internet Frog:
Download Speed: 223 kbps
Upload Speed: 113 kbps

[minidv2dvd]

i don't have problem paying $120/month for this, along with digital cable tv and all phone services.

[DarrellS]

What do you do, divide by 8 to get your speed in MB/s?

[ChrissyBoy]

What do you do, divide by 8 to get your speed in MB/s?

Yes

[ChrissyBoy]

£22 per month

[ntscuser]

£13.99 per month.

As you can see my upload speed is a joke. It would take me about three days to upload one of my home made DVDs, that's assuming the connection wasn't broken for three days.

[TooLFooL]

damn yoda, upgrade! you'll be glad you did!

[yoda313]

damn yoda, upgrade! you'll be glad you did!

Yeah I'm getting close to doing so......

Wow 45% say they have more than 5mb speed. Impressive, Most impressive.

[TooLFooL]

well y'know, the speeds have increased so much... i've had cable-modem for years, and it started out at 1.5m for $50 a month. i STILL have the same $50 bill, but the speed is over 8m now! i can never go back...!

[SingSing]

I don't have home internet service 1% [ 12 ]

Did not expect this answer at all

[disturbed1]

Around $50/month.

I can remember my first couple of years in college, this was a while ago. They had just upgraded to a full T1 in the IT department. I was blown away at seeing 1.5Mb/s down. Many medium sized businesses used to use T1's or bonded T1's feed full offices. Now my personal home connection has 10x the speed, and businesses have moved onto OC3's and up.

Amazing to think that in the old days, all you needed was cheap long distance, and a password to a bbs to get all the porn you wanted

[redwudz]

Amazing to think that in the old days, all you needed was cheap long distance, and a password to a bbs to get all the porn you wanted

The worst part was staying up till midnight so the long distance rates were cheaper. Made a difference with a slow 33Kb/s dialup modem.

Till the feds busted our cable supplier for stealing satellite video, we were going to get cable modems. For speeds faster than 5Mb/s, it would cost me over $130/month from my present ISP.

[minidv2dvd]

the 30 mbps speed here is a comcast docsis 3.0 test area. i spoke an installer of theirs today and he says they will be capable of delivering 120 mpbs to the home soon for no additional charge.

[DereX888]

I don't have home internet service 1% [ 12 ]

Did not expect this answer at all

Well, I selected "I don't have home internet service" because most of the time I'm either piggybacking on my neighbour's wi-fi with laptop at home, or I'm using my PocketPC and piggy back on some stranger's wi-fi... so if I wouldn't have any of my own internet service it would be all the same as well.

10Mbps cable (free till summer) and probably 3Mbps or 6Mbps down / 500kbps up ADSL after that (free).
I also have *dial-up* at home just in case. $3/mth for past 6-7 years
Fiber at the office - that's where I download everything No idea what is the max speed, but it *is* fast.

[oldfart13]

Be faster if I wasn't on the wireless LAN but I don't use the computer directly plugged into the cable modem very much anymore. Different comps in the household have different usages. The one I'm on currently is mostly an online games machine, so I don't need blinding speeds for that...

[TBoneit]

From here: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/cablevision-goes-for-us-broadband-speed-record/

Cablevision Goes for U.S. Broadband Speed Record
While it may not match the very best broadband deals in other countries, Cablevision will start offering the fastest home Internet service in the country next month.

The new service will offer download speeds of 101 megabits per second and upload speeds of 15 Mbps for a cost of $99.95 a month. It will be available May 11 to all 5 million of the people in areas served by Cablevision, mainly in the New York City suburbs.

hmmmm..................

I am so tempted.

Verizon has no plans to match Cablevision’s 101 Mbps speed right now, but a company spokesman, Eric Rabe, said it could. And unlike cable systems, Verizon’s fiber-to-home technology does not require it to reduce the capacity of its video system in order to expand its Internet service. In an e-mail message, he said:

We can go to 400 mbps with the technology we are now deploying -– without giving up TV channel space. We can add higher speeds at the time of our choosing, but no announcement to make today.

Cheers

[disturbed1]

The new service will offer download speeds of 101 megabits per second and upload speeds of 15 Mbps for a cost of $99.95 a month.

Cheers

Don't forget about the $300 activation fee

[SatStorm]

Greek national Telecom doubled the speeds (for free) on everyone here in Hellas the last weeks. So, now, I have ADSL 8mbit download and 384kb upload. The cost is around 33 euros per month (cost of the ADSL line + phone line).

Here we have problem with the upload speeds, not the download ones!

[TBoneit]

The new service will offer download speeds of 101 megabits per second and upload speeds of 15 Mbps for a cost of $99.95 a month.

Cheers

Don't forget about the $300 activation fee

I suspect that if you can affor $1200 a year for internet another $300 up front is not much.

I coule also be wrong. I want it I just can't justify nor afford it.