How fast is your Internet?

[manudj9031]

from Chile :P

[Smith6612]

Ya know, a terrestrial wireline Internet connection should not drop from starting a microwave or from peak usage. Peak usage can be the exception, IF and ONLY IF the usage is so extreme to where nothing can ever possibly work. Intermittent would sound like a signal issue to me at night.

[str82u]

In mid New Mexico we have the average package that includes 10 megabit service and after having the 16 megabit service at the same location (two different) I find the performance of ftp and mail apps are no different and browsing isn't any faster. We might have had more streaming power, but we've been known to run two streaming services and worked hard online at the same time with no noticable decrease in speed/performance between the two.

location: to the left
isp: verizon fios 20meg download and 5 meg upstream

for download speeds it usually depends on the connection to the server and how many people are also connected to it, I usually get 2.2mb/s max on good times.

Yes, that's really excessive. Do you ever get more than 2.2 for anything? You could definately stream on several televisions and still work online with all that; I'd invent stuff to do online with that.

[Smith6612]

In mid New Mexico we have the average package that includes 10 megabit service and after having the 16 megabit service at the same location (two different) I find the performance of ftp and mail apps are no different and browsing isn't any faster. We might have had more streaming power, but we've been known to run two streaming services and worked hard online at the same time with no noticable decrease in speed/performance between the two.



Yes, that's really excessive. Do you ever get more than 2.2 for anything? You could definately stream on several televisions and still work online with all that; I'd invent stuff to do online with that.

His same connection could do this if he wishes to pay for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Yu2JsdPc8&hd=1

His Fiber connection that delivers what he currently has does also deliver TV service, but in another spectrum of light. Wish we could get that kind of bandwidth here, though. I've got many uses for it...

[failed.com74]

[xathelp42519]

Here's mine.

[wongers]

its amazing to think what you can do on a 10mb line these days!! but the only problem is, it would almost seem to be pointless to develop applications that would use mroe of your internet when most internet providers still empose hefty "fair useage policies" that mean you can only download a small amount of data each month.

plus, especially in the UK, there are many areas that are still on or under 2mb when the rest of the country is on an average of 10mb with some areas now having access to 50mb and even 100mb speeds.