How fast is your internet?

[farmkid]

A thread over in TNZ made me curious about this. I wonder how fast our (speaking of the TBBS collectively here) internet connections are compared to the rest of the world, and to each other.

How fast is your internet connection supposed to be (advertised maximum)?

How fast is it actually (typical download/upload speeds)?

Do you experience fluctuations based on the time of day?

What country do you live in?


ETA: I planned to make this a poll, but I screwed that up. Sorry.

ETA again: go to Speedtest to see how fast your connection is right now.

 

[Mr. B]

I live in America so pretty slow compared to the rest of the world.

An internet speed test says 19mbps down, 5 up, but in practical usage I seldom see 1mbps down.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

At work:

 

[Jadzia]

I pay for: 8Mb downstream, 2Mb upstream.

In practice it is : 2.5Mb downstream, 700kb upstream.

I live quite some distance from my exchange as I'm rural.

One thing I like about my internet is that I can host online games and nobody ever lags. I don't know what's special about my connection for that to be true, but I'm told it is unusual.

 

[SG-17]

I pay for 10Mbps down, 1Mbps up. It is great for gaming, I can host a P2P session with other Americans no problem (and Brits too) and I can torrent and game without much of a problem on games that use dedicated servers.

 

[Arrqh]

Also at work:

I tested my phone as well, and I got some really dismal results today. The upload test stutters like crazy. On Telus's 3G network I'm getting:

2.43 Mbps down, 0.32 Mbps up, 151 ms ping

 

[farmkid]

As for myself, I pay for 5mbps download and 2mbps upload. I'm rural, and wireless is the only option I have. My ISP is trying out WiMax in my area (8mbps download and 2mbps upload) for the same price, and I'll probably switch to that soon. In reality, I get the advertised speeds or a little faster most of the time, but it can slow down to about 1mbps in the evenings when usage goes up.

At work (I work at a university) I usually get 30-40mbps each way. Last week, when all the students were gone for spring break, I got 96mbps down/60mbps up. I was pretty surprised by that because my computer is only plugged into a T100 line, so that 96mbps figure is pretty close to the maximum possible.

 

[Skellington]

(Koff.)

It's a mobile internet connection and its advertised maximum is either 7.2 Mbps or 7.3 Mbps.

 

[Tan Ru]

Here at work:

 

[Rincewiend]

At home:

I pay for 25 download and 1.5 upload...

 

[Amaris]

I went from 18Mbps with Time Warner, switched to AT&T and got 6Mbps, which is just fine. Anyhoo, my internet speed:

 

[Shaytan]

Very slow :

Optical fiber expected this year hopefully.

 

[trekkiedane]

My ISP has upped the service several times (without changing the price price) so I'm not really sure what I'm paying for these days, but this is what I'm getting tonight:

(ETA: The tester in the OP keeps giving me crappy results so I'm using a tester provided by our "National IT and Telecom Agency" (IT- og Telestyrelse)-it's the one I've always used.)

 

[Robert Maxwell]

At home:

I pay for "up to" 3Mbps/1Mbps.

 

[LitmusDragon]

I can get up to 50 Mb/s through Comcast but it would be pointless- they still cap you at 250 gigs/month. Why race to the cap faster?

(Not that I download 250 gigs/month every month, but sometimes I do)

By the way, these are "burst" figures. My actual sustained speed is more like 12-15 Mb/s.

 

[trekkiedane]

Finally figured it out!

Still, I have no idea what server that is!

 

[Arrqh]

Home:

 

[Kestra]

I don't know what any of this means, but here you go:

 

[clint g]

Pretty crappy compared to most people here

 

[Small White Car]

Home Wifi using Cox Cable internet:

iPhone on at&t:

Sometimes at&t gets closer to 3 Mbps, but closer to 1 or 2 is more common.