My ISP just did a free of charge upgrade on connection speeds recently. Fibre internet. Advertised as 50'000 of some unit. Dunno.
Thank god for a 'socialized' communictions market. At least we had that before the communications market has been opened to the free market like a decade back. Cablecom just bought the fibreoptics network from the state.
Mine's a consistent 2 mbit down and 0.75 mbit up even though I'm paying for a whopping 3 mbits down and 1 up. Highway robbery, I tells you.
But seriously, small towns are being held ransom by telecommunications companies. How much do either of you pay monthly? How about others in the US?
BTW it's the ping you want to look at for lag. Not so much the actual number of bits per second. Try http://www.pingtest.net/ for a better idea of your gaming performance.
" @Seppli: Is that around average for a swiss internet speed? Because that is fuckin' faaast. ...Or do you own an ISP? "
Since they only just did that upgrade and I just installed it, I might just not be throttled back yet. Pretty certain I'm testing for like 10x what I pay for. But right now it tests that high on average.
Nah. I'm paying for 50 Mb/s. Which is the slowest fibre connection. Had 20 Mb/s before, which was the norm for cablecom. Other ISPs using phonelines are between 10-20 Mb/s advertised.
" @MrKlorox: I pay 60$ monthly flat. They've got a 85$ flatrate with double the bandwidth. If you got Rapidshare, you could download the world... "
Very nice. I pay ~$45 USD for my garbage connection. How fast is the "free" tier for socialized Swedish connections? "
Nah - Switzerland ain't that social no more. Don't know about Sweden, which is one of the most socialized countries in the world. Even hobos wear proper suits in Sweden - I can attest to that. So they actually might have free broadband internet. Not free of taxes though.
Switzerland ain't Sweden. Though I guess, I like 'em both quite a bit.
UPC 30 meg unlimited bandwidth (although when a faster package comes out they usually send a mail saying "people have been complaining about you slowing down their internet, please upgrade!), fastest in Ireland at the moment getting upgraded to 100 meg by the end of the month/start of the next €50 a month!
file:///Users/isaacshaw/Desktop/Screen%20shot%202010-08-03%20at%2014.42.40.png" @Seppli: Is that around average for a swiss internet speed? Because that is fuckin' faaast. ...Or do you own an ISP? "
Since they only just did that upgrade and I just installed it, I might just not be throttled back yet. Pretty certain I'm testing for like 10x what I pay for. But right now it tests that high on average. Nah. I'm paying for 50 Mb/s. Which is the slowest fibre connection. Had 20 Mb/s before, which was the norm for cablecom. Other ISPs using phonelines are between 10-20 Mb/s advertised. "
I'm still jealous dude, they were starting to roll out fibre connections in the UK, but our new government have made a lot of cuts which means we probably wont start getting decent internet speeds for another 5-10 years :(
The cheap internet I have now is pretty shitty compared to what I had before. But I can't be picky, it still works for gaming and all the other junk I'm doing online so that's good. Though I miss my download being up over the 400 Mb/s
Oh well, better to keep the games rolling in and the food on the table than super fast and most-of-it-unused-anway anyway I'm fine on the low end
One of the problems with speed tests like this is that Comcast (and probably others) has the "PowerBoost" thing they do, which means the first ~10 MB of a download/upload are much faster than the rest, so it throws it all out of whack.
" @Seppli: No, YOU are the one causing lag in MY games with YOUR petty upload speed!
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Dudebro - you actually make a good point. How important is upload for games? How would online experiences profit from a generally higher upload bandwidth of consumers?
Also very interesting to see that it's Swedes and Danes with the high upload speeds. What gives? Scandinavian Socialism for high upload speeds! Awesome sauce!
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