OT: Post your internet speed! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: 8086
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 06:49:34 pm
content: So with Dave getting his new internet hooked up, I figured it would be interesting to see what speeds people get around the world, and how much it costs.You don't have to share the price if you don't want to, of course!Please tell where you are, post your speed, the speed you *should* be getting, your provider, and how much it costs...You can usehttp://www.speedtest.netto test the speed, then use the forum code they provide to post it here.I'll begin.UK (Kent) - Virgin Media - Up to 152Mbps - £37.50/month. We're waiting for the upgrade to give the extra 52Mbps, which should be here in a month or two.

author: BalticLab
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 07:06:32 pm
content: My internet floats up and down as it pleases, this is a snapshot taken right now:I think I pay around USD 40 / month for 25 Up and Down. In reality both Up- and Downstream float all over the place. Anything between 1 to 30 Mbit/s seems possible on both Up- and Downstream.

author: Artlav
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 07:08:38 pm
content: Moscow, Russia. Local provider with meaningless name, ethernet cable.100 Mbit/s in, 100 Mbit/s out claimed, about the same real:About $27 equivalent per month.I also had a 4G modem with about 10 Mbit/s in, 5 Mbit/s out more or less anywhere in the city (gets it on a good day, but still quite reliable on average) for $40 equivalent, but the battery in it had died twice and it's too much pain to replace for the good it gives me.Just WHY do they make devices that have to be disassembled entirely to reach the battery?

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 07:23:04 pm
content: I get 1Mbps, a neighbor gets 50/30 with a TV/Phone/Internet Bell FibreOp bundle (new service, just installed the cabling a few weeks ago on the telephone poles). I offered them cash/month to get some of their bandwidth which would offset their monthly cost too (incentive).They were ready to rent out their bandwidth, but their router is in the basement (where the FibreOp cable comes in, a TV and computer wired to the router and using WiFI for their phone and 2 other TVs in the living room and bedroom) and from just across the street I get no signal from their N router, and they have no intention of moving the router one floor up. Rats. 50x speed for less cost would have been nice.slower than 93% of other Canadians

author: Thilo78
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 07:32:24 pm
content: Close to Frankfurt/Main, Germany (former Rhein-Main Air Base):We have a 100/5 Mbit/s connection via TV cable supplied by Unitymedia together with analog TV and telephone flat rate.Current snapshot while my SWMBO is surfing and I'm watching YTI have tested before with something like 97/6 Mbit/s, but it depends on area traffic how much I actually get.Edit: Tested again on May 18:Edit: Cost are around 30 EUR p.m., which equals to about $ 41 USD p.m.

author: saturation
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 07:33:35 pm
content: Experimental Comcast:Cannot post server name.Discussion here:http://www.electro-tech-online.com/threads/so-how-fast-is-your-internet-speed-test-here-post.41594/page-10

author: BalticLab
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 07:42:56 pm
content: QuoteAt least you're making me feel better with my 62 % slower than the US. However, that feeling was short lived,saturationkilled it.

author: electronics man
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 07:45:17 pm
content: I got about 6.5Mb/s download and 0.75Mb/s upload - very crap

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 07:54:38 pm
content: Quote from: KF5OBS on May 13, 2014, 07:42:56 pm600/800?Don't envy Saturation, he probably needs 20,000 Tera Bytes of hard drive just to store his downloads.(got to find some argument to make me feel better)

author: Steffen
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 07:55:23 pm
content: Home: My Hoster: EWE. Contract: 16/1 for 35€ including phone flat. Real speed see below. Location: D-21635 Jork.Work:"Bottleneck": NIC of client machine.

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 08:37:26 pm
content: I am being short changed, it should be 100 down...

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 09:01:48 pm
content: Down an ordinary telephone line near Maidstone Kent

author: scientist
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 09:10:41 pm
content: 10 down, 5 up. "near" NY.

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 10:14:15 pm
content: this reminds me, i need to tell virgin i want a better deal! I seem to be paying a fortune for the lowest speed package!

author: kolonelkadat
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 10:27:47 pm
content: $20 US, comcastsometimes I get upset when I think about all the third world countries with better internet than me. But then I realize all I do online is email, youtube, and 2 forums anyways.

author: Vgkid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 11:34:16 pm
content: Cable internet, my old internet Verizon was 3/3

author: max666
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 11:39:14 pm
content: Location: Austria (not Australia ... sorry about that)Actual speed:Should speed: 75 Mbit/s down & 7.5 Mbit/s up (unlimited datavolume), so right onProvider: UPCCost: € 25 per month

author: Phaedrus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 11:47:07 pm
content: Work:I have 100/5 at home, I'll post that later.

author: BurtyB
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2014, 12:12:23 am
content: UK (Notts.) - Me aka Goscomb (80/20Mbps) >=£40.80/m + VPN over Virgin Media (20/feels like IP over Avian Carriers).I could possibly get a bit more out of it if I wasn't routing it on an Iteaduino Plus using VLANs on the single 100Mbit nic...

author: BalticLab
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2014, 01:08:39 am
content: The speeds in this threat tick me off so much, that I just asked my provider for the highest speed possibles (105 Down, 25 Up) at my location and also yelled at them for being so inconsistent with the speed. So within 24 hours, so they say, I shall be in a competitive speed tier.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2014, 02:51:36 am
content: Umm, about 50 US/month for... 80 gig cap I think.

author: pipe
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2014, 03:01:57 am
content: Sweden, I think I pay about $40 USD/AUD for this per month. It should be 100/100, and I've been meaning to call them about this, but meh.. I have to test without having torrents seeding and without my Tor relay first.There's no data cap btw.

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2014, 03:44:23 am
content: 100/6 anytime, anywhere, for 19$ a month. This, plus fixed phone line, plus digital TV without hd channels for about 35$.Since I got this plan, they upgraded internet plans and they have a 200/6 for 18.5$ but since i have a 100mbps router, I didn't bother to change the plan.The main competitor offers 500mbps down / 100mbps in providers network / 30 mbps worldwide for $15 a month or 1000 / 100/30 for 18$ a month and you get anything between 300-700 mbps down most of the time but the upload speed is not that consistent, it depends on where you upload and time of day, so for the moment I still like my current provider better, which is rock solid at upload..

author: victor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2014, 05:44:25 am
content: Pretty lame ASDL2+. The slowest speed of the forum so far.?It was supposed to be 5M/500K $50/mo which is bad on its own, real world is even worst.?Hopefully I will be switching to fiber soon.

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2014, 05:55:20 am
content: Clear (now subsumed by Spring) WiMax wireless service.Alas, this is typical for home, but out in the greater metropolitan area, the speed is 2-3x better.Download speed, that is. Upload speed is artificially throttled to 0.5M US$30/monthI'm going to drop Clear and sign up for Frontier FIOS this summer.$35 for "up to 15MB" (no upload speed specified)

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 17, 2014, 04:16:40 pm
content: Optical cable directly to my flat. Costs about $40 and never cut speed even if I upload 400GB in a day.Local serverTo France

author: Alexei.Polkhanov
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2014, 04:36:39 pm
content: Vancouver, Canada, provider is NOVUS, just a 100Base-T plug in a wall in my building. All downtown is pretty much "pre-wired" like that. They have different service levels so they throttle my connection I suppose ($22/mo).

author: Dr. Frank
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2014, 04:51:16 pm
content: Germany, near Frankfurt/Main.The main internet exchange points for Germany are located here.Cable network, 50/2.5 contract, plus 2 separate phone lines, 35€/mo.

author: dannyf
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2014, 04:54:51 pm
content: QuoteWow!I pay $60 + taxes / month.But I live in a 3rd world country so that explains.

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2014, 08:07:53 am
content: http://www.speedtest.net/result/3507814986.png113 Mb/s download. Ping was 10ms, but is usually as low as 6ms. Nothing to brag about... one of my sons (an engineer in Tokyo) gets 220 Mb/s download speed, unlimited downloads for $30 per month.I pay $80 per month, 200GB limit (download limits seems to be an Australian phenomenon), covers phone line rental, unlimited land line calls and other stuff. Worth every cent. I am a happy customer.When you looking to buy a house, check out the internet access capabilities first. I have seen individulas and business move premises and then enquire about access to the information superhighway, only to find they are stuffed.I would hate to go back the old ADSL2+.

author: cyr
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2014, 08:24:48 am
content: My connection is 100/10Mbps but I seem to able able to burst to about 200/20 for a few seconds, which explains the results. The actual line coming out of the wall is gigabit ethernet.About 35 euro per month, with 5 public (but dynamic) IPs and no traffic limits.

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2014, 09:08:26 am
content: ADSL2 12down /2up SE Melbourne AULooking at the different performance / pricing / bundles - you can see what influence geography and market opportunity has on the providers around the world. Hardware costs would be similar, but labour could be cheaper in some places.Unfortunately I don't have access to first choice (fibre) second (cable) - so running on ADSL2 - only about 4km from the exchange...

author: ResR
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2014, 05:26:54 pm
content: DSL oh horror, 5 up, 1 down. Elion, in Kehtna, Estonia. Wireless between the computer and router, old telephone line connecting router to internet. 16€ a month.Edit:

author: jpb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2014, 05:52:34 pm
content: If you think that is bad - here is what I get....Grade F slower than 88% of GB !!!Ran it again and got an even worse result :

author: Dago
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2014, 06:06:07 pm
content: Finland, don't pay anything for it, included in my rent

author: sorin
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2014, 08:32:52 pm
content: 15 Eur/month

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2014, 08:45:52 pm
content: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt$30 a month

author: rolycat
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2014, 11:45:01 pm
content: £20/month, unlimited.

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 18, 2014, 11:50:52 pm
content: Quote from: Stonent on May 18, 2014, 08:45:52 pm=! but $45 a month hereActually 22.87Mb/s download, 2.32 Mb/s upload with a ping of 22ms. For the above price of $45 a month.

author: BalticLab
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2014, 01:09:12 am
content: Quote from: wraper on May 17, 2014, 04:16:40 pmI'm hating on you so much, I can't even put it in words!

author: romantronixlab
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2014, 01:18:13 am
content: Quote from: electronics man on May 13, 2014, 07:45:17 pmTo Make you feel Better at 5mb/512kb USD59.99

author: jim_griff
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2014, 04:36:46 am
content: 74.27 Mbit / 3.58 MbitHere's my speed. It used to be good until something crapped out at the exchange. Now my upload speed is intermittent and extremely sloooow. I had to talk to someone in an Indian call centre about it and they said something along the lines of: "mumble mumble 24 to 48 hours... mumble mumble is that ok?" so I said "yes, that's fine."Attachment is my current speed, albeit very jerky and intermittent on the upload. Did used to get 18.4 Mbit constant upload rateCountry: England (North West)Package: BT Infinity (Package 2 - Unlimited usage)Cost: £26 p/mMisc: FTTC / Dynamic IP / etc.

author: theatrus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2014, 05:01:53 am
content: Docsis 3 - USD 70/monthAt least its dual stack IPv4 / IPv6

author: jpb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2014, 10:00:32 pm
content: A new low this evening (though I suspect that someone else in the house may be on the internet)I've now got down to grade F- with 97% of the country faster than me!

author: hans
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 21, 2014, 09:14:35 am
content: Netherlands, in between the farmfields and one of the least densely populated area's of the country;Obv 90/9, about 55 euro/month including wired telephony and that weird box that sits in the living room broadcasting crap.Weirdly, my provider doesn't offer Internet as a separate package. You also need to get television from them, and ironically telephony is VoIP via the cable modem, and television is just a coax splitter.

author: jim_griff
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 21, 2014, 12:41:27 pm
content: From my previous post where I had problems:Just replaced some network cable going from the modem to the router and got better results.

author: victor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2014, 10:21:34 pm
content: 3rd world hereI pay around 40 USD/mo for 10mbit/1mbit fiber connection------What is bothering me is the international latency.Could someone on the american continent or europe with those blazing fast connections test against this server?

author: ovnr
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 30, 2014, 10:41:56 pm
content: I pay $78/month for a 35/35 Mbps fiber line. I could upgrade it all the way to a unlimited 1/1 Gbps line ($240/month) too, or even a 10/10 Gbps line ($2400/month) but my local ISP office would get a heartattack over having to replace their routers. Plus I would probably melt the entire fiber backbone running into my town (... and also the peering links). I'm happy with what I've got tho; I run a dedicated seedbox in the Netherlands forthoseneeds.

author: _Sin
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2014, 03:24:45 pm
content: An old result, but it's not like my line has gotten any faster.

author: 8086
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2014, 05:10:49 pm
content: Just had my free upgrade to 152Mbps. Turned out better than expected.

author: Kibi
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 31, 2014, 06:52:58 pm
content: The free 152Mb/s upgrade has not come to my part of town yet. I'm still only on the 120Mb/s service, still, it's not too bad.

author: magetoo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2014, 07:23:23 pm
content: I get 10/10 Mbit for around 250 SEK (around USD 35 / GBP 21 / EUR 27). No cap. There are both cheaper and faster plans available. This is in a medium sized town (50k people).No speedtest, sorry, but I've been able to get the full 10 both up and down. Most of the time the server on the other end is the bottleneck.Connectivity comes via the municipal fiber network, which means a fiber box in my apartment, a choice of a handful of ISPs, and a max speed of 100 Mbit (both directions) currently.There's also DSL (again multiple ISPs on a common network), cable, and 3G/4G (with data caps of 5-20 GB). Out in the countryside you're likely going to be limited to DSL and 3G.Pretty common situation in Sweden, I believe. Some places have talked about rolling out gigabit as well, but since that requires upgrading equipment in the network I'm not expecting that any time soon.

author: blackdog
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2014, 07:50:00 pm
content: Hi, no complening here...It's a cable connection, business type, provider UPC and about 55 Euro excl. tax (21%)Kind regarts,blackdog

author: ResR
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2014, 09:47:48 am
content: Quote from: victor on July 30, 2014, 10:21:34 pm

author: ptodorov
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2014, 10:56:23 am
content: Around $4/month in Bulgaria can get you this.

author: TMM
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2014, 11:36:09 am
content: $90/month, 500GB quota.

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2014, 11:41:11 am
content: $90 a month

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 03, 2014, 11:55:17 am
content: Quote from: victor on July 30, 2014, 10:21:34 pmCompletely sucks. I have 400/400 mbit/s connection.For comparison some other servers with better speed in Brazil:

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2014, 12:05:07 pm
content: 22 euros/month (28 USD). Flat rate.Alexander.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 03, 2014, 12:29:20 pm
content: EEVblog lab, $400/month!

author: JoeO
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2014, 01:01:57 pm
content: Upstate New York - USA$37 PER MONTH

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2014, 01:51:21 pm
content: The speedtest.net servers aren't fast enough to show a decent ISP link at work. I can get >900Mbps upload and download any time of the day or night. I pay about US$27 a month.

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2014, 03:37:03 pm
content: Quote from: victor on July 30, 2014, 10:21:34 pmI get 20Mbps to 30Mbps from some of the other Brazilian speedtest.net servers, so something specific about the Araxa server seems to suck.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2014, 04:05:26 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on October 03, 2014, 12:29:20 pmThat upload speed... Kills you!Alexander.

author: victor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2014, 03:28:11 am
content: Quote from: coppice on October 03, 2014, 03:37:03 pmThanks,But the 200ms of ping seems to be the minimum international trip, which really sucks. I get 4ms to 20ms even from a 2000mi server (inside the country borders)But any server up North America the ping quickly escalate to 200ms and above.The exchange or international backbone seems to suck. Because the national infrastructure seems to be pretty good.

author: hans
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2014, 07:57:13 am
content: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2000+miles+at+speed+of+light4ms? Or maybe that server was closer.Well anyway, my experience with servers abroad is that they are far away.. to far for any low-ping applications (like games).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAT-143.2Tbits/s sounds like a lot, but I'm pretty sure with the amount of "back-bone" communication on very certain server parks, it's not that much anymore. Especially consideringAMS-IXdoes 3Tbit/s+ on peak hours.

author: PE1RKI
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2014, 12:57:54 pm
content: upc 71.20 euro a month

author: ishelly404
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2014, 05:26:59 pm
content: This costs $65 a month. The 3G on my phone is faster.

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2014, 06:08:06 pm
content: US$30/month. Wireless WiMAXWorse: My neighborhood is "wired" with fibre and Frontier (current owner of the franchise) is offering "up to 6MB" for only $29.95/month!

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2014, 07:32:43 am
content: Quote from: Richard Crowley on October 04, 2014, 06:08:06 pmI had Clear WiMAX for about 2 years and paid $50 a month. Turns out my apartment had a wired service they didn't tell me about so now I get 10Mbits down for $30.

author: jpb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2015, 09:51:47 pm
content: Quote from: jpb on May 20, 2014, 10:00:32 pmMy village at last has fast broadband - I've signed up for the second grade 37 Mbit service (76 Mbit also available), here is my new reading:gone from being in the bottom 2% of the UK to being in the top 30%.

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 25, 2015, 12:21:58 am
content: Recently upgraded my Internet connection to 500/25 from 100/6. Moved to another apartment a couple of months ago and it was basically cheaper than the old plan, when bundled with tv and phone.About 18-20$ a month for this + tv + phone.

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 25, 2015, 02:40:56 am
content: Finally dumped wireless WiMAX (which was anything but "max")Now on Frontier FIOS....