I now have faster Interwebs - Page 1
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author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 10, 2013, 11:48:32 pm
content: Just upgraded to Telstra Bigpond Ultimate cable plan, and now have more than double my upload speed!Before:After:Dave.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 10, 2013, 11:52:57 pm
content: For those interested, this is what it's like to a server in San Jose:And San Fran:Dave.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2013, 11:54:52 pm
content: Wow, and the gap between up and down widens even further. I thought we were past stupidly asynchronous connections.

author: Sionyn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 12:07:52 am
content: 6Mb down48K up

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 05:42:19 am
content: 1Megabit down, 512kbits up............... An improvement over earlier the year 384kbit down and 64kbit up.

author: Kibi
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 09:26:32 am
content: Quote from: SeanB on January 11, 2013, 05:42:19 amYou guys really are moving up in the worldThat's a pretty good link for SA. When we had 1Mb down, they only gave up 128Mb up. Zim is improving now with WiMAX. Three cities have got it, but it is mentally expensive. WiMAX suits Zimbabwe because there are no cables to steal.Over here though, even with 120Mb down, we still only get 3Mb up.

author: bullet308
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 10:29:43 am
content: This is to a server a whopping 60 miles away. :-/Listened to a story on National Public Radio yesterday about how the US has allowed its connectivity to the Internet be monopolized by a handful of telecom companies and how the service we get is an overpriced joke. Welcome to the New Gilded Age...

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 10:49:11 am
content: Sigh. Speed via Optus cable in the wilds of Sth Sydney:

author: bullet308
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 10:52:01 am
content: Is it possible that Oz is even more screwed over than the US?

author: justanothercanuck
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 12:21:21 pm
content: Quote from: Monkeh on January 10, 2013, 11:54:52 pmNope. Even in North America, we're stuck with stupidly low upload speeds. They'll say it's because of pirating stuff, but they really don't want us creating our own content.

author: Otatiaro
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 12:43:38 pm
content: Hello,I have 100Mbps symetrical ... but speedtest is using only one thread for testing. I have 100Mbps+ when using multiple threads (e.g. on my FTP server).Need something to be hosted ?That's between me and Sydney :Wow ... 10 000 miles !A few months ago Orange connected me to an experimental project, didn't take a screenshot, but I downloaded Skyrim from Steam at 43.2MB/s (bytes, not bits) ... unfortunately they had to disconnect mebut they will soon offer this bandwidth at a premium, probably too expensive for me.Thomas.PS : and that's the Italian server we use for mshbrain.com, look at the ping

author: flolic
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 01:25:49 pm
content: At work

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 01:29:59 pm
content: Quote from: bullet308 on January 11, 2013, 10:52:01 amNever! And soon we'll have a government designed, built and operated 'national broadband network' to bring us all the benefits of total government monopoly control. Would you like an Aussie Great Firewall to go with that fiber?(I probably exaggerate the bit about 'government designed & operated'. I have no idea how it's being structured, as I've been deliberately looking away. There's enough horror in the news already. We can trust the government to serve their own best interests. And that sure doesn't include an uncensored public internet.)

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 01:50:27 pm
content: If you start to complain about poor server performance when downloading, then you got a fast internet connection ;-)PS: Around 13 years ago I had about 60-80Gbit/s symmetrically. Even my PC was too slow to handle that :-)

author: Lightages
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 05:18:27 pm
content: Here in the middle of nowhere in the Atacama Desert in Chile:I believe this is costing my friend around $800 per month.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2013, 05:30:18 pm
content: Free University internet provided in dorms.Limited to 5Mbit/s continuous, but lets you burst to 20Mbit/s for 5 seconds or so.Reasonably even speeds, fast ping, costs me only £3,900 a year.

author: mianchen
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 01:49:41 pm
content: mine is '100Mbps' Virgin Media...... never seen it reach 95M+

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 01:59:56 pm
content: why are most of the images missing in this thread ?I started life on the internet on a 50Kbps over a GPRS phone and later upgraded to a 384Kbps connection that only worked "fast" at night.Back in the UK any speed is good for me.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 02:12:48 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on January 12, 2013, 01:59:56 pmThey're not.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 03:07:28 pm
content: hm, I have them too now looks like the connection at my dad's is well crooked.

author: ftransform
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 03:09:26 pm
content: british slang never ceases to amuse me.

author: jamesp15
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 05:37:28 pm
content: From just outside Washington DC (cable internet)To just up the road a bit:To Sydney Australia:IMO not bad for ~$50 a month after taxes and all.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 06:13:31 pm
content: This is the best I have ever seen on my connection, I am just on 3 miles from the exchange on copper wire that was put up in the late 1930's.http://www.speedtest.net/result/2431760913.png

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2013, 10:51:14 pm
content: Here is what I get in deepest Kent (UK)

author: richms
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 10:10:48 am
content: I'm at the limit for VDSL, this is what I get -Mainly want it for the upload, I get unmetered between 1 and 7am so do most of my FTPing and rsyncing at those times.

author: TheWelly888
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 12:36:16 pm
content: Mine's a piss-poor ADSL!http://www.speedtest.net/result/2433186372.pngSlowerthan 59% of the UK!!!!

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 02:55:47 pm
content: the isp is DIGI dunno why it says tvnetwork in usd approx 20-30bucks optic fibre (gpon)to sydney selected telstrato oxford just picked a dot on the map

author: AndyC_772
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 03:35:15 pm
content: I thought I was only paying for 30Mbps, so I'm rather pleased with this result:I knew we were due an upgrade, looks like it's happened sooner than I expected

author: metalphreak
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 04:01:21 pm
content: I managed to hit 50mbps down and 10mbps up on my freaking phone on LTE. Yet I'm still stuck on 10/1mbps ADSL2+ at homeToo bad mobile data is so expensive haha (and mobile speeds drop dramatically when everyone starts to use ).

author: grumpydoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 04:29:29 pm
content: 37Mbps down & 8Mbps up here on an FTTC line - just long (or short) enough to get 40Mbps but almost certainly not worth paying the extra for the 80/20 service. The modem was reporting something like 46/12 possible. Perhaps I'll wait until BT implement vectoring on FTTC (probably 2014 or 2015) and then look at whether it's worth paying for the upgrade.

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 04:38:33 pm
content: Well, I can't complain... 100/6 anywhere on cable.Actually only complain is 6 mbps is not enough but it's the most this ISP is willing to give atm.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 04:39:32 pm
content: I'd rather have my 40/10 than 100/6 any day. Coming up from 20/1, it's quite an improvement!

author: JoannaK
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 05:00:00 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on January 12, 2013, 01:59:56 pmWell.. Admitting to be old fart .. but starting with 300bps and 1200/75 bps depending of the servive called..

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 05:05:31 pm
content: I think I still have one of those 1200/75 modems around still somewhere............ Needs a phone to dial the number and manual connection.

author: RJSC
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 05:45:45 pm
content: Well, I just hate asymmetrical connections.I have a small home server 6Mbps Down 512 kbps up...The upstream band is useless if I want to get anything out of my home server while outside.Its a 2.4 km ADSL2+ line, the SNR on the downstream is the bare minimum to keep it running at night, but I've got an SNR of 25 dB on the upstream and the ISP refuses to provide me something like 6Mbps down 1Mbps or 2 Mbps up.That I cannot understand...

author: Chalky
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2013, 06:21:27 pm
content: Quote from: RJSC on January 13, 2013, 05:45:45 pmSome of the 'business grade' offerings from Telcos are at least symmetric, over copper, might be worth checking out, but probably much more expensive than home ADSL.

author: m0jo
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 04:24:26 am
content: I think I can't complain anymore:

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 06:46:08 am
content: Quote from: m0jo on January 14, 2013, 04:24:26 amwow, if only, not sure what I'd do with it though

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 12:37:44 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on January 14, 2013, 06:46:08 amI'd be on cloud 9 for a week, and then start complaining it's too slow!Content expands to suck the available bandwidth.Dave.

author: justanothercanuck
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 01:10:38 pm
content: Quote from: m0jo on January 14, 2013, 04:24:26 amHow did you get such high upload speeds on bell?

author: nack
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 02:06:42 pm
content: Hmmmm think I can't complain at all over here in The Netherlands on wifi that is...

author: lapm
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 02:56:39 pm
content: I live in Finland and heres my connection specs:8 Mbs down, 1 Mbs upAnd thats only becouse i live in old house complex with old wireing... would otherwise get 24/2 here... Well maybe when they finally manage to pull fiber in this neibourhood i can upgrade it...

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 03:52:17 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on January 14, 2013, 12:37:44 pmYou might be surprised. I can get around 63/17 if I pay more, but... 40/10 is more than quick enough, really. Worlds better than 20/1!

author: grumpydoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 04:19:10 pm
content: QuoteThere was a time when I'd have killed - OK, maybe notquitethat far- for 20/1My phone line is about 5km long, the "natural" sync was typically 1.5Mbps down and 400kbps up - however the one "good" thing about the line is that it is largely underground so there wasn't much diurnal variation in the noise figure. Thus, with very careful tweaking of the target SNRM, I was able to get about 3Mbps down.Prior to that I had ISDN because the fastest a modem would go was about 20kbps. I suspect the line was marginal for ISDN even and some "hand picking" of pairs was involved.Mind you I counted myself lucky to get that much out of ADSL - there are still plenty of people in the UK who have local loops much longer than mine.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 04:23:11 pm
content: Quote from: grumpydoc on January 14, 2013, 04:19:10 pmOh, believe me, I nearly went on a killing spree at BT for it. They delayed the upgrade for four years.QuoteI'm well aware, most of them live within 20 minutes of me.Many of my friends are still struggling to get a reliable connection at all, let alone a fast one.

author: Galenbo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 05:37:57 pm
content: Belgium: 50eur/month for this:

author: m0jo
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 07:54:19 pm
content: Quote from: justanothercanuck on January 14, 2013, 01:10:38 pmIt's with their Fibe service(FTTH). The other speed available is 175/175 mbits.

author: justanothercanuck
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2013, 10:36:46 pm
content: Quote from: m0jo on January 14, 2013, 07:54:19 pmMost I've seen them offer is 25/7. Oh wait, it looks like it's 25/10 now. If they really do offer 50/50 on a mass scale, they're probably the first in Canada.

author: lewis
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2013, 12:07:59 am
content: Naaaaaaarrfuk:

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2013, 12:23:36 am
content: Quote from: lewis on January 15, 2013, 12:07:59 amNot to mention TalkCrap.My phone goes faster.

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 15, 2013, 12:48:36 am
content: 2 years ago in Sydney, I had the same cable speeds as Dave posted.Since my move tosouthern Tasmania, I have ADSL which can reach 8Mbps on a good day.I do a lot less computer stuff than I used to so don't really miss the speed, except when downloading a new release of Linux.

author: lewis
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2013, 01:11:50 pm
content: Quote from: Monkeh on January 15, 2013, 12:23:36 amYou'll like this then - this is what I get in the workshop. Proper ruuuuuural buh!

author: Chalky
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2013, 08:13:59 am
content: My results are not notable. Using Orcon ISP in New Zealand. NZ$75/month. Is naked DSL, but with a VOIP phone service that has free national landline calls.

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2013, 06:23:16 am
content: Quote from: CamKrist on January 16, 2013, 09:20:17 amI'm not going to lie; I literally have no idea what you mean.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 02, 2013, 10:19:38 pm
content: horrible internet in adelaide

author: carloscuev
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 03, 2013, 10:26:20 am
content: This is what I get from Telmex in Mexico City for about 30 USD

author: mianchen
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 06, 2013, 01:56:55 am
content: Quote from: mianchen on January 12, 2013, 01:49:41 pmThis is what I'm getting in my parents house in China for 80 RMB (~8 GBP/12USD)/month atm. Half of the internet outside of China is 'harmonised (blocked)' by the authority. I have to use the VPN I set up back in the UK to gain access to FB and Youtube etc.From what I've heard - they apparently have already got the infrastructure to provide much faster (ie. >100Mbps) through cables (most homes have cable TVs these days), but they don't do it so they can make more money??Anyway the fastest broadband one can get in non-major cities is 8Mbps :< which doesn't make much sense

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 06, 2013, 01:04:23 pm
content: Quote from: mianchen on February 06, 2013, 01:56:55 amSomeone told me that they started to block VPNs also :-(

author: (In)Sanity
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 06, 2013, 01:35:49 pm
content: From the network I manage:and from my home network:I've had to resort to blocking certain YouTube servers at home in order to get it to fall over to backups which are much faster. It appears that I share servers with too many other people. My downloads are always fast, but YouTube is dog slow if I allow them to use the servers they want me to.Jeff