http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/blog/blog.aspx?id=1088

I dont know about you guys, but I find this pretty shocking. Im paying around $30 a month for a 5mbit connection, of which I only recieve about 4.

According to the article in both japan and korea pay under $1 for each Megabit. Assuming they pay around $.80 that means for $80 they get a 100mbit connection..

$80 here in Canada gets you about a 25mbit connection (at least where I live) and you would almost never see the full 25mbits.

So I ask you teamliquid, how fast is your internet?

Poll: How Fast is your Internet?
(Vote): <1 Mbits
(Vote): 2Mbits
(Vote): 3Mbits
(Vote): 4Mbits
(Vote): 5Mbits
(Vote): 6-10Mbits
(Vote): 10-15Mbits
(Vote): 30-60Mbits
(Vote): 60-100Mbits
(Vote): HIGHER?! (pics or it didnt happen)

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If you don't know how to test your connection go to Speakeasy.net and pick the server closest to you. You will get a speed in kilobytes per second, just divide it by 1000 to get your Mbit rating.

Edit :I wasn't thinking, for those of you outside of North America DSLReports has a great list of servers to test off of.

WHAT?!?!

your complaining because your only receiving 4mbit when your paying for 5?!?!?! im paying for 20mbit and im barely receiving 1.1mbit download.

and im with virgin. who are supposed to be competent. go figure.

oh and one more thing. im more than likely an idiot who understands nothing about downloading to a computer, but it does not matter how many different applications i have open or how many torrents i have running, the total amount never surpasses 1.1mbit download and is usually at 300kbits even when speedtest.net usually gives me a result between 1mbt down and 20mbit down.

Dispersion

Korea (South)504 Posts

July 17 2012 20:49 GMT

#663

Emporium

England162 Posts

July 17 2012 21:01 GMT

#664

On July 09 2012 09:18 CptCutter wrote:

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dear that was back in 2007, say oh 5 years ago.

also, that might be becuase you have unlimited amount of downloads, via your isp, but it could well be capped at the speed, because the uk is so behind if everyone tried to have 8mb dl then it would just die.

Hyperionnn

Turkey4968 Posts

July 17 2012 21:09 GMT

#665

I'm just above average I guess although upload is a little bit lacking (which i dont care much)

mierin

United States4943 Posts

July 17 2012 21:55 GMT

#666

I have time warner, I supposedly got the 20 mb/s package but end up peaking out at around 1.8MB/s downloading. Still hard to complain though, I almost never need anything faster (and thanks to utorrent I can stream TV shows while I'm downloading, someone deserves a medal for inventing that!)

Delay559

France89 Posts

July 17 2012 22:04 GMT

#667

China's internet is pretty bad... even in Beijing and on top of that the internet is censored TT, you have no idea how i envy you people with even 1MB/s uncensored internet ^_^

NeonFlare

Finland1307 Posts

July 17 2012 23:01 GMT

#668

Got 8 down 1 up mbs here, been very sufficient. Though when I had to redownload steam games etc. to my new HDD (old died and couldn't salvage all) it took some time. Remembering the old days of 56kb modems and shit... modern connections are just great.

Disposition1989

Canada270 Posts

July 17 2012 23:19 GMT

#669

On June 09 2012 04:58 hayata2.0 wrote:
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university internet, awesome as always (when its up).

EDIT: got back home
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Not too bad. Lacking in the upload department though - not liking the prospects of trying to stream.

im at 1.86 upload (rogers) and can stream fine. it doesnt say what the quality is but it looks like 720p ish.

Gladiator MG

United States178 Posts

July 17 2012 23:20 GMT

#670

Updated, did a new test today.

Mondieu

Romania803 Posts

July 17 2012 23:48 GMT

#671

Ping 44 . DL 8; UP 2.2mb. On a 80 euros mobile broadband connection in Norway.

Getting a land connection would cost me 200-300 euros just for the instalation T.T

Jojo131

Brazil1631 Posts

July 17 2012 23:55 GMT

#672

This is at 7:52am, when my internet isn't disconnecting every 15mins~ D;
Dont suppose anyone near the area has recommendations on how to get better results/ISP etc (or really just any general advice from anyone, I'm dying here!)

blug

Australia623 Posts

July 18 2012 07:18 GMT

#673

I like it how people are complaining about how expensive their internet connections are relative to other countries.

Did you ever notice that the Countries with faster/cheaper internet are smaller in size? I mean physical size, not population.

m00nchile

Slovenia240 Posts

July 18 2012 07:47 GMT

#674

On July 18 2012 06:55 mierin wrote:
I have time warner, I supposedly got the 20 mb/s package but end up peaking out at around 1.8MB/s downloading. Still hard to complain though, I almost never need anything faster (and thanks to utorrent I can stream TV shows while I'm downloading, someone deserves a medal for inventing that!)

I notice many people don't know the difference between Mbps (megabits per second) and MBps (megabytes per second). All ISPs advertise their internet connection speed in megabits (8 bits = 1 byte), so you have to divide your connection speed by 8 to get the rate in Megabytes per second. Your connection works almost optimally, theoreticaly it should peak at about 2.5MB/s, so you're pretty close.

procrastibation

81 Posts

July 18 2012 07:49 GMT

#675

-_-Quails

Australia796 Posts

July 18 2012 07:51 GMT

#676

On July 18 2012 16:18 blug wrote:
I like it how people are complaining about how expensive their internet connections are relative to other countries.

Did you ever notice that the Countries with faster/cheaper internet are smaller in size? I mean physical size, not population.

I pay $2/week for uncapped speed and unlimited data. I get speeds of up to 450/250Mbps on anything Australia based - though the speed does drop once I start downloading transpacific.

Infrastructure and pricing in major cities should not be seriously affected by overall population density or size for the country. It should be linked only to development level of the country and efficiency of the government in infrastructure development and maintenance.