How fast is your Internet?

luckyme

luckyme

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Mine is an ancient DSL account with 6 mbps download, and 0.7 mbps upload. :cursing: It takes forever to do anything!

I'm getting upgraded on Monday to 25 mbps download and 10 mbps upload and I am so excited! It will seem blazing fast in comparison!
 
Oh man, I don't know how you've stood it for that long! Waiting for downloads are so ANNOYING! We just moved and I was supposed to have the same internet speed, 50 mbps, as in our old place but there is NO WAY this is the same speed. It's making me absolutely crazy! Even our phones and the iPad are slow. Grrr. I need to make a phone call!
 
Vanessa and Kristin - Ours are similar... I use BackBlaze for my remote back-up and it takes f.o.r.e.v.e.r. because of my slow upload speed. And downloading kits takes some time too. I don't even bother purchasing movies online because the download time would be entirely too painful. Netflix streams reasonably well though -- but only one person can use it in the house at a time.
 
iciclelady said:
Vanessa and Kristin - Ours are similar... I use BackBlaze for my remote back-up and it takes f.o.r.e.v.e.r. because of my slow upload speed. And downloading kits takes some time too. I don't even bother purchasing movies online because the download time would be entirely too painful. Netflix streams reasonably well though -- but only one person can use it in the house at a time.
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We can't get much faster in our area, I wish we could. Maybe one day! :)
 
All I know is that atm my net is on dial up cause we....ummm I have used up our data cap of 40gb but we rollover to a new month on Sat so I'll survive

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I have the fasted available in our area- 5.86 mbps download, and 1 mbps upload... The sad thing? This is way faster than what I had last year!

And yes, my picture uploads take forever... but Netflix works thank goodness.
 
lol, I have no idea?? We allegedly have Comcast/Xfinity's fastest plan ... whatever that means. I'm not super impressed.

... just looked it up, Comcast advertises my download speed as "up to 50 mbps" ... however, when I took the test, I got a value of 4.20 mbps for download and 6.02 mbps for upload --- not quite as fast advertised ;)
 
Just took the speedtest, 31 Mbps download, 2 Mbps up. We have our internet through cable services, and it's SO much faster than our old DSL.
 
Just did the test on mine:
28.86 down and 5.84 up.

Not bad. My computer's running a little slow lately, so it might be a little faster than that if my computer were cooperating.
 
I need to check mine. Australian speeds are appalling and we pay through the nose too! Will test and see. I'm interested to know.
 
Download - 1.27mps
Upload - .32mps

That's pretty crappy...might have to look into something better.
 
Wow, really Heddy? That much extra?? We have the blast internet from Comcast and I only pay $47 per month. I don't know who your provider is, but if you call, and are KIND, I bet you could get that price dropped significantly!

Download is 6.36 mbps and upload is 11.31. This is helpful to know! I think I'll check it periodically for the next few days and see if it's consistent. Then I can decide if I need to be making phone calls!
 
Just retested for fun and got 21 mbps upload, 12 mbps download ... still not the promised 50 mbps, but better than before ;)
 
flergs said:
Download is 10mbps upload is .85mbps. And that is top notch, big price tag per month too :(
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Same here too... and let's not get started on monthly download limits!! My husband (who knows way more about all things IT than me) tells me some parts of the world don't have download limits. Not fair!!
 
jak said:
Same here too... and let's not get started on monthly download limits!! My husband (who knows way more about all things IT than me) tells me some parts of the world don't have download limits. Not fair!!
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I know :( Someone online couldn't believe it when I told them we have limits. Ours is 100gig and I've never come close, but unfortunately to get that lightning fast speed I'm on (haha) we have to pay for a premium plan.
 
Did the test and it's about 5mb download and 1mb upload... much slower than I thought as we're with Google Fiber. Oh well. It's free (the landlord pays for it) so I can't complain.
 
flergs said:
I know :( Someone online couldn't believe it when I told them we have limits. Ours is 100gig and I've never come close, but unfortunately to get that lightning fast speed I'm on (haha) we have to pay for a premium plan.
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I think we have 100GB allowance per month too - 50 peak/50 off peak, and crap speeds (about 5-6 mbps download, less than 1mbps upload). And that is the fastest physically possible in our area until we get the fibre optic cables to our house with the new National Broadband Network - and in my area that is years away!!

I'm not sure whether we pay a premium plan - its all bundled with the phone/fax. The internet component is about $70/mth.
 
flergs said:
I know :( Someone online couldn't believe it when I told them we have limits. Ours is 100gig and I've never come close, but unfortunately to get that lightning fast speed I'm on (haha) we have to pay for a premium plan.
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I'm in Canada. Unlimited Internet is an option, but in many markets (it's a, umm, big country, lol!) it's not available, especially in rural areas. Even the Big Telecoms generally offer capped plans, unless you get super-premium packages or bundle all of your services together (Internet + TV + phone) with one company.
 
We loathe our internet provider - we pay to have the fastest in the area - up to 50mbps, but lucky if we even reach 22mbps up. And every year they jack up the price and hubby does his favorite thing in the world... calls and threaten to drop them and we get the price back down... ;)
 
I tested last night and I was around 8 mpbs down and 1 up. However, at that time I'm pretty sure I had at least one child streaming and I think my Backblaze was updating. I just tested this morning while I'm the only one awake and got 16 down and 7 up. I generally feel like mine is fast enough for me. I've never thought it was slow unless it was during a Backblaze update or security is updating.
 
DL 3.3
UL 0.86

Last year I was with a different company paying £50 a MONTH for supposedly 40mbps internet and never got more than 5, not sure if it's my location but I went with a different company with a cheaper plan and I get around the same now while saving £25 a month!!

Even though my speeds are pretty crappy it doesn't take too long to download things!
 
hmm nice site!
mine is 0.95 dowload and 0.25 upload and I'm with one of the best service here! :p
 
Thank God we live in a Fios area and we get 35 down and 15 up. I don't necessarily require those speeds, but the live gamers in the house insist on it lol.
 
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