Just moved to Verizon FIOS internet 15/2 = $43.99

Mine @ €29 (~ $40) per month...

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.:morpheus:.

I get landline broadband at 8Mb (6.44Mb real) down, 288Kb up for £5.99 (circa $12.00) per month with Orange (a mobile aka cell phone and service provider in the UK) with very reasonable (free call) customer/technical service/support (not that I have to contact them very often - more than 18 months since last issue...)

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I can't remember what speed I am paying for (2M/256k?), but it is Business Class Road Runner for $85/month. Guaranteed 1 hour service calls. Nice for my business. I'll check my home RR also.

And from home for $40/month

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Clk2HlpSetiCty:::PayIt4ward

AUS$59.95/month , Telstra Bigpond Cable (Standard, shaped after 12GB)

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

AUS$59.95/month , Telstra Bigpond Cable (Standard, shaped after 12GB)

KPN Netherlands, 3Mbit Down & 512Kbit Up, since i live only 100m from the ditribution-point, it's the actual speed too, sometimes above that.
Even when i use my digital TV, there's no noticeble decrease in speed.
Cost 30 Euro per month. TV NOT included( 20 Euro/month)

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Hmmm, just a bit disappointed here. Must be kinda busy on the network at the moment...

Mine here, from the little burg of Menasha, Wisconsin....
Not too bad I think.....

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Mine here, from the little burg of Menasha, Wisconsin....
Not too bad I think.....

No, Not too bad, But I think Mumps has US all beat.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

What is your guy's advertised internet speed vs your actual one and how much are you paying for it?

I get 6 mbit down at home for $30 a month and something like 500 kbit up. This is road runner cable...

We get hosed pretty good around here. COmcast is about $55 a month plus you have to have basic cable that runs another $12- $15 a month.
When I've managed to get on someone's network I get almost 4mbps down then it throttles back to just a little better than my own ISP . . . the up side is about 356kbps up . . . If that is typical I'm glad I don't pay for that service.



I got Qwest and they currently give me 1.5 down and 856 up for just about $30 a month.



I'm too far out to get anything faster and I don't really want to pay $70 a month for BB/basic cable.

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I have Comcast cable in Albuquerque, NM, USA. I pay $58.31/month for Internet plus basic cable TV because they price that lower than internet alone (!@#$). As I am about 30,000 wire feet from my telephone switch, DSL has not be an option until recently. Apparently Qwest has deployed a neighborhood terminal or some such part way up the hill, as they now offer "Platinum" DSL to my address.

The measurement I get from Speedtest seems to depend a good deal on which server I choose.

__Server___ Down_ _Up Png Distance
Los Angeles 12594 2536  43   700
_____El Paso 6224  786  83   250
_Colorado Sp 3048  984  52   250
__Fort Worth 3451 1388  80   500
_Portland Or 6669 1662  67  1100
___San Fran 13918 2154 102   900
___San Jose 12923 2372  51   850
____New York 3688 1088 109  1800

And a repeat test to LA, for a glance at repeatability

Los Angeles 14855 2518  44   700

I would very much like to see postings on this thread from U.S. customers of Qwest with either their "Silver" or "Platinum" service. I'm thinking of changing from Comcast to them.

As to throttling, I don't do BitTorrent, but I am an Netflix customer. About the time Netflix raised the monthly connection limit, The live connection service became useless to me. In what looked like throttling, a connection initially deemed high quality dropped from 500+ kbyte/sec to about 100 kbyte/sec during the first minute, at which point the Netflix software would throw up its hands and forecast that over an hour would be required to resume viewing.

Just this week, I tried again, and have seen download rates during Netflix movie streaming (before the buffer filled, of 500 to 800 kbytes/second over multi-hour periods. (after the buffer has enough lookahead, the traffic becomes bursty).

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Hmmm, just a bit disappointed here. Must be kinda busy on the network at the moment...

I can't touch that upload speed, but I can get a little closer to that download speed:

No, Not too bad, But I think Mumps has US all beat.

Nearly...



(Well, honestly, not my own paid home service, it belongs to a rented university flat. Probably hanging pretty direct on a uni backbone, limited by 100 Mbit interface.)

Peter

Should be 32.000 and 2.500, for 50 € per month...

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Above a certain point, it doesn't matter a lot......
Most website servers can't dish it out to meet your bandwidth anyway.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

No, Not too bad, But I think Mumps has US all beat.

Nearly...



(Well, honestly, not my own paid home service, it belongs to a rented university flat. Probably hanging pretty direct on a uni backbone, limited by 100 Mbit interface.)

Peter

Cheater! :-)

Mine is okay, but a little pricey.

$68/Month for the phone line and DSL.

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Mine is okay, but a little pricey.

$68/Month for the phone line and DSL.

Phone service here costs Me a bit too, But then all My calls are long distance, except those to nearby Barstow CA as that's the only nearby city out here, Baker CA is 75 miles from Me, Las Vegas NV is about 150 miles, Victorville is 45 miles and Barstow is a mere 12 miles, So It isn't cheap, Although everything else is by comparison, except for gasoline(petrol to those outside the US), But the V8 doesn't use much gas as My commute is mostly on foot from the bedroom to the kitchen, and except for once a month to Barstow for food, to wash the car(the water here is really loaded with calcium carbonate and as such is super hard) or My drives twice a week to get the mail at the local Post Office as mail is not delivered to anywhere in Yermo as the local Post Office which is staffed by two people only(the Post Office says no way to delivery as the areas weather is too extreme in the summer and too spread out too, Yermo is about 4,200 people).

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Cheater! :-)

LOL! (Made in Photoshop)

No, just if I could keep it in the future...

Peter

This is what I get at the University Dorms:









This is taken within 5 minutes of each other from different servers...

Oh yhea, I am currently @ UCLA...

I just wish that at home I would get these speeds...