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[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

It's this.

 

 

(Actually the upload should be at ~300 as well, not sure why not yet.

 

And that's for ?32 a month, in that price is also 70 TV channels and a landline (which I dont use)

 

Not too shabby for that price huh?

[Draconian Guppy]

can I come live with you?

[Stoffel]

That's pretty much the only thing I dislike about the country I live in :)

I pay $75 for 1Mb/s and 30 non-HD channels

[compl3x]

I hate the OP.  :rofl:  The internet in Aus is a bit of a joke (and all of the ignorant politics surrounding it). I've been having issues with my adsl connection lately. I'm getting about a third of what I should be.

 

You're in Estonia, OP?

[astropheed Veteran]

I hate the OP.  :rofl:  The internet in Aus is a bit of a joke (and all of the ignorant politics surrounding it). I've been having issues with my adsl connection lately. I'm getting about a third of what I should be.

 

You're in Estonia, OP?

 

I get about 8 mbps in the Mountains just outside Sydney.

[Bi4me]

32?? That's a bit expensive. I pay about 7? for this:

 

 

Which is practically pretty ok for my slow HDD. Slowest option is best option, there is never enough seed to download with such high speeds anyway. As for the rest - I don't really need it this fast, 5Mb/s totally gets the work done.

[Polonium]

Nice speeds!

 

I moved from the UK where I was getting around 40MB with Sky but could have got 150MB with Virgin and came to Ireland where ,..

 

 

Where I get this :)

 

Costs me about 20e a month but I have a TV and telephone package as well that bumps the price up to around 70e

[Stokkolm]

32?? That's a bit expensive. I pay about 7? for this:

 

 

Which is practically pretty ok for my slow HDD. Slowest option is best option, there is never enough seed to download with such high speeds anyway. As for the rest - I don't really need it this fast, 5Mb/s totally gets the work done.

Depends on how many people are in your home using it concurrently. For me there's usually Netflix on the TV, YouTube on someone's device, a lot of random web traffic, and if I want to play a multiplayer game I wouldn't be able to with the cheapest connection here... that's 12/1 for $50/month with a 100GB monthly cap! As it is I pay $180/month for 250/10 with a 500GB cap.

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I only get 330KB/s max at my place (which is in a metro area), thanks to 50+ year old copper cabling and being over 2km away from the nearest exchange (attenuation levels must be pretty high).

 

Fiber is a must, no matter what party is in charge of the country!

 

It's improved slightly over time though - I can now play 480p YouTube video without having to wait for buffering (perhaps video compression has improved on YouTube's side), and upload files faster (been using the same hardware for the last 2-3 years).

[[xan]]

Well :) :

 

 

~25$/month (for internet & 100 digital channels - 24 of them are HD)

[MikeChipshop Member]

 

Boooo. But bear in mind that i moved 20 minutes down the road, six months ago and this speed is 6x what i was getting!

[T3X4S]

There are obvious reasons why USA is lacking in fast internet speeds. 

1.)  We didn't get the crap bombed out of us in any war forcing us to redo our infrastructure.
2.)  There are some pretty rural areas
3.)  GREED.  Telecom companies like Comcast, ATT, Time Warner pay money to Washington to keep the gov't from forcing all fiber since this would cost them money & they would much rather force customers to pay for old stuff already in the ground.
   ATT is the worst about this, their UVerse (which they claim is fiber and its not) is still using old phone lines.

However, Google and Verizon have really helped the broadband landscape.  By showing the American public that fiber networks are not as cost prohibitive as the other telecoms want everyone to think, they are offering speeds that are very respectable (Gigabit Ethernet) - subsequently, even ATT has begun to offer their Gigapower Gigabit internet

However, Google's Gigabit is the most reasonable in terms of cost @ $70/mo
Verizon offers 500/500 Fios @ $300/mo
ATT has not released their pricing for GigaPower yet (I dont think they have at least)

On topic - I love my country -- wouldnt want to live anywhere else.... well maybe a tropical island ;)

[Polonium]

There are some pretty rural areas here in Ireland - 90% of the country is bog land and fields, plus the total population of the entire nation will be less than one of the smaller states in the US. 

 

The US, seeing as you are a super power, needs to pull it's finger out and sort it :D

[Roger H. Veteran]

Man, i'm just jelly right now with some of you. I moved to Europe (Germany) and was looking forward to the sweet speeds and cheap pricing and so far my location don't have it. I will be moving though so i'll be back to having first world problems soon :p

 

100Mbps can't come soon enough!!

[Skiver Veteran]

NOWHERE near that but I'm stll pretty happy with the down;

 

[+virtorio MVC]

I like to think of mine as more retro than slow:

 

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

Oh wow, didnt notice there were so many replies already.

 

Well, when my ISP finally sorted out some things this is what it looks like now

 

 

And since they didnt notice it themselves I get 1 month discount to 25? kek.

[compl3x]

I get about 8 mbps in the Mountains just outside Sydney.

 

 

I'm in the S.E. suburbs of Melbourne and I was getting about 8mbps, now it's hovering ~3.. and 3 is high. I am thinking about just getting cable and saying goodbye to adsl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

wtf!? Go away, uMadRabbit, you're depressing everyone in this thread with your ######in' fast internet.  :laugh:

[GotBored]

I'm in the S.E. suburbs of Melbourne and I was getting about 8mbps, now it's hovering ~3.. and 3 is high. I am thinking about just getting cable and saying goodbye to adsl.

wtf!? Go away, uMadRabbit, you're depressing everyone in this thread with your ######in' fast internet. :laugh:

I'm in the N-E suburbs and I typically get 70-80mbps downloads on speedtest on optus cable. upload is probably around 10mbps though. This is on the 100mbps 500gb plan @ $110/month (includes unlimited phone plan and some digital tv channels I think)

Fiber is connected up in my area, but they lock the speed at 100mbps which is what I already have anyway and it's more expensive for the data allowances so no point in changing for me.

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

I'm in the N-E suburbs and I typically get 70-80mbps downloads on speedtest on optus cable. upload is probably around 10mbps though. This is on the 100mbps 500gb plan @ $110/month (includes unlimited phone plan and some digital tv channels I think)

Fiber is connected up in my area, but they lock the speed at 100mbps which is what I already have anyway and it's more expensive for the data allowances so no point in changing for me.

 

I never got the idea on caps..what do they win with it? Nothing, they already overcharge you as it is.

[x-scratch]

waiting on my upgrade to 150mb/150mb

 

[Tjarboe]

You pay for "up to" that speed.

Yes.  They guarantee 18-25 Mb/s.  This test was on a GOOD day.  Average has been around 8 Mb/s.  I was getting 25.5 Mb/s Down and 3 Mb/s up for a long time.  Then they did some 'upgrades to fix issues' and since then it hasn't worked right.  

[Anibal P]

[Brian M. Veteran]

best two speed test websites websites i have found

 

1. SpeedOf.Me is an HTML5 Internet speed test. No Flash or Java needed! It is the smartest and most accurate online bandwidth test.

 

2. http://testmy.net Simple, to make sure you're getting what you pay for. This speed test is useful if you feel a connection slow down or want to see how your Internet is performing. This isn't like any other broadband speed test. TestMy's proprietary method is proven to help identify issues other speed tests fail to detect. The TMN Speed Test shows your true speed.

Both of those are highly inaccurate for me. I get speeds of 8.1Mbps and 57Mbps respectively, on my 150Mbps connection.

[xendrome]

Both of those are highly inaccurate for me. I get speeds of 8.1Mbps and 57Mbps respectively, on my 150Mbps connection.

 

Yeah both of those tests suck in reality.