Just outside city limits in Mississippi. Cable connection.
Most folks around here only have 1 Megabit or less. So when they come over and see my average 5.5 megabits they exclaim how fast my connection is. But when my friend came over from England he was shocked how slow it was. Come to find out he has 50Mb. A few weeks ago our ISP has upgraded to 50Mb. I am to get a new modem in a few days that will upgrade my connection. But it means I will have to pay more too once the upgrade promotion runs out. Friends in Korea have 100Mb pay less than my 6Mb connection. My friend in England pays about the same for his 50Mb. I heard that Japan was running tests on a new 1000Mb system to about to go online, but was set back by the earthquake. I haven't seen any news on it though.
I live in a small village that time forgot in rural northern Germany, we don't have any shops and are miles from anywhere, but we do have the internet. My connection is supposedly via a recently upgraded 20Mbit line and I pay for a 6Mbit service. Generaly it works fairly well with an average speed of a little over 3Mb, you can stream video over it most of the time, but it can be a little temperamental. Depending on the time of day, the day of the week and the weather, it can go down to around 1Mb and on rare occasions I have actually seen over 5Mb, although I may have been drunk at the time. They have good beer here and they know how to drink it.
In Adelaide, South Australia, we have had ADSL 2 for over five years now, and speed has always been around 8Mb/s which has been adequate and reliable for all purposes. Occasionally, "higher order" capacity limits sometimes reduce the speed, as more users simultaneously "hit" the 'net. We are eagerly awaiting the rollout of our new "NBN" which is promising 20MB/s+ (that's MegaBytes, not Megabits "Mb/s") data speeds via optical fibre feeds all the way to the home router. The "higher order" part of this new network should also ensure there's sufficient capacity so that the "slowdowns" mentioned above, are a thing of the past.
I have a 2Mbps/512Kbps (up/down) ADSL (over copper) sometimes hitting 1.96Mb/s in Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. I was part of the work force that started DSL in Brazil when I work for a major local telco, many years ago. My "Local Loop" was one of the first to use the DSL service in my neighborhood and still is working fine for the last (almost) ten years now (about 336 hours of downtime in ten years). Still did not get speed upgrade approved by my local provider (waiting).
I pay about R$ 280 (US$ 160) for one local loop line with the ADSL (2Mbps) and 3 mobile GSM/3G SIMs (for 3 mobile devices), included 500 minutes of talk time per month (sum of the voice devices usage) and up to 200MBytes per month for each mobile device (data plan).
Depending on link IP address, the time of day, the day of the week and the weather conditions, it can go down to around 256Kbps or less. International IP connections also has worsened the last years. About 6 month ago google email attachments would download at 1.5Mbps now usual speed is 512kbps.
I still use (last 10 years) a pentium III 1GHz coppermine (will upgrade soon), ASUS TUV4x motherboard with 3x 512MBytes of DIMM 133, Nvidia GeForce FX5500 duo-head VGA connector, but upgraded my HD to 320GB/PATA/WD/BLUE with two partitions Ubuntu and Windows XP. I have invested in a NAS from Zyxel with 2x 1.5TB WD/SATA/Black for backup storage.
I know of friends that have speeds of 10Mbps with DSL+ and also by cable providers but pay much more.
I'm in Cornwall, South West England with ADSL and for the last two years got everything between 0 and 2.2Megabits but with a typical speed of just under 1 Megabit. My distance from the exchange and a poor quality line was always blamed for the poor quality of my signal.
10 weeks ago the exchange was upgraded to 21CN (21st Century) a British Telecom upgrade which allegedly only improves certain features in the exchange and has little effect on subscriber line performance. WRONG! I have for the last 10 weeks had a rock stable 1.88Megabit connection which has made internet use much better. Just having a reliable (although low) speed connection has made a big difference.
So although looking forward to higher speeds when fibre is rolled out, this improvement has been a positive experience.
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rbrothers
Rural east Texas. Over the years I've had
dial-up 56K,
1-way satellite (sat downlink, dialup uplink),
2-way satellite (very expensive and ~400Kb/s)
Finally got DSL (over copper) sometimes hitting 1Mb/s
At least I can use Skype pretty reliably now:)
Stream HD video.... forget it.
My impression is Europe and Asia are way ahead of the US for broadband...
Bob east of Lone Oak, TX
Ongytenes
Just outside city limits in Mississippi. Cable connection.
Most folks around here only have 1 Megabit or less. So when they come over and see my average 5.5 megabits they exclaim how fast my connection is. But when my friend came over from England he was shocked how slow it was. Come to find out he has 50Mb. A few weeks ago our ISP has upgraded to 50Mb. I am to get a new modem in a few days that will upgrade my connection. But it means I will have to pay more too once the upgrade promotion runs out. Friends in Korea have 100Mb pay less than my 6Mb connection. My friend in England pays about the same for his 50Mb. I heard that Japan was running tests on a new 1000Mb system to about to go online, but was set back by the earthquake. I haven't seen any news on it though.
Fizzloid
I live in a small village that time forgot in rural northern Germany, we don't have any shops and are miles from anywhere, but we do have the internet. My connection is supposedly via a recently upgraded 20Mbit line and I pay for a 6Mbit service. Generaly it works fairly well with an average speed of a little over 3Mb, you can stream video over it most of the time, but it can be a little temperamental. Depending on the time of day, the day of the week and the weather, it can go down to around 1Mb and on rare occasions I have actually seen over 5Mb, although I may have been drunk at the time. They have good beer here and they know how to drink it.
Snakattak
In Adelaide, South Australia, we have had ADSL 2 for over five years now, and speed has always been around 8Mb/s which has been adequate and reliable for all purposes. Occasionally, "higher order" capacity limits sometimes reduce the speed, as more users simultaneously "hit" the 'net.
We are eagerly awaiting the rollout of our new "NBN" which is promising 20MB/s+ (that's MegaBytes, not Megabits "Mb/s") data speeds via optical fibre feeds all the way to the home router. The "higher order" part of this new network should also ensure there's sufficient capacity so that the "slowdowns" mentioned above, are a thing of the past.
rjtcosta
I have a 2Mbps/512Kbps (up/down) ADSL (over copper) sometimes hitting 1.96Mb/s in Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. I was part of the work force that started DSL in Brazil when I work for a major local telco, many years ago. My "Local Loop" was one of the first to use the DSL service in my neighborhood and still is working fine for the last (almost) ten years now (about 336 hours of downtime in ten years). Still did not get speed upgrade approved by my local provider (waiting).
I pay about R$ 280 (US$ 160) for one local loop line with the ADSL (2Mbps) and 3 mobile GSM/3G SIMs (for 3 mobile devices), included 500 minutes of talk time per month (sum of the voice devices usage) and up to 200MBytes per month for each mobile device (data plan).
Depending on link IP address, the time of day, the day of the week and the weather conditions, it can go down to around 256Kbps or less. International IP connections also has worsened the last years. About 6 month ago google email attachments would download at 1.5Mbps now usual speed is 512kbps.
I still use (last 10 years) a pentium III 1GHz coppermine (will upgrade soon), ASUS TUV4x motherboard with 3x 512MBytes of DIMM 133, Nvidia GeForce FX5500 duo-head VGA connector, but upgraded my HD to 320GB/PATA/WD/BLUE with two partitions Ubuntu and Windows XP. I have invested in a NAS from Zyxel with 2x 1.5TB WD/SATA/Black for backup storage.
I know of friends that have speeds of 10Mbps with DSL+ and also by cable providers but pay much more.
Cheers!
rjtcosta
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Boss
I'm in Cornwall, South West England with ADSL and for the last two years got everything between 0 and 2.2Megabits but with a typical speed of just under 1 Megabit. My distance from the exchange and a poor quality line was always blamed for the poor quality of my signal.
10 weeks ago the exchange was upgraded to 21CN (21st Century) a British Telecom upgrade which allegedly only improves certain features in the exchange and has little effect on subscriber line performance. WRONG! I have for the last 10 weeks had a rock stable 1.88Megabit connection which has made internet use much better. Just having a reliable (although low) speed connection has made a big difference.
So although looking forward to higher speeds when fibre is rolled out, this improvement has been a positive experience.
meredith
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ashman
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