XXHighEnd

We've finally got 100Mb in the UK!

I'd be interested in knowing how other countries fare...

Mani.

EDIT: Just changed the image to be inline with others on this thread.

We have more than that (120Mb)...but I am not connected (25Mb is quick enough for me). Soon we will have glass fibre here in the street to choose from too...

Bert

hey Mani, congratulations on your blistering speed. It's something the average aussie can only dream about currently!

As one of the wealthiest nations, it's embarassing how woefully inept our internet intrastructure is here. Successive governments have done stuff all to grow our communications needs, and what there is in place, is rather expensive compared to most other developed countries.

Our current government is in the early stages of rolling out fibre-optic to 95% of the population, so in time (5 years or so) we will compare with the rest of the world, but it is a AU$43 Billion project, and as with any of these massive projects, that figure will blowout no doubt.

More details at .... http://www.nbn.gov.au/ for those interested.

I'm fortunate in that my house is only 400metres from the local telephone exchange, so my ADSL2+ connection is normally at ~ 21mbps/1mbps. Outer suburban areas often only have ADSL connectivity, and at best get 8mbps. Rural areas are less fortunate, with dialup plans being the only affordable and viable option available in most cases.

The size of our country is obviously a factor when communications needs here are discussed. It riles me that our bickering beaurocrats have left it so long to bridge the gap to the rest of the world, but at least there is now some progress is sight, albeit a very expensive solution.

Cheers,

Russ

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1449283344.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

I live at the nearest suburb of Moscow.

I have the hunch you guys have that speed for quite some time now (like maybe two years). That is, looking at ...
Well, you know. :)

Well they promised 20 and this is what we get:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1451674667.png)

Luckely I get what I pay for...

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1451692736.png)

Bert

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1452400614.png)

You get what you pay for (not).

-Chris

At least you are faster than 55% of the US ...

... Although I don't understand this figure if I look at the two previous dutch ones.

ya ... here in the land of the chained; home of the scared we get
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1452459144.png)
costing me about 45 US/month ... i need to get another provider (supposed to get twice that speed down/up)... but comon

Ah, I now see ... one says faster, but the other says slower.

Hey Dave, remember, we are getting older ! how to keep up with that speed if it's not tempered a little for us.

I received only day before yesterday a commercial brochure about signing up for glass fiber. Yeah, wel, if *that* is going to happen here ...
But I always have 8Mb down and 1Mb up. The down is ok, but the up is quite inconvenient at times.

Peter

Big numbers guys,

I was getting 0.9mb down and 0.2mb up (the decimals are in the correct place). I put it down to living in a rural area in the UK. I raised a fault after putting up with it for way too long. It turned out that the local  exchange equipment thought that my turning off the ADSL router each night (trying to do my bit for the environment) was a line fault and had lowered the speed on the line !

With everything set back to normal by an engineer and a router that is never turned off I get 7mb and 0.4mb now which feels fast but it is a 20mb service.....

Nick.

Old topic, I know, but I thought I'd share the (slow) progress we're making here in the UK with improving internet speeds. My download speed has improved quite a bit, but my upload speed remains pretty much the same as 3 years ago.

Mani.

Lucky One :yes:

Joachim

Ahum... That looks PAINFUL!

If it's any consolation, I do pay 35 EUR per month just for my internet connection. I guess this is considerably more than most people pay (in Europe, at least).

Mani.

35/35 at 60€ month
1000/1000 maximum, at 180€ month.
Norway

Almost 5 years to double my download speed. Zero improvement on upload speed. Progress of a sort...

Will be trying XX2.03 later today and am especially keen to give Tidal a go. Although I'm aware that the internet speed will have no affect once the music starts playing (it will be 'pre-downloaded'), I'm assuming a faster download speed will reduce the time it takes from making a selection in Tidal to when the music actually starts in XX.

Mani.

I am in the middle of nowhere and coincidentally (or not) only last week I arranged for a small upgrade.
I was on 8Mb down and 384K up. Within a week from now it should be 44Mb down and 5Mb up. :yes:
But when I'm nice to the service guy it can be made 88Mb down and 5Mb up.

What's also important, is that in my main office - where currently a sheer 1Mb down and 1Mb up is in order, this will be 100Mb down and 100Mb up in a couple of weeks of time. Especially this latter was a big surprise to me because I got the idea that some strategy just did not allow high up speeds.

Now you'll understand my message about "in a couple of weeks of time people can download new Operating Systems (for 'the disk')". Currently this would be impossible.

Btw, I am curious myself how the Tidal speed will work out;
Already now (with my 8Mb down) it is very clear how the one album downloads way more slow than the other. As if they're not in the same location.

Regards,
Peter

Hi Peter,

Are you talking megabits or Megabytes ?

I recently got 15 (download) and 15 (upload) mbits (with optic fiber up to inside the house), but to tell the truth, the difference with before shows only whn downloading a big file. For the rest, it looks the same as when I had 5mbits download...

Regards,

Alain

Alain - Mbits (small b).


Of course I can't tell about Canada or your specific area, but in general I could say that you must be careful not to be hoaxed. Two examples :

I don't think it still exists, but 10 years ago or so we had fast satellite (Internet) connections. I never obtained such a connection because of the super high latency. For example thinking RDC, it would not be possible to type (the host echoing the characters you see from your typing).

Today we have G4 for mobile phones (maybe even G5 ?). It is faster than my (still) current connection. PeterSt thought to apply some tricks with downloading etc. because he got an almost flat rate (many GB) subscription and would be way faster when the phone would be tithering the downloading PC's.
Does not work AT ALL (or at least not with a torrent).

Both examples can be seen by the Ping speed (also see Mani's picture). This is virtually the same as the latency I talked about. Or better : round trip latency. So if you'd need many connections per second (like a torrent works or how my speed of typing works (haha) then you don't observe speed at all. Otoh when you download large chunks of data (say like with the Tidal connection) then you have the base download speed (which is that other number in Mani's picture).

Concluded (sort of) : The speed like in "G4" doesn't tell much or at least not all. Some times the ping speed is more important (like with typing) which of course in the base also uses "download speed" and even "upload speed".

Anecdotal :
Our son, a typical today's gamer, learns on some forum how he can speed up his specific (!) game. Registry hacks and all and what happens is that the ACK(knowledgement)s are shut off. Smart, now no confirmation of receipt is send out and nothing at the other side needs to wait for it. The game is now 10x faster (pinging speed is eliminated) and the next day dad is called out for because of sudden errors all over the place, elsewhere.

Peter

Hi Peter, sorry it I took time to reply...

Many years ago, my girlfrient subscribed to a satellite internet service. The maximum bandwidth per day was quite limited, the speed was not above 1.5 mbits and the latency was awful. Not to mention the cost each month plus the initial antenna and cable installation...

We have been way behind other countries for speed and the monthly fare are high as opposed to the U.S. It's probable that our low density of population could explain the fare...

Anyway, since I do not have the intention of streaming music (I have enough on my hard drive for quite some time), I should stick with that speed for a few years, even if I am aware that it can go beyond 100 mbits... I am trying to understand how a distant and busy server may send data at this speed (thousands of requests from everywhere) so I should be happy for a while...

Regards,

Alain