How fast is your broadband?
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My first coaxial broadband was 0.5 Mbps, that was a real improvement over dial up hands down.
A few years later and a differing location, connection available offered a base that gave real world 6Mbps but ADSL, and around that mark web surfing really did feel instant and responsive, that's about 10 years ago.
Since then browsers have gotten more bloated, OS's too and the average web page layered with all kinds of elements, the rise of streaming and gaming add in the need for VPN's these days, is it actually overkill for basic web, yes it is and that's why I don't really need 1Gbps.
Meanwhile, I got a generic mailer for 1Gbps offer today for 50 euro bucks a month (switch over offer), other offers range around 60-70 eurobucks a month, 500 Mbps, around 30-45 eurobucks, all on fibre.
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@omega said in How fast is your broadband?:
Of course, back on topic, even using VPN I'm getting 190 D : 19 U today, but it's summer and it's quiet everywhere right?
My BB has halved since this test, I can't get past 60Mbps D/L at the moment, but the latency and pin rate went to pot, which IMHO is worse.
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The latest and greatest in these parts is 1Gbps FTTH for €40 per/month (100Mbps upload)
Surprisingly good too when testing, fast.com has often hit 1.2/1.3 Gbps whatever that might be worth but generally speaking, even with the hit VPN brings you can often achieve 500 Mbps picking the right servers, and sometimes there is no hit to the ping time, but of course it can more often be 80% less.
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@julian said in How fast is your broadband?:
Since I created this topic, my internet plan and price are unchanged $65 CAD for 60 Mbps
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In my country 8$ (USD)/month for plan with speed 10 Mbps.
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@brazzerstop
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@julian oh yes. Copper phone lines to carry fiber, which would be a miracle in itself. Those in the trade know that there's FTTC and FTTH - and the only ones capable of delivering true fiber speeds in the UK without it costing a fortune are cable companies like Virgin for example.
Even back in 2007, the minimum speed to the house in Japan was 100Mbps...
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@razibal It was 5 bucks extra to get 1 gigabit.
I thought if I get 600Mbps on that it's better than getting 300 on the 0.5 gigabit package!
I see comments that think providers will give improved performance if you're speed testing on one of the well known speed test sites, both of these seem more real, but good to run in conjunction with the others.
I've read comments online that think when you try the popular speediest sites teh ISP's have it so you get great performance, DSLreports might be one of the more reliable ones out there. I say run about 3-5 different tests and see what you average.
There are also these one too:
that is all.
