How fast is your broadband?
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50Euros/per month with Amazon Prime and netflix SD include
Add 3euros for Netflix HD -
Ya' gets what yer' gouged fer' .... if'n yer' lucky!!!
In this instance, looks like I was. Sad days for the Internet in North America, eh?
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Yep that all
In France with the operator named "Free" -
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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@phenomlab yeah there is. There is no competition here so 3 companies just rip Canadians off
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In my country 8$ (USD)/month for plan with speed 10 Mbps.
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@phenomlab said in How fast is your broadband?:
@baris pretty much the same in the UK.
But do your ISPs do dumb things like call non-fiber internet "Fibe" to fool people into thinking they have fiber?
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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...
that is all.
