What's your Internet Speed?

tkrojam said:

You know, the proportion of broadband popularity in both South Korea and Japan are at the top of the world!

To most people those >700 Mbps download and >400 Mbps upload speeds are just about as useful as driving a Ferrari capable of 300+ kph speeds in downtown Tokyo at rush hour in that for most people there just are not 100's of GB of data that you have to download every month to justify the need for those incredible speeds.

I've attached a screenshot from my Bandwidth Meter Pro stats showing about 3 weeks of online download and upload activity and as you can see the multiple GB of daily activity which could genuinely utilize and justify a 20X faster download speed than I currently have just aren't there. Like many others here I started out with 56 Kbps dial-up service and I now find my current Broadband service to be quite adequate for my current needs downloading and uploading needs...



~Maxx~

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tkrojam said:

I feel no difference on speed for usual usage either 100Mbps or 1Gbps.

You are right that these are just calculated tests of speed. I feel the same way about browser benchmark tests like Peacekeeper in that Firefox scores only half of what Opera does on the test and yet they both feel equally fast when using them on the internet.

~Maxx~

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Hell yeah. my ADSL2+ finally got switched on today. My download and upload speeds have tripled!

Before (from my speed wave, forgot to get a capture before the update, the speeds were pretty consistant though, so there is not much "averaging" going on):


After:

With SP-1 downloading.

Maxxwire said:

... To most people those >700 Mbps download and >400 Mbps upload speeds are just about as useful as driving a Ferrari capable of 300+ kph speeds in downtown Tokyo at rush hour in that for most people there just are not 100's of GB of data that you have to download every month to justify the need for those incredible speeds.

I've attached a screenshot from my Bandwidth Meter Pro stats showing about 3 weeks of online download and upload activity and as you can see the multiple GB of daily activity which could genuinely utilize and justify a 20X faster download speed than I currently have just aren't there. Like many others here I started out with 56 Kbps dial-up service and I now find my current Broadband service to be quite adequate for my current needs downloading and uploading needs...

Oh c'mon... the Ferrari analogy just doesn't apply. It's about time; not usage. Just because you don't use 100GB's a month doesn't mean people don't/won't/can't. I've heard the argument, and I just don't buy it: "anything over 100MB "can't" be legal.... rubbish.

ISP's are crippling Netflix. I can't get 1080p movies only because of ISP's... not because of netflix, not because of me.

ATT just sent me a letter informing me they're going to place bandwidth caps on their service. 150GB for regular dsl, 250GB a month for U-verse. Needless to say, I'm looking at Sonic right now.

We would all love to have speed like the rest of the western world, but for some reason here in America we've decided to stay with 3rd world internet service and let them charge us premium rates.