68 percent of US broadband connections aren't really broadband

[Stevetry]

 

[omarroms]

The speed is never what they advertise.

 

[Rydian]

Odd, I thought most other countries will have faster connections. Is this about balance or neutrality?It's about money. The ISPs we deal with get their internet from backbones (big companies you've probably never heard of like level-3 and cogent), and ISPs that give their customers less pay for less, so they get more profits.

QUOTE(omarroms @ Dec 11 2010, 09:21 PM)
The speed is never what they advertise.

Fiber-optic?

 

[purechaos996]

I NEED MOAR INTERNETZ!!!

 

[Hakoda]

Not bad for me but that other Comcast customer has a ridiculous download speed.

 

[ayakosama]

Comcast is a rank POS. My brother pays for less Mb, but his speed test is faster than mine. Stupid shared connection. I want the speed I pay for.

 

[Hax Mega]

I pay $55 a month for that...

 

[Bladexdsl]

oh shit i'm not in the US

 

[DsHacker14]

I'm at school. My house internet is shitty as hell... max is 190kbps upload, 40kbps upload... >_> I can still do stuff with it but it frustrates me. But I guess it doesnt matter since I'm using my neighbors for now. :3

 

[Rayder]

Well, I'm happy with my new ISP.......I just went from 3 Mbps DSL (approx. 315KB per sec down) to over 20Mbps (Approx. 3 MB per sec down) on cable modem. Upload still kinda blows though.....DSL was like 54KB per sec. Cable is only like 91 KB per sec. So I'm like 10 times faster downloading now than I was before. I'm happy with it. Uploading doesn't matter to me much, as long as it does it when I need it to. We are supposed to be on the fastest speed we can get without going to business class. I don't know about that though.

To be honest, I wasn't bothered with only 300+ KB per second DL's, we had it that way for many years, but faster is always better. The only reason we dumped DSL (and all landline phones too, BTW) is because they said we couldn't get DSL here. I think that is a lie because I see many AT+T wireless signals on our laptop (all locked, of course), but WE can't get DSL? Right.....

One main difference I've noticed between DSL and cable modem is that DSL's response time is MUCH faster than cable. Speeds were also more stable on DSL. Cable modem bandwidth floats all over the place. One minute I'm peaking out at over 22 Mbps, the next it's down to like 7 Mbps. On DSL, I'd click on something and it went immediately and always at consistent speeds, but cable modem will sit there and think about it for a second or two before going, but then BAM! the page is instantly up. I guess that's the trade-off.....speed for response time. At least that's what I'm noticing anyway.

We went from AT+T DSL to Time Warner (Roadrunner) cable modem.

 

[Bladexdsl]

I have 20Mbps downstream and like 0.5 up

Don't live in us though so

i don't know how the fuck you get that speed i have 2+ and the exchange is just a few k's away and still the max i get is shitty 10mB!!