I'm happy with it, i pay for 100Mbps and thats what i get. There are faster plans, but it seems like an overkill, since i can stream 4k video and download 20GB+ games in an hour or so anyway. Did i mention that it costs me 5 euros a month?
Must say i am quite happy.
The Dutch cable companies aren't (as)evil.
My cable providers (ziggo) merged with a other one (UPC).
The later offered faster speeds for the same price.
So just one router rest later and my connection went from 90/9mbps to 120/12mbps without any price increase.
And according to speedtest, i am able to just about max that out as an actual speed.
The lowest bandwidth available here is 100/100Mbit, or 250/10Mbit if looking at upload. In what sense would 25Mbit be way too high? How could it even BE too high?
The lords at speedtest.net tell me I've got 104Mbs in and 114 out, and since it's included in my rent I'm plenty satisfied. I also have a 2Mbs mobile connection and if my main connection wasn't "free" I would probably just upgrade the mobile one as the major ISPs have pretty much abandoned making hardline connections affordable (good luck finding anything under 30?/month unless it's some special offer with a two-year contract).
A couple of months ago, my house was at 10 Mbps ADSL line. That's 10 down, of course, we had something like 1 or 2 Mbps up (I honestly, don't know - it was too low for any actual usage to care). We are 3 people renting the house so we have at least that many users at all times. However, most times we've had more - a friend lived with us for a while until he found his own place, the girlfriend of one of my housemates also spends a couple of months with us every few months (it would be more frequent, if it wasn't for studies), for example.
So, actually, for most of our tenancy, we've had at least 4 people sharing that connection. And while I won't classify us as heavy users, we're each leaning towards that category. We've had to cut back a lot in order to not have any problems. It worked for the most time, but it takes one application to go "Lol, I'm updating now" to make the Internet close enough to unusable for all of us.
Nowadays, since the 23-rd of December[footnote]The fact that it's just before Chrismas eve is completely by accident[/footnote] we have fiber optic at 80 Mbps down and, I believe, as much up. It's way better. Although, admittedly, it's not strictly needed - at some point, probably around the 40-50 Mbps mark, we'd stop having problems with the connection.
However, the only problem I've had with the Internet I've had (any of them) is shitty routers. It's the problem we're currently facing, too - the damned router is just a piece of trash. And it didn't use to be that way. It was towards the low end but at least it was working, seems that my ISP has recently pushed a firmware update which didn't quite manage to brick it. I've always had problems with the wireless in my room, as it seems I'm right at the edge of the wireless reception, however it was never as bad as the past few weeks when I'd literally be dropped off every few minutes. Here is what happened in Mumble
[7:46:50 PM] DoPo disconnected.
[7:46:50 PM] DoPo connected.
[7:50:59 PM] DoPo disconnected.
[7:50:59 PM] DoPo connected.
[8:31:48 PM] DoPo disconnected.
[8:31:53 PM] DoPo connected.
[9:10:54 PM] DoPo disconnected.
[9:10:54 PM] DoPo connected.
[9:11:51 PM] DoPo disconnected.
[9:12:14 PM] DoPo connected.
[9:15:02 PM] DoPo disconnected.
[9:15:02 PM] DoPo connected.
[9:23:13 PM] DoPo disconnected.
[9:23:16 PM] DoPo connected.
[9:28:07 PM] DoPo disconnected.
[9:28:09 PM] DoPo connected.
[9:34:56 PM] DoPo disconnected.
[9:34:56 PM] DoPo connected.
That's me getting dropped from the wireless all the damn time. And since I'm completely off, playing games online was impossible. It should also be noted, that I wasn't doing anything at all with the Internet at the time. I wasn't even at my PC - all the bandwidth usage from my machine would have been whatever is the idle stuff - Skype, Thunderbird, Mumble, Dropbox and a browser open. None of which were doing anything, really.
And moreover, the functionality of the router seems to have been unintentionally (I hope) pruned. If you try to set up any port forwarding, the router commits suicide. Or more specifically, going to the Firewall page in the router control panel causes it to restart immediately. I'm serious.
Bob_McMillan said:
Do you think 25 Mbps really should be the minimum, or is way too high?
I actually have no idea. I don't think I am a normal user and I'd certainly wouldn't want to hold everybody to my standards. With that said, I'd be content with 25 Mbps. Sure, more is better, but that should satisfy my needs. Still, that's assuming not a lot of people were using that 25 meg. I think the 3 (or 4) of us in the house wouldn't have huge issues with having that, however, it would require some cutbacks.
We get 45Mbps at my parents, and that is fine. It allows everyone to do what they want, streaming films/downloading games/browsing/working simultaneous and that is fine.
I then get 2-3 at my room in the military... and that is not good enough. Streaming buffers for ages, and often cuts out or dramatically loses quality... 3/10, need bigger pipe!
At home I get a maximum of about 300kbps (real) download speeds, and even less up. It sucks- streaming is a no-no, downloading games takes freaking days, and god forbid I should want to play an fps online. My latency prevents any of that. My parents absolutely refuse to improve our service though, and it's worst for me because I'm forced to use a wireless connection and am in the furthest corner of the house to the router. I actually get stronger signal from the router in the house across the street.
At Uni it's a lot better- I get between 1 and 1.5 mbps (real) download speeds, which allows streaming and reasonably fast downloads of games etc. Unfortunately the Uni firewall blocks almost all online games, so I don't get to use it for gaming.
I have a 100/100 connection without limit to bandwidth. Connection has had unplanned interruption once in two years. So yes, i am quite content.
Bob_McMillan said:
I saw an article, not sure if it was here or somewhere else, about the FCC deeming 25 Mbps as the minimum broadband speed. That is INSANE. My speed is 3 Mbps. In my country 15 Mbps is the maximum, and only businesses can afford that most of the time.
Yes, it is insane. insanely low that is. broadband is 50 minimum here. and there was no need to force it on ISPs. You mention you are from philipines. so measuring is quite inadequate as its as good as measuring living wage would be. sure the minimum wage in US is more than most of your "Rich" people get but its still hardly livable.
please test with a server that is not in the same town. this ping obviuosly shows you are testing local network and not real internet speeds. Normal connection never has this low ping (lower = better, bellow 50 ms is good for online gaming).
P.S. how is it still acceptable for any ISP to scam users with upload speeds slower than download speeds?
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