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So what Broadband speed do you get

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
July 4, 2018
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Just changed my broadband provider to a relatively new service in Ireland, pretty impressive speeds

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Cactus Cowboy

Inspiring

Spectrum's speed aren't anything to write home about. Could use a faster upload speed. My thoughts are I'm paying way to much for what spectrum provides.

magical_Skyline0D4A

Inspiring

What? 873,91 MB? Incredible, really impressive!

Chuck Uebele

Community Expert

Eh, mines not that great.

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rodneyb56060189

Legend

Wow, that's neat. Looks like a line from Picton describing a fairly deep draft for ferry's and boats in and out... It must be really cool in some bay areas and kinda scary in other parts ( steep land down to ocean etc.). Probably great fishing and nice areas to just hang out. Picnics, photos, etc.

I miss the ocean a little. Lakes just don't cut it.

Nice shot of plane. I worked for a place in Denver as a prop mechanic when in my early 20's, and we had a super cub company plane. Flew for cost of fuel. A retired air force fellow worker took me up to teach me ( log hours). Same type plane ( overhead wing) but one guy sat in front and one guy in back). Couldn't see NOTHIN when climbing cause engine cowling blocked view.

For that matter, couldn't see nothin TAKING OFF either ! hehe... had to look out side window to see if you were close to staying on the runway !

Pretty funny.

That picture of lodge is beautiful ! Great job ! No wonder they use it to advertise. Nice going !

John T Smith

Community Expert

Comcast in Vancouver WA using Cisco DPC3941T modem... download 465 upload 12

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/John+T+Smith wrote
Comcast in Vancouver WA using Cisco DPC3941T modem... download 465 upload 12

John, is that right? That's a crazy imbalance between up and down. If there was a decimal point missing and it should have been 46.5/12 then that would be about right for VDSL via copper.

Our TV news mentioned that internet traffic increased by 30% in one month here in NZ recently, due to Netflix and Lightbox. Goodness knows what the total daily bandwidth is for the world nowadays, but before we had the Web, I can remember getting angry about the 500Mb of Usenet data that circulated the planet each day, because so much of it was spam and porn. We were all on dial up of course, and loaded software from audio cassette tape (that sounded a bit like a FAX machine). It took half an hour to load a 10Mb file.

I can also remember Guy Kewney justifying the ridiculous 40Mb drive he had obtained, in a PC World article, but at the time, srive manufacturers were claiming it would be physically impossible to go much beyond this in a small form factor hard drive. What are we up to now? 8Tb in a 3.5" drive? Or have gone well beyond that now? Hmmm.. I _had_ to go have a look, and Toshiba are apparently promising a 14Tb drive for this year.

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rodneyb56060189

Legend

I'm in MN. and for $20/mo. got this via telephone wire to router.

I don't think it's very fast.

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Brad Lawryk

Legend

Mine isn't too bad ... could use more upload speed but it gets the job done.

andreamaestri

Participating Frequently

You guys are really lucky, I'm living in the country side (less than 50 miles from London) and my connection is awful. i don't even know when they will upgrade our internet cabinet!

Erik Lord

Inspiring

To the OP, your 'ping' is amazing - 4ms? That's great for gaming!

Verizon FIOS here:

57Mbps down, 17Mbps up

That's on what is supposed to be a 25/25 connection.

Fast 'up' is critical for me, working from home. *critical*

Cable internet here is faster/cheaper down, but the upload is terrible.

I keep getting promo offers to increase speeds to 100/100 but, really, I don't need it.

The current connection is more than adequate (so far) for a 5 person family with many, many devices all often streaming from various sites.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Unfortunately, this is my typical speed:

~graffiti

Legend

Does your dial-up modem still make that screachy noise?

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Actually, that is the highest speed available to me with Verizon (They call it "up to 10Mbps) , even though on a good day I can toss a baseball from home and land it in a Verizon substation.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Blooming Heck that's fast!!! Are you in Éire or the North? I'm guessing you are south of the border, and enjoying some Common Market infrastructure, and that the North is barely above dial-up speeds. Out of interest, where do you see the real benefits of that sort of bandwidth? I mean what can saturate it? Half a dozen 4K video streams?

We sort of consider ourselves lucky with this as it is so much better than what we used to get. This is actually as low as I have seen it in a while, but best ever would be 49/12.

This is with VDSL+ so copper from the box, which is the small red circle. We are the larger red circle, but the telephone goes down the other side of our close, and back on our side, so essentially doubling the distance to the cabinet. Nowadays that doesn't make much difference to be honest. What rankles is the fibre goes right past our garden (to the school at the end of the road) but they won't connect us to it.