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What y'all downloadin' at?
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: ahofle on June 10, 2008, 10:04:56 pm ---Damn TOK, enjoy that bandwidth while you can! Are you in a newer neighborhood or something?
Here's mine:
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6286K Down 768K Up. Low contention too. ;D
Not too bad for online games, but better if you buy games on Steam.
JoyMonkey:
For a while I was paying the extra ~$15 a month for double this speed up and down; but how much junk do you really need to download in a hurry?
Still waiting for the Verizon FIOS to hit my neighbourhood.
patrickl:
Lol, turns out my Cable company has upped the line speed again. It's now 12Mbps instead of 10Mpbs.
I don't really trust this result though. It's way too fast. It would mean I reach the theoretical limit of the connection. That cannot be right?
Wonder how fast it will be on the 20Mb ADSL in my new house. I doubt it will be faster. I mostly got that because it's cheaper though.
G1zm0:
20mb virgin media here, download is good unless its after 4pm - midnight when it gets capped to quarter the speed after 3gb download.
upload aint the fastest but heard 20mb is going to 25mb when the 4gb package goes to 10 at no extra cost :)
wont be anygood once they start watching the downloads of pirated wares :( mame roms count as well
Turnarcades:
Regardless of what they call it, it seems the same package offers are within the same ranges as the UK as given in my first post. Top users worldwide are on 20mb (2.5mb/sec), so I no longer feel our lines are sub-standard. Still doesn't matter how quick it is though, I always want more!
That comment about Virgin media is right though - for about 3 months now I've been downloading stuff by Megaupload to get the most of my connection (speeds are always at my bandwidth limit of 2.5mb/sec), but between about 4 and 11 my internet was being restricted. When I queried it they said they could not identify a problem, then I found out they have been trialling 'traffic management' for the top users, where they quarter your connection speed if you download more than 3.5Gb/hour between those times.
This is ---smurf-poo---, and unacceptable in my eyes as when I initially signed up (when it was Cable Midlands, then Telewest), it was because it was 'no download limits or fair usage policy enforcement, as other so-called ISP's were doing. I've lodged a complaint, cos this is not what I signed up for, and why else would you need 20mb speed unless you want to download boatloads of data?!
Someone here said "how much do you really need to download that quick?". The answer in my case is loads - Films, albums, games, apps and all sorts of stuff for me! 8)
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