Holy jebus, Nate. I never got that kind of download speed when I had Comcrap.

It's kind of BS, I don't get sustained speeds that high. I think Comcast has tweaked their bandwidth to show grossly over-rated speeds when checked by utilities like speedtest. I think in the really real world I get about half that, after a forced upgrade when I renewed my service this year.

I pay for 6, so I'm ok with that not being a real world result

There are no other land based options where I live, yet. Everyone I know with DSL(mostly apartment dwellers in or near the city) can smoke me.

I pay for 6, so I'm ok with that not being a real world result

Yeah, I pay for 30 (no choice) and it generally fluctuates between 20 and 30 in real world downloading. I'd have a hard time going back.

The Nashua House hotel where I'm staying, located in scenic Oak Bluffs (which I habitually refer to as "Oak's Bluff.") Better than I get on the mainland.

I didn't realize Comcrap had instituted a download cap. I wonder when Verizon will start doing the same thing, or are they already doing that?

AT&T will cap DSL and U-Verse internet, impose overage fees

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/13/atandt-will-cap-dsl-u-verse-internet-and-impose-overage-fees/

Ladies and gentlemen, the days of unlimited broadband may be numbered in the United States, and we're not talking wireless this time -- AT&T says it will implement a 150GB monthly cap on landline DSL customers and a 250GB cap on subscribers to U-Verse high speed internet starting on May 2nd. AT&T will also charge overage fees of $10 for every additional 50GB of data, with two grace periods to start out -- in other words, the third month you go over the cap is when you'll get charged. DSLReports says it has confirmation from AT&T that these rates are legitimate, and that letters will go out to customers starting March 18th.

yeah, i pay for 6, too. i'd take the 6 down speed if they increased my upload, though.

I wish I got this at home --

Work:

Will try home later (when I am not seading 25 torrents)

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Yep weak at home

Edited March 15, 201115 yr by mikeymad

Given the third world speed I get at home, this is what I get at my desk at Leicester University:

Zoom....

Jesus.

From work:

2866 down and 574 up on my phone

Oops, double post.

Edited March 16, 201115 yr by philodox

From work:

Previous expletive x2. You two both realize you're in the top 1 percentile of your respective countries, don't you? I wish I could live where you work. No I don't, I just wish I had those connection speeds at home.

When I let speedtest.net pick the server, it picks something in Florida for some reason:

When I pick the one in DC:

Yes, we have a weird, fucked up configuration -- Menlo Park (CA) insists on managing our ISP, but I don't get the Florida angle.

Work:

Jesus.

I decided to run the test at work having just downloaded a 530MB CD ISO image in a bewilderingly, jaw droppingly short time.

I blink and my torrents are here. Hell, the ancient boot drive in my server is the real bottleneck, not the FiOS connection.

Okay, it just was begging to be posted.

Sadly, most of the time I'm in my dorm on 100mbit ethernet.

The academic side of campus is usually an even 150/150 or so, the residential side throttles upload.

Edited March 17, 201115 yr by revolink24

I hate you all.

I hate you all.

Not more than I do

Comcast felt a bit faster tonight. I suppose during the day we're sharing bandwidth and it sometimes slows down to half of this. This is still 10x faster than we ever got with Qwest DSL.

I want to live in Rochester! A fifth of a Gigabit per second - I had no idea that was possible.

And "Sadly, most of the time I'm in my dorm on 100mbit ethernet" - well boo hoo.