Your Internet Speed

[Flake]

Wow, I thought Australia was bad but not that bad...

Now I see why we are ranked 60th. And we're getting worse.

We NEED FTTH NBN here.

[Neocon]

Our county mayor, who I went to school with, has, according to the newspaper, decided that our county should have "1 Gigabyte internet service" brought in by fiber optic cables from a local non-profit provider, and is trying to get the money together to make it happen. Once the money is in place, he thinks it will take a year and a half to wire the entire county. It will require a 30-year loan shared between the non-profit and the county, but he's hoping the state will get involved and help pay for it.

I figure it will take ten years, three times the cost, and be slower than the DSL we have now.

[DD-Destroyer]

WiFi test
*5.0Ghz router, iPhone 6 with 802.11ac

[bernholm]

The dream is finally dead. (aka Connecticut can kiss my massachusetts)

Also, it would seem my old HK internet is woefully outclassed

[AdityaB]

wow! i am shocked! (thats twice the download speed i got in other parts of the country!)

and

oh damn! what speed! (compared to the astonishing speed results like ~400mbps download and ~300mbps upload)

and

as expected! (upload remains the same, as in different parts of the country)


http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5312050677

with 4G making its presence felt in my country.....they have speeds of upto ~18mbps download ~10mbps upload! thats "God" speed to us

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-the very first post-

should not the list be updated?

thanks a lot

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EDIT: How do you get such speeds of 200mbps or 400mbps

[Flake]

It's improved a bit.

[Neocon]

This was taken after I switched from wired to wireless connection. About the same.

#ThisIsFine

[Vic Viper]

Sometimes Ookla isn't accurate, your speed may be higher or lower depending on how it conductes the test. I recommend trying DSL reports sometime





I'm still not getting what I paid for

[Neocon]

Ok, then.

[Gunny]

It's a lie.Never have achieved these speeds in everyday usage.And BTW Baton Rouge is a lot closer than 650 miles it's more like 65 or less.

[lorDuckFeet]

I've upgraded it a few months ago, sadly more $$$ left.

[Flake]

This is actually pretty good for Australia in general. The problem though is that I live in share accommodation and the router just drops me repeatedly, without warning, for up to hours on end.

[Gunny]

Still lousy 2.5g weather dependant WiFi.

[Swift]

Paying for 200mbps >_>

[Krux]

"Faster than 94% of BR"

I don't think that's really accurate

[acf492]

My house mate has a very generous budget for Internet at our place. I am afraid to ask how much this is costing him, but he's a hardcore gamer and demands only the best of Internet gaming performance.



There is nothing to complain about. But since this is actually 3X faster than the virtual private server I have rented (from my budget, not his budget!), which only transfers at 100mbit/s max, I wish our ISP would offer a static IP address plan so I could get a domain name (like a .com or .ca) for our home and we wouldn't have to rely on No-IP's annoying and troublesome nagware to allow friends to connect to our local multiplayer games.

We have an unlimited transfer per month also, and since I am a believer in the free & open source software movement, I've been getting our monies' worth by seeding Linux ISO files since we got the upgraded speed:



My only concern is that I might turn into a spoiled brat and become the world's most annoying whiner if I should find myself in a place with less stellar Internet connection speed.