What's your internet connection like?

[lightning slinger]

Good grief!!

When I look at some of the speeds posted here, you would think I lived in some backward Third World country (possibly I do!).

Here in the UK, unless you are served by some small community local cable network (few and far between) or Virgin Cable (only in city areas) you have to rely on British Telecom's archaic attitude of serving up the telephone system via a network of the thinnest and cheapest copper cables up the oldest wood poles they can find.

The result is the best that can be achieved from a max of 8Mb/s is around 4-5Mb/s.

Yes, I knew it!! I do live in a Third World country after all. 

The UK comes 25th out of 66 countries when it comes to download speeds. Anyone thinking otherwise would do well to read this article from the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8282839.stm

[rendrag]

Verizon upgraded me when I renewed FiOS. Not as fast as others here, but certainly good enough for me

[blade1357]

my speed

[luke77]

I just thought it could be interesting if we compared internet connections. If you want to post your speed in this thread, please post using http://www.speedtest.net/ and copy-pasting the forum link. Thanks.

This is what I am getting with an AT&T DSL modem.

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

[Cnoevil]

[jcarle]

They upgraded the cables in the street. It nudged my downstream up a bit. Yay!

[Blekthor]

Dear old Comcast at home

[VideoRipper]

My current stats:

[DJPro]

Cable @ Home

[todarsey]

[Tripredacus]

Weird, I never posted a home test before. I just got cable today and disco DSL... which my router said I was getting 900K down. So here is my new test:

Work test:

[Cheitanya]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/908812660.png

hi this is my speed

Edited August 9, 2010 by Cheitanya

[bns]

My bandwidth is so large that it can't be shown on a regular internet page. So I am the winner

[GrofLuigi]

My bandwidth is so large that it can't be shown on a regular internet page. So I am the winner

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it.

Edited September 26, 2010 by GrofLuigi