| Zappykins said: Standards are changing all the time - and data-caps will be increased, dramatically, unless the providers can control their monopoly. (They are trying really hard to do that - which is why we need to support Net Neutrality.) Even the quality from 2 years ago has been dramatically improved. Imagine what will be in another 5 or so. One of my buddies just announced yesterday that they upgraded their connection and now he gets 40 megabytes per second down. He was saying that it did help him a bit on Battlefield 3. Y'all are making me sad with your slow connections. I do hope those of you stuck with lousy net speeds get some upgrades soon! Here is an interesting chart of Internet Speeds. South Korea - usually first for years, is now 3rd. And the USA usually ranks around 18th, but on this list is 30th! http://netindex.com/ How do you rank with your county? (I am above average at 16.89 vs 11.18.) |
Unfortunately standards aren't always changing for the better. My internet was the fastest when I just got it and no caps. Then the rest of the neighbourhood caught on and it starting to drag during primetime. Then my internet provider introduced data caps.
Sure they have been working on making it faster and more stable but the data caps are still the same.
Canada is 32nd on that list. I get 10mbps at max from the average of 13.62.
I just checked speedtest.net, atm it gives me 1.19mbps down and 0.49mbps up (promised 10mbps down 0.5mbps up)
A different server gives me 2.68mbps down, same up. It all depends on the rest of the path, only some Steam downloads give me the full 10mbps.
It sucks having no competition to speak of. It leaves too much room open for shady deals. "Hey you can have 18mbps and 20gb extra a month if you opt into a contract and rent a modem for $7 a month (on top of $50 a month)" Wtf does my modem have to do with a data cap.
And when I bought this modem from my isp 5 years ago they said it could go upto 50mbps (their fastest plan at the time for $100 a month)
