Question about internet speeds...

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darkknightkryta on 26 June 2011

Baalzamon said:

Raider84 said:
How are some of you living with your speeds?!?! This isn't 1999 anymore... Anything less than 15-20 MBps would be absolutely unacceptable almost anywhere. I pay 35$ (US dollars) for my 30MBps speed with around a ping of 15-18ms and 0% time out rate at all times and can download a full length movie (800 MB) in roughly 2-5 minutes. I assumed that in today's day and age that was pretty much the norm, and anything less would be unacceptable. This is 2011, after all. I know my speed is acceptable at 30MBps but some of your speeds far exceed mine, and that is awesome. Although what about the people below 10? or even below 5MBps? Ouch...

While my 1 mbps internet right now is a little slow, the 5-8 (I've seen as high as 15 or 16) mbps internet that my college I am staying at next year has is more than enough. You have to realize that a lot of areas don't have access to super fast internet. Our internet is literally the ONLY fast internet provided in this area, and that only came around about 5 years ago (Only option before that was dial up).

It really depends where you live, like here in Canada, the government has a goal that everywhere in the country have to atleast have access to 5 megabits, but I agree 5 megabits is too slow.

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Branko2166 on 21 July 2011

Just thought I would share that I recently purchased a premium speed package with my existing ISP on a cable connection.

I'm paying an extra $20 dollars a month for my download speed to be boosted from 20Mbits to 100Mbits. Download speed is great though upload speed is still disappointing although this is more or less a given for most in Australia.