Fiberoptic Internet is awesome.

[goku2057]

That upload is terrible. That is all.

[Raitei]

£6?

What you got, Talk Talk or something?

Sky... my flat is paying about 15-16 a month including line rental and phone calls (we have to have a phone package for having to call emergency services)

[Smokey]

That upload is terrible. That is all.

ya its not the best.. but even our residental fibre over here is throttled to 5meg up........

[kevin197]

I don't know what you guys do with such fast speeds. I have never heard of such fast speeds. 50 MB/s download. That's insane. I get 60-250 Kb/s depending upon time.

Seriously how do you utilize such speed? Downloading Games, movies and other stuff?

[frosty]

I upload the TV show I produce to the TV station once a week, which is about 4gb's. I often download large video files that I incorporate into the videos I produce. Plus online gaming.

[Viper]

I don't know what you guys do with such fast speeds. I have never heard of such fast speeds. 50 MB/s download. That's insane. I get 60-250 Kb/s depending upon time.

Seriously how do you utilize such speed? Downloading Games, movies and other stuff?

Streaming video (like Youtube or news clips) can benefit from high connection rates. Especially video in high resolutions.


Is 60-250 kb's all your ISP offers or are you getting lower speeds than you should be?

[kevin197]

Streaming video (like Youtube or news clips) can benefit from high connection rates. Especially video in high resolutions.

Even still, 50Mb/s is just too hot to handle. i mean its too much.

Is 60-250 kb's all your ISP offers or are you getting lower speeds than you should be?

I can download 700 Mb movie in about 60 minutes. When connection is slow i can download it in 3 hours or more.

[Smokey]

I can download 700 Mb movie in about 60 minutes. When connection is slow i can download it in 3 hours or more.

i get stuff off aarnet at about 12000Kb/s. but main thing i do is rent vids off psn i can get 5gig in about 8mins average would be 12min

dont think thats flat biccie though lol

[kevin197]

i get stuff off aarnet at about 12000Kb/s. but main thing i do is rent vids off psn i can get 5gig in about 8mins average would be 12min

So you are trying to tease me. I know my connection is pathetic.

[masteratt]

My life is on the internet, I prefer everything to go as fast as possible. So the highest, truly unlimited and non-peaktime capped (so many bloody restrictions) internet I can get, I pay for, bank account willing. I guess this is my one 'exotic' outgoing.

And Kevin you don't know how much a difference a good internet makes man, once you go fast, you just want to keep going faster.
Seeing that Youtube bar shoot to the end on a 30minute 720p video is nice. Waved goodbye to that turning piece of crap loading animation long ago and haven't seen it in a long time.

In your case you could double the research you do on YT if they all loaded super fast even when opened at the same time.

[kevin197]

My life is on the internet, I prefer everything to go as fast as possible. So the highest, truly unlimited and non-peaktime capped (so many bloody restrictions) internet I can get, I pay for, bank account willing. I guess this is my one 'exotic' outgoing.

And Kevin you don't know how much a difference a good internet makes man, once you go fast, you just want to keep going faster.
Seeing that Youtube bar shoot to the end on a 30minute 720p video is nice. Waved goodbye to that turning piece of crap loading animation long ago and haven't seen it in a long time.

Looks like high speed internet is as addictive as cocaine. I should stay away from it then.

[masteratt]

Ooooh but it's soo goooooooooooooood *keeps opening lots of tabs to take in the fast speed* MOAR MOAR

[Black Dragon37]

Looks like high speed internet is as addictive as cocaine. I should stay away from it then.

Our drug is efficiency. Anything with that core principle becomes difficult to wean off.

[Kiwi]

I couldn't get cable down here, so I've ended up going with a local company that uses WiMax. Should be getting about 24Mbps down, 10Mbps up once it's installed.

[Luis]

Yay! Twice as much bandwidth and much lower ping at my new home And that's considering I'm in a smaller town, but running on basic fiber.

[frosty]

This is what I pulled over a wifi connection that is downstairs on the other side of the house with about 20% signal (hence the bad ping). Comcast Cable.

[goku2057]

All still pussies.

[HighOnSunoco]

South Carolina has effectively passed H. 3508, a bill backed by regional incumbent AT&T (see our previous report), intended to make it more difficult for towns and cities to wire themselves for broadband -- even when nobody else will. The move comes on the heels of a similar effort in North Carolina last year, where regional incumbents Time Warner Cable and CenturyLink passed a similar bill after four previous failed attempts. The bills are being pushed by companies who, in many of these markets, have failed to adequately meet broadband demand -- and in AT&T's case have frozen next-gen expansion plans. In both instances the bills layer municipalities with numerous additional burdens for the simple reason to help increase failure rate, in some instances requiring towns and cities to get permission from regional incumbents before improving their own local infrastructure. The South Carolina bill now heads to the desk of Governor Nikki R. Haley, who is currently facing an ethics hearing for being a little too cozy with the State's business interests.

Great, looks like my state will be lagging behind every other state.

[D3adcell]

Great, looks like my state will be lagging behind every other state.

But look at the positive side. AT&T gets more money!

[Luis]

Yay! Three times as much in about a year, and cheaper too. I'm saving some 90 euros a year with my latest call to the ISP.