I’m in the midwest United States, and I pay $90/mo for results like this:
Huh? Your upload is almost 10x faster than your download? Are you sure you were not downloading something else at the time?
RCN. The alternative is Comcast, and given what I’ve heard about them, I’ll stick with RCN.
Bell Canada, ~$70/month. 150GB/mo cap. I’m probably overpaying a little, but my company pays for it, so whatever.
Speaking of data caps, I know I don’t have one, but is there any software that can report as to how much bandwidth you are actually using in a month?
Also if you’ve got the hardware that will run Tomato, it has a built-in bandwidth monitor. As well as being just generally better than the standard firmware.
Apparently Google’s put up a site that will give you some stats on your ISP’s speed, specifically related to streaming video from YouTube. They’re linking to it from YouTube pages.
Yep, seems about right. From 7PM-11PM, I can’t play HD streams.
Networx will report it if all your usage is through a single device (or multiple, if you install it on all and add it up). Otherwise, yeah, you gotta hope you have a router that supports a solution.
Wow that would suck. The more I learn about Time-Warner cable and Comcast the happier I am about Cox.
It’s sad that I feel grateful paying $80 a month for < 70Mb/s that actually works but I have been using them for 16? years now (holy shit), back when Cox used the @Home network. Its been rock solid this whole time.
Recently though they started sending out warnings at 300GB usage. No actual caps, more of a ‘you should upgrade to the more expensive plan with a 400GB cap’ but you can tell they are itching to implement one.
That’s a sight better than I get from Comcast for the same price. 50 Mbps, 250 GB soft cap.
$60/month about 20 miles outside of Seattle. :( DSL. The other choice in town is cable, which offers 2-3x teh speed, but it’s a crappy little company called Wave that has outages 3-5x a month on average. I’d rather have slower and reliable 99.9% of the time.
People are here moan and bitch about Comcast, but man, I’d love to have those speeds.
Nope. My service quality bounces all over the place. And yeah, that day it was especially weird (I even checked my network traffic to confirm there wasn’t a device pulling down data that I didn’t realize).
I basically have the choice between Comcast and Qwest DSL where I am (which is 12Mb because they haven’t built out the “fast” 20Mb service to my location yet). I’m far happier with Comcast (ostensibly 40Mb I think, though they keep nagging me to upgrade my modem and I haven’t).
People pegging 350GB+ of transfer a month and bitching about 50+ Mb/s must be using internet for all data flow into their residence, and to boot, must spend a whole lot of time streaming thing on multiple devices. A 1080p movie is like 4GB for two hours. I’d have to watch 2 movies a day plus download a shitload of games to start to approach a 350GB cap. Or I’d have to try to personally archive all the porn on the internet while I slept or something.
(Similarly, I can maintain two 1080p streams easily on my bandwidth, so folks complaining that it’s not enough downstream bandwidth I just don’t get unless they’re trying to remote desktop high res desktops or something in near realtime…)
Mind, everyone is allowed to bitch about their internet sucking. It’s one of the ingrained constitutional rights, I believe. I just don’t get what folks are doing with their internet that need > 50Mb (much less 1Gb or anywhere close) or half-terabyte plus data. It’s so weird to feel more and more like an electronic luddite when I’ve literally worked with computers since -before- I left school in a professional capacity.
I watch Starcraft tournament streams probably on average of 2-3 hours/day, often at 1080p 60fps. My girlfriend and I both watch high def shows and movies via Netflix and Hulu, and to boot, I probably watch a good 15-20 cooking videos on Youtube everytime I wanna cook something new. Throw in 8+ hours/day of high quality Spotify from here, a couple of Steam downloads, and refreshing every forum on Qt3 like an addict every 5 minutes, well, my data usage probably makes a lot more sense ;)
Regarding speed: I almost never max out the 50mbps service I’m theoretically paying for, but given the intense throttling and upstream bottlenecks between me and the services I use the most (Twitch.tv, Netflix, and Youtube), I also never really get access to most of those 50mbps.
I almost always get 20Mb down, 1Mb up on my Time Warner connection. My dad, who lives about 10 miles away, gets about 50Mb down, 2 Mb up on his Time Warner, paying for the same Turbo tier. We’re both getting Google Fiber soon. His garden is being uprooted as we speak, over the last few days, as they lay down the cable for his street. Mine will come in a month or two more I believe. I can’t wait to boot Time Warner. The worst thing about them is their unreliability. I have to reset their stupid modem so often.
I’ve noticed my 50Mb downstream usually gets speeds of 56-57Mb , this always pleases me.
Crazy. Your ISP must be using some ancient cable equipment or just do not have sufficient peering agreements with the rest of the internet.
TWC just upgraded my area to MAXX. I’m now getting 300 down and 20 up.
I put up a couple torrents to test it and was all bummed out that I was getting only 35 megabits/sec. Then I did a doubletake. It was 35 megabytes/sec!
Thing is, with the exception of torrents sourcing from dozens of points across the globe, my downstream is now much, much faster than most of the internet. Never thought I’d say this, but I may drop down to 200/20 to save $10/month.
Another thing I never thought I would say-- I’m moving next month, and the new building has FIOS. I may not want it!