Technology What ISP are you with?

[Casey]

And what speeds do you get? Be sure to include your country if it's not already in your profile.

I'm in the UK and with Virgin Media.

I just upgraded to 30MB down/3MB up..... I used to only have 10MB down/1MB up.

Unfortunately, the new hub they gave me is fucking shite. The wireless radio drops out every 5 minutes and I just got it today! Although the ethernet is fine. So, I've turned off the wifi on the new router and bridged it through my old router..... sad to say, the old router will only let me get 20MB down....but that'll do on the wireless connections until Virgin sort this shit out.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

I'm with AOL, its hardly ever down but its not that fast around here. But it does the business.

 

[Cooper]

Virgin 50meg, hub sucks, but I'm wired so don't care. Speeds are awesome.

 

[S O F I]

Qwest. 20down/5up. I use a wireless modem. no ethernet.

 

[masta247]

A local cable company called Vectra, that I switched to about 2 weeks ago. 24down/2up though usually speeds are higher, I get 10 meg of upload on speedtest.net. Ping is less constant than with my previous provider though, it goes from 8ms and occasionally jumps to 100ms to the same server which means pretty average infrastructure.
However it's very cheap. I have a cable tv with the whole HD packet (117 channels), internet and phone for less than 25 Euros/month, which is what I paid for a 10meg connection with my previous provider alone.
I have to say that I don't really need speeds which are that high. For 2 more euros I could've gone with a 64down/8up connection but I could already stream full hd movies with a 10meg connection. The only difference I feel is when I download something and with a 24 meg connection I can download huge games in less than an hour, so I really don't need more.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Sky Broadband - 20Meg download and i think 1Meg upload.

 

[Pittsey]

At work I get 100 down and 20 up.

At home I get 20 down and 2 up. But I may switch to cable or BT infinity for the 50 meg downloads.

 

[Prize Gotti]

BT Infinity - 30 down, 10 up. And trust me, having 10 up is sweeeeeeet. I use my webcam alot, cos you know, I get bitches naked, so its good to have no lag in a video chat. I also, some times at the same time, playing alot of XBL, mainly COD, and as with alot of 360 games, players host, not servers, so I often end up with mainly Americans in my game haha.

I do occasionally have drop outs with the hub, but generally, everything runs smoothly.

I pay £27.50 a month for unlimited download, free land line calls, free second phone line, discounted mobile and international calls and caller ID.

 

[Pittsey]

^^

Can you upload the webcam videos, please. Cheers.

 

[Synful*Luv]

Comcast
50 down 10 up is what I pay for
when hard wired in.. I can top out at 60 down and about 16 up
on wireless, i'm at about 35-45 down and 6 up

 

[Preach]

Canal Digital is my Norwegian provider.

Cable, 12mbit down and 2,5mbit up. They provide up to 100mbit down, 2,5 up, but I'm cheap, and downloading an xvid movie in 8-10 minutes is okay with me. Maybe I'll upgrade when I get a new comp that can play HD without stuttering. I get 40-60ms.

Wireless speeds has to do with the reception in the network card and broadcaster in the router, as well as the environment you have it set up in. It's unlikely to get top speeds through wireless. I still do, but I can tell from you guys' experience (as well as customers of the company I work for, Telenor) that wireless is a big issue if you wanna min-max your speeds.

 

[masta247]

yeah, actually I found that something at about stable 1-2 mbps download is okay for the internetz and above that you can hardly feel a difference unless you download huge files. A 1mbps download is enough to download most websites in less than a second anyway. 12mbps is enough for perfectly smooth 1080p movie (with little compression, very decent mkv-like) streaming.
Personally I absolutely don't see a difference coming from 2mbps to 10mbps and then to 24mbps. Most servers don't allow downloading as fast anyway.

 

[vg4030]

Im with Nazi Comcast.. 12DL & 4UL (wireless)

 

[vg4030]

Comcast
50 down 10 up is what I pay for
when hard wired in.. I can top out at 60 down and about 16 up
on wireless, i'm at about 35-45 down and 6 up

Are you renting the cable modem?

I just bought my own (yesterday), it will save you the $7/month and you will have a new unit with WAY less tech issues.. and probably faster speeds?

 

[Pittsey]

Canal Digital is my Norwegian provider.

I have the canal digital channels.

 

[Prize Gotti]

yeah, actually I found that something at about stable 1-2 mbps download is okay for the internetz and above that you can hardly feel a difference unless you download huge files. A 1mbps download is enough to download most websites in less than a second anyway. 12mbps is enough for perfectly smooth 1080p movie (with little compression, very decent mkv-like) streaming.
Personally I absolutely don't see a difference coming from 2mbps to 10mbps and then to 24mbps. Most servers don't allow downloading as fast anyway.

You notice the difference when you download movie at 3Megabytes a second.

 

[Pittsey]

You notice the difference when you download movie at 3Megabytes a second.

Agree.

On Newsgroups you get 20 connections. You can max out your connection, easily. If you have 50 megabit down, you will get over 6 megabytes per sec download.

 

[Preach]

In my case it's not that I don't notice the difference, it's that every time I put a movie on download it's one of two scenarios:

- I do periodical searches for new movies. Kinda checking DVD and BluRay releases month by month, once every 2-3 months. I might download 30 films in one go and do so overnight, then watch the movies until I'm out and need new ones.
- I have no new movies and wanna watch one. I put it on download and spend at least 20 minutes making food before I watch it anyway.

 

[Pittsey]

How big are your rips?

A 1080p is about 10gig.

 

[Preach]

i watch movies from bed on a 23" monitor on a laptop that's 4 years old. i go old school with xvid, 1-1.5gb brrips if i can.