90 down, 6 up. I’m in San Francisco, on Comcast cable.
Mine’s been 25-29 all day, I’m paying for 50. I’ll phone tomorrow if it remains that low. It is rarely under 50, they’ve been pretty good.
5.2
We get 90 - 100 mbs in a country town in South Australia. I wouldn’t worry about nothing more than 100 being offered anyway, it is heaps. The fact you only get 5 is pretty bad though.
.51 down, .34 up. on dslextreme.
Is that good?
Ah man, I might be a sucker. 
Checking with my provider, it appears that I’m paying for 1.5 down, .384 up
On Speedtest I get 1.69 mbps download
0.32 mbps upload
National connection grade: F
On fast.com,
1.3 mbps
Pretty bad, huh?
The question is can you get something faster for the same price? I just upgraded on AT&T and the promo price for 25 is $6 less than I was paying for 1.5. After a year it goes to $60 which is only $14 more than I paid for slower.
It’s also stand-alone(no phone service) so I can cancel that.
Honestly…it’s not that bad. Really, it depends on what you are paying for. If you are paying for a 100mb/s symmetrical DSL or broadband, then yeah…that’s bad. If you are paying for a 10/10 or 20/10 ADSL connection, then it’s in the butter zone for that. Basically, with what you have you should be able to stream video or play an online game with out issue. Of course, the raw speed is only part of it…you could have a lot of noise on the line, for instance, or be dropping a lot of packets. Or, if your spur is oversold it might fluctuate during peak hours.
As to your question, it depends as I said on what you are paying for. If you aren’t getting the speed you are paying for, you can try tech support to see if it’s a line issue (if you have some variant of DSL it might be your phone lines or even the wiring in your building). If it’s not a line issue and it’s a subscription issue then you are going to get fobbed off on customer service…good luck with that. What you MIGHT be able to do in that case is pressure them to cut you a break on your bill, but it’s not that likely. In that case, your best bet is to switch to a different provider, assuming there is one. Sometimes you can get quite a deal for switching.
We’re getting 16 Mb/s down and 2 up on Cogeco’s lowest tier of service ($55/month – yes, internet and cellphones are expensive here in Canada).
I have a part time gig as mentor to a bunch of ASD kids with interest in computers every week. When we’ve got a dozen to fifteen kids in the room, about three quarters trying to access the Internet at one time, speeds have been known to get down to about 1.5
5Mbps doesn’t really stop me doing anything I want at home (got to time any big Steam downloads for overnight though…). But I would really really like about 200 at work!
More is always better, of course.
12-16, fast.com. AT&T wi-fi. I want more, faster!
If you play video games and want to play them in minutes rather than hours or days after purchase, it’s useful.
40 - 6 for me. I was expecting faster but I don’t really care because that is still plenty fast for anything that I want to do. I could probably make my connection on my main computer/media server much faster if I switched to a wired rather than wireless connection but there is no point to that right now.
5.7/1.1. Mostly I don’t notice it, but I guess that’s pretty slow. The phone company is advertising fibe everywhere and would undoubtedly be much faster, but they are such a shitty company to do business with. And the customer is always wrong with them.
85 on FIOS. Not bad for the US.
I hate all of you.
.25 yes POINT 25. We sometimes go up to 2.5 early morning middle of the week.
That’s Verizon. My Hughes.net got .75 on a good day.
Wow. I thought my 3.0 Mbps was bad. My condolences.