# Poll: How fast is your internet? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210 "2020-10-17T20:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/41 "2020-10-20T09:25:37Z")
1gbps down, 750mbps upload. I’m on Bell Canada fibre and it’s been a dream since I switched from Rogers cable about 18 months ago. You can now get 1.5gbps down, 1gbps up but I don’t see any advantages for my use cases. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/42 "2020-10-20T15:00:21Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > BTW, how do you guys with the higher bandwidth deal with the fact that bandwidth caps don’t increase to match? I suppose this is only really an issue if you just decide to download everything. Which might happen when you go from 10Mbps to 100Mbps but, past that, you’ve probably moved from “Thank God I can finally download stuff” to “Well, this is nice” as your speeds increase. In our case, we had a combination of going streaming-only for television content and then my wife losing her job (then getting a home office job) so the amount of streaming went way up and were bumping the limit often enough that we decided to just go unlimited on the data. But that would have happened whether we were at 50Mbps or 700Mbps – once you’re fast enough to stream comfortably, the real question is just your data limit. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/43 "2020-10-20T15:10:54Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > BTW, how do you guys with the higher bandwidth deal with the fact that bandwidth caps don’t increase to match? Unlimited bandwidth baby! I average between 2-3TB/month. ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/44 "2020-10-20T15:34:51Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > BTW, how do you guys with the higher bandwidth deal with the fact that bandwidth caps don’t increase to match? I’ve done the calculations, and it seems that the main reason I would want better data–to download more stuff–runs into a wall fairly quickly. ISPs in my neck of the woods (South Africa) used to have notoriously low data caps but in the move from DSL to fibre they seem to have mostly gone away. It’s unusual now to find a fibre service that has a cap at all. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/45 "2020-10-20T17:02:06Z")
Ping 12, Down 62.53, Up 17.07 Southeast England on Plusnet (a BT subsidiary) £26/month no limits ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/46 "2020-10-20T18:12:15Z")
I have Comcast internet. Worst customer service of any company (in any field) that I have ever experienced. Had to fight with them for years to get them to fix problems. On top of that, it’s overpriced for what you get. If I had any other choice I would drop them like a hot rock. After complaining and complaining and complaining (literally for years) they did finally come out and fix their problems. I dread having to deal with their customer service ever again, but right now things are actually working fairly well. 77.85 down, 6.02 up VPN into work and remote desktop works well. Microsoft Teams works well, no stuttering. The only time I notice a bottleneck is when we are watching a movie or tv show and my kids are doing the same on their devices. If you have any choice other than Comcast, take it. Do not choose Comcast. Ever. You will regret it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/47 "2020-10-20T18:23:28Z")
Testing here at my college: 94.8 up, 94.8 down, on a wired Ethernet network. It helps that the other public schools and state/county organizations in the surrounding counties go through the college’s network, so it’s well optimized. This is Pine County, Minnesota (one hour north of Minneapolis). I’ll test my cable connection at home later today. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/48 "2020-10-20T22:01:45Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I suppose this is only really an issue if you just decide to download everything. Which might happen when you go from 10Mbps to 100Mbps but, past that, you’ve probably moved from “Thank God I can finally download stuff” to “Well, this is nice” as your speeds increase. Yeah, that definitely sounds like there’s no point in going above that at all. If I can’t or won’t want to download more, and sites are already exceding their per user caps (making them the bottleneck), the only thing that matters is the data cap. And, as far as I can tell, the cable provider (the only ISP that has higher speeds) has a fixed cap for all non-business accounts, with the find print saying the only other choice is to pay for any bandwidth used above that point, at prices so high you’d be better off just getting multiple lines to your house. I guess I just assumed that this was the norm, at least, in the US. I understand the Internet is better handled in other countries. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/49 "2020-10-20T22:10:50Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Yeah, that definitely sounds like there’s no point in going above that at all. If I can’t or won’t want to download more It certainly depends on the use case, but when I buy a new game with 120 GB of data, 1 Gbps vs. 100 Mbps vs. means the difference between it taking \<20 minutes to download vs. 2.5 hours. I’m not playing any more games, but the ones I do play arrive faster. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/50 "2020-10-20T22:24:10Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > On the other hand, I live in the outback far from food and water and decent Internet\*. The best I could do was a Verizon jetpack with severe throttling after minimal usage. 0.40 download and 0.45 upload after throttling took effect. That is…slooowwww. > > \*Until today, when I was finally able to get Internet service activated from another provider: 60 download, 17 upload. > > It was a real hassle up to now, researching and trying out various Internet solutions only to be thwarted. My closest neighbors have what apparently is pretty good Internet, but my house is apparently in some kind of a fiber dead zone. One neighbor told me that he’d heard that no new residents could get Internet from his provider because “the box is full”. > > I have no idea what that means, but it’s now become a catchphrase around our house for when something goes wrong. > > The box…is full. ☹ Just as an illustration, the plant I work in has individual barcode scanners as an available option for scanning parcels into the system. The scanners operate on a Bluetooth protocol, each tethered to one of three wireless access points. An individual access point can only accommodate up to eight scanners. The ISP you can’t join is certainly able to handle many times more than our little network, but the total number available to distribute to customers isn’t unlimited. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/51 "2020-10-21T01:06:49Z")
(Replying to myself) At my house, with a cable modem over (old router) wifi, download is 8.5, upload is 10.5. If I need to a long download, I’ll connect to my router via a cable. Running the test again, upload is 24.5 but upload stayed at 10.5. I chose the 10-100 option which is a pretty wide scale. I think better poll choices would be 5-20, 20-50, 50-120, etc. But then again, it’s not my poll. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/52 "2020-10-21T05:10:08Z")
So slow I can’t vote. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/53 "2020-10-21T07:01:29Z")
326 download, 183 upload with our new AT&T fiber, plenty fast enough. My daughter and son-in-law are visiting and working from my home this week, and I see no issues. My computer is much more of a bottleneck than my internet connection. ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210/54 "2020-10-21T15:30:39Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > I chose the 10-100 option which is a pretty wide scale. I think better poll choices would be 5-20, 20-50, 50-120, etc. But then again, it’s not my poll. Indeed, based on the results it does look like I should have split up the 10-100 and 100-1Gig options a bit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-fast-is-your-internet/923210.md?page=2)