What is your Internet connection?

In My Humble Opinion
21

I have 25/25 mbps for $65/month.

In addition to not being shared, with FiOS internet traffic and television are on different light frequency bands and have no effect on each other. Cable internet uses several channels for each connection - faster internet speeds mean fewer channels available for television.

22

I had DSL until something screwy happened and my connection would fail after 8pm every night. ATT could just send out a tech to fix it right? Well no. They don’t work after 7 and if they came before 8 they’d tell me my line was fine. So I got cable.

23

I used to have ADSL until I moved and ended up in a location too far from an Exchange to get it, so had to take Cable. Luckily it was fast and reliable Cable, and then after a short couple of months their plans improved and now I get a supersized quota* for a very reasonable price.

*Down here in non-America, all our Internet plans have strict download limits

24

Verizon aircard (USB modem) plugged into a Kyocera wireless modem. Our two laptops are set up in a network and we share a wireless printer.

25

Judging by my speed, I would guess kite string and Dixie cups.

26

I agree I hated Comcast and went with ATT-DSL and am very pleased so far.

27

I am a techno-peasant and do not understand the options given. I turn on my mac and it connects wirelessly to a box in my basement, which the phone company rents to me. I don’t know what that is.

And, as long as it works, I’m happy in my ignorance (shhh - don’t tell Cecil! :cool:)

28

10mbps fibreoptic. It’s not cable so I voted “other”.

29

3.0Mbps DSL. It’s the lowest we can get besides dial-up. It used to be 1.0.

I find that it is sufficient as long as everything is working properly.

30

I use fiberoptic (hikari) option so I chose “other.” During my last speed test, it averaged 150mbps for downloads and 100mps for uploads.

31

I had that back in the late 90’s! I had the coolest, geekiest looking antenna strapped to my roof, and all my nerdy friends were jealous. It was fast. and the “always on” connection changed my internet habits forever.

Since then, I had Cable, Free Net-Zero, Cable again, DSL, Cable again, “free” wi-fi, and now I’m back on cable again (after my “free” wifi provider changed their “security polices” )

32

You have a wireless conection to a DSL or Fiber-optic modem, which is what the phone companies offer. DSL means your bits and bytes are actually electrons pumped through a copper line, and fiber optic means you use beams of light bouncing around inside of a thin hollow tube. It really doesn’t matter, unless you are a geek, though.

33

Other - Fixed Wireless
A tower transmits to a radio antenna mounted on my house.
(Just as Leaffan’s response.)

Just now I see (via speedtest.net) 0.82 (down) and 0.34 (up) Mbps in-country and 0.18/0.19 to the other side of the world (New York), slower than usual. (Probably seems very slow to you, but much faster than our earlier connections.)

$400 to install. After a few free months it’s supposed to be $28/month but (please don’t tell anyone!) after several months, we’ve never gotten a bill.

34

I have an ethernet port in the wall beside my door, much like I also have a telephone socket. However, the two networks are completely unrelated.

35

Other. I go out on the roof and throw abacuses with pre-arranged beads at passing cars and hope they throw some back at me that will be numerically arranged so as to create a picture of a topless sorority girl once I’ve translated the binary. I’m thinking about getting DSL though.

36

In my rental in Seville, DSL; I would have preferred cable, but the cable company doesn’t have my building in their records (they do have the building across the street, but not mine :smack:).

In my house in northern Spain, radio-based internet. This was an initiative from the Regional Government, who were looking for a way to get decent-speed internet to every nook and cranny without having to wait for cable or depend on Telefónica’s (famously non-existant) good wishes. Cable is not available, when I moved into that house you still needed to get a phone line with Telefónica before you could get any internet supplier (now you can get the line with other companies as well), and the previous occupants had painted over the phone jack… getting DSL would have meant:

  1. get a line with Telefónica,
  2. wait two weeks before I could call someone to put in a new jack,
  3. which I would have had to pay for since it’s in the house, but the someone would still have had to be Telefónica-authorized and hired through them,
  4. then order DSL,
  5. which would have taken at least 2 more weeks from Telefónica and up to a couple of months from other suppliers (they needed Telefónica to set up the line for DSL, and big-T would drag their feet about it)
    Things are better now, I may re-consider DSL one of these ages, specially since the radio-net company was bought by… who else? Telefónica.

I also have a dongle. I got it when they had just hit the market: it’s slow as molasses, but I only pay for how much I use it and when I use it, a set of conditions which isn’t offered any more (and current offers are still slow as molasses). I only use it when there is absolutely nothing else available and I really, really need to get in; the last time I used it to bill a customer from a hotel with no internet access.

37

Yow! That’s faster down than my satellite but not by much. I have been hoping that wireless (if it ever get’s near enough), would increase my speed by a few fold.

Today, after a speed test on the satellite I get - 700k down and 90 up. Anywhere.

38

Opps I said DSL but I forgot I recently changed to cable.
25MB down
1MB up

39

Docsis 3.0 cable…currently 34 MB/s down, 12 MB/s up! (W00t!)

40

ADSL2 (16 meg uncapped)

Does that count as DSL?
ETA: 16 meg is more than adequate for my needs. I was looking up at yojimbo’s post and mis-read it as 250mb. F*ck!

I wish Had faster upstream. I could send big files direct to family members.