At office in Central Tokyo:
Down: 87
Up: 94
DSL because Comcast kept raising their rates. Every. Damn. Month. I got tired of spending 1-2 hours on hold with them every other month.
So it’s DSL from the phone company for $30/month: 2.37 down, 0.71 up.
But it’s fast enough to stream Roku. Barely.
3.6 Mbps Down; 0.9 Mbps Up. For that we pay $14/month to a WiFi service here in rural (no telephone lines) Thailand.
That speed seems plenty for watching videos. I’ve got to wonder why you all need the huge speeds you quote. It is outages, slow response turn-around times, signal hijacks, and intermittent “you didn’t pay your bill” messages that sometimes cause trouble for us. (We pay our bill; I’m not sure whether our provider pays his providers or his providers just have faulty software. :eek: )
DL at 95 Mbps, UL 25Mbps from Spark in Hamilton New Zealand on a 100 Meg up/ 30 Meg down plan.
ping 12 ms
Download 167.84 Mbps
Upload can go as high as 30Mbps but is usually throttled down to 15 Mbps
I live in Paradise.
I get two different readings. Each time I run it I get about 6 down and about 2 up Then — repeating immediately — I get about 18 down and about 3 up.
Highly repeatable pattern. ATT most expensive. Carson City NV
52 down, 10.5 up
Houston, TX
15 to 16 both ways. Which actually beats the Hell out of the 28,600 kbits I was getting say a year and a half ago on dial-up.
45 down, 6 up. Suburban Bellevue, WA with Comcast.
46/12 in Portland, OR.
Wouldn’t it be useful to indicate what KIND of connection we have?
Cable modems aren’t the same thing as the various flavors of DSL and aren’t directly comparable, since cable modems are shared in the local loop, and DSL isn’t.
So if there are a dozen people on that local loop, you’re sharing that bandwidth with them, which means that you won’t necessarily get that maximum quoted speed. DSL on the other hand, guarantees that speed.
That said, I live in Dallas, and have AT&T Uverse internet at about 22 mbps down/1.5 mbps up.
I don’t know if “need” is the word; it’s definitely a luxury. But, in my case, it’s just the standard Comcast plan and they recently had us all get new modems following which my download speeds jumped from 20 to 90Mbps. Google Fiber was making noise about getting into the Chicago area and that’s always a motivation for the existing providers to sharpen their acts.
The speeds are nice for downloading large PC games or having multiple people streaming on different devices and other quality of life type things. Not necessary, of course, but we notice the improvement.