holy shmoley thats fast!

[simon_C]

just recently we moved into a new house. the comcast broadband internet guy came and set up a connection for me. when he was testing it, he said we had the best signal he had ever seen. i was thinking "yeah that'll make my connection a little better"...

ive been running consecutive bandwidth tests and several different ones.

ive been scoring from 7.8mbps to 14.5mbps consistantly!!! mostly above 9!!!

im so psyched because my old connection scored about 3.5 on average on these same tests... oh boy this will be fun...

[Starbuck3733T]

That's great! I was peaking out at 6.1 the other day - living in the boonies has it's advantages, no one sharing the bandwidth w\ me.

[kurabii]

damn straight im in the boonies too!
but has its disadvantages.
- not alot of interest sharing individuals. i.e. linux/computer.
newely picked up hobby modding...

ESA

[Starbuck3733T]

Ahh, for me the boonies is just where my house is - I work for penn state university as an admin type... plenty of likeminded ness. Great place!

[simon_C]

see, im on the edge of the urbs. but apparently im right near one of the signal repeaters so my connection is fresh and unused.

bwahaha wait till i get my web/file/bittorrent server up!

[biggiy6]

My connection must be screwing up on me. A quick test at dsl reports says I am getting 88kbps. That's terrible on broadband I think. Especially since it says that is 97% worse than the average roadrunner user.

I know it's much better than dial up so I am happy with it. Not sure how to tweak it and get some more out of it though.

I am uploading at 57.9kb/s which is supposed to be better than the average. I don't care about my upload I want my download better lol.

[Fibbles]

I'm in a great cable node because there's nobody on it! With my newly upgraded Comcast I'm pulling over 8 Mbps and as high as 8.6 Mbps.

When I started I was stuck with IDSL which is based on ISDN and limited to 144/144. I thought that was fast, but then Comcast offered their HSI pack and I was getting 1.5/256. Then they upgraded to 3.0, then to 4.0, then to 6/384. now it's at 8 for $42 a month.

[biggiy6]

I should be getting between 5 and 8 and I can't even get 2! I think it's time to find some more tests to run.

[simon_C]

http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ seems to be the most reliable ive seen.

[lbreevesii]

holy crap man. I'm on a 3meg service now, 5 is avalible here...I get 4.5 at school max.

[Reitau]

The UK is slowly rolling out better ADSL services - this is different to cable as there is no cable outside london!

So now using a standard home phone line in rural England I am getting 5.1MBPS which is pretty cool! If our phone exchange was a bit better then I could have up to 8MBPS for same price.

Soon ADSL2 is to be fully rolled out here using 24MBPS - now that would rock!

[Fibbles]

The UK is slowly rolling out better ADSL services - this is different to cable as there is no cable outside london!

So now using a standard home phone line in rural England I am getting 5.1MBPS which is pretty cool! If our phone exchange was a bit better then I could have up to 8MBPS for same price.

Soon ADSL2 is to be fully rolled out here using 24MBPS - now that would rock!

That was the state of New Mexico a few years ago. After leaving California from the west, then going east until Texas, there was nothing inbetween. Nobody figured that people inbetween would want high speed (hello?) or that there was even a market for it, but it has exploded here with different shops offering boradband access comming and going.

Luckily Comcast doesn't suck in New Mexico. If you look at Broadbandreports.com, you'll see lots of horror stories about Comcast, but in NM, we're lucky (and when I have called tech support, it's always a short wait that ends when I get to talk to a girl with a nice voice ^_^ )

[furious trout]

The UK is slowly rolling out better ADSL services - this is different to cable as there is no cable outside london!


:huh:
Erm yes there is it's all over the country(Telewest covers approx 25% of Uk Households), I'm using cable and I'm ~500 miles North of London.....

[GodsUnicorn]

I'm on cable in the North East and have been for a few years now.

[Reitau]

:huh:
Erm yes there is it's all over the country(Telewest covers approx 25% of Uk Households), I'm using cable and I'm ~500 miles North of London.....

Well there is no cable anywhere within 100miles of me then!! :D

Only ADSL south of birmingham according to here http://www.telewest.co.uk/websales/availability/check_availability.do

Entered in a whole load of postcodes and it just points you to Virgin ADSL instead.

Is cable any better though? Never even seen it / used it?

[furious trout]

Don't forget NTL as well....

In my experiance cable is more reliable, I've only had one major outage in 3 years with TW - by contrast I manage 3 BT business ADSL lines at work (Edinburgh Birmingham & London) and service levels' a bloody disgrace, especially when you consider it's a busniness line and the charge you considerably more (like £60 pm for 2Mb/s!!) for an alleged better SLA and lower contention.

At the end of the day regardless of who you choose for ADSL you're relying on BT's infrastructure (unless you live in the tiny minority of places where LLU has actually had an effect...), With cable obviously that's not the case.

When I moved here I had the choice of cable or ADSL it was a no brainer for me cable all the way :nods:

[davewolf]

im on NTL 10mbit cable and i nearly allways get 1000kb per second from good sites, game updates and so on.

[fillip]

I was on TW 4Mb cable at my old house, and it was almost always >4Mb speeds. Connection was dropped once in the 4-5 yrs I had BB with them (not always 4Mb I might add but had 2 free upgrades along the way) and that was because my old man cut the cable sligthly whist doing some digging nearby. Engineer came and fixed it within 48 hours and no problems other than that.

Price was god too. For full cable package, BB and unlimited calls it came to ~£55 p/m

That's why I'm so gutted I can't have cable at the new place.

[PrinzII]

Been on cable for 3 years. Started 1.5/256, went to 4/500 now 6/1. Hopefully, I'll see Verizon FIOS speeds soon.

[Da_Rude_Baboon]

The upload speeds on cable used to be bad as my sister had TW cable in Edinburgh and had 1Mb down but only 128 up.

[furious trout]

Indeed they did, but on the last upgrade I got ( 2 => 4 Mb iirc) they bumped the upload speeds as well ( I *think* i'm on 384 now..)