Surfing at 16Mb goodness!!

[Elie]

Just got 16Mb service today from Bell!
WOW!!!

Download speeds 1630KBps.

Totally awesome

[Evildead666]

Enjoy the sailor moon porn

Full HD streaming should be possible with that.
Whats your up speed ?

[Elie]

Only 1Mb but I can pay an extra $5 and bump it to 7Mb. Wonder if I should?

[Umfriend]

Is that 16MBit or 16Mbyte?

I'm on 25MBit and it's about the slowest I can get :d

[Brian Ellis]

It's all right for some. Think of us poor buggers that cannot get more than 2 Mbit/s theoretical. In practice, if I go to ISP's site, at a calm time, it will touch 1.8 Mbit/s and 1.2 Mbit/s elsewhere; however. during working hours or evening, 500-800 kbit/s is the norm. Yesterday evening, I was downloading a driver for an HP printer and it dropped at times to 18 kbit/s but I suspect it was HP's server that was overloaded. There is vague talk that we may get 4 Mbit/s "by the end of the year" but I'll believe it when I see it.

Remember 56 kbit/s DUN that usually maxed at 40 kbit/s????

[Fat Tone]

I'm not crowing, but I am really enjoying the speed race here in the UK. On Virgin I am paying for a 50Mbit line, which frequently maxes that. It can be a little slow during peak early-evening times but I work from home a lot and daytime speeds are usually excellent. Upload is ~1.5Mbps.

By the end of the year 100Mbit down / 10Mbit up will be available, and from the published prices I don't think it will cost me any more. It will be £45/month on its own and £35/month in a bundle.

[Tjalfe]

congratulations on bell actually having decent lines to your house.. I can get 1Mb at home, or Rogers..
you may want to see if teksavvy cable is available at your place, they have a 15Mb package, with unlimited downloads for pretty cheap

....and yes, Canada is quickly becoming a third world country with regards to what is offered for internet here.. even if you can get a fast connection, they cap it at ridiculous low transfers/month, with crazy overage fees, and throttle your connection, depending on what you are doing.

[Technoid]

To my ISP i got 100/100 on the internet in general I have about 30~50

And if My ISP gets any ideas about capping or anything else I'm on another in less than a Week (yeah, i still have to pay the calender month out but I'm not stuck in any way)

[UtwigMU]

I had 20/20 at previous place, only 10/10 here. I watch movies that are on my server over VPN.

[Jammrock]

Wish I was in an area with FIOS.

http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/Internet/

U-verse isn't bad though.

http://www.att.com/u-verse/explore/internet-landing.jsp?wtSlotClick=1-0023EO-0-1&WT.svl=calltoaction

I get about 6-7 Mbps down, on a good day, and about 512kbps-726kbps up. Stupid small town monopolies.

[Sasq]

I'm sadly back to adsl (1) though uncapped speed, so its a bit fuzzy what actual download is.

Just gotta wait till the NBN gets rolled out in oz to get FITH again

[Elie]

Thanks guys, I do work for Bell and all my services are with them (it helps when i get an employee discount)

But when 25Mb is available I will upgrade for sure. Now I'm happy going from 5Mb to 16Mb