How Fast is your Internet?

[Nguyen Duc Hieu]

Here in high tech-land Germany an excavator did cut the cable that provided our allegedly 700MBit Internet.
I could have a look in it's construction: a post-WW2 cable with tar-paper isolated copper wires !
The repaired the damage and we still use this museum-ripe cable...for 2014's Internet.

This is just my speculation, but perhaps what you saw was just the metal cover and extra protection for the very thin fiber cable at the very center of it. Or maybe those are multi-purpose cables, and the metal wires serve some other purposes as well.

 

[rin67630]

This is just my speculation, but perhaps what you saw was just the metal cover and extra protection for the very thin fiber cable at the very center of it. Or maybe those are multi-purpose cables, and the metal wires serve some other purposes as well.

No, no. I have seen the old cable as it was repaired wire by wire. You may not be able to figure, but living in an old developed country has its drawbacks.

 

[Ifti]

I pay for 1GB fibre, up and down.
When I do a speed test its around 980MBps up and down consistently.

 

[Lyrca]

I pay 60 euros for 8Gbps (up and down) and an additional 16 euros per line for unlimited 5G on my mobile. Honestly I never need the 8Gbps. The provided router by my ISP includes a 2.5Gbps switch which is what I get in my speed tests (PC with an 2.5Gbps port) and another SFP port for 10Gbps which I don’t use. This plan includes Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime which is nice to have.

 

[profcutter]

I pay 60 euros for 8Gbps (up and down) and an additional 16 euros per line for unlimited 5G on my mobile. Honestly I never need the 8Gbps. The provided router by my ISP includes a 2.5Gbps switch which is what I get in my speed tests (PC with an 2.5Gbps port) and another SFP port for 10Gbps which I don’t use. This plan includes Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime which is nice to have.

Holy moly 8Gigs? Wow.

 

[max2]

My friend has 10 Gbps Fiber download and upload but could get 50 Gbps download and 50 Gbps upload. Though really expensive the 50 Gbps.

https://ziplyfiber.com/internet/multigig

 

[Nermal]

I'm probably overpaying too. I was originally on 100/20 and upgraded to 1000/500 for the extra upload speed... but they've subsequently introduced a 300/100 plan which is probably more cost-effective! I should actually get around to talking to my ISP one of these days...

Since this thread is "active" again and reminded me... I switched ISP a few weeks ago, and while I'm still on 1000/500 I'm now paying $15/month less for it.

 

[profcutter]

My friend has 10 Gbps Fiber download and upload but could get 50 Gbps download and 50 Gbps upload. Though really expensive the 50 Gbps.

https://ziplyfiber.com/internet/multigig

Damn! But no love for west side Olympia. It’s only Comcast, CenturyLink, or what we’re doing: vzw 5g.

 

[xraydoc]

Ting fiber is being installed in my neighborhood over the next few weeks. Symmetric 1Gbps down/up.

Currently have Xfinity 1.2Gbit down, 30Mbit up. The upload speed is too slow for me.

 

[Buadhai]

I live in Thailand and pay about 700 baht (US$20) for this:

Download:   568.71 Mbps (data used: 633.7 MB)
Upload:     478.09 Mbps (data used: 458.6 MB)

That was using Ookla's command line version of their Speedtest on an MBA about three meters from the router.

It's fiber to the house.

 

[Lyrca]

Holy moly 8Gigs? Wow.

It's pretty awesome, although I don't max out my connection, I probably use 4Gbps at most when a server is running a backup and I am downloading a fast torrent. My ISP has a 5Gbps (down) 700Mbps (up) plan but it does not included any streaming services, hence the 8Gbps (down/up) in my case which is overkill.

At best on my PC I get the max of what my ethernet port allows :

 

[JustAnExpat]

I live in Thailand and pay about 700 baht (US$20) for this:

Download:   568.71 Mbps (data used: 633.7 MB)
Upload:     478.09 Mbps (data used: 458.6 MB)

That was using Ookla's command line version of their Speedtest on an MBA about three meters from the router.

It's fiber to the house.

Who are you using? DTAC? Or 3BB?

 

[Buadhai]

Who are you using? DTAC? Or 3BB?

It’s TOT

 

[JustAnExpat]

It’s TOT

Is TOT still blocking "those" websites? You know, the one with the now King, his then girlfriend, and Air Marshall Fufu at the Air Marshall's birthday party, where he was being fed cake by his girlfriend topless?