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[darkrider2]

Whoa whats with all these high speeds? Time Warner Cable basically has a monopoly on internet where I live (Ohio - Akron area), we get 3 Mbit/s and its approximately ~$40 a month.

My universities landline was 25 Mbit/s download before I moved back home, and I'm not going back to the dorms again so... guess I'll live with it.

[Telgin]

I don't have to deal with it much anymore, but my parents live where cable and DSL is still unavailable.  For many years they had satellite, with a 250 MB per day cap at 1.5Mbps for about $70 a month.  If you exceeded that your speeds dropped to below dial up for 24 hours started at the point you broke the limit.  Many rages and threats of murder resulted from that horrid setup.  Hughes.net is awful.  Their commercials about downloading entire music albums, while technically true, are so borderline false advertising it ought to be illegal.

They now have cellular based internet through I believe Verizon.  They have 8 GB per month at something like 3 Mbps I believe.  Resets on the 3rd, no rolling limit.  Also about $70 a month I think.

Yes, it sucks whenever I visit them, because I know I can't use Youtube or download anything big, nor can I play many games because they want to download half gigabyte updates all the time.  Steam games and MMO updates are the biggest culprits.

[Haspen]

Our house cable holds 20mbit/s. Or 2,5mb/s if you prefer it that way

But to assure everyone in house gets reliable internet, I've set the router limits to 1.25mb/s per computer.

On other hand: No bandwidth limits, we always pay the same amount :3 In dollars, according to current exchange rates, we pay 18.5 USD/month for our internet.

[Chink]

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I can only hope for faster internet someday.

[ibot66]

I have 0.7 MB/s. 3 MBS seems blistering fast, to me. Do I win?

[MrSparky]

Quit your whining. Except Beren, Beren has a right to whine. I would become a burglar before I went back to dialup.



The local ISP uses wimax to distribute a Comcast connection. We live a mile outside the maximum range of the wimax equipment and there are trees so signal degradation is a major issue. I go to Tim Horton's 15 miles away when I want to download anything of reasonable size.

That was the third time I tried to do a speedtest. The first 2 stalled out.