Just had a new internet service installed at the moment it's delivering about 730 Mbps downstream and 100 Mbps upstream. How does that compare with what other people are getting. Surprisingly, it's not fibre direct to my desk like my ultra-fast service in Thailand - this is coax.
Well now, we had the choice between the existing service at a nominal 100 Mbps but which actually delivers about 55 Mbps on a good day, downhill with a following wind, or a competitor's service at a nominal 1 Gbps which it turns out, delivers around 700 Mbps. We probably don't need that monster download speed but as it's half the price of the existing "100 Mbps" service, we'll have it anyway!
@Paulos_the_fog When I signed up to the Virgin cable modem service it was advertised as 512kbps ... but they were lying, it was actually 600k.
For many years it kept going up in speed for the same price ... but eventually they started putting the price up too.
@Paulos_the_fog Ha, I've got fiber direct to the home, and 1gig down and up. I'm now getting 1.4gig for cheaper, and they have 8. I'm going to try and persuade them to let me have the 8, so I can blog about it, with my popular influencer bit. Perhaps my 8 readers will find it amusing.
Anyway, it becomes useful with Linux where I am always downloading updates. The main internet is finally catching up to 1gig, on everything -- torrents and downloads. 8gig will be faster than my internal ethernet. How will I upgrade that? :)
Where are you based?
@Paulos_the_fog toronto, canada We have a wonderful monopoly Bell Canada, that can put a billion dollars into this, and extract blood from a stone.
@Paulos_the_fog I get 200/20 over coax since that's all I want to pay for. I could go up to 1000/50.
DSL is available, but it ranges from 0.5 to 30 depending on the area. There are also line-of-sight towers that can go up to 30 or so.
Fiber is shockingly expensive to install here and pretty much just for businesses.
This is 1Gbps/100Mbps service. We are are in a small village in rural Luxembourg (350 inhabitants) so it's surprisingly fast for that sort of location. The engineer who installed it said the company were already testing a 2.5Gbps service prior to rolling it out!
4G out here in the stix delivers a creditable 40Mbps/16Mbps. So far, 5G has only made it into the large tows.
@Paulos_the_fog We have terrible connectivity across wide swaths of the US. The coax, fiber, and line-of-sight were only added due to massive state funding ten years ago. Washington's investment was a lifesaver for this smaller community. But upload speed still isn't great.
4G and 5G is often almost unusable during peak times, so I don't even count them.
One of the issues here that there are two schools in the village; both are heavy internet users which degrades the ADSL service during the day. They don't use the service we have had installed today.
@Paulos_the_fog I don't need anything remotely near the 130Mbps downstream I've got at the moment. I'd be quite happy to pay less for a slower service, but that doesn't seem to be on offer.