Iths Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Heeeeey now i can play without lag!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebird Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Those are crazy numbers! That download speed is getting close to what I get inside my LAN. My results aren't nearly as good Did you run this from work or something? I don't know of any consumer grade connections offered that are anywhere near this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iths Posted April 4, 2012 Author Share Posted April 4, 2012 TG12 nuff said :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephemeros Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Way to rub your crazy-ass connection speed in our faces... I feel like I'm living in the stone age now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linkthegamer Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Did you run this from work or something? I don't know of any consumer grade connections offered that are anywhere near this. Are you basing those numbers on American ISPs? Iths's ISP is from Norway. Other parts of the world actually get very good speed. A Friend of mine from Norway has a 50mb/s connection, I believe. Way to rub your crazy-ass connection speed in our faces... I feel like I'm living in the stone age now. Nope, just not in Norway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay? Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Are you basing those numbers on American ISPs? Iths's ISP is from Norway. Other parts of the world actually get very good speed. A Friend of mine from Norway has a 50mb/s connection, I believe. North American ISPs are pretty much the worst in the developed world. Compare connections anywhere else in the world, and it's not unusual to see people with mid-tier connections in europe having two to three times the speed as someone with a high-tier connection in the United States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linkthegamer Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 North American ISPs are pretty much the worst in the developed world. Compare connections anywhere else in the world, and it's not unusual to see people with mid-tier connections in europe having two to three times the speed as someone with a high-tier connection in the United States. Yeah. Their are a few high-speed ones in the States, but they are only in certain areas and require you pay out the wazoo for them or be a corporate entity. I remember thinking 25 mb/s was like the highest you could go since that was the "Super duper mega fast ultra fantastic premium service pack" for most ISPs here. Then I learn their or 100mb/s connections out there and that is not even the max or a "top secret corporate only" tier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay? Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Yeah. Their are a few high-speed ones in the States, but they are only in certain areas and require you pay out the wazoo for them or be a corporate entity. I remember thinking 25 mb/s was like the highest you could go since that was the "Super duper mega fast ultra fantastic premium service pack" for most ISPs here. Then I learn their or 100mb/s connections out there and that is not even the max or a "top secret corporate only" tier. Yeah, I'm going to be moving to FiOS pretty soon, spending almost a hundred a month on a 75Mb connection. I have a cousin in london who heard that and practically crapped himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthetica Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 We could get like 50m, if we lived like half a mile away. Now we only get promised 20, but we only get up to 10. I'm in Holland by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iths Posted April 4, 2012 Author Share Posted April 4, 2012 Well the nett in Norway is not that good sweden is much better home i only have 10mbt/s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebird Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Are you basing those numbers on American ISPs? Iths's ISP is from Norway. Other parts of the world actually get very good speed. A Friend of mine from Norway has a 50mb/s connection, I believe. I am located in the north-western United States. I've only seen speeds like Iths is getting on a business line. Since my ISP (Comcast) has a monthly cap of 250 Gigs, faster isn't always better. I already had to shut our connection off a couple times since certain people in the house don't know how to moderate their usage despite repeated explanations of how to do it and why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay? Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 I am located in the north-western United States. I've only seen speeds like Iths is getting on a business line. Since my ISP (Comcast) has a monthly cap of 250 Gigs, Get out while you can. Comcast is lowering the bandwidth caps by ridiculous amounts, and not telling anyone. 4 months ago, the bandwidth cap was 500 gigs. Don't worry too much about it though, i game on steam, and have multiple computers, as well as three users who stream netflix. We always clock in 600-800 gigs a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebird Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Get out while you can. Comcast is lowering the bandwidth caps by ridiculous amounts, and not telling anyone. 4 months ago, the bandwidth cap was 500 gigs. Are you sure? Their website listed the cap as 250Gig since at least four or so years ago and has the few times I have checked since then. I first checked it about four years ago when I found out that there was a cap. Also, there are only two ISPs that we can get at my house, Comcast or Centurylink. Comcast costs more and has a cap but Centurylink kept charging us for stuff that wasn't ours and for the first two months our connection quality was terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilchard123 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 I win. And you know the really annoying thing? My mother refuses to switch to a different provider because she likes the ISP we have now. We can't switch to most other providers because the problem is with our house's cabling. The one we can switch to has just upgraded the local switch box to give minimum of 15Mbps, with an upper limit of 40Mbps. The package I want to switch to is only £5/month more expensive, and is uncapped. They also claim that they will upgrade the cables to our house for free. In fact, it may even be cheaper because we'd be putting all of our communication stuff with one provider. And yes, while BT apparently doesn't have the best customer support, it's probably better than "I don't know what the problem is, sir. Try talking to our sales team." "I don't know what the problem is, sir. Try speaking to our tech support team." "I don't know what the problem is, sir. Try talking to our sales team." "I don't know what the problem is, sir. Try speaking to our tech support team." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebird Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 We can't switch to most other providers because the problem is with our house's cabling. ... They also claim that they will upgrade the cables to our house for free. ... They say they will do this and your mother won't even consider it? See if you can get a cost estimate for paying someone to redo the cabling. If you can clearly show that it is better to switch maybe she will cave. Maybe you should show her how to stream movies and tell her that for only another five pounds a month she could watch an UNLIMITED amount of movies. Or you could tell her that the old wiring is in danger of shorting out and killing you both in a hellish firestorm. That might do it too. EDIT: I just realized that you said TO the house not IN the house for the free wiring upgrade. The hellish firestorm thing could still work but now you can work lightning strikes into the story too or birdcrap, that stuff took out a gas station near my grandparents. You could say the wires could fall down and a spark could ignite the natural gas lines to you house. She could be responsible for the entire neighborhood exploding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay? Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Are you sure? Their website listed the cap as 250Gig since at least four or so years ago and has the few times I have checked since then. I first checked it about four years ago when I found out that there was a cap. Also, there are only two ISPs that we can get at my house, Comcast or Centurylink. Comcast costs more and has a cap but Centurylink kept charging us for stuff that wasn't ours and for the first two months our connection quality was terrible. I'm positive.I've been with comcast for about a year and have kept track of my bandwidth in relation to the cap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linkthegamer Posted April 6, 2012 Share Posted April 6, 2012 I'm positive.I've been with comcast for about a year and have kept track of my bandwidth in relation to the cap I'm on Comcast too (when i'm not on campus... i forget the campus provider). Went like 7gigs over the limit one month last year. It was because I was torrenting lots of Linux distros (and some grey area stuff I will not discuss here. Can't torrent on campus because of pirates arrrrrrrgh). Other then that managed to remain under that cap. But the cap is annoying. My phone is getting a 2.5gb cap this month which kind of ticks me off... I mean those are hard to break unless you use it a lot, but I'm still not a fan of data caps. I don't doubt Comcast might be lying about when the cap was instituted, I don't think the have the good of a rep for being completely honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilan321 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Mother of network.. :O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay? Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 I'm on Comcast too (when i'm not on campus... i forget the campus provider). Went like 7gigs over the limit one month last year. It was because I was torrenting lots of Linux distros (and some grey area stuff I will not discuss here. Can't torrent on campus because of pirates arrrrrrrgh). Other then that managed to remain under that cap. But the cap is annoying. My phone is getting a 2.5gb cap this month which kind of ticks me off... I mean those are hard to break unless you use it a lot, but I'm still not a fan of data caps. I don't doubt Comcast might be lying about when the cap was instituted, I don't think the have the good of a rep for being completely honest. Well, I have multiple PCs, and i use steam, so i usually end up downloading a dozen games once a month or so, on top of the the whole household sharing a netflix account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheap Shot Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Oh god, don't remind me that I live in Canada please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthetica Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Oh god, don't remind me that I live in Canada please. You live in Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontanspir11 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 I live in Sweden, and I can easely get up to 100mb/s. All my friends has pretty much the same speed, and you could get higher without paying a fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nethaufer Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 I would have to do one of these checks again when I get home. Here's the connection I get at school: Anyway, I get DSL and it serves me pretty well. I need to check who our provider is, but it works fine. Unless if you want to download a game through Steam, in which case I have only around 400 kb/s on a good day. Dayum, that's pretty fast. Too bad they put blockers on the good stuff. And here's my home network's test: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miniboxer Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 i got a pretty good down speed, and a cruddy up speed. my Ping in most games is terrible, and this speedtest is from a wi-fi connected computer. EDIT: faster than 56% of the US, not bad. IDK why my ping was so good here, normally it is really bad. Here is a result from pingtest.net: my house is wired for fiber-optic cables. might be part of the reason. 10 GB games on steam take around 2 hours for me to download at 1/mbps with frequent jumps, and i torrent files at about 1/mbps, with occasional drops. I am going to post the results from my school, probably will be terrible, pages take 5 seconds to load in chrome *barf*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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