Internet Speeds around the world

[bmwpower]

Hey i wanted to know what you guys use for downloads and the rate that you get. I use Limewire for songs and Bit comet for movies. I have high speed cable reated at 5 MB. Obviosly i don't ever download at that rate. The fastest I've ever hit is 1.3 MB/s but that was downloading CS Source from the steam network. P2P networks are alot slower obviosly i've hit as high as 200 kb and as low as 5 but avg is about 30 kb. I heard that in other countires the net is way faster, like in Korea I hear they have net speeds rated at 30 Mb/s. I know that some places have dial-up where they pay per minute (egypt). Was wondering how the net was in europe or wherever you guys are at.


EDIT: ANYONE KNOW a good site that test internet speed we could use it to get a roughly even comparison..i know the time u try it matter depending on users on but for the sake of this i say we let it go..

[:Exige:]

i have a 2mb service which is enough. My brother has 8mb, which IMO is a bit overkill

[adamfraser]

1mb .. highest the crap BT lines can support here !!

125/130kb/s download , through Internet, P2P and BitTorrent.

Cousin in Aus has 24mb ADSL2 , Il get him to do a speedtest. Although only took him hour and half to download the 3.2GB Vista Download.

[Cyco]

I'd love 24Mb/s, but I'm too far from the exchange, so I have to settle for 8Mb/s.

[adamfraser]

I'd love 24Mb/s, but I'm too far from the exchange, so I have to settle for 8Mb/s.

I am very close to the Exchange, and get 1meg lines. They really need to upgrade... need tro contact BT about it.

[car_fiend]

Download 384 kbps, upload 128 kbps
upgrading to 786 kbps, 512 kbps

[derekthetree]

on 4mb here i think...

[Cyco]

I am very close to the Exchange, and get 1meg lines. They really need to upgrade... need tro contact BT about it.

The line isnt the issue - I'm on a line the former monoply carrier said can only take 28kb/s, yet with a different ISP installing their DSLAM in the exchange they can give me 8Mb/s.

Its more what BT are willing to invest in DSLAMs or what they are willing to sell you - here the former monolopy carrier is also a part owner in pay TV and wont sell faster than 1.5Mb/s. Streaming TV requires 1.6Mb/s, cant see any coincidence here at all.....

[VtecMini]

Hey i wanted to know what you guys use for downloads and the rate that you get. I use Limewire for songs and Bit comet for movies. I have high speed cable reated at 5 MB. Obviosly i don't ever download at that rate. The fastest I've ever hit is 1.3 MB/s but that was downloading CS Source from the steam network. P2P networks are alot slower obviosly i've hit as high as 200 kb and as low as 5 but avg is about 30 kb. I heard that in other countires the net is way faster, like in Korea I hear they have net speeds rated at 30 Mb/s. I know that some places have dial-up where they pay per minute (egypt). Was wondering how the net was in europe or wherever you guys are at.

I could be wrong, but I get the impression that you think that the 5Mb package you pay for means 5MB/second, which isn't quite true. The Mb is actually megabit, not mega byte. That basically means it's an eighth of what you see on the package (there's 8 bits in a byte, yeah?). So your theoretical top speed is 400kb/s. (The small b in Mb indicates that it means bits, not bytes, which is signified by a capital B).

Mine's an NTL connection, which means they arse around with it on a regular basis. I think that last time I checked, I was on 1.5Mb, but it's being upgraded to 3Mb at the end of this month. Still got a pitiful upload though.

[Zytek_Fan]

I have pathetic .5mb/s DSL

[IWantAnAudiRS6]

I have pathetic .5mb/s DSL

I have that and it's fine for me...

I wouldn't turn down 1Mb+, but I personally work fine with it.

[magracer]

I have pathetic .5mb/s DSL

I have a really pathetic 256 kb/s which usually gets ~16 kb/s. It takes me two weeks to download the weekly episode of Top Gear (I usually leave it overnight)...:P Such is life in tropics!

I pay USD$33 a month for that crap, what about you guys?

At the office it's much, much faster but I cannot really use it...

[clutch-monkey]

Mine is a bit slow, because it connects through my workstation at work - allows me to access my work computer whenever i want but i have to deal with much slower internet

[h00t_h00t]

56k

[Guest]

used to be on awful 512 k, but now on "up to 8 Mb", got 920 Kb/s this mornign!