What`s your downloding speed and how much do you pay for it ?
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20/3 Mbit for 349 sek or 37 euro.
It's nice downloading at 2~3 MB/s, but that rarely happens.
Torrents usually only go up to 1 MB/s max, due to my uploading at the same time.
All in all, I'm pretty content with my line, but I'll be upgrading to fibre broadband and 24/24 Mbit when I move.
Also, we can get 56k for free, but it'll occupy the phone line and no one wants it.
It's nice downloading at 2~3 MB/s, but that rarely happens.
Torrents usually only go up to 1 MB/s max, due to my uploading at the same time.
All in all, I'm pretty content with my line, but I'll be upgrading to fibre broadband and 24/24 Mbit when I move.
Also, we can get 56k for free, but it'll occupy the phone line and no one wants it.
I pay 80$ USD for one of those package deals; Cable, phone, and internet. The connection is 4.5mB/S (note: its Byte, not bit. 8 bits is only 1 byte. I only say this cause a few people may be confused as they said they get 8Mbit conenctions, which would only be a 1mB/s connection. mB is megabyte, mb is megabit)
You don't measure bandwidth in byte.
Don't ask me why we don't..
But it's just confusing if you start measuring your bandwidth in byte.
But yeah, there's a difference between bits and bytes.
You use bits to express bandwidth and byte to express speeds.
For example, my bandwidth is 20/3 megabit (18/2.8 effective) which means I can get speeds up to 2.25 megabytes per second downloading and around 350 kilobytes per second uploading.
Also worth mentioning is that your bandwidth is NEVER actually as high as your ISP claims it to be.
I'm lucky I live near a node and have near 90% signal strength/quality.
Others are not as lucky and end up with an 8 Mbit connection that is only 3 Mbit effective in reality.
Sucks to not be me.
Don't ask me why we don't..
But it's just confusing if you start measuring your bandwidth in byte.
But yeah, there's a difference between bits and bytes.
You use bits to express bandwidth and byte to express speeds.
For example, my bandwidth is 20/3 megabit (18/2.8 effective) which means I can get speeds up to 2.25 megabytes per second downloading and around 350 kilobytes per second uploading.
Also worth mentioning is that your bandwidth is NEVER actually as high as your ISP claims it to be.
I'm lucky I live near a node and have near 90% signal strength/quality.
Others are not as lucky and end up with an 8 Mbit connection that is only 3 Mbit effective in reality.
Sucks to not be me.
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Well I think for the best deals the best place to be is right here in Japan. Companies are trying so hard to get new customers and prices are so low for such good connections.
I've got the best residential connection available here 光 "Hikari" fiber line.
It's potential is 100Mbit. As Denamic stated most users of broadband do not get the advertised bandwidth. I'm not as close as I'd like to be but I'm very happy with my connection. The fastest I've ever downloaded anything was at a whopping 2 MegaBytes per second. I usually get around 1 Megabyte a sec in/out all day everyday, It also depends on my servers traffic.
But it only costs me a mear… ¥5130 per month.
I recommend that everyone simply take this easy, fast & fun speedtest and post their results here. This is what my connection looks like.
desioner
Well I think for the best deals the best place to be is right here in Japan. Companies are trying so hard to get new customers and prices are so low for such good connections.
I've got the best residential connection available here 光 "Hikari" fiber line.
It's potential is 100Mbit. As Denamic stated most users of broadband do not get the advertised bandwidth. I'm not as close as I'd like to be but I'm very happy with my connection. The fastest I've ever downloaded anything was at a whopping 2 MegaBytes per second. I usually get around 1 Megabyte a sec in/out all day everyday, It also depends on my servers traffic.
But it only costs me a mear… ¥5130 per month.
I recommend that everyone simply take this easy, fast & fun speedtest and post their results here. This is what my connection looks like.
desioner
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