pcmag.com— In a recent PC Magazine article, writer Jeremy Kaplan did a fantastic job of exposing the true Internet access speeds of the large consumer providers. The results are surprising.
Jul 7, 2007View in Crawl 4
Correct, Verizon is awesome. My FiOS speeds are always as advertised. I never get throttled, either - but I don't download as heavily as I used to.Any sluggishness with loading websites is with DNS/ crazy routes. I don't hold Verizon responsible
And what's 950 multiplied by 8? Oh yeah, 7.6Mbit; you're close to your advertised there, stop complaining and learn the difference between bit and byte.
90gb isn't s**t. Download 3 seasons of a TV show in DVD format. 35gb right there easily. With a 120kbps connection (1.5Mbit, fairly average), you can probably download around 300gb in one month if you downloaded nonstop, or about 9gb a day.
Yeah, what msgyrd said.I was downloading TV shows from torrent sites, comedy audio cds (eg. Emo Phillips) from Usenet and the odd blue movie from some naughty sites.
Was this article written in the 90's? 3mbits is an average internet speed? I live in Arizona, and Cox is at 12mbits right now, and going up soon (Been getting 20mbits lately so I'm sure they're about to raise it). I haven't had 3mbits since like 2002. And seriously, even the worst connections I've heard of still don't get only 200kbit/s, that's barely faster than dial-up. Buried for inaccuracy.
I apologize for gloating in advance:I have 10/10 Fiber and I get 9.5-10.1 dl and 9.9-30mbps ul with spikes on the upload over 60mbps! The upload speed is all over the place, but never below 9mbps and the download is much more consistent. It seems that they mostly restrict the pipe to me, and the pipe from me uses whatever is available in the neighborhood while maintaining at least 9mbps. It's about $20/month more than the ADSL I had that never got over 0.5 mbps ul and was between 0.5 and 0.7 on the download, even though I paid for 1.5megs. Surewest rocks, but I hear their offerings in Roseville are crap [no fiber, dsl only].
portfoliosoJul 8, 2007
Correct, Verizon is awesome. My FiOS speeds are always as advertised. I never get throttled, either - but I don't download as heavily as I used to.Any sluggishness with loading websites is with DNS/ crazy routes. I don't hold Verizon responsible
dr4g0nnnJul 8, 2007
And what's 950 multiplied by 8? Oh yeah, 7.6Mbit; you're close to your advertised there, stop complaining and learn the difference between bit and byte.
msgyrdJul 8, 2007
90gb isn't s**t. Download 3 seasons of a TV show in DVD format. 35gb right there easily. With a 120kbps connection (1.5Mbit, fairly average), you can probably download around 300gb in one month if you downloaded nonstop, or about 9gb a day.
coldfusion1970Jul 8, 2007
Yeah, what msgyrd said.I was downloading TV shows from torrent sites, comedy audio cds (eg. Emo Phillips) from Usenet and the odd blue movie from some naughty sites.
vash63Jul 9, 2007
Was this article written in the 90's? 3mbits is an average internet speed? I live in Arizona, and Cox is at 12mbits right now, and going up soon (Been getting 20mbits lately so I'm sure they're about to raise it). I haven't had 3mbits since like 2002. And seriously, even the worst connections I've heard of still don't get only 200kbit/s, that's barely faster than dial-up. Buried for inaccuracy.
radiometricAug 28, 2007
I apologize for gloating in advance:I have 10/10 Fiber and I get 9.5-10.1 dl and 9.9-30mbps ul with spikes on the upload over 60mbps! The upload speed is all over the place, but never below 9mbps and the download is much more consistent. It seems that they mostly restrict the pipe to me, and the pipe from me uses whatever is available in the neighborhood while maintaining at least 9mbps. It's about $20/month more than the ADSL I had that never got over 0.5 mbps ul and was between 0.5 and 0.7 on the download, even though I paid for 1.5megs. Surewest rocks, but I hear their offerings in Roseville are crap [no fiber, dsl only].
radiometricAug 28, 2007
...and encrypt your traffic while you're at it!