Your broadband speed
I admit, I saw a thread on this on Spymac... so shoot me.
Still, I'm curious what's out there.
Please respond in the form:
Location: New York, NY
ISP: Earthlink Cable (on TimeWarner network)
Price: $42/month
<a href="http://webservices.cnet.com/bandwidth/" target="_blank">Rated speed:</a> 930 Kbps
Max file download: 200Kbytes/sec from apple.com
Get your rated speed at:
<a href="http://webservices.cnet.com/bandwidth/" target="_blank">http://webservices.cnet.com/bandwidth/</a>
Still, I'm curious what's out there.
Please respond in the form:
Location: New York, NY
ISP: Earthlink Cable (on TimeWarner network)
Price: $42/month
<a href="http://webservices.cnet.com/bandwidth/" target="_blank">Rated speed:</a> 930 Kbps
Max file download: 200Kbytes/sec from apple.com
Get your rated speed at:
<a href="http://webservices.cnet.com/bandwidth/" target="_blank">http://webservices.cnet.com/bandwidth/</a>
Comments
ISP: Optimum Online (Cablevision)
Price: I believe it's $29.99 a month but I'm not sure.
According to that link my rated speed is: Â*\t788 Kbps.
edit: Just tried again and it said 970 now.
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oh yea
Location: Ojai CA
ISP: verizon (I think)though its PROVIDED by my school
Price: free(comes with the tuition)
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ISP: Cablevision
Price: $30/month
Speed: Average about 768 kbs. (640-880 in five tries)
ISP: Cablevision Optimum Online
Price: $29.99/month
Speed: between 1.5-3mb/sec there)[/QB][/QUOTE]
I had Verizon DSL 640K up until a week and a half ago when I switched to Optimum Online. Free modem, first month free. and it's faster and cheaper. can't beat it
I get as high as 8mb/sec downstream and usually in the 3-5 mb/sec range. It depends on the time of day, server and also your modem. I got the best modem. Terajet.
ISP: AT&T Broadband Internet
Price: $50/month
Rated Speed: 1610Â*kbps
Max File Download: 360-400KB/s
Before @Home went bankrupt and AT&T made things worse:
ISP: AT&T @Home
Price: $50/month
Rated Speed: 4630 kbps
Max File Download: 800KB/s
B-)
Now I complain when I get 120KB/s. !@&$&'ing AT&T!!!!
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1046
AT&T Roadrunner Cable
Fastest (sustained) download 270kbs via Apple ftp site.
I used to get 5000 Kbps or better from that page, and now I get 1700 Kbps. And that's a burst rate too, as all my downloads start out faster, then slow down to around 1.5 Mbps.
I pay $55/mo for 2 IPs.
Is that $30 price the "bundled with premium cable TV" price, or just come-as-you-are?
ISP: The infallible Optimum Online from Cablevision
Rated speed (I use the tests at nyc.speakeasy.net): 4781 downstream / 858 upstream
The tri-state area sucks, but I keep living here solely for Optimum Online.
Mithras: That's the bundled price. I have DirecTV instead of cable TV, so I have to pay 39.99 a month instead of 29.99. Still, it's more than worth it for a downstream speed equivalent to 3-4 T-1s and an upstream almost the same as a T-1.
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Time Warner Roadrunner
About $40/month (I think?)
First pass 320 Kbps. So hit the back button and tried it again,850 Kbps, hit back, tried it again 1050 Kbps. That made me feel better so I stopped.
<strong>I remember hearing about Optimum Online having outrageous bandwidth for the price, but that is really amazing.
Is that $30 price the "bundled with premium cable TV" price, or just come-as-you-are?</strong><hr></blockquote>
sorry, it's 39.99 w/out bundle. I have DirecTV so no bundle price for me.
but 39.99 for those speeds is incredible
ISP: EastLink
Price: $39.95(CDN)/month (that's $25.14 US)
Rated speed: 366 Kbps
Max file download: 250Kbytes/sec from apple.com
Apparently, people in the city (I live a bit outside) get much higher speeds, as well as digital cable and cable phone service. The cable company advertises speeds of 'up to 5124Kb/s'. Upgrades brining digital cable and cable phone service are pending for my area, so we'll just see what happens.
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Is that $30 price the "bundled with premium cable TV" price, or just come-as-you-are?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think as long as you have cable TV it's $30. We just have basic cable and that's how much we pay.
ISP: Charter Pipeline
Speed: 1.5 Mbps
Price: $29.99 / month
Even though I only got a 320 or so, I easily get about 240 - 250 Kbps downloads from Apple and other servers.
Whereas Mithras gets 930 Kbps and gets about 200 Kbps d/ls.
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