Your broadband speed

mithras · February 13, 2002 2:39PM

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>;

eman · February 13, 2002 2:44PM

Location: Nanuet, NY

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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wrong robot · February 13, 2002 2:46PM

I got rated 447 Kbps....makes sense, I'm on a 500k proxy based server....My max download was 80k/sec..(average 30-50 k/sec)

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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buonrotto · February 13, 2002 5:12PM

Location: Central NJ

ISP: Cablevision

Price: $30/month

Speed: Average about 768 kbs. (640-880 in five tries)

applenut · February 13, 2002 5:37PM

Location: Bronx, New York

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.

ghost_user_name · February 13, 2002 5:44PM

Location: Portland, Oregon

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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ghost_user_name · February 13, 2002 5:58PM

Download speds range from 40-200kbps

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riclov · February 13, 2002 6:36PM

Rated Speed (per benchmark posted above)

1046

AT&T Roadrunner Cable

Fastest (sustained) download 270kbs via Apple ftp site.

eugene · February 13, 2002 6:55PM

I have AT&T Broadband in the SF area, which used to mean @Home, and now means attbi.com.

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.

mithras · February 13, 2002 7:07PM

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?

commonsense · February 13, 2002 7:08PM

Location: Central NJ

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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seb · February 13, 2002 7:12PM

Staten Island, NY

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.

ghost_user_name · February 13, 2002 7:38PM

Yeah - at the end of November, when @Home cut service and we were switched to AT&T Broadband Internet, our bandwidth dropped from 7Mb/s to 1.5Mb/s, for the same price. I was very irritated by this (and the fact that it is now DHCP for the IP addy) and contacted customer support about it, but they didn't seem to care.

foneroot · February 13, 2002 7:55PM

Getting 1329 kbps right now. I pay about $35.00 a month. With @home or I should say AT&T now.

sizzle chest · February 13, 2002 8:21PM

Cool, I'm getting 494k. That's nice, considering I'm paying for 256k. Thanks, Qwest, that's about the first unexpectedly good thing you guys have ever done!

applenut · February 13, 2002 8:36PM

[quote]Originally posted by Mithras:

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?<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

mac the fork · February 13, 2002 8:59PM

Location: Halifax, NS, Canada

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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eman · February 13, 2002 9:10PM

[quote]Originally posted by Mithras:



Is that $30 price the "bundled with premium cable TV" price, or just come-as-you-are?<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.

fran441 · February 13, 2002 9:24PM

Location: Hollis, NH

ISP: Charter Pipeline

Speed: 1.5 Mbps

Price: $29.99 / month

serrano · February 15, 2002 10:47AM

136000 :eek:

seb · February 15, 2002 10:51AM

I'm really not sure how much stock to put into the 'benchmark' on that site.

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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