Post your broadband speed!

[Shockwave]

I'm just interested because it's taking me well over an hour to upload a 500mb video to youtube.. Which sucks!

I am thinking that the UK must be a long way behind Europe with broadband speeds..

[Jim]

Just come off adsl 20mbit down, 1mbit up. Expecting similar on my new connection.
Jim

[padman]

According to the speedtest:

Download: 2.954 kbit/s / 369 kByte/s
Upload:        378 kbit/s / 47 kByte/s

So 500 MB would take approx 3 hours to upload for me... 

[TinDragon]

I currently have around 12mbit down and fixed 1mbit up, rarely upload large files and it also has alot to do with were there uploaded to, but even something small takes ages. Upload speeds are pretty crap compared to download speeds, I think some business broadband deals offer faster upload speeds but home user services all seem around 1meg upload (atleast in the UK)

Were ment to be getting super-fast BT broadband down here in cornwall but they started by updating the most pointless area in the county first 

[ferris]

25.mbps up, 4.84 down at the office

[Jim]

Businesses here can get adsl 2+ annex m, which has 2mbit upstream. Above that speed and it's way off consumer prices.

Jim

[zawran]

8mbit down/1mbit up here, which isn't great but it works just fine for what I use it for and the company I work for pay the bill

If I did not have a connection for free I would probably have gotten myself a fiber connection like my brother has which is 30mbit down/3mbit down. They offer 50/5 as the best speed, but I cannot see what I would use it for, so I'm just going to stick with the free one, at least as long at I'm employed there.

[Raizor]

I'm with Virgin Media and get:

45.51 Mbps down
4.74 Mbps up

It's quite expensive though. I think I pay about £35 per month.

[Moroboshisan]

45.51 Mbps down
4.74 Mbps up
It's quite expensive though. I think I pay about £35 per month.

Are you serious? I'm actually on
6Mbit/down
384kbit/up
...all for about 25Eur/month... please do not call your connection EXPENSIVE!

I am thinking that the UK must be a long way behind Europe with broadband speeds..

Italy sucks ... really!

[Raizor]

Moroboshisan, that's criminal! 

Do you live a long way from big towns and cities, or is broadband in Italy just slow and expensive throughout?

[combatking0]

I'm not sure how I can find out.

Some ICT technician I turned out to be

[Raizor]

I'm not sure how I can find out.

Give this a try CombatKing: http://www.speedtest.net

[Moroboshisan]

Moroboshisan, that's criminal! 

I know!

Do you live a long way from big towns and cities, or is broadband in Italy just slow and expensive throughout?

the broadband connection I'm actually on is a businees one... we do not have any kind of free connection offers here (teoretically since 9/11 till last december you shouldn't supposed to connect anywhere/anyplace without showing an ID card to someone else to record every session time AND your session datastream)... When I visited London last summer I was pleased to be able to connect to "The Cloud" for free (even if your data stream could be sniffed by anyone).
Consumer broadband (with the same performances of my actual connection) usually retails for 12,50eur/month (subcribes connection costs only... so you must provide your own modem... if you do not want the hassle to manage your own modem/router/gateway the phone company can usually loan one for an extra 2,5eur/month)...
Don't get me wrong.. but.. I would be very glad to pay 15eur/month or more for a 20Mbit(DL)/2Mbit(UL)... instead of this shitty 6,0/0,384 !!!

As I told you before since January this year there's no more the need to show an ID card ... but no one (internet-cafès, internationa phone centers and everyone in general who is providing some sort of paid connectivity to the casual users) seems to fully trust what the gov said and continue to ask for ID and session tile logs.

As a matter of fact there is an EU proposed regulation that concern me the most... Italy must adehere to the 2008/63/CE (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Notice.do?mode=dbl&lng1=en,en&lang=&lng2=bg,cs,da,de,el,en,es,et,fi,fr,hu,it,lt,lv,mt,nl,pl,pt,ro,sk,sl,sv,&val=463215:cs&page=&hwords=null) by the end of 2011... this can lead to the impossibility to setup your own router!!!! (at the moment it's not clear it this kind or restriction should apply to home users... but that's it... we're in Italy!)

[Moroboshisan]

http://www.speedtest.net

I gave it a try:

ping time 64ms
download: 3,97Mbps
upload: 0,37Mbps

...speechless....

[combatking0]

K++ Raizor. I gave that a go and got:

Ping - 96ms
Download - 0.83Mbps
Upload - 0.31Mbps

That might be why my online C&C games have been running slowly today. I'm only down the road from the telephone exchange.