Which type of internet connection do you have?

[Victor]

Just a simple poll to see what the ratio these days is. I think most people will have some form of permanent connection these days, but let's see :)

[ColeusRattus]

aDSL with a 4,5 gig traffic restriction... which keeps me offline every end of the month ;)

[detail]

I'm in a network where we have an oligopoly of providers: our LAN has 2 gateways, both 100 mbit. We can select which is preferable.

Internet traffic is paid, 0.055$/Mb, internal is free. We have 100Mbit segments and 1Gbit backbone, so inside one can get for free lots of kinds of CD ima:x

[avih]

i have ADSL 1.5M/96kbps (!)
upstream is really limited in israel...

[YUGO45]

Deutsche Telekom at its best :razz:

[TagForce]

ADSL - 8Mbit down - 1.5Mbit up

[hrtburnout]

ADSL - 1600/512, in 2006 it will be twice the speed

[the_angry_angel]

<3 Blueyonder for the recent upgrades :)

Although the 4Mb package still only has a measly 386Kb upload :(

[danowat]

2mb down with the ,as usefull as a chocolate fireguard, 30kb up, unmetered connection though, which is handy when you pull about 80GB a month LOL.

Dan.

[Shotglass]

1.5/1 mBit down/up

[geeman1]

ADSL 8/1 - no limits.

[mrodgers]

Cool! I'm the first to vote dialup. Good ole 56k (usually connect at 45555 bytes/sec). One thing I notice is I am running Win98SE and very very rarely get disconnected (only if I try to DL skins). I usually connect to anything lower than a 250 ping, which sometimes is in the UK. I've never had anyone tell me I lag. On the Win98 topic with dialup, my brother-in-law runs XP on the same ISP with dialup and he sometimes gets disconnected 5 times in a 10 lap race.

Just saw a commercial, Verison DSL-$14.95 per month, wow, that would be great. Entered my phone number......"DSL is not avialable in your area as of now. We are continuing to blah, blah....", so please don't hate me for my dialup. The only option I have for broadband is 400+% higher cost than I have now and is definitely NOT in my single income in a dual income world budget. I'd rather have Mom raising our kids than some stranger instilling their morals and beliefs on my children. I'll have enough of that BS happening when they get to school.

[Bob Smith]

1MB/256KB... but good old Tiscali are so bad I can never use more than 50% of my download capacity, so I've essentially got 512/256. They're online members facilities are crap to. Oh how I miss my webstats. :(

[axus]

Telkom (http://www.lfsforum.net/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TELKOM) 512/128kbps connection (it should be at 192 - thats what i'm paying for but they messed up my installation :tilt:). It costs an arm and a leg. ~$10-15 per gig of usage and ~$50 for the line per month (and that should be 192). On top of that I have a 3GB cap and bandwidth shaping and port prioritisation. Oh, did I mention that local traffic is included in those 3GB, and my pings overseas are ~400ms and I can't stay connected for more than 3min to an international server? :x

[geeman1]

After reading your responses I am even more glad that in Finland we have cheap, reasonably fast, unlimited and reliable broadbands.

[ajp71]

2 mb / 256 kb deresticted, great when it works...

[NotAnIllusion]

Unlimited 2mbit (2272/288kbps) w/ UK Online. Their DNS servers are terrible, and the got serious issues with lag, a lot of the time I get nowhere near the perf I shud b getting :(

[X-Ter]

8/1 Mbit ADSL, but in reality I never get out more than 850Kbit up. Works ok most the times.

[Racer Y]

Gee I don't know... some sort of DSL.
The good thing is I live like less than 8 blocks from where the trunk line stuff
is and most everyone else that lives here has dial up or cable so I pretty much
have the thing to myself and don't have to worry about slow speeds at all :)

I must say that this game seems to do well for dial up users. That's
pretty cool seeing how most titles made after 2001 pretty much require
broad band just to even halfway play a decent game online.

[Lible]

256 (actually about 280) kbits here.

[geeman1]

8/1 Mbit ADSL, but in reality I never get out more than 850Kbit up. Works ok most the times.
That 850kbit upstream is normal for DSL. You can calculate the real speed of any Internet connection by dividing the speed (here 1024kbps) number of bits in byte (8) plus 1 for overhead. so 1024/9 ~ 114kB/s. So if you are getting 106kB/s (850 divided by 8) it's perfectly normal because 1 megabit upstream is the max speed of ADSL and you won't probably live next door to the ADSL central hub.

[Qurpiz]

cable / adsl with download more than 4096 kbits

ADSL 8mbit/2mbit

[P5YcHoM4N]

I'm on my uni line. The current record here is 8MBp/s. My own record is only 6MBp/s :( and it can drop to insanely low ammounts when the buttmuch down the hall starts up bit torrent D:

[atledreier]

I have optic fibre, 10Mbit up, 10Mbit down. Very reliable, and I usually clock the connection at 12Mbit+ either way. I have digital TV and 2-channel IP telephone on the same fibre. Unlimited phone usage, no traffic restrictions and 100Mb webspace. All this for approx. 127Euro per month.
This is in Norway, btw.

[keiran]

288 Kbps Upstream, 1152 Kbps Downstream

With e7even and had one day downtime in a year and they also gave us two weeks free for that :D The only problem is I'm connected via a router with a brother who has about a thousand things running on the net :Looking_a Usually just pop up the stairs and pull the plug on him :smileypulHe just thinks the nets broken :tilt:

Keiran

[P5YcHoM4N]

288 Kbps Upstream, 1152 Kbps Downstream

With e7even and had one day downtime in a year and they also gave us two weeks free for that :D The only problem is I'm connected via a router with a brother who has about a thousand things running on the net :Looking_a Usually just pop up the stairs and pull the plug on him :smileypulHe just thinks the nets broken :tilt:

Keiran
If you use a router go into the router and apply net filters on his mac address. I did it to my sister all the time back home. If she came and asked why net wasn't working I'd just say "No clue, I was talking on MSN and it went down, probably be back up later" and she'd genearlly dismiss the fact I was streaming defconradio.com on my lappy, my website was still online and I was playing 1nsane online :D

Though that only works if you know the passwords to the router. As I was the network admin... and allround admin in that house I had to know all the passwords to everything.

[Neokiller]

8/1 Mbit cable :nod:

[(SaM)]

1.6Mb/512k ADSL, will be upgraded to 3Mb this year for the same price.
Pretty funny concidering this account started with 340k/128k, it just kept upgrading free of charge. :smileypul

[STROBE]

<3 Blueyonder for the recent upgrades :)

Although the 4Mb package still only has a measly 386Kb upload :(
Same here. :) Gone from 1meg to 4meg for no extra cost. No caps whatsoever, either. :thumb: The latency however is average rather than good - I used to get slightly lower pings on adsl when I wasn't living in a cabled area.

[96 GTS]

Fiber optic, and I have no clue how fast it really is. I've benchmarked it at 12,000 kb/s down and 12,000 kb/s up, so it's pretty speedy.

[Matrixi]

4/1mbit adsl at the moment, will be 8/1mb next month.

[OPK]

ADSL, 128kbit/s up, 768kbit/s down

Flat, ping 20 and up

[Jet_ CZE]

damn wifi here... 250/96 no limit, but ping 10-1000....

[mr_x]

DownStream Connection Speed 2272 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 288 kbps

taken from my router connection menu ;) ADSL, got it with Pipex, who kindly upgraded me from 576k to 2mb with no extra charges a few months ago! no complaints about them, had no down time in 1 1/2 years with them! customer service is top notch aswell! 4 computers connected through the router... so i guess the 2mb upgrade is a godsend :)

[Jonesy_]

8/1 here, no limits that is :)

[Pootie]

cable / with download more than 4096 kbits Thats me :)

[xapexcivicx]

Fiber optic, and I have no clue how fast it really is. I've benchmarked it at 12,000 kb/s down and 12,000 kb/s up, so it's pretty speedy.
If I'm right, fiber optics is the fastest wire. Optimum Lightpath huh? Good stuff :)

I know I have 100mbps bandwidth. The highest download speed I've gotten in mozilla was 8000kbps (No, not a typo) and I believe my 4000kbps

[B2B@300]

Here at home I connect to the net in two ways, 2-way satalite connection 512/128kbits (but this has poor ping as the signal travels into space and back :schwitz:giving generally in the order of 800ms to the first terestrial point, so no good for games, I use it for just for general web stuff), the other connection I have is ISDN 128/128kbits which gives ping to my provider 55-60ms and to most Euro LFS servers 450-500ms, US servers 350-400ms, Asia servers 250-350ms and Aussie servers 90-150ms.

I live in the outback of Australia so have little options in what I can do :shrug:, I've only just come off an analog modem in which I could only get 28.8kbits.

In talking to the local telco tech though in the not too distant future (maybe a year) ADSL will be possible in remote areas as they are in testing for these sevices now, up until recently you had to be reasonably close to the local exchange to get ADSL. What suprised me was that the distance factor isn't that much of a problem for the data component of ADSL but is a problem for voice, and that's what they are working on at the moment.

So if you live in a remote area and your local exchange is 10-20km away it may be possible to get ADSL on a second line if its data only, this is something a telco wouldn't recommend though and you will have to convince them to do it and take the risk on yourself (i.e. if it didn't work well, tough tities) :tilt:

[filur]

ADSL 8/1 - no limits.

me too!

[Forbin]

University network. On the weekends when no one's around, I get 10 Mbit down, 3 or 4 Mbit up.

At home I have ADSL. 768 kbit down, 384 kbit up.

[Forbin]

usually connect at 45555 bytes/sec
bits bits bits bits bits

Not Bytes. That would be one crazy fast dialup connection. :)

[P5YcHoM4N]

bits bits bits bits bits

Not Bytes. That would be one crazy fast dialup connection. :)
That would be one crazy fast any connection.

[Forbin]

Indeed.

+1 to post count

Er... wth am I thinking, no. If it were bytes, it would be 45.5 kBytes per second. Hardly fast at all.

[NetDemon01]

10Mb ethernet connection from my college dorm.

[SoloNijN]

@Home, 6mbit/786kbit down / up

Works fine most of the time.


At school we have 100 / 100 mbit, ideal for downloading DVD's etc :P

[AndroidXP]

Yay for thread resurrection!

PS: Victors avatar is cool :D

[kamo2000]

512/256 works like 490/200 plus additional proxy 1 mb/512 working as 1 mb/200

[B2B@300]

Yay for thread resurrection!

That sucks, I get caught all the time :p thinking its a recent thread :D

[nism0]

At the moment, 2500up, unsure of down.
Crappy NZ internet, but they're upgrading to 3500 soon.

[P5YcHoM4N]

Indeed.

+1 to post count

Er... wth am I thinking, no. If it were bytes, it would be 45.5 kBytes per second. Hardly fast at all.
Oh yeah. >.< I always get screwed over with bites(I think it's bites), bytes and bits.

[Smax]

2mbps/256kbps ADSL home

Uni God alone knows, huuuuuuuuge connection... enough to serve the 2 main sections of the campus and all 5 city centre halls of residence at once.

[Jakg]

at school we have two computer rooms (each with 30 pc's) and a number of the computers from the old it room spread about the school (theres about 120 of them!) so we have ~150 Pc's for 950 Pupils, and somehow we get by on 8mpbs/?, which is ok for light googling, but the S2 demo has become a popular download, and the interent is often waaaay slower than dialup for end users!

[Richard Torp]

4.096/1.024 kbit/s cable...works fine..

[_rod_]

I have 600 down 150 up i get within 250-300 ms for euro servers and 60-70 to brazilian servers.

[RevMonkey]

very crappy crappy crappy cable that the whole neighbourhood uses and is branched off to 4 computers in this household that are generally always downloading stuff.


it's crap.

[mrbogeyman]

Yay for thread resurrection!

PS: Victors avatar is cool :D

So I see :D

The muppets are excellent! :tilt: Not sure what that characters name is though :scratchch
edit: It's Sam the Eagle. Is there anything Wikipedia doesn't know :D

My connection - 1Mb down / 256Kb up - TalkTalk ISP.
Usually a 40-60ms ping for dSRC servers and most other european servers.

Also, like many other people are saying, 56k worked perfectly well for me in LFS, although I never had it with auto Skin downloading. Wonderful netcode. :thumb:

[IIIFireIII]

ADSL Flat
(T-DSL1000)

[Madman_CZ]

ADSL 8Mbps down and 512kbps up

[the_angry_angel]

at school we have two computer rooms (each with 30 pc's) and a number of the computers from the old it room spread about the school (theres about 120 of them!) so we have ~150 Pc's for 950 Pupils, and somehow we get by on 8mpbs/?, which is ok for light googling, but the S2 demo has become a popular download, and the interent is often waaaay slower than dialup for end users!
Not to piss on the LFS frenzy at your school, but the sysadmin needs to start kicking some arses if its affecting user productivity.

[Vain]

Productivity and schools? You've got something mixed up, really!

:D

Vain

[Fordman]

I voted ( Some other Speed ) as atm I have 2048, but end of this month, I get FREE, yes, I said FREEEEEEEEE upgrade to 8mb :D

[danowat]

Be a little bit carefull there Fordie, I have been hearing things about 8MB and interleaving, apparently it will increase pings by 20-40ms.

I have also been offered an upgrade to 8MB at the end of the month (free too), but I am gonna hang fire untill I have heard more about it.

Dan,

[the_angry_angel]

Productivity and schools? You've got something mixed up, really!I didn't say who's productivity ;)

[Gabkicks]

comcast cable here :)

[Dygear]

<3 Blueyonder for the recent upgrades :)

Although the 4Mb package still only has a measly 386Kb upload :(

Yea, I rember english ISPs, they sucked pretty bad.
Now here in the US you have 32,768 kilobits (Or 4MB) down, and 2,048 kilobits (Or 256KB) Up. Tho I only see 1.4MB at the most download (Most servers just don't go faster then that) and for some reasion I can burst all of the way up to 10MB a second. I have uploaded at 256.2 KB, but I normaly only see 192KB.

From SMART FTP :
[15:19:31] STOR LFS_S2_ALPHA_Q.zip
[15:19:31] 125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
[15:29:55] 121735168 bytes transferred. (190 KB/s) (00:10:24)

(121735168 / ((60 * 10) + 24)) / 1024 = 190.516026

[sil3ntwar]

ADSL finally became available the other day. Ordered the fastest we can get in new zealand right now which is 2mbps down 128k up with 80gigs a month bandwidth. Will get upgraded to 3.5mbps down and 256k up next month hopefully as the government is forcing telecom to up the speeds.

[LRB_Aly]

2MBit down / 192kbit up flatrate. But next week I'm gonna have a 3Mbit down / 192kbit up so I already took the new speed in this poll.

[pb32000]

Sorry to drag this post up from the dead, but just to say (and enlarge my e-penis) I'm staying in halls at Soton Uni now and I've just downloaded Vista RC2 (roughly 2.6GB) in 12 mins, which I guess is about 30Mbps download :)

[RoCkBiGdAvE]

:really: Wow, a little bit quick then. :)

[NotAnIllusion]

Sorry to drag this post up from the dead, but just to say (and enlarge my e-penis) I'm staying in halls at Soton Uni now and I've just downloaded Vista RC2 (roughly 2.6GB) in 12 mins, which I guess is about 30Mbps download :)
Sounds about as fast as I the connection I had in the Soton Solent Uni. Should never have moved away.. :tilt: [/offtopic][/spam][/pissed]

[Xaid0n]

I have a 1mb connection, but download stuff @ 240kb/s :scratchch should'nt I download like 100kb/s?

[rc10racer]

I have a 1mb connection, but download stuff @ 240kb/s :scratchch should'nt I download like 100kb/s?

I guess your with ntl this happen to me 2 nights ago they must of upgraded you for free and not told you

[Jakg]

I have a 1mb connection, but download stuff @ 240kb/s :scratchch should'nt I download like 100kb/s?
more like 120 really - with my 8 mbit i get up to 1,100 KB/s, but it normally depends on the server (ie physical location etc)

[riffey4]

6mbit down, 1 mbit up ADSL.
and I was playing 1nsane online :D

You're the first one I ever meet that actually played that online (besides me).. what a great game :)
Still a hit on LAN parties, especially the CTF games :D

[Jakg]

have 1nsane (well used to), never knew it did online but i can only imagine how good it was!

[jamesrowe]

Unlimited uncapped 8mbps adsl :D

[Cirozel]

Now i'm on cable 512/256 kbps.. in a few days FTTB ( Fiber to the building :tilt: ) with 1024/512 external and 50Mbps/30Mbps in town :D

[JohnUK89]

Cable 10Mb/512k
The upload is a little crappy, but I don't really need it to be any better, all I really do on the connection is download ISO files of Vista and play LFS :P

[jaws99]

I have just been upgraded to 4mb for free

[Zoltuger]

currently on 2mbit down/192k up
soon to become full down ADSL/128k up(!), with traffic shaping- no doubt gaming traffic will be affected.

[Xaid0n]

I guess your with ntl this happen to me 2 nights ago they must of upgraded you for free and not told you

Nope, mum went on their website to see the connection, and it says its only 1.05mb

[Jakg]

Nope, mum went on their website to see the connection, and it says its only 1.05mblog in to your router and see what it says, might tell you more!

[Bladerunner]

I have optic fibre, 10Mbit up, 10Mbit down. Very reliable, and I usually clock the connection at 12Mbit+ either way. I have digital TV and 2-channel IP telephone on the same fibre. Unlimited phone usage, no traffic restrictions and 100Mb webspace. All this for approx. 127Euro per month.
This is in Norway, btw.


bl**dy hell....me moving to Norway!!!:thumb:


Got a VERY stable 1Mb down/ 256 (Bah!) up, unlimited usage, and NO important ports throttled. All this for a sum of £20 (€33) per month.

(But add my BT package and Sky to that and it bumps it up to £94 (€150) :()