Report Whats the speed of your internet connection?

Poll started by lodle with 2,559 votes and 93 comments. Browse the poll archive.

 4%

(91 votes)56k - Still in the 80s

 21%

(535 votes)512k to1.5Mb - Early 90's

 39%

(996 votes)1.5Mb to 8Mb adsl - 21st Century

 26%

(659 votes)8Mb to 24Mb adsl2+ - Modern day

 11%

(278 votes)25Mb+ Future

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lodle Creator
lodle

Cant wait for 100Mb NBN here in Aust

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JangoFett21
JangoFett21

Stop waiting, it's going to be ****.

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piper647
piper647

So much optimism...

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GunShip05
GunShip05

Its not a case of will it or will it not be ****! Its a case of will it or will it not get built?

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half-life
half-life

**** in one hand and wish in the other. telstra won the bid for their own lines, so a few more decades of **** infrastructure for Australia (YAY!). and if we do get better internet most download sites are excessively slow for free users and bittorrenting is hours of searching for what you want and finding out that it's being leeched by 4 million people and seeded by 3 people at like 10kb/s.

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Jesternz08
Jesternz08

We were lucky in NZ, recently the govt took away telecoms monopoly, now we can get upto 24mbit yay, though the upto doesnt mean much, im happy with the 15mbit I get though ^^

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LORDDEREX
LORDDEREX

100 MB/s its a bit of waste, since the highest i got on a download is about 8 mb/s.

I recommend 24 mb/s.

100 mb/s was the only choice we could choose of 2: 100/10 or 100/100 (down/up)

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Cyb3r_Snip3r
Cyb3r_Snip3r

My connection is slowish because I live in a rural area :(

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Hellsevil22
Hellsevil22

me too

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Anderan
Anderan

same here, it sucks living out of range of anything decent. There is always satellite internet but its just so damn expensive.

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cheesemoo0
cheesemoo0

Same

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DeadManWalking69
DeadManWalking69

Same, one of the only problems living in the country side, everything else is good...just not the internet speed ='[

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Ark_
Ark_

I had dial up until a month ago it was all I could get where I live. But now I have a wireless broadband connection and im happy with it 4Mb, its about as good as you can get in Ireland.

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StoneCrowUK
StoneCrowUK

your lucky in rural wales best i get is 100kbps. sux

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LoganMS
LoganMS

I use wireless internet too because im in a rural area average is 20-40kb/s its sooo slow its impossible to dl anything

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cronos35
cronos35

same here. 512 kbps..... real ****.

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XeroS1x
XeroS1x

Yeah I also have a very slow connection. But I live in the city. Internet in South Africa is horrifically slow and expensive

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[Night_Stalker]
[Night_Stalker]

Yeah same. It's ok for playing on the internet like tf2 or hl2dm. But if another computer go on the network, well it's just like good old dial-up again.

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Zerglings
Zerglings

I got average speed for where I am.

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staberas
staberas

adsl2+ on the papers, in real life i get the half of the speed ....

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Joe_Shmoe
Joe_Shmoe

in general you only get about 50% on optimum... its weird why they even label it double that, always feel like your cheated hey

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PytoX
PytoX

mostly i got between 12mb - 20mb

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Bender411
Bender411

Recently moved to 5 mb, before I had a 1 mb ... As I heard max speed on our cable is 12 MB =(

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Kalakukkoo
Kalakukkoo

In here I only have 1MB and a WLAN modem that doesn't work with Steam. Ihate it >:(

But I'm moving soon and there I'll have 10 MB :D

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Dragonlord
Dragonlord

On paper ADSL2+ but reality looks different. In terms of Internet connection my country still sucks because of the monopoly of Swisscom. Up stream is like 10% of down stream and other non-funny speed lock-downs imposed. The speed would be there but you don't get it... pfft <.=.<

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infl1ct1on
infl1ct1on

I love on a mountain so there is no good internet around here :(. 1MB Speed :(.

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sniper77shot
sniper77shot

So you love on a mountian.

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eezstreet
eezstreet

So you love on a mountian

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NullSoldier
NullSoldier

So you love on a mountain.

I sware I saw a movie about that somewhere... I think it had something to do with a broken back..

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Varsity
Varsity

I like how "21st century" and "modern day" are different choices. ;)

I'm on an 8MB package, but the actual top speed we get this far from the exchange is 5MB.

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kinesis916
kinesis916

I'm on an 8mb package I think. They keep upgrading it for free so I don't know entirely.

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phipe
phipe

My speed is ancient.. I am using Wiis internet browser!

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TheHappyFriar
TheHappyFriar

the descriptions are off. modems were standard until the 21st century. It wasn't until ~2000-2001 that broadband started to become the norm,and that was only in cities. I'm pretty sure, stats wise, modems still are majority of internet connections.

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lodle Creator
lodle

depends on where you live. This is about right for Aust

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DedMustDie
DedMustDie

Adsl, not so good but enough ;p

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zoq2
zoq2

i am supposed to have 3.2 mb/s but im stuck with 100kb/sec

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ghostings
ghostings

same -_-

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Twitwi
Twitwi

I just got 20 mb/s download and 1 mb/s upload

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SCΛRECROW
SCΛRECROW

Advertised as 20Mb/s downstream...but it's never that fast.

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Spector
Spector

Are you sure its advertised as 20mb/s. If it's like most companies in the US, then it's advertised as "UP TO" 20mb/s, meaning they don't really have to honor the 20mb/s, or get anywhere close. Gotta love the tricky marketing lingo.

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Xenoshock
Xenoshock

lol a week ago i had 30KB/s now i have 3MB/s :D:D:D::DD==D=D=D=D=D=D=D

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Killer_man_1996
Killer_man_1996

cool...

i still have 1.5 mbs. but it downloads at 40 to 150 kbps.

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Shadow-Marine
Shadow-Marine

most of the reason why i get a slow speed is because the servers i connect to are foreign and i get pushed down to 256kb max
but my local speed (Aussie servers) is 1.0 mbs and even then thats rare that i get above 800 kbs
i HATE you telstra

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DazJW
DazJW

We were on a 1mb plan and were getting 1.2mb. Now we're on a 2mb plan and getting 928kb...

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LORDDEREX
LORDDEREX

100 mb/s :D alot more then i need, but that were the only thing to choose from that company and cheaper then 10 mb/s for prew on

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Karriz
Karriz

0,5 mb, I think. Is it 512k?

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Joe_Shmoe
Joe_Shmoe

because of the monopoly of telkom that provides our DSL, we dont have anything spectacular, lack of competition means no need to upgrade the infrastructure, we however recently upgraded to 8mb due to the requirement for the 2010 world-cup, though im not on DSL, i got radio link-up, 256K lol

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naah
naah

10MB connection. Enough right now I'd say.

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DuckSauce
DuckSauce

Woops I voted the wrong one.
It's Megabits right not byte? -_-
I hate the bits/bytes difference, f**k you internet companies, f**k you!

I mean, when you download, you download in Mega BYTES per second, not bits, why call it bits except to boost sales by misleading people, you ***holes!

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Elementalist
Elementalist

En.wikipedia.org

It has nothing to do with advertising. It's not their fault you don't know the difference.

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SCΛRECROW
SCΛRECROW

Indeed!

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DuckSauce
DuckSauce

"The megabit is commonly used when referring to data transfer rates of computer networks or telecommunications systems, "

If so why is not displayed when displaying download speeds on an actual computer, you know that what real life people see when they actually use their connection.

Whatever, I should stop talking after teachers that whined about this.

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