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What is your internet connection speed?


Comcast, my household pays $29.99 per month. The key to a better internet is a better router. When we had a crappy router, our speeds were close to 1MB down, and 0.5 Up.
 
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Pretty sure that speed anything through Telstra is impossible :D
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Yeah, I've always thought that Telstra is the most regressive, garbage, (former?) Australian ISP-monopoly in existence. I remember when someone I knew in Telstra told me about her bandwidth quotas. They were so bad that you could actually download more in a month over a 33.6kbps modem than her broadband connection. This was not over a cell phone either.
 
Bionic-Badger said:
Yeah, I've always thought that Telstra is the most regressive, garbage, (former?) Australian ISP-monopoly in existence. I remember when someone I knew in Telstra told me about her bandwidth quotas. They were so bad that you could actually download more in a month over a 33.6kbps modem than her broadband connection. This was not over a cell phone either.
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Telstra are the leading ISP out here. They have the best speeds(They own the lines) but are extremely costly. For example in my area, No other provider does ADSL 2+ besides Telstra, the rest do ADSL 1.
 
I wouldn't say Telstra is a bad ISP, I don't have any problems with the connection (I'm with Telstra too), but god help you if you have to deal with their customer service. It'd be quicker and easier to go to uni for 4 years and get a degree in communications engineering than to deal with Telstra. And expensive indeed, but all Australian ISP's are like that.

Damn, 7K posts and 555 rep power.
 
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OMG so damn true. I rang them up about something and I specifically told them I knew alot about electronics and computers, yet they treat me like some 70 year old who can't tell the difference between a computer and a cardboard box!
 
Things said:
I wouldn't say Telstra is a bad ISP, I don't have any problems with the connection (I'm with Telstra too), but god help you if you have to deal with their customer service. It'd be quicker and easier to go to uni for 4 years and get a degree in communications engineering than to deal with Telstra. And expensive indeed, but all Australian ISP's are like that.

Damn, 7K posts and 555 rep power.
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Amen!
 
I like my ISP:
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When my roommate isn't streaming I can hit 170Mbps down and 45Mbps up.

BTW, a note on that Telstra(NKO29's) connection, that test speed is over 12GBps(gigabytes not gigabits) which is faster than even internal SATA connections to your hard drive are capable of (SATA3 spec is 6Gbps or about 750MBps). No home computer is capable of that. I'm sorry but I just don't believe that test is real for a second. On the other hand gigabit fiber connections are growing in popularity in the US with Goggle expanding its fiber so eventually we will all be running 1000Mbps symmetrical :P
 
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30Mbits a second now up from about 8 Mbits a second plenty fast enough ,i used to have 300 bits a second in the late 70s so what I've got now is lightning
 
30Mbps is definitely enough for most normal use. I got what I have because my house is full of gamers and we plan to host a game server or two. Plus downloading large files is no longer any issue at all. In fact this month our total transfer amount exceeded 900GB so we definitely put the bandwidth to good use :D
 
lol, I'm in a house with 5 other people and we usually don't even hit 200GB/month (which is our cap)
 
Im building a new house and i get the NBN fiber connection, 100Mbit plan here i come :D

but for now i have this:

 
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Fiddy said:
Im building a new house and i get the NBN fiber connection, 100Mbit plan here i come :D

but for now i have this:

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Holy smokes that's a sad connection haha. Good luck on the new one though. I am loving the extra speed I get from mine BIG time.
 
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