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Shocking Breakthrough: Western Canadian Internet slower than average

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7 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

As mentioned, they've since upgraded to Synchronous 1Gbps Up and Down.

 

OT: Yep, Canadian Internet sucks. The "minimum acceptable" standard of 5 Mbps set by the CRTC in my opinion is outdated already. The minimum should be 15 Mbps or 20 Mbps.

 

And here I'm sitting in urban Ontario with 150/10 Mbps...

Well the minimum in the US according to the article is 25 and that seems pretty reasonable.  It's nothing exceptional, but it's fast enough for general use, like watching videos on youtube or netflix and downloading large steam games in a reasonable amount of time (like GTA V overnight easy).

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29 minutes ago, Suika said:

Still faster than me :l

:| What you got? Sitting here with 8/4 and this already annoys me the fuck out. 4k youtube?, forget it. Downloading gta v? 3 days leaving the pc on 24/7.

 

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2 minutes ago, SparkyRain said:

:| What you got? Sitting here with 8/4 and this already annoys me the fuck out. 4k youtube?, forget it. Downloading gta v? 3 days leaving the pc on 24/7.

 

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I've been downloading GTA V for over a week now.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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2 minutes ago, Suika said:

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I've been downloading GTA V for over a week now.

That sucks man.  You're in the wrong part of Missouri.  xD   In parts of Kansas City they have Google fiber at 1 GB/s up and down.

 

Look on the bright side.  You have a fast computer!

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3 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

That sucks man.  You're in the wrong part of Missouri.  xD

No joke, man. If I lived like 2-3 miles further down the road, I'd have 100Mb/s down and 5Mb/s up.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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bitch please:

Download: 3Mbps

Upload: 0.4Mbps

Ping: 80ms

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2 hours ago, Citadelen said:

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Try living with this.

I dare you.

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I'm on 100 Mbit/s Down/up for 5$ not in U.S.A. in Europe, Georgia

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Northern British Columbia resident here.

 

Residential speeds are 5 Mbps down/1 Mbps up normally. Other providers like Xplornet and Galaxy Broadband are slower or more expensive than what Telus can offer through ADSL.

 

Business speeds are 15 Down/1 Up in the ones I've used. Some use residential plans for business. Others are luckily enough to be landed in a location with CityWest's fiber, with speeds of 50down.

 

These speeds imo are outdated for online experiences today. Like it would only suffice perhaps one user at any given time. I cannot upload a snapchat video without my ping shooting through the roof.

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Shocking Breakthrough? I think you meant Shocking Breaking News, or Shocking, or Breaking News... a breakthrough is either an improvement or discovery that leads to future improvements.

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50 minutes ago, zacRupnow said:

Shocking Breakthrough? I think you meant Shocking Breaking News, or Shocking, or Breaking News... a breakthrough is either an improvement or discovery that leads to future improvements.

Yeah you're probably right.  This was literally the first thing I did when I woke up so... I mean, someone else already complained about the capitalization in the title :P

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yeeeerp... I'm up in that big ol Red bit =( I'm surprised 6.7 is the avg cause everyone i know gets 2 to 3

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18 hours ago, Suika said:

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I've been downloading GTA V for over a week now.

I think in your case it would actually be faster to find someone on the forum with a faster connection, or just has GTA V, drive to there, get gta V and go back. Which is actually really sad...

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3 hours ago, samcool55 said:

I think in your case it would actually be faster to find someone on the forum with a faster connection, or just has GTA V, drive to there, get gta V and go back. Which is actually really sad...

I drive to my college on my days off to download stuff. Kind of sad but it gets me out of the house.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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22 hours ago, Suika said:

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I've been downloading GTA V for over a week now.

I know how you feel,  because I'm limited to roughly the same speeds, but I'm living near the largest internet exchange point in the world, which makes this whole scenario even more ridiculous. Thanks Telekom…

 

 

 

 

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