How fast is the LTT member's internet connection?

[Djmixerdomo]

Australian internet 

 

New Zealand internet

[lclarke987]

Im pretty lucky for someone who lives in Australia. Soon I will be upgrading my speed as well.

 

[lclarke987]

wow, 50 times the download speed and 800 times the upload speed of Australian internet 

I live in Australia. Not that bad.

[lclarke987]

Where in Australia, are you near a CBD

No. About 30km out. 

[Etonic]

 

where is everyone getting these ridiculous speeds?

[trag1c]

 

where is everyone getting these ridiculous speeds?

Its because they live somewhere that ISP's actually reinvest their profits a.k.a. everywhere but North America. Countries that can't even feed the majority of their population will soon beat NA in speeds.

 

I'am with Shaw for internet and they're hiking their prices up so that they supposedly can build better infrastructure which is a load of horse ****. This is why we can't have nice things.

[sylarspock]

[MariusJS]

Its because they live somewhere that ISP's actually reinvest their profits a.k.a. everywhere but North America. Countries that can't even feed the majority of their population will soon beat NA in speeds.

I'am with Shaw for internet and they're hiking their prices up so that they supposedly can build better infrastructure which is a load of horse ****. This is why we can't have nice things.

Also our ISP's get money per project from the government to build fiber, and if they don't do it, they get huge reprecautions...

[trag1c]

Also our ISP's get money per project from the government to build fiber, and if they don't do it, they get huge reprecautions...

I may have to move to Norway.

[Bridger]

[as96]

This discussion is making me sad, I see connections near to 1Gb/s and I have this:

[MariusJS]

This discussion is making me sad, I see connections near to 1Gb/s and I have this:

"Faster than 51% of IT"

 

That makes me cry

[as96]

"Faster than 51% of IT"

 

That makes me cry

Yeah Italian ISPs are so good..........

[Jacob O'Brien]

Think i've won this:

thats what i usually get

i live in australia and have telstra which i highly recommend not getting becuase i have had nothing but problems with them and their connection uptime

[DarrenP]

Just plugged into the school network via Ethernet for the first time... Lol dat speed

 

[BabaBooey]

Also our ISP's get money per project from the government to build fiber, and if they don't do it, they get huge reprecautions...

What are you talking about? The ISP's are not forced to do anything and they don't get any money, but local governments sometime help to fund projects.

Our government will only allocate 50 million NOK(6,5 million USD) to the municipalities this year, for them to install fiber where there are no commercial interest.

So basically, the support from the Norwegian state is almost non existent. 

The ISP's are installing fibre where it is profitable. 99% of the fibre that are installed these days, are done by commercial operators.

The fibre coverage are pretty good(where people actually live, not godforsaken places), and it's getting better every year, but no thanks to the government.

They have been pretty clear about wanting the commercial operators to do the work.

[MariusJS]

What are you talking about? The ISP's are not forced to do anything and they don't get any money, but local governments sometime help to fund projects.

Our government will only allocate 50 million NOK(6,5 million USD) to the municipalities this year, for them to install fiber where there are no commercial interest.

So basically, the support from the Norwegian state is almost non existent. 

The ISP's are installing fibre where it is profitable. 99% of the fibre that are installed these days, are done by commercial operators.

The fibre coverage are pretty good(where people actually live, not godforsaken places), and it's getting better every year, but no thanks to the government.

They have been pretty clear about wanting the commercial operators to do the work.

Sure, Nord Trøndelag med with 1-2Km between the houses, seems like a good place to lay fibre and earn money, right?

 

The government directly is only doing 50Million NOK, but then the kommuner can do even more, fylker aswell

[MeepLikesToBuildPc's]

Home

School (fiber)

Thats why i put everything (youtube gids to upload) on my laptop and take it to school. Then i can upload way quicker lol

[Ruostunut kokis]

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School (fiber)

Thats why i put everything (youtube gids to upload) on my laptop and take it to school. Then i can upload way quicker lol

Funny how it gives a grade F- to a 800Mb/s connection...

 

Speedtest.net what have you been smoking?

[MeepLikesToBuildPc's]

Funny how it gives a grade F- to a 800Mb/s connection...

 

Speedtest.net what have you been smoking?

I dont know what its been smoking, but atleast we know its "High......"

Lol

[BabaBooey]

Sure, Nord Trøndelag med with 1-2Km between the houses, seems like a good place to lay fibre and earn money, right?

 

The government directly is only doing 50Million NOK, but then the kommuner can do even more, fylker aswell

NTE(local power company and ISP) is owned by the Nord-Trøndelag county, but that is not the norm for the rest of the country. At least not for the southern parts of Norway, where most of us live.

My point is that Norway is not a country where the state heavily promotes high speeds connections. The only reason sparsely populated areas sometimes have access to fibre, is due to a local initiative. 

 

The 50mill NOK is for the municipalities(kommunene).

 

Sorry for the OT. Carry on please

 

[MariusJS]

NTE(local power company and ISP) is owned by the Nord-Trøndelag county, but that is not the norm for the rest of the country. At least not for the southern parts of Norway, where most of us live.

My point is that Norway is not a country where the state heavily promotes high speeds connections. The only reason sparsely populated areas sometimes have access to fibre, is due to a local initiative. 

 

The 50mill NOK is for the municipalities(kommunene).

 

Sorry for the OT. Carry on please

Well...

1: NTE has a deal with Altibox, so it's not their own solution/eqipment...

2: There were 0 local initiative at the place I were talking about, NTE just decided to come there with fiber!

3: It is 110 million, not 50 and the muncipalities CAN give more if they want to as stated above (I know for a fact that NTE gets some quite large deals which alone would be about 50% of that money)

4: Altibox is in all fylker in Norway, which means that at least you can get fiber in every fylke

 

Oh, and if you actually read what you first quoted me on you will se that your first comment made no sense at all

AND you can check NTE, VikenFiber and so on earnings IT IS NOT MUCH!

[MariusJS]

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School (fiber)

Thats why i put everything (youtube gids to upload) on my laptop and take it to school. Then i can upload way quicker lol

That one is tampered with, it shouldn't be F-

[BabaBooey]

Well...

1: NTE has a deal with Altibox, so it's not their own solution/eqipment...

2: There were 0 local initiative at the place I were talking about, NTE just decided to come there with fiber!

3: It is 110 million, not 50 and the muncipalities CAN give more if they want to as stated above (I know for a fact that NTE gets some quite large deals which alone would be about 50% of that money)

4: Altibox is in all fylker in Norway, which means that at least you can get fiber in every fylke

 

Oh, and if you actually read what you first quoted me on you will se that your first comment made no sense at all

AND you can check NTE, VikenFiber and so on earnings IT IS NOT MUCH!

1. I know. NTE installs the fibre optic cables.

2. NTE is owned by the county(Nord-Trøndelag). They didn't come, they were already there. Therefore it was a local initiative when they expanded their business to include installing fibre and be a partner of Altibox.

3. No, only 50 million NOK is allocated in the state budget in 2015. Anymore money are in that case added by local governments.

4. No, Altibox is not available in all the counties.

 

No, your comment made no sense. You gave the impression that our government are promoting high speed connections and being progressive in that regard. But that is not the case. The money that are allocated are not much, and they have been saying for years that they want the private market to take care of it.

 

Their earning may not have been much 10 years ago, when they started up with FTTH, but now they are making good profits. They need only a little more than 50% penetration in one area to make a profit. Most of the fibre networks in Norway have 60% or more, so they are very profitable.

The problem is that due to lack of initiative in our government, it's been up to private companies to install fibre and they are not gonna share those cables with anyone else, it's long term investments.

So we will not have a situation similar to the phone networks(copper cables), where there can be competition. If you are lucky to live in an area that have fibre optic cables, you have, in 99% of the time, only one ISP to choose from.

In other words, just like the cable-TV companies.

If the government really promoted and allocated enough money to create a nationwide fibre optic network, this wouldn't be a problem and it would have benefited us, the consumers. 

The amount of money from the government is pathetic and it only makes it easier for the ISP to create monopolies. If you have access to a fibre connection, but you think it's too expensive, you are shit out of luck. You have to pay whatever they want, you have nowhere else to go. You can always choose a shitty ADSL connection though or one of the cable companies that forces you to buy their TV packages that you don't need  :angry:

 

But enough of this OT, I'm done.

[MariusJS]

1. I know. NTE installs the fibre optic cables.

2. NTE is owned by the county(Nord-Trøndelag). They didn't come, they were already there. Therefore it was a local initiative when they expanded their business to include installing fibre and be a partner of Altibox.

3. No, only 50 million NOK is allocated in the state budget in 2015. Anymore money are in that case added by local governments.

4. No, Altibox is not available in all the counties.

 

No, your comment made no sense. You gave the impression that our government are promoting high speed connections and being progressive in that regard. But that is not the case. The money that are allocated are not much, and they have been saying for years that they want the private market to take care of it.

 

Their earning may not have been much 10 years ago, when they started up with FTTH, but now they are making good profits. They need only a little more than 50% penetration in one area to make a profit. Most of the fibre networks in Norway have 60% or more, so they are very profitable.

The problem is that due to lack of initiative in our government, it's been up to private companies to install fibre and they are not gonna share those cables with anyone else, it's long term investments.

So we will not have a situation similar to the phone networks(copper cables), where there can be competition. If you are lucky to live in an area that have fibre optic cables, you have, in 99% of the time, only one ISP to choose from.

In other words, just like the cable-TV companies.

If the government really promoted and allocated enough money to create a nationwide fibre optic network, this wouldn't be a problem and it would have benefited us, the consumers. 

The amount of money from the government is pathetic and it only makes it easier for the ISP to create monopolies. If you have access to a fibre connection, but you think it's too expensive, you are shit out of luck. You have to pay whatever they want, you have nowhere else to go. You can always choose a shitty ADSL connection though or one of the cable companies that forces you to buy their TV packages that you don't need  :angry:

 

But enough of this OT, I'm done.

2: It's not an initiative when it is already there

Please do your research before commenting, you are clearly wrong, and you do not link to anything to backup what you say, so I will include these links:

3: http://www.cw.no/artikkel/bredband/110-millioner-bredbandsstotte

4: http://www.tu.no/it/2014/12/15/na-har-lyse-og-altibox-lagt-fiber-til-alle-landets-fylker

 

You might want to check up on some of those companies you claim have good profits...

 

As you might understand I have Fiber, and there are "only" 4-5 other ISPS here aswell (I can also mention that fiber is the cheapest alternative aswell, so to claim it is expensive you must be drunk or something), I think that is far more than enough, also one thing is that there might only be 1 ISP, but they are not pushing people around like the US IPS's do! We actually have laws to prevent that!

They don't force you to buy the TV package neither, they do however charge more for the internet part if you want only that (Not more than the whole package, but more than the internet part of the package)