Where do people get this stupid fast internet speed?

[AustinKZombie]

This has been a question of mine your over 12 months,

CAUSE I WANT IT!

[DyGr00339]

Japan, and anywhere with fiber optic cables.

[mrenusso]

Universities also have dedicated connections with insane speeds. By insane I mean even faster than ISPs backbone sometimes. 

[Hyydrah]

Countries with less greedy ISPs.

[jbr]

A lot of the ridiculously high residential connection speeds you hear people bragging about that make the media are usually not telling the whole story.

 

The numbers being thrown around are achieved with traffic moving entirely within the ISP's own network and or

never leave the country...... Once the traffic goes outside the network and or Country things slow WAAAAAAAAY down.

[LAwLz]

A lot of the ridiculously high residential connection speeds you hear people bragging about that make the media are usually not telling the whole story.

 

The numbers being thrown around are achieved with traffic moving entirely within the ISP's own network and or

never leave the country...... Once the traffic goes outside the network and or Country things slow WAAAAAAAAY down.

Depends on what kinds of speeds you are talking about. It is easily possible to route a few Gbit of traffic from your home, to an ISP, and to some other server with a similar data plan. So if we're talking about Gigabit and slightly above (for example Sony's 2Gbit/s offering in Japan) then no, they don't need to use tricks for that. If we are talking about Close to Terabit speed, then yes that's inside the ISP only (probably).

[fracking4oil]

Google Fiber 1 Gb/s in Kansas city, Kansas/Missouri coming soon to Austin Texas.

[mr moose]

Usually countries with a dense population will have higher speeds. This because the number of consumers/square mile of infrastructure is sufficiently high enough to pay for the better equipment.

 

In countries like Australia that are only marginally smaller than the USA but only have 23Million people, there is simply not enough cash flow to pay for fibre optics and upgrading the exchanges.

[Darren]

Things that help

 

- Live in a residential zone, because rural is just going to be a bad time

- Check ISP services beforehand (Most ISPs provide an online tool)

[HybridB]

i get 550kbs down :(

[fracking4oil]

A lot of the ridiculously high residential connection speeds you hear people bragging about that make the media are usually not telling the whole story.

 

The numbers being thrown around are achieved with traffic moving entirely within the ISP's own network and or

never leave the country...... Once the traffic goes outside the network and or Country things slow WAAAAAAAAY down.

 

 

The internet is highly reliant on the connecting to the outside and since most internet servers have mediocre speeds and/or caps your speeds drop as you connect to them. It's not the fault of the high speed ISP, but of the outside source in which the ISP has no control over. 

[AraSarkisyan]

Definatley not Los Angeles. 

[jbr]

The internet is highly reliant on the connecting to the outside and since most internet servers have mediocre speeds and/or caps your speeds drop as you connect to them. It's not the fault of the high speed ISP, but of the outside source in which the ISP has no control over. 

 

Which is what I said, the numbers being thrown around don't take into account real world conditions.

[fishymamba]

Definatley not Los Angeles. 

 

Not that bad here, I was getting over 100 up and 100 down  when I lived in Pasadena. 

 

Get 75/35 now, which is still pretty good. 

[fracking4oil]

Which is what I said, the numbers being thrown around don't take into account real world conditions.

 

Yes, and I was confirming it while explaining it's not the fault of the high speed ISP that outside sources are slow. Should we all be limited to 100kb/s because some outside source out of our control is limited? While having an ISP that provides  1gb/s + you receive the information from the outside source as fast as that source can provide rather than being limited at your end. Obviously if all networks were at 1 gb/s+ everyone would receive information much faster, but that simply isn't and won't be a reality for at least a long while. The best we can do is have the best speeds as we can on our end and hope the other end is doing the same.

[ProGearUk]

Google Fiber 1 GB/s in Kansas city, Kansas/Missouri coming soon to Austin Texas.

No no you have the unit all wrong a gigabit is denoted by 1gbps not gb/s. Gb/s is used for gigabyte a second which Google do not offer. 

[loepa]

My country is pretty big and have a lot of islands so It's pretty much screwed. I pay 40$ for 250~ KBps Down 0.5KBps up.

I heard Country with few Island and dense people have good internet.

[JupiteL]

I got 230 KBps down with $25 here, pretty good deal only if they don't give the customers shit service :(

[jonasa97]

Hmm I got 94/5 here.

[mrenusso]

No no you have the unit all wrong a gigabit is denoted by 1gbps not gb/s. Gb/s is used for gigabit a second which Google do not offer. 

the problem is not in the gbps or gb/s which are the same. The difference is in the capital B which stands for bytes, and b which stands for bit. ;)

[ProGearUk]

the problem is not in the gbps or gb/s which are the same. The difference is in the capital B which stands for bytes, and b which stands for bit. ;)

well gbps is the commonly used initial for gigabit. 

[andrey64]

guys....i was still using NetZero till about 1 year ago.....dial up 56k(sometimes, most of the time it flucuated between 36-44k)

 

O Ya!!!! gmail only took me like 15min to load up...then another 20 min to load up my messages....living the life!!!!

 

thats what happens when u live in the mountains and satelite is your only choice for fast speeds......note* fast speeds means 1mbps down/ 500 kbps up for only $80 USD/month!!!

[Blade of Grass]

well gbps is the commonly used initial for gigabit. 

Not really.

Gb is the commonly used one.

gbps isn't even proper, the prefix should be capitalized.

[fracking4oil]

No no you have the unit all wrong a gigabit is denoted by 1gbps not gb/s. Gb/s is used for gigabit a second which Google do not offer. 

 

 

Google Fiber DOES offer 1 gigabit per second, look it up... All ISP's provide speeds in bits while they try to make you believe it's in bytes which would be 8 times faster than reality.

[Darren]

Google Fiber DOES offer 1 gigabit per second, look it up... All ISP's provide speeds in bits while they try to make you believe it's in bytes which would be 8 times faster than reality.

 

That comes down to the consumer not being educated. Speed is ALWAYS referred to in bits per second, whereas the size of something is referred to in bytes.

 

Gbps and Gb/s are interchangeable, they mean the same thing. Per second means s^-1 which is ^x/_s,