How fast is the LTT member's internet connection?

[Wiplive]

Prove it.

http://lattelecom.lv/majai/komplekti/internets-tv-talrunis/cenas/majas-komplekts-vip (Press on that 1 Gbit/s, it includes TV + dial up phone)

[patrickjp93]

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3604504788

 

This is on wireless on a park bench on the outskirts of campus. Wired inside is ~100 Mbps both ways.

[joenewbie]

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3604504788

 

This is on wireless on a park bench on the outskirts of campus. Wired inside is ~100 Mbps both ways.

Universities are getting subsidy money to have fast internet.   Now everyone is kinda expected to have their own laptop or PC/Mac when they get to college.   I remember 1 guy my dorm floor had his PC connected via phoneline to the University network, he would download music with it.  Only took about an hour for a 3mb song to download.  

[patrickjp93]

Universities are getting subsidy money to have fast internet.   Now everyone is kinda expected to have their own laptop or PC/Mac when they get to college.   I remember 1 guy my dorm floor had his PC connected via phoneline to the University network, he would download music with it.  Only took about an hour for a 3mb song to download.  

If you think universities get much subsidy money for internet you're not all that informed. There's a fee at my school to pay for the internet specifically. You can get a 1mbps connection for $10 a semester or a 100mbps connection for $85 per semester.

[Robi_g]

But this is from a wireless USB dongle, wired is about 30down, 15up

[joenewbie]

If you think universities get much subsidy money for internet you're not all that informed. There's a fee at my school to pay for the internet specifically. You can get a 1mbps connection for $10 a semester or a 100mbps connection for $85 per semester.

Per semester, that's how many months vs the real world price?  And besides that's just the university trying to turn a buck, they are getting a lot of money from their states/federal government to have high speed internet, they're just not gonna pass on any kind of savings to their consumers, aka customers aka, students.   Higher education is a great scam. 

[patrickjp93]

Per semester, that's how many months vs the real world price?  And besides that's just the university trying to turn a buck, they are getting a lot of money from their states/federal government to have high speed internet, they're just not gonna pass on any kind of savings to their consumers, aka customers aka, students.   Higher education is a great scam. 

Nope, the university gets no state or federal money towards that. Feel free to check the books which are public record. The students pay for everything that wasn't already built, and obviously providing internet service is a real-time commodity. 

 

And a semester is about 3.5 months, but it's cheaper to buy bulk in any commodity, internet included. If we have a 100Gbit connection outgoing to our DNS server, it costs a lot less to split that at the local end than to buy 14,000 separate internet connections each 100 mb each. It equals out and the faculty pay into it too.

[Guest]

Prime time:

[KevinTYJ]

Well I got a way worse result than a week ago probably because I am on a macbook pro with crappy wireless ship inside.

 

And that I am not using my internet, because it dose working stealing my neighbors sorry but they steal mine anyways

 

BTW I have like 6000 tabs of linus tech tips, and youtube... sooo maybe that was the problem but anyways... last week wehn I changed my internet I got like 100 something mbs on my mbp

 

EDIT : I am also on twitch watching Slick and Linus Live

 

[patrickjp93]

Prime time:

What is with Virgin Media's 20 ms ping? Awesome bandwidth or not that is crazy huge ping time.

[letsoverclock]

the ping is insane

rogers sucks btw

[Kenifyable]

(While under heavy torrenting and a 2000kbps twitch-stream.. god I love fiber optics :wub: )

Paying for 30/30.

It's alright, but I'm thinking of upgrading to 60/60.

[Guest]

What is with Virgin Media's 20 ms ping? Awesome bandwidth or not that is crazy huge ping time.

 I'm in Cardiff, can I believe the test was to Bristol. I usually get 110 - 125 download, 10 - 12 upload and my ping stays between 15 - 25 usually.

[ruitti99]

 

I would say this is a "bad day" usually get 102 Mb/s down and almost 11 Mb/s up.

 

Is it just Sweden that most of the company is only offering 10/Mb/s up and next step is 100Mb/s up?

I know one company in Sweden that actually is offering something in between that... How is it for you guys in your country's? <_<

My 8 Mbps up and 1 down is the fastest that my ISP has to offer in my area (Friend that lives 4 kilometers away has 200 Mbps up and something down)

[VortexS]

 I'm happy with this, and the connection is like this 24/7.

[NeatSquidYT]

11 down, 0.8 up. Can't post an image as I'm on my ipad, but I'm in the middle of the English countryside in a very small town, so not TOO bad

[patrickjp93]

 I'm in Cardiff, can I believe the test was to Bristol. I usually get 110 - 125 download, 10 - 12 upload and my ping stays between 15 - 25 usually.

But that distance should be ping < 7. I mean if the server was 150 miles away, I could understand, but at 50 or less you're getting 20ms ping? What shmuck built the underlying infrastructure on that and does he/she still draw a paycheck for doing it?

[Darkwolf]

But that distance should be ping < 7. I mean if the server was 150 miles away, I could understand, but at 50 or less you're getting 20ms ping? What shmuck built the underlying infrastructure on that and does he/she still draw a paycheck for doing it?

It's higher latency within the UK, than from within the UK to outside the UK.

(I'm slightly further west in Wales than that guy).

To London:        

 

To Netherlands: 

I think the problem is that there's loads of crappy / highly utilised nodes and most traffic just goes through there, rather than routing through less utilised nodes to be faster (longer path around, but less congestion).

[patrickjp93]

It's higher latency within the UK, than from within the UK to outside the UK.

(I'm slightly further west in Wales than that guy).

To London:        

 

To Netherlands: 

I think the problem is that there's loads of crappy / highly utilised nodes and most traffic just goes through there, rather than routing through less utilised nodes to be faster (longer path around, but less congestion).

Sigh...why must the western world have such awful internet infrastructure? How is it the universities universally have better internet? Why does no one force the ISPs to compete? It's like the Time Warner/Comcast merger in the U.S.. There was no competition, so the FTC let them make it an even bigger problem by letting them merge... What a stupid world...

[Darkwolf]

Sigh...why must the western world have such awful internet infrastructure? How is it the universities universally have better internet? Why does no one force the ISPs to compete? It's like the Time Warner/Comcast merger in the U.S.. There was no competition, so the FTC let them make it an even bigger problem by letting them merge... What a stupid world...

There's 2 big companies really, Virgin Media and British Telecommunications (BT).

This is a fairly nice article about them both, although it doesn't get into their background too much: http://www.choose.net/media/guide/features/bt-super-fast-fibre-broadband-network.html

BTs upload can be around twice as fast (depending on if you actually get what BT is supposed to be giving you) as Virgin Medias, but Virgin Medias download is twice as fast.

BT is known for not delivering anywhere near their actual speed - Here's a video of BT getting flak from a consumers advice show called Watchdog which investigates big and small companies after complaints about them. 

- One of the most important part is 04:30 - 05:40

I've heard of a lot of Virgin Media customers having trouble too, although that tends to be overutilization or problem with the equipment that they provide. Note that you *HAVE* to use the modem that they give you (but you can use any router/adapters you want for the LAN aspect).

As my speed tests show, I'm with Virgin Media so I may be a bit biased towards them but, I haven't had too many issues with them and they don't throttle downloads anymore (and there's no caps), but they do throttle uploads (and the upload speeds suck as you can see, roughly 10:1 ratio down:up).

[Guest]

But that distance should be ping < 7. I mean if the server was 150 miles away, I could understand, but at 50 or less you're getting 20ms ping? What shmuck built the underlying infrastructure on that and does he/she still draw a paycheck for doing it?

I dunno....

[joenewbie]

If the government can set mpg standards for cars and speed limits, why can't they require minimum speeds for x amount of dollars, something akin to the rest of the world.   They should also make internet free for all but at 56k speeds.  That way nobody is left without and there isn't a tech-gap for poor people.  

[patrickjp93]

If the government can set mpg standards for cars and speed limits, why can't they require minimum speeds for x amount of dollars, something akin to the rest of the world.   They should also make internet free for all but at 56k speeds.  That way nobody is left without and there isn't a tech-gap for poor people.  

That would be intelligent socialism/communism. America can't have that

[fringie]

 

Virgin Media, around £17 (we're getting a free speed upgrade soon, it doesn't say by how much but last speed double was 30 to 60 so I'd think 60 to 120) but it's part of a package which costs £45/month (tv + phone included).

[yansenharyanto]

it's 3 Mbps Download and 640Kbps Upload
and it's expensive i think! $35
 

-cheap and stupid ISP