Windows 10: Show off your internet speed!

Comcast doubled my download speed *Smile

 

But how does it work there? Do you have a cap for downloads? If so, how many GBs?

My old package is only 80GB/month. Now it's upgraded to 320GB which I think is too much for what I need. But 80GB is not enough sometimes.

 

Try living with 5 Gbs. *Sad The down side to living in the "sticks".

 

What type of speed to you get?

The speed for my ISP is very slowly, also in the 'sticks', but beginning of last year they removed all caps, so although it is still slow, I can download as much as I want (usually set things downloading overnight)

 

That's the same marketing strategy some mobile carriers use. They are very aggressive in offering unlimited data use, unlimited calls and unlimited text. That's because they have limited coverage and poor signals. Even inside your office cubicle you cant get a signal which keeps your usage on a lower side.

 

It depends on how you use your bandwidth. My wife watches a lot of on-demand tv programs on her iPad. My toddler likes watching youtube. And I keep downloading Linux distros and updates. A 4GB file takes 15 mins to an hour to download depending on the download server.

 

Not sure if any of our mobile carriers offer unlimited nowadays, a few years ago they did but now they are restricting it (my mobile only has 750MB/Month)
But as reception here is even worse than BB, I only get a GPRS signal so find it difficult to use much mobile data, unless in a large town/city

I use to find it annoying when I wanted to watch a film at home, streaming or download (streaming works in SD for me about 80% of the time), having to check how much data had already been used so as not to go over

I think I would rather have a slower uncapped than and faster capped BB

 

I wish I could show off my internet speed, unfortunately I'm one of those that lives out in the sticks.





My company (I work from home) pays $138/month for this connection. Next week I have a different ISP coming in for a 30-day trial. They promise a download speed of "up to" 10Mbs for only $80/month.

 

I see more and more work on the fibre network going on around the village every day, hopefully I wont have to put up with this poor speed for much longer.

 

They just doubled mine yesterday the download doubled but the upload halved.

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Wow. I thought I was already paying too high on my internet that's why I called up my ISP to complain.
I was paying $130/month on my old speed (25down-2up) bundled with cable TV. After asking my ISP to cancel my subscription, we ended on a Hybrid Fibre upgrade with 60down-10up speed and cable TV for only $99. There are 2 main players here on internet services. And the competition is really tough between the 2.

 

I was under the impression that you and Brink have the best speeds here because of all the work you are doing on this forum.

All ISPs are taking the same path... The fiber optic technology way. It's just a question of "when". But your area seems to be in the works now. That"s good news!

 

There are NO cables where I live, let alone fiber optic.

Can't get dsl, cable TV or cable internet. Just satellite, cellular and what's called "fixed wireless".

 

It is the same here. I do have pretty decent wireless service thru Verizon, but it is very expensive at $10 per GB of data. My neighbor tried out a satellite service, but didn't have very good luck with it. When my contract with Verizon is up next June, I'm hoping I can find a better option.

 

I think it's 250GB. Never come close to that, so it doesn't matter to me *Wink