Speed of connexion at home ?

[Cilpot]

Sweden has long been envied for its bandwidth and prices. Especially by its backward neighbours

Anyway, I have a 1 mbps line at home. Common bandwidth for homes in norway. And affordable for a poor student too

 

[funxus]

512MBit/s ADSL. Although I'm from Sweden, I live too far outside the three biggest cities where 26M is available.

 

[Ankka]

Seems like Sweden is the promised land of dsl:s...

In Finland they're quite exoensive and the best you really can get to home is 1 or 2 meg's...

 

[Turner]

Just tested at home, on a laptop with a USB connection to the cable modem, gave me 349kbps down, and 233 kbps up. Not bad for a USB connection.

On my desktop, I generally hit d/l's of 300kbytes/sec.

 

[Kinniken]

Akka and Hannibal, I am currently on cable (Noos) but thinking of getting a FreeBox. Was your experience with it good? Are the speeds announced really that? And perhaps more importantly is the reliability good? Noos suck there... At least a few hours offline every week.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

56k, as there is nothing else availible that is reasonably priced

 

[Akka]

Originally posted by Kinniken
Akka and Hannibal, I am currently on cable (Noos) but thinking of getting a FreeBox. Was your experience with it good? Are the speeds announced really that? And perhaps more importantly is the reliability good? Noos suck there... At least a few hours offline every week.

I've heard people having trouble with Free (lots of disconnects and so on), but personnally, it's been perfectly flawless (except for FT taking one month and a half in place of the supposedly "10 days max" to build my line, which means this time of waiting before the registration starting... But took a whooping three days to get all the rest in place after that, and I leave at Bordeaux, while Free is located in Paris, so... ^^).

You can see in my previous post that not only the speeds aren't below what Free says, but they are in fact close to being TWICE higher (I'm paying for a 256 Ko/s line, and I'm downloading at 350 Ko/s average in monothread, and up to 450 Ko/s average with Download Accelerator).

Beware, though : you have to be close to the phone central (less than 2500 m, and I got my DL speed by being at 2070 m), as performance decrease with distance.

I haven't been able to test the phone-via-Freebox and the TV-via-Freebox, but I will keep you updated

 

[Achinz]

The slowest one here. The peak periods are quite a pain.

An interesting related issue is cost, as has been mentioned by the way here. Perhaps a new thread on this.

 

[t92300]

Wheres 33k dial up?

 

[Akka]

It's included in the first option (the correct wording should have been "up to 56 Kbps").

 

[Akka]

It's included in the first option (the correct wording should have been "up to 56 Kbps".

 

[Zwelgje]

768 ADSL
I've got it for almost 6 months now. The first 6 months is €19.95/month after that it's €24.95. The only drawback is that I filled up my HDD within 2 weeks (no need to guess the file-types I downloaded mostly...)

 

[Plexus]

3000 kbps down, 300 kbps up (cable).

 

[FireBall]

Good Cable/ADSL... around 1000 kbps connection, but it goes down dramatically when I connect to a server, especially one overseas...

 

[Mikoyan]

It's supposed to be 1.5mbps but I only get around 800kbps.

 

[marioh]

It depends.
I haven't paid for Internet access in over 7 years. I get free worldwide dial up access via my company. So, 56k for that.
But when I'm at home, I just use my wireless NIC card on my laptop to connect to a neighbor's wireless G router. So, I can also get high speed wireless connection for free as well. And best yet, I can practically download anything via the wireless connection, and it would be very difficult to trace any of it back to me. Just a word of warning to all who use wireless routers...

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Good cable.

 

[xerxes_thegreat]

Living in a rural area, all I have access to is dial-up. Let me tell you, life was much less frustrating before I made a feeble attempt to play an FPS online. The best ping I have ever gotten is 300.

 

[Brainly]

Actually in Finland (Oulu that is) you can get a 10 mbps VDSL for 45 € or something...

I have a puny 512 kbps SDSL

 

[HAND]

I envy all these 10-1mb connections in Sweden etc...512k dsl would suit me fine...i'm on 56k!!
England is the stone age of internet connections..