500 kbps in my house in Paraiso... I feel cheated on as anybody that has "Telmex" connection does. They sell you 1mbps and they give you 500 D= wooot!?!!??! I will complain on Villahermosa D=
That's 74mbps down and not 7.4 ^^; I had a chance to use Hikari fibre when I was lodging at my friend's place in Japan. Awesome stuff. Downloads came in within a few minutes!
I almost expected a ludicrous connection at your residence, Danny, but I was wrong. Ever-pragmatic, I see. :) More than anything, I am pleased by the good upload speed. I get 6 Mbps here at home, but only half a megabit upload. While I ramp up my personal business, I'm employed by a small regional ISP here in the US, and we serve our couple thousand customers (mostly DSL, moving to fiber) with two DS3s which we load balance across. Since they're not bonded, a single connection can't make use of both at once, but It's still nice to have 45 Mbps up and down while at the office. :) We have bandwidth to spare at the moment (since most people don't use their fast connections that heavily), but it's clear that an upgrade will be needed soon. We're looking into our options, and I can't wait to stress test it! It's nothing compared to a friend of mine in Sweden, though. She pays about what I do for internet service at home, but she her service plan is for 100 Mbps service, and she gets every bit of it. I know some locations in Tokyo can get similar service, but I fully expect that I'll have ordinary DSL speeds when I'm in Japan.
Ah, windbell, you're right! I should have looked closely at the picture. Well, color me jealous, then.
bleh my connection is like 10 times slower than yours and yet i'm paying like 6,000 yen for it
I was stuck on dial-up for years. I live in a pretty rural area and a little out of town so DSL isn't even an option and the local cable company hasn't gotten off their lazy butts and gotten cable internet working yet. So I was very glad when Clearwire came to town a couple of years back. While what I got now beats the heck out of dial-up it's still no DSL, no matter what Clearwire says. My major problem with it is that Clearwire does traffic shaping to while Bittorent still works it can still take hours to download an anime episode even on a well seeded torrent. I'd be a happy camper if I could get speed even half of what Danny is pulling.
Windbell, Yikes - thanks for the correction - article modified.
About 4-5Mbps here, which still pales in comparison to what Danny is getting. Talking about dail-up brings up memories of the old days when the Internet was nothing more than a young fledgling.
@Danny I think you need to modify the article again. You're only getting about 10.7Mbps up D: still a high number compared to us turtles >_
Speed is not that important. Here the speeds are 16Mbit download, 1Mbit upload but you only get maybe 30GB a month for the price that you're paying. So you can use up your monthly limit in 1 day if you tried. How much can you download or is it unlimited?
windbell those tests are in bits not bytes. well for $50 nz dollars i get sub advertised speed about 1400kb/s down and 86kb/s up, although its suppose to be full speed down (8mb/s) and 128kb/s up. i dont know who decided that all any one ever need is just 128kb/s upload. at least my plan has an unlimited cap on it but it no longer available so you cant sign up for it which leave us still on it. all other plans have data caps on them starting at 10gb a month. you can add extra data but it costs.
holy cow... lol speeds here only go up to 25mb/s --_-- & thats close to $100 a month " ..... "
DL: 127kbps UL: 73kbps Slower than a turtle carrying 10kg of weight... God... when will our DSL connection be faster?... Philippines' DSL really sucks! Not worth paying the monthly bill..
Mexico have some crappy connections, our ISP are a wholebunch of thieves that only care to get money, you have to pay like 2 months more for cancelling the service for example. I download at 369 kbps and upload at 144kbps and I am paying for a supossedly 1mb connection, the service stalls a lot and I get disconnected like twice a day, usually overnight, while Im downloading things, but well....we have to deal with it /sigh PS Also you upload at 10mbps, not 100mbps
a little under 20Mbps download and 4Mbps upload, while paying about the same or slightly more than Danny. Makes me cry when I think about that :(
I have 6Mbps down and 512kbps up for about 65$ But when provider have a bad day it can be around 50-300kbps :/ Until a year ago there was limts for downloading and uploading, for 6mb it was 50GB. Because that I haved 640kbps for that same price as now. When you mentioned dial-up I remembered that annoing sound when connecting to internet... Something horrible, and download speed 3-4KBps when now I have 700KBps :P
japan = freaking awesome mind blowing internet XDDD at an average, the speed that we get is around 128 kpbs-512 kbps and if we are lucky, we can get as much as 1 mbps ^^ so, broadband providers here are pretty decent. here, we have WiFi ISP broadband services where you can get to the internets at broadband speeds without any physical phone line. it uses mobile phone cell sites to connect to the internet. i so wanted to have a T1 or a T2 connection and abuse it XDDD
Singapore's Internet connection sucks. Everything is capped...
4 MB download and 360 kb upload for me.
2nd test resulting to only 52kbps... God...slower than a 56k dial up connection.
Ermm, you mean 74up/10down? Is that in mbytes or bits? Either way, it's still mind-blowing and faster than my school network even in the deep of the night T_T Me want nihon broadband too...
Jesus. I can understand people getting a couple Mbps in parts of Asia (I know that the market of ISP is quite competitive, and you can get incredibly good connections at a fraction of the cost we pay in North America), but to what percent have I seen so far in North America. The average cable company here in Ontario is 512+ kbps, and maybe nearing 1 mbps at the MOST. And we're paying $50 for that :/ That's the one thing I like about Japan for example. It's a technologists dream city. So ahead of the game, and much more affordable than things we have goin' here.
Danny, you might need to correct your post again. I'm pretty sure your screenshot is saying 70Mbps, unless the numbers in the screenshot are meant to be in MB/s? In Malaysia I'm paying ~USD25 for a lowly 1Mbps DL which does not perform up to par on BT due to shaping.
I guess so-so here. 1315 KBPS
From singapore here and my download speed is 13000kbps... that's like your upload speed! Wow! But anyway, 10Mbps is good enough of me, for now.
SpeedTest shows "bits per second" and not "bytes per second" ^^;
14 mbps up/ 1.8 down here in Jersey as with all the limits of technology I am never truly satisfied, I want more!!!!!
oops, had it on backwards, sorry for double post
I do tech support for a backbone internet provider that mostly sells 100 megabit, 1 gigabit and 10 gigabit internet connections (we're 15% of the Internet) and I see a lot of those speed tests from customers in North America. They go kinda wacky after you get above about 20 or 30 megabits. I've seen 100 megabit circuits that can be proven to work fine by other means that only get 2 megabits on a speed test site. The speed test on speakeasy.net has even put up a faq item that says "sorry we don't work over 20 megs". I've heard that some places in Japan have 50 megabit home Internet circuits available and I'm curious how they fare on the speed test sites.
i got 1289 down 662 up. it does go faster at times, but im paying $40NZD per month and ive got a 5 gig cap on top of it. Gawd i hate my country
Now I want to live in Japan!!!! Man, the speed of the internet there must be crazy!!!!! The cost, I might be able to handle it if I plan to live there...
My Internet fails... 2950 kb/s down and 1033 kb/s up.
I get a whopping 1324 kb/s according to Speedtest.net. I'm with Internode and pay around $100 a month for 40 gig. No cap, just "prioritized" once I hit my monthly limit. It's pretty damn sucky, really - but Australia is a massive country, with hardly any inhabitants - so there are vast stretches of territory with no cities or towns available to link networks.
download speed in my home is about 40KBps, and upload is about 1-3 KBps. that really sucks... i want to play battle rondo but i can't damn u indonesia!!!
I don't get it!!! How come Japanese and you Danny, got such a good internet service?!? I'm current use one of the best internet line in my region (University connection) and only get 1/3 of your download capacity. Will move to Japan after graduate >
3rd world country, etc. My city scores a HUGE 448kbps dl speed and superultrafast 183kbps. My connection goes 756kbps dl 213kbps upload. I'm moving to a bigger city but can't expect for the speed to get any better. Also: Prices here are ridiculous. More expensive than getting cable TV. More expensive than my eletric bill and water bill put together.
I guess I have one of the slowest connection here. My package is only 384down/256up. MY ISP is a TIME Wireless, and it cost me ~rm80/USD24 monthly =__=" Oh well, Im not a heavy downloader anyway and I get constant ~40KB/s download via anything, not like some Screamyx subscribers LOL
2980kb/sec down and 661 kb/s up with no cap. It costs me $45 CDN/month. Your download and upload speeds are outrageous danny. I suppose hosting a server needs that much. But damn! Share some with me! Corporations here in Canada are lame. Although that is my top speed, when downloading i never exceed 300kb/s and I rarely upload, the only thing I upload is pictures because anything else is too long. I can't even share demo's on Halo 3 cuz 6 second demos take foreever and people just decide to leave lol. Is it possible to get a japanese company to provide internet abroad? I suppose not, but its a question that needs answering.
1510 kb/s download, 316 kb/s upload. At least for the price I pay, I don't share my connection. I'd yell "Thief, thief!" otherwise anyway.
By the way, let's review our geography with this nifty site! Any takers? XD
Oh, btw the values are in Kb (384Kb down/256Kb up)not Mb . AFAIK almost all Malaysian ISP do not cap, but some do have shapings. However Malaysian is known to be abusive/taking advantage in anything. So most people here tends to download the INTERNET 24/7, and complaint about speed. Most likely never heard of bottlenecks =__= I envy those with uber connections. Oh, besides Jp and Sweden, Taiwan (or was it Korea) too has uber 1337 connections, right?
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Yep, internet is fast here. 30dn/7up mb/s for 1900yen($20)/month with a service that has full English service for us newbies here. Great stuff. Can't help bragging about stuff like this sorry. Andi
1996 Kb/s download, 191Kb/s upload. Wow, that's, really, really crappy. :( I knew I shouldn't have gone with Virgin Media. orz
Danny, your results confuse me. Are you trying to say you are getting 7.4 megabytes downstream? Because from what I can see you are getting 74 megabit connection downstream which is pretty dang good. Most people in the States are lucky to get 20mbps.
I'm 826K up and 321K down. Not bad for a 24 USD connection. That includes the landline BTW....
urayamashii!!! I'm only get about 88kbs down and 22kbs up.
I mean not bad for a 3rd world connection. Hehehehe.....
My Starhub Cable Vision net me "8139 Kbps down/234 Kbps up", which is ok I guess ^^
Man, when I was living in Yoko, our download AND upload speed was rediculous. It was their basic speed too, but I could grab files in seconds vs minutes, except stuff from overseas, those took maybe twice as long. I could always tell when something was hosted in the US vs Europe or asia. The US broadband [if you can even CALL it that] sucks soooo bad!
I pay over 100USD for my connection and I can't download faster than 30Kb/s. South Africa's internet is monopolized by a single company so we all suffer here, I'm lucky to be uncapped, most people have a 1GB-3GB cap PER MONTH. *sigh*
My down/up speeds are something like, 364/128 kbps here. Stupid crappy DSL :(
I got 243kbps up and 143kbps down and that is on a uncapped business ADSL package costing about R1350 (¥21918) per month. Not that fast if you take into account what you can get in some countries but it's one of the faster internet connections available over here. We are fortunate to have had gotten an uncapped connection since most other connections are capped.
150-155 kbytes/sec on DSL. C'mon FIOS...
I pay about US$50 a month for an unlimited connection and my speeds from the test is: Download: 10983 Upload: 845
Speeds are pretty ridiculous here, we are very lucky. I`m with Asahi net and am very happy with the speeds i get.
I live in South Africa....nuf said we have the WORST...MOST EXPENSIVE internet connections in the world...Thank you Telkom (hellkom as we like to call it) even INDIA has better speeds than us at MUCH better prices somewhere on www.hellkom.co.za it shows u a table of the worlds internet prices and speeds...SA is right at the bottom
dammit111 we need fiber here in the US lolz
Singapore's connection is OK I guess... But Japan has cheaper broadband no?
That's disgustingly high! I only get: 8850kb/s down 558kb/s up ISP's in the United States need to get their act together and catch up with Japan so I can stop being so envious.
The main provider for cable connections in switzerland is going to release a 25Mbit/2.5Mbit connection tomorrow. YAY! Now i'm at 10Mbit/1Mbit not bad at all but slow compared to japanese 100+Mbit >.
I don't dare to take the test... why? Well, just for laughs, my house is still equipped with the 56kbps connection. And yes, it still takes ages to open a webpage, let alone upload or download something. The reason; apart from me, most of the other family members only logs on to the internet for mailing purposes. Good news is that i'll be changing this to a faster one once i get a job~~~ Hurrahh~~~~~!!!
Isn't ADSL2+ up to 24MBps in Australia? I'm still waiting for service to start in my area which hopefully is this year. Still stuck with 8MBps... I was always under the impression that Korea had the fastest broadband, something along the lines of over 50% of households had 100MBps speeds.
7.4Mbps/10Mbps for $50? Lucky guy...I only get 5Mb/768 kb(!) for €40....actually, it's not the problem of getting higher d-loads, but I still haven't found a provider that also offers decent upload speeds
When I was living in Belgium, we had 4.6Mbps dl/512Kbps ul and 12GB/month download limit -.-; Pretty sucky. Got about 400kb/s dl speed, and 40kb ul speed. Now I live in Finland, and we have some home network thing. Basically, 1Mbps dl/ul, which sucks even harder! I get about max 90kb/s dl speed, I can be happy when I hit the 80 tho. And about 70kb/s upload, which is better than in Belgium. I don't have any cap on download tho, which is good for leeching! :D Anyways, can't wait to move and get the fastest connection available. 10Mbps dl/ 1Mbps ul, for about 45€ or 67$ or 7128円
i'm so envious... in malaysia, famous broadband provider TMNuts (TMNet) Streamyx is crap. No.1, 1.0mbps (BIT, not bytes) for RM77/88 a month, depends on the package with or without modem/router. What makes it crap, the PURPOSEDLY choose areas with lousy lines, so basically, your line is unstable. and the newest 4.0mbps costs about RM268 or something....daylight robbery IMHO. There ARE alternatives...like Celcom Broadband, about RM98 a month for 3.6mbps...but the modem costs RM1000 (it's those card-like modem), and Maxis, 3.2mbps RM98 a month but you need to use your phone as a modem, so double money wasted.
I got about 64000 on download and 3500 on upload.
What sucks in our broadband is the upload and the connections they say are never true currently I'm paying 43€ with limitless download at 8mb download and 512kb upload but the truth is that the maximum download I've reached has been 350kb/s via torrent and 420kb/s via download accelerator and the maximum upload I managed to do is 20kb/s and when I reach this upload it's almost impossible to use the net cause it gets so slow.
this is my speed.... http://www.speedtest.net/result/221988080.png ...
I just took the speed test; results: 4828 kb/s download & 488 kb/s upload. I pay about 67 USD; of course thats for internet, and tv.
@MooMooCow1314 : If that Celcom truelly can give around 3Mbps download cosntantly, and you really need/use fast connection, rm1000 is worth the investment. Back in the days when TIME was firstly introduced (2004?), I paid rm500 for the wireless modem, subscribed to 384/256. But my money were greatly invested as I get constant speed for BT, XDCC and direct till today.
2143 kb/s download speed T-T i hate my internets provider...
my max download speed using Bittorrent when im using my japan optical line now is 4.3MB .. previously max i have in Singapore was only around 200KB.. and tat is very rare :( Really love the connection here :D
omg Danny i want your internets. I have 2318kb/s download and 346kb/s upload >.< The numbers you get really do put our internet connections into perspective. Yet another reason for me to get my ass over to Japan ^^ There is a problem in the UK with internet providers offering speeds that arnt actually true. So they will say its 16MB but you may only actually get 7MB. Then they come up with all sorts of excuses like your too far away from the source etc. Seems stupid the prices we pay over here in the UK for a 16MB connection can be as high as what your paying for a personal fiber optic line. /slitwrists
Your download speed is twelve times faster,
