Your Interweb Connection

[chu]

I just want to get a figure of how many people connect through broadband and how many through Dial up still.

I am beginning to find an end to any hope of broadband development in my area. I am curious if any of you know of a way to find out any possible development plans for an area? I've called Verizon but all I get is lamo customer service aholes who have no clue.

I have checked that dslreports.com and they say my CO is wired for DSL. I am not sure how reputable that site can be though several years ago it did say my CO wasn't wired.

Even with this I have gone to several ISPs but have come out empty handed, no one can service my location.

I am not sure how a company, say Verizon, determines whether to service an area or not. I figure they judge by how many houses there are between an actual usable distance from the CO. I live maybe less than 2 miles from my CO and there are probably around maybe 30+ houses within 3 miles. Is that a good margin?

I feel a void in my life. It kind of sucks when you build a $1800 computer and you can only play single player games and there havn't been to many good ones lately.

 

[AtomicSpark]

I heard if you just keep calling about it and have your friends call then theyll hook it up for hope of popular demand. (internet searches don't count).

 

[ComradeBadger]

I'm on ADSL 2mbit

 

[FictiousWill]

dsl is great now that it's working. They had to come out to my house and redo shoddy connections a few times, but my problems were rare. I get 3mb down and 2 up, pretty well full speed all the time. I ping 50 across the continental US, so it's fairly decent.

My line at uni is nuts though. I'm as fast as the internet lets me. I had a 9mbit download from nvidia.com once.

 

[bosox188]

I have cable but I don't know exactly what my download/upload speeds are. Anyone know how to check? I have Comcast cable and it's a really nice connection, I don't lag in games or anything and my downloads can go pretty fast, but I'd love to know what they are exactly.

Edit: comcast.net says 4mbps but it doesn't specify download/upload.

 

[bliink]

10mbit cable at home

some ludicrous amount at work (+1000mbit I think, total.)

 

[Ennui]

cable, don't know what speed but I never lag and ping low.

 

[duffers20]

I'm on 0.5mbit adsl, soon to be 2mbit! Can't wait till i can upgrade!

 

[15357]

Me = VDSL 100mbps. I win.

 

[sinkoman]

Me = VDSL 100mbps. I win.

Would that be considered T x?

 

[15357]

Would that be considered T x?

what do you mean?

 

[JellyWorld]

Me = VDSL 100mbps. I win.

Lucky you Korea has the highest internet penetration in the world or something. Or was it cellphone?

 

[hneaz]

I have cable but I don't know exactly what my download/upload speeds are. Anyone know how to check? I have Comcast cable and it's a really nice connection, I don't lag in games or anything and my downloads can go pretty fast, but I'd love to know what they are exactly.

Edit: comcast.net says 4mbps but it doesn't specify download/upload.

go to numion

do the test a couple of times to find the average. make sure u are not download ing anything while the test is running. if you have more than 100 kps, u have broadband connection.

my score is 268 kps while my school has 543 kps. and i use Yahoo! DSL

 

[Cole]

I have cable but I don't know exactly what my download/upload speeds are. Anyone know how to check? I have Comcast cable and it's a really nice connection, I don't lag in games or anything and my downloads can go pretty fast, but I'd love to know what they are exactly.

Edit: comcast.net says 4mbps but it doesn't specify download/upload.

Don't expect your Upload to be that nice compared to download.

 

[bosox188]

I know the upload's are always much slower.

 

[NikolaX]

10mbit cable at home

some ludicrous amount at work (+1000mbit I think, total.)

nice, where do you live ?

 

[duffers20]

I would love a really speedy connection at home, would be so cool. Its a shame that ADSL is still in the early stages here, I think the fastest available residential connection is 4mbit. Not too sure though.

 

[NikolaX]

you have uk-online at 8mb but you must check if it is avaliable in your area
http://www.ukonline.net/broadband/dslcheck/prechecker.php?dsl_speed=8000

 

[duffers20]

The highest I can get in my paticular area is 2mbit at the moment. Should be getting that speed soon, which will be ace.

I feel sorry for teh poor person on dialup. I was stuck on that for years before DSL came out in the UK in my area.