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  • bojans
    Service Manager

    Site Contributor
    1,000+ Posts
    • Feb 2008
    • 1313
    #16
    I have 1Mb cable at home and ADSL at work, and I'm pretty satisfied with that speed. But 360Mb download!!! Wauuu

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      • bilyahn
        Service Manager

        1,000+ Posts
        • Dec 2006
        • 1470
        #17
        Originally posted by mrwho
        Well, I don't want to be a dick, but apparently they even offer 1Gbps over fiber - check here, my service is the second from the left.
        That's way cool! We might get something like that in 15 or 20 years!!!

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          • mrwho
            Major Asshole!

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            2,500+ Posts
            • Apr 2009
            • 4299
            #18
            Of course it depends on the area, I only got fiber some months ago.

            And all of this is, of course, because of competition: the two major competing providers installed fiber in the area at roughly the same time (with 1-2 weeks difference). The prices are also going down - or speeds going up - thanks to that.

            My internet speed has been growing steadily at roughly the same price (8, 10, 20, 50, 60Mb) for a while now. And I usually can get near the contracted speed (testing with Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test).
            ' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
            Mascan42

            'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'
            Ibid

            I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!

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              • TheOwl
                Service Manager

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                1,000+ Posts
                • Nov 2008
                • 1732
                #19
                At work I have two connections, a 2Mb link to our main office and a separate 24Mb for other services that we provide. My phone is supposed to be 7.2Mb down but that really depends on weather and stuff.

                Hopefully I will be getting fibre laid through my street within the next year so I will be going 100Mbs at home.
                Please don't ask me for firmware or service manuals as refusal often offends.

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                  • kingpd@businessprints.net
                    Senior Tech

                    500+ Posts
                    • Feb 2008
                    • 921
                    #20
                    Originally posted by AyJayAreDii
                    360Mb download!!!! that is possible? fastest I have ever used in the uk is 10Mb. fastest seen in uk is 20Mb.
                    They have actually been able to transfer an 8 gig movie over fiber optics in one second. Don't expect that to be commercially available anytime soon.

                    I have 8MBps down and 2 up. We don't have FIOS here which is supposed to get up to 50MB down I think. The think is though, if everyone has 2MB or so up then anything over 2MB or so down is a waste. That's why even from business servers the most I ever got was 1.5-2.0 MB down. Just wasted extra capacity. Check your internet contract though; many have clauses where they can limit you if you use too much.

                    Here in PA, comcast tried to do that and they got a class action against them; they also restricted bandwidth on ppl using p2p networks.

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