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StapleButter Member Level: 42      Posts: 230/505 EXP: 518715 For next: 2647 Since: 02-24-13 From: your dreams Since last post: 9 days Last activity: 1 day
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| I feel like people boast their 50Mbps or 100Mbps connection as if it was a perfectly normal thing, and France is way behind in that regard.
Living in a shitty place doesn't help. Shit Telecom theoretically provides 2Mbps, the actual speed depends on their mood. Generally it's acceptable, but it can be really terrible (as in, Youtube switches to 144p and even then it gets buffering pauses). But that's not the best part. The best part is their epic stability. Who thinks that random 3-5 minute disconnects are acceptable? Apparently, they think so. I don't really get it, either. Even something like my phone's internet is perfectly stable if given a reasonable signal (and 20Mbps if given a 4G signal). Eh. I will move to a better place this summer, hopefully getting me a better connection 
How about you guys? |
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Kak heh Level: 73  Posts: 1551/1815 EXP: 3369259 For next: 116609 Since: 09-03-13 From: ??? Since last post: 8 days Last activity: 3 hours
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| As I mentioned quite some times in the past, I consider the connection I have pretty slow.
I mean, even though it's still better than some years ago, what I have today is still not exactly wonderful. It's still stable (except in some random days when it promptly drops around mid-day for whatever reason) unlike the phone, which is atrociously bad and is never stable. ugh While I'm now amazed there is even worse out here (Italy is a place with very bad connection speed in general), that doesn't excuse in any way what Telecom offers here . |
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StapleButter Member Level: 42 Posts: 231/505 EXP: 518715 For next: 2647 Since: 02-24-13 From: your dreams Since last post: 9 days Last activity: 1 day
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| still better than mine, eh
regarding the phone, I need to try it again since I changed providers, maybe it's more or less stable/fast (and maybe it doesn't go through the same kind of proxy that completely defeats the purpose of caching) |
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Xenesis Actually a Doctor Level: 94  Posts: 2344/2543 EXP: 8239081 For next: 117576 Since: 07-28-07 Pronouns: he/him From: The Land of Kangaroos and Drop Bears Since last post: 10 days Last activity: 3 hours
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Originally posted by StapleButter This is literally my connection, regular disconnects and all. Except, my ISP knows about the problem and can't do anything about it because the monopoly telco is refusing to fix the problem. |
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StapleButter Member Level: 42 Posts: 233/505 EXP: 518715 For next: 2647 Since: 02-24-13 From: your dreams Since last post: 9 days Last activity: 1 day
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| probably the same thing here, considering we have another line from another ISP and it's not really better (except a top speed of 5Mbps)
our primary ISP (Shit Telecom) also owns the phone lines and all that they have also tried to abuse their ownership of telephone poles to cockblock fiber operators, but eventually that was resolved and fiber is getting installed... it's not happening anytime soon though seeing how it's going |
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Ehm Member Level: 47  Posts: 515/533 EXP: 721835 For next: 44368 Since: 06-13-09 From: Canada Since last post: 198 days Last activity: 191 days
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| Things could be better. |
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StapleButter Member Level: 42 Posts: 236/505 EXP: 518715 For next: 2647 Since: 02-24-13 From: your dreams Since last post: 9 days Last activity: 1 day
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| I measured my phone's connection (with a good 4G signal) and got 35Mbps down, 17Mbps up; that's a fairly big upload speed
haven't had a chance to test stability yet, though dad asked for fiber, but seeing the rate at which it's going (and how professional the fiber company is, apparently sending emails that contradict eachother...), I probably won't get to enjoy it before I move out |
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RanAS Member Level: 40  Posts: 173/497 EXP: 428609 For next: 12700 Since: 10-10-14 From: Brazil Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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(I was going to post this 6 hours ago, but I had to "fix" a motherboard issue, yay crappy computers)
My ISP is bad, but I never saw it as too terrible (even though it is according to the majory of people). The connection is mostly stable at least. Apparently there is also a download/upload limit I guess? But I never really noticed it. I can watch, or rather, could watch YouTube videos up to 480p without a problem, but now that we have Netflix instead of cable TV (too costly), nope.  We were planning on upgrading it to 2Mbps soon-ish, barely changes the price.
Haven't tested mobile, but it isn't very stable here either way (using any of the five providers). There was also a monopoly over here, like +5 years ago, from a company called Telefonica which also owned all of the phone lines (they still do, but they now have another brand name and also aren't as bad as before). It was very common for the internet to be unstable. They provided dial-up (what we used) and "Speedy", which was 1Mbps for a very high price (or 2Mbps for an even higher price). EDIT: Ignore that it says "Embratel", my ISP is actually NET "Virtua" (the companies merged). |
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StapleButter Member Level: 42 Posts: 237/505 EXP: 518715 For next: 2647 Since: 02-24-13 From: your dreams Since last post: 9 days Last activity: 1 day
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| And I thought Shit Telecom was bad... dial-up in 2010 is fucking terrible. That's a good example why monopoly is a bad thing. |
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xdaniel 780   Level: 56  Posts: 626/786 EXP: 1328119 For next: 70057 Since: 12-04-08 Pronouns: he/him From: Germany Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 5 min.
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Seeing some of the Speedtest results in here, I think I'm thankful for what I have right now:
It's not great, but also not that terrible; the <=1Mbps upload speed is the worst part, really. I could switch to some other ISP or even just a different plan with my current one, but then the question would be what specific terms other plans have (ex. transfer and/or speed limits). This one's internet access is an unlimited flat rate, with landline telephony having alright prices per minute, and I'm not really using the phone much anyway. |
Milly Level: 70  Posts: 1289/1289 EXP: 2926915 For next: 88896 Since: 12-02-07 Since last post: 2.0 years Last activity: 1 hour
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(this) It's nice and stable, but also a bit expensive (+$30/month for unlimited bandwidth, for a total of $105 + taxes) ... the basic cheap plan is 5/1 and 20GB/month 
But after going through 2 years of cheap shared 8/1 (in 2010-2012) and 2 weeks of 5/0.6 (after a move in 2014), it's worth the price  |
Gabu Star Mario Placeholder Ikachan until :effort: is found Level: 164  Posts: 9526/9870 EXP: 57039639 For next: 662751 Since: 08-10-09 Pronouns: they/them, she/her From: Santa Cruisin' USA Since last post: 7 days Last activity: 20 hours
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| I should note that I frequently mistype Comcast as Cocmast, so I legitimately wonder if there's some subconscious stuff going on around that little quirk of mine. |
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Xenesis Actually a Doctor Level: 94 Posts: 2345/2543 EXP: 8239081 For next: 117576 Since: 07-28-07 Pronouns: he/him From: The Land of Kangaroos and Drop Bears Since last post: 10 days Last activity: 3 hours
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It's currently thunderstorming and the connection is being sillier than normal, but this is what I have to put up with on an average day since the copper failed and the Telco wouldn't replace it. |
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SMWHackedHACK Newcomer Level: 2  Posts: 1/1 EXP: 30 For next: 16 Since: 04-29-16 From: Unused Location Since last post: 2.0 years Last activity: 1.0 years
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Better than my older house, 1mb/s. |
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StapleButter Member Level: 42 Posts: 243/505 EXP: 518715 For next: 2647 Since: 02-24-13 From: your dreams Since last post: 9 days Last activity: 1 day
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| last time I had measured the speed at univ, I had ~45Mbps down, although that was with ethernet hijacked on my laptop...
I tested it on one of their computers, and man, they have fucking gigabit |
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Xkeeper Level: 250  Posts: 21747/24691 EXP: 250020640 For next: 508371 Since: 07-03-07 Pronouns: they/them, she/her, etc. Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 3 hours
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| The internet here isn't that bad, despite occasional complaints. It's mostly just that the router we have likes acting up
I don't have a speed result, but it's pretty comparable to most of the stuff here. Certainly sufficient for streaming... |
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Drag 2640   Level: 96  Posts: 2612/2641 EXP: 8746214 For next: 242572 Since: 07-03-07 Since last post: 274 days Last activity: 83 days
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This was shared between three people who watch streams and/or play online video games. If it were just for me, a quarter of this would more than enough. |
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