i use mobile broadband and usually get speeds like that or worse. i can only watch netflix in low quality mode. online gaming is a non runner with ping regularly in the many 100s. watching low quality youtube videos is also not a fun process. I also have a 60GB cap....though bigger wouldnt do much good anyway due to the speed of the connection.
i use mobile broadband and usually get speeds like that or worse. i can only watch netflix in low quality mode. online gaming is a non runner with ping regularly in the many 100s. watching low quality youtube videos is also not a fun process. I also have a 60GB cap....though bigger wouldnt do much good anyway due to the speed of the connection.
i use mobile broadband and usually get speeds like that or worse. i can only watch netflix in low quality mode. online gaming is a non runner with ping regularly in the many 100s. watching low quality youtube videos is also not a fun process. I also have a 60GB cap....though bigger wouldnt do much good anyway due to the speed of the connection.
@alim298: the west of ireland where we still communicate by smoke signals and its probably faster to physically post the data packets through snail mail :P
ah no in fairness there is faster available to me in terms of a landline. i just rent at the moment and need to see if everything is ready to go or if work needs to be done so i can get the better services. 70Mb/s download should do the job.
worst case scenario (landlord does not alow me to get it installed) 4G is also on its way here (as i say...smoke signals...i wasnt completely joking :D) so that should make it more bearable.
@dogswithguns: that cant be right. for a landline thats incredibly low. what speed are you paying for?
@alim298: the west of ireland where we still communicate by smoke signals and its probably faster to physically post the data packets through snail mail :P
ah no in fairness there is faster available to me in terms of a landline. i just rent at the moment and need to see if everything is ready to go or if work needs to be done so i can get the better services. 70Mb/s download should do the job.
worst case scenario (landlord does not alow me to get it installed) 4G is also on its way here (as i say...smoke signals...i wasnt completely joking :D) so that should make it more bearable.
@dogswithguns: that cant be right. for a landline thats incredibly low. what speed are you paying for?
$33 a month.. I'm thinking about switching to other service, I can get up to 4meg but it costs $54 a month.
@Dogswithguns: Are you living in the middle of nowhere? Has it always been that slow?
If you are not then i would be wondering if there is an issue on the line that could be causing such a low speed.
i was thinking, maybe, network congestion but a classic symptom of that is a much bigger upload rate than a download rate (i just ran a speed test..got 0.33mb/s download but 1.5mb/s upload. my service provider is known to be very bad on the congestion front). you dont have that problem.
@Dogswithguns: Are you living in the middle of nowhere? Has it always been that slow?
If you are not then i would be wondering if there is an issue on the line that could be causing such a low speed.
i was thinking, maybe, network congestion but a classic symptom of that is a much bigger upload rate than a download rate (i just ran a speed test..got 0.33mb/s download but 1.5mb/s upload. my service provider is known to be very bad on the congestion front). you dont have that problem.
I live in America, they have crappy internet and high cost... altho I could get better service cable Comcast faster but not much as fast, still high cost, rip off. it's the way it is.. I want fiber optic but no such thing around here.
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