U and Your Internet

Well I'm soon about to move to a new residence. Against my will i have to switch ISP's due to Broadband area limitations. My current ISP , is a local subsidiary and has been great. I pay about 40 bucks for 9 megabit internet.
Now i'm going to have to switch to comca$t and join their corporate monopoly agendas. I look across the pond at Europe and they get about double the speed but only half the cost. So i was wondering what kind of connection you have, how much do you pay, and what experiences have you had with your ISP?

get the hell outta here randies

Portable broadband. I've been downloading a film since friday and it's at 36%

Sad, isn't it?

owned

Is a high ping good or low?
And why does everyone have so high DL speed?

Yeah... somewhat sad, but not awful.

My family gets Time Warner, though I'm not sure how much we pay for it.

@RX, high ping is bad.

RX wrote:Is a high ping good or low?
And why does everyone have so high DL speed?

To my understanding you have to think of internet like a straw. How long the straw is ping. How wide the straw is Download. Ping is just the distance from your home to your isp. The lower the better. Downloads are high due to multi-user broadband networks and High bandwidth applications. For example netflix HD streaming requires 5 megabits and thats just one computer.

I'm kind of curious now, because my results are pretty far behind the average for my ISP.

I'm a bit worried that it might be the Net Gear home internet system I'm using. Without explaining it in detail, there are things that I plug into the wall from which I run an Ethernet cable to my PC. I know there are "high speed" ones available, and that's not what I have.

Yeah! I am surprised really. I'll do one friday at Dad's. It'll be worst yet I guarantee.

Mine's ok, but bell sucks and decided to make the modem they give you a modem/router combo, with no way to disable the wireless built into it, and after having Rogers high speed internet for so long, Bell really dissapoints me since they are about half the speed that I had with Rogers.



EDIT: This is way better than the ISP average, too.

Kislany wrote:

owned

ok why is my connection so good it shouldnt be

TNine wrote:

Kislany wrote:

Kislany wrote:

owned

ok why is my connection so good it shouldnt be

Especially since you are so far from the server.

Try it again.

i did 3 times and got the same everytime