Just Got Fios

[Crazy Goat]

I get a 15mb line down, with a 2mb line up.

Just downloaded from GameTrailers.com at 1300kbps. Going to log onto usenet later, apparently friends of mine were getting 1700kbps.

 

[Vimacs]

is that byte or bit?

 

[Crazy Goat]

is that byte or bit?

Communication rates are always rated in Bits.

 

[Vimacs]

than thats pretty slow for fiber isnt it? i mean, you can get those rates with dsl...

 

[sand_man]

than thats pretty slow for fiber isnt it? i mean, you can get those rates with dsl...

that's what i was thinking

 

[DemonStar55]

than thats pretty slow for fiber isnt it? i mean, you can get those rates with dsl...

my verizon DSL is rated 768, so I think the problem is verizon.

 

[nickspoon]

In the UK, if you have Be 24 and live in a supported area, you can get 24Mbps. On ADSL!

 

[Vimacs]

in germany you can soon get 50mbit over vdsl

 

[Shikaku]

<-- Gets about 600kBps down/45kBps up on his cable modem connection, and frankly, as long as it stays this way would not care if newer technologies came out that was faster, unless it was cheaper too.

 

[Ravnos]

I kind of agree with Shikaku. I haven't even stepped up to the fastest residential package my ISP provides because 9 times out of 10, I've found the limiting factor to be the upload speeds on the other end. On a well seeded torrent I can pull 3-400kBytes/sec but most of the time I'm getting 20-30 because there's only two seeders and they're on a PPPoE connection that severely limits their upload speeds. Until fast upload speeds become the norm, my download speed isn't a huge limiting factor.