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Ask HN: What is your download speed?
7 points by swansw 4570 days ago
In any order: Download speed, Upload speed, Location? and ISP. Also would be nice to get more details about how your connection is set up.
20 comments

Germany near Hamburg 500MB/s down and 600MB/s up ISP: DFN
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3174979000

Current ISP: T-Mobile (using a broadband dongle)

Location: UK

UP: 0.57 Mbps

DOWN: 0.53 Mbps

Cheap - £30 for 90 days with "no limits" (but with limits). Sucky image caching. Sucky client (but you don't have to use it). Awful customer support.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3183694188

Skövde, Sweden

Down 90.32 Mbps

Up 10.02 Mbps

That's over my Wifi, I could probably get it up to 100 Mbps (that's what I pay for) if I connected a cable to my router.

This is an average Malaysian internet connection.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3185041626

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Download: 1.33Mbps Upload: 0.53Mbps

It's around RM140 = 40++USD per month.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3201480754 Airtel Broadband, India Download speed : 0.66 Mbps Upload speed : 0.48Mbps
Southamerican here, guess you would be interested, considering most will come from the Us.

Max download speed in transmission(mac) in optimal conditions: 5Mb/s On average: 1Mb/s

Up.speed: Can't tell, i barely upload anything. ISP: Antel

Currently ADSL with something like 8/1 but in the proccess of moving to cable 100/10. I believe I can get 500/50 or so from my cable company though that costs more than I would like.

Current ISP: Telia.

New ISP: Comhem

Stockholm, Sweden.

Down: 28.08 Up: 4.66 US ISP:Cincinnati Bell http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3180272022
Download speed is'nt what matters its the quality. http://actual-experience.com/bbfix
On a good day I get around 15Mbps download and 1Mbps upload. I've gotten upwards of 40Mbps download and 8Mbps upload while tethered to my phone though.

Location: Los Angeles

ISP: Time Warner Cable

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3180321085

Tigard, OR, USA

Down: 25.48

Up: 20.93

ISP: Frontier Communications

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3180558017

Helena, MT, USA

Down: 72.77 Mbps

Up: 45.06 Mbps

Down 10Mbps, Up 1Mbps, USA, Brighthouse. Connection is through cable TV infrastructure.
Down: 50 Mbps, Up: 20 Mbps Location: Tasmania, Australia ISP: Internode (NBN)
Down: 100 Mbps

Up: 20 Mbps

Location: Canada

ISP: SaskTel

It's a fiber connection. I'm not sure why they limit the upstream so much.

> I'm not sure why they limit the upstream so much.

So that you don't run a data center from your house, which would saturate the network, which they are likely overselling, and so you don't cannibalize from the hosting services they would also be happy to sell you ala carte.

Also, in general web usage, the UPstream data requests are usually much smaller than the DOWN. E.g., "GET http://youtube.com/video" is very small, even with headers and whatnot added in, compared to the size of the video returned. It's more like 100:1 than 100:20, so unless you're trying to run services from home, you're likely coming out ahead.

South Europe: Download speed around 10Mb/s, upload 1Mb/s
Down 40Mbps, Up 25Mbps, UK, Virgin Media.

We have an optical-fibre line from them.

Down: 100 Mbps Up: 10 Mbps Location: Netherlands ISP: UPC

Cable :)

Exactly the same here (NL too). Don't think I need this kind of speed, but it was included in the package... Note that this costs you about EUR 55 per month, including landline phone AND cable TV. Not too bad compared to other countries!