Whats your internet speed

[eduardo_b]

I'd be interested in knowing where anyone gets 32 Mb/sec. That would be the three of you at the top of the results.

[whyterabbyt]

I'd be interested in knowing where anyone gets 32 Mb/sec. That would be the three of you at the top of the results.

In the UK, Virgin offer 50Mb/s cable.

[Gamma-UT]

I'd be interested in knowing where anyone gets 32 Mb/sec. That would be the three of you at the top of the results.

Japan and Korea have reasonably high coverage for 50Mb/s+ broadband over fibre. US, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands have some in place as well as the UK. The last figure from Dec 2008 I saw had 15 million homes in the US that could get access to broadband over optical fibre, which was about the same as South Korea - but the US has a lot more homes in it so the penetration is <5%.

[eduardo_b]

I'd be interested in knowing where anyone gets 32 Mb/sec. That would be the three of you at the top of the results.

In the UK, Virgin offer 50Mb/s cable.

Is that FiOS to the house?

[thecontrolcentre]

In the UK, Virgin offer 50Mb/s cable.

Is that not up to 50Mb/s?

[eduardo_b]

I'd be interested in knowing where anyone gets 32 Mb/sec. That would be the three of you at the top of the results.

Japan and Korea have reasonably high coverage for 50Mb/s+ broadband over fibre. US, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands have some in place as well as the UK. The last figure from Dec 2008 I saw had 15 million homes in the US that could get access to broadband over optical fibre, which was about the same as South Korea - but the US has a lot more homes in it so the penetration is <5%.

Thanks for this. Forgot about fiber. In the US Verizon is spending a lot of money running fiber to houses (I think I read it was $1500 each). But I didn't think it was anything close to 15 million.

[Gamma-UT]

In the UK, Virgin offer 50Mb/s cable.

Is that not up to 50Mb/s?

It can be anywhere from around 20Mb/s to 50Mb/s judging by what turns up on places like Digital Spy. But even at 20Mb/s that's still 10x what most people in the UK who aren't next to an exchange are getting.

[Gamma-UT]

I'd be interested in knowing where anyone gets 32 Mb/sec. That would be the three of you at the top of the results.

Japan and Korea have reasonably high coverage for 50Mb/s+ broadband over fibre. US, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands have some in place as well as the UK. The last figure from Dec 2008 I saw had 15 million homes in the US that could get access to broadband over optical fibre, which was about the same as South Korea - but the US has a lot more homes in it so the penetration is <5%.

Thanks for this. Forgot about fiber. In the US Verizon is spending a lot of money running fiber to houses (I think I read it was $1500 each). But I didn't think it was anything close to 15 million.

The 15 million (and any of those national stats) is for fibre running past the house so that they only have to put in a spur when you buy the service. Most of these homes are in densely populated cities.

[whyterabbyt]

In the UK, Virgin offer 50Mb/s cable.

Is that not up to 50Mb/s?

know of a network provision that isnt 'up to' ?

[eduardo_b]

I'd be interested in knowing where anyone gets 32 Mb/sec. That would be the three of you at the top of the results.

Japan and Korea have reasonably high coverage for 50Mb/s+ broadband over fibre. US, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands have some in place as well as the UK. The last figure from Dec 2008 I saw had 15 million homes in the US that could get access to broadband over optical fibre, which was about the same as South Korea - but the US has a lot more homes in it so the penetration is <5%.

Thanks for this. Forgot about fiber. In the US Verizon is spending a lot of money running fiber to houses (I think I read it was $1500 each). But I didn't think it was anything close to 15 million.

The 15 million (and any of those national stats) is for fibre running past the house so that they only have to put in a spur when you buy the service. Most of these homes are in densely populated cities.

Here (US) fiber stops at the head for a neighborhood, with copper actually being used beyond that. So, fiber running past the house means installing fiber down every street and then to the house. I'm not sure anyone other than Verizon is doing this in the US, and only in certain regions.

[Gamma-UT]

For anyone that cares, there were 5.3m homes in the US with an active FTTH connection by last September, mostly in places you'd expect and, um, the Dakotas according to the map at the end of this PDF: http://www.ftthcouncil.org/sites/defaul ... elease.pdf. The Dakotas seem to be the only places where the FTTH is not Verizon.

[eduardo_b]

For anyone that cares, there were 5.3m homes in the US with an active FTTH connection by last September, mostly in places you'd expect and, um, the Dakotas according to the map at the end of this PDF: http://www.ftthcouncil.org/sites/defaul ... elease.pdf. The Dakotas seem to be the only places where the FTTH is not Verizon.

Given the populations of the Dakotas, it only takes a few larger cities to get to 10 percent. I also assume that the installation of FTTH is primarily in regions that have lots of residential streets without sidewalks, making it far easier to install FTTH than in many urban/suburban markets where hardscaping increases costs many time over.

[tjl100]

Here in Canada the major Companies are getting away with throttling or limiting use to pay, this really sucks as I watch alot of internet and alots in HD now so I now get warnings I'm over my use allowance? this is new, my wife uses it all day sending out (uploads) job interviews, acting try outs too. I was just getting use to making youtube video's but i guess that will cost me! never mind internet video group chats, speed is one thing but limiting by cost how much you can uses it is another.
I think a fake useless advocate group they do that
http://www.canadianfreespeech.com/cafe/ ... ictoria-bc

[eduardo_b]

Here in Canada the major Companies are getting away with throttling or limiting use to pay, this really sucks as I watch alot of internet and alots in HD now so I now get warnings I'm over my use allowance? this is new, my wife uses it all day sending out (uploads) job interviews, acting try outs too. I was just getting use to making youtube video's but i guess that will cost me! never mind internet video group chats, speed is one thing but limiting by cost how much you can uses it is another.
I think a fake useless advocate group they do that
http://www.canadianfreespeech.com/cafe/ ... ictoria-bc

There has been talk in the US about tier pricing given that a small percentage of those online are using a very large percentage of bandwidth, but this topic gets interwoven with net neutrality, which I find ridiculous, really. Tier pricing seems inevitable at some point, and has no meaningful effect on neutrality of the cloud.

[Dave Bourke]

Just tested mine using Speedtest.net. I get 2.61 Mb/s which is kerrrrap. It's supposed to be 10 Mb/s. At least that's what I'm paying for.

Kind regards.