bashar Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 my work connection is 1mbps about 50 usd monthly , no bandwidth cap ...:fear: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Oh, guys, someone is hatin' on ya'll !!! My connection (not even sure how it is rated by the ISP) is costing me 12 USD/month. I'm now behind a very crappy router with firewall enabled. The figures up there depend on the server I download from, but if I get peers with optical lines speeds are awesome, and if they're from RO, even better, and if they're from my ISP, then my HDD cannot cope at times with the write demands! That would be without the router. But I'm behind this router for years now. Why? Because I used to have tens of attacks reported by Kaspersky's firewall before I bought the router. Since I bought it, I never got another attack. Not even one. Speeds behind the router reach 4.5 MB/sec download and 1 MB/sec upload. The upload can be higher (up to 3.5-ish) with good peers. The ISP is pretty stable, little downtime. It improved very, very much in the last few years. Holy c**p, I envy you, that you have such a fast internet connection and with such a low price/bandwich ratio, man Romanian ISPs rule then! :blink: (Though I've got to say, that in here, Estonia, there are very fast home internets too (like 100 Mbit/s down, 20-30 up), but not with that cheap montly payment. You're definately lucky, dude, :D (here it costs 3-4 times more) EDIT: Wait, hold your horses, is that just for the internet or it includes (Digital) TV and telephone too? (If no, then yes, the prices are pretty much the same) With TV (complete package -porn channels) and phone it costs me 22 USD-ish. The TV offer now includes sophisticated HD TV and stuff but since I never, ever watch it (it's for my mom when she comes to my place) and I have a old-style SD TV, I didn't buy. It's probably more expensive in Estonia because you guys are slightly better paid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 my work connection is 1mbps about 50 usd monthly , no bandwidth cap ...:fear: http://www.speedtest.net/ Beat That! :frusty: Looks like you did! I was close to :sui: reading- looking at others... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 It would make sense to have all the Servers in Romania then! Official- Shrek is pale compared with my face "hate" most of you anyway :rant: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I'm not sure at all our hosting services are this good. There must be better ISPs in UK, or... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 I'm not sure at all our hosting services are this good. There must be better ISPs in UK, or... ?was you sarcastic? only now Virgin ir rolling out cable service of true up to 40MB speed for £40 PCM and 18 month min contract. That is if you are lucky to live in they coverage area- I think about 10% of Population can get it currently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bashar Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 my work connection is 1mbps about 50 usd monthly , no bandwidth cap ...:fear: http://www.speedtest.net/ Beat That! :frusty: Looks like you did! I was close to :sui: reading- looking at others...i can beat your numbers any day any night while living here :D if you , i can switch to my old dial-up (is very popular here too ) and see the results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I'm not sure at all our hosting services are this good. There must be better ISPs in UK, or... ?was you sarcastic? only now Virgin ir rolling out cable service of true up to 40MB speed for £40 PCM and 18 month min contract. That is if you are lucky to live in they coverage area- I think about 10% of Population can get it currently No sarcasm at all. I just don't know anything at all about UK's ISPs, so I asked. It's a shame nobody thought to install high speed cable, it's been a few good years (maybe 5?) since Romania has it and it was always cheap. I don't understand how in a very developed country nobody sees the business opportunity, because here the ISPs are obviously making huge profits, as they are very big&successful companies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 No sarcasm at all. I just don't know anything at all about UK's ISPs, so I asked. It's a shame nobody thought to install high speed cable, it's been a few good years (maybe 5?) since Romania has it and it was always cheap. I don't understand how in a much developed country nobody sees the business opportunity, because here the ISPs are obviously making huge profits, as they are very big&successful companies. Yah... makes no sense, but it is one of them things as long as most ISP's are "milking" customers with what they got- why invest? they spend money on fat salaries of CEO's and leave support to idiots (paid accordingly). It works for them and to get initial cable install- need for some investment etc... :zzz: Customer (me) annoyed, but if no choice- no choice, so pay something for nothing and don't have a clue as when we'll have proper speed Internet. My personally- wireless (mobile) connection so I keep waiting (last 6 years) for normal cable service to appear, but I will not sign my freedom for crap B) Still, as bad as it is- Bashar is having even less luck and a survey clearly shows, that stereotype "wealthy countries- good service"- doomed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 @toyoIt isn't as easy as you'd think. In most mid/eastern European country the largest parts of the Internet infrastructure was 'built' (a) decade(s) later than in most western countries. Whilst our systems have become old and rotten and are in need of an upgrade, your systems are still top notch. Adding to that the markets in most western countries are 'tied up'. There's either the government being stupid ('holding' the Internet infrastructure completely under its own 'reign') or the corporations being smart (dividing parts of the country's Internet infrastructure between them and charging extortionate rates).Tele2 attempted and is still attempting to fix a lot of this stuff (by suing a lot of corporations and the government) (they're mainly after a free 'TV-market' (too difficult to explain here right now)), but it's one hell of a job and the costs they make now will only pay back in 5-10 years or so (depending on the speed of the developments in this 'liberalization' process). Tele2 has the ability to do this because it has already established itself on the mobile market in the Netherlands and as a big service provider in 'those three countries up there' (Norway, Sweden and Finland (not sure if they're in all those countries, but at least one of them :P)).In short: it's not as interesting for entrepreneurs or even mid-sized corporations to attempt to 'infiltrate' our markets... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 http://results.speed...lt/62148122.pngShiite! if no need for wireless- Time for shopping! :ssinc eyou are comcast. do you h ave a monthly band cap on how much you can donwload a month? 250 GB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 http://results.speed...lt/62148122.pngShiite! if no need for wireless- Time for shopping! :ssinc eyou are comcast. do you h ave a monthly band cap on how much you can donwload a month? 250 GB?...I've misread, perhaps should have corrected myself anyway... but post as a such should make sense as it is, because prices and services for Internet (I thought) where similar. I'm in UK, sing Mobile "broadband" thingy, I get 15GB a month of data transfer and lately in last feathers for patience with it :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Only 15 GB ?!? Holy... Atasas, I really feel for you. @ shought: At least 2 ISPs here (RDS and UPC) are really giants, they could really take on established companies. It must be something at political level if they cannot extend, at least on the continent. Especially since RDS has a western provider (cannot find its name again though) for its high-speed lines.It's interesting how a western company, Deutsche Telekom, tries hard to make an impact on the RO market, without any success... Another interesting fact is the way RDS started out: low prices, so anyone could get cable, but the services were of appalling quality, support practically non-existent. After 2-3 years of this mess (was working at a newspaper then and even wrote few articles on how bad they were), and after expanding in all the important areas of the country, they rapidly started to improve. Support is still a mess, but the net almost never goes out so you don't need to call. Also, they started with cheap hardware, then improved slowly after expanding enough...Anyway, your troubles may soon come to an end, I read that RDS is bidding aggressively for some cable companies in Denmark and Hungary, so they try hard to expand out of the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hottwire Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 It says Opal but its TalkTalk lol shame we have all that speed and a 40gb cap :frusty: but considering its only £15-£25 a month That is what I should be getting roughly that up to 24 Mb, however at present currently getting: Seedbox speed test results: this isn't bad considering its the cheapest seedbox they offer however this was my older box new seedbox speedtest: and the speed i should be getting is : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyo Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 So the speed your seedbox downloads from the web is 9.9 MB? I don't really get it, never had/saw one in action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hottwire Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Thats the speed it downloaded a big iso file at from within the ovh network, although that seems pretty slow considering I have hit 40-60 Mb/s - on some torrents downloading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 Thats the speed it downloaded a big iso file at from within the ovh network, although that seems pretty slow considering I have hit 40-60 Mb/s - on some torrents downloading. It says Opal but its TalkTalk lol shame we have all that speed and a 40gb cap :frusty: but considering its only £15-£25 a month That is what I should be getting roughly that up to 24 Mb, however at present currently getting: Ha ha! up to! Quite important is that Talk-Talk bootle-neck any P2P downloads, so all speed freezes once P2P is started Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 http://results.speed...lt/62148122.pngShiite! if no need for wireless- Time for shopping! :ssinc eyou are comcast. do you h ave a monthly band cap on how much you can donwload a month? 250 GB?...I've misread, perhaps should have corrected myself anyway... but post as a such should make sense as it is, because prices and services for Internet (I thought) where similar. I'm in UK, sing Mobile "broadband" thingy, I get 15GB a month of data transfer and lately in last feathers for patience with it :ph34r:so basically in least in a few hours you could use up all your 15 GB for hte month? that really sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 so basically in least in a few hours you could use up all your 15 GB for hte month? that really sucks.Yup ! sucks and blows! Got to be really choosy as what to dl. On a good note- whenever I need to take it anywhere- I got connection! Until a year ago- I had 3GB and rest was "piggy back" when unsecured neighbors networks where available :ph34r: (or even secured, but AirCrak don't work on most of them anymore(Wep encryption)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korkac Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hottwire Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Thats the speed it downloaded a big iso file at from within the ovh network, although that seems pretty slow considering I have hit 40-60 Mb/s - on some torrents downloading. It says Opal but its TalkTalk lol shame we have all that speed and a 40gb cap :frusty: but considering its only £15-£25 a month That is what I should be getting roughly that up to 24 Mb, however at present currently getting: Ha ha! up to! Quite important is that Talk-Talk bootle-neck any P2P downloads, so all speed freezes once P2P is started Hence the use of a seedbox so no p2p downloading is done its all http or ftp downloads :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Thats the speed it downloaded a big iso file at from within the ovh network, although that seems pretty slow considering I have hit 40-60 Mb/s - on some torrents downloading. It says Opal but its TalkTalk lol shame we have all that speed and a 40gb cap :frusty: but considering its only £15-£25 a month That is what I should be getting roughly that up to 24 Mb, however at present currently getting: Ha ha! up to! Quite important is that Talk-Talk bootle-neck any P2P downloads, so all speed freezes once P2P is started all that speed and you cant use it. this will be the death of american internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poopdeck Pappy Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Best case - Egypt - Best farthest Distance at 8450 Miles. New Zealand - Yea the upload sucks, but I can't complain, my plan is supposed to be 7Mb up, 512Mb down, a couple years ago I called up bitching about the speeds and soon after I noticed the nice download increase, seems like someone there opened up the pipe on my download speeds, but didn't touch the upload. Pretty good for shitty $49.99/month uncapped US internet I guess. Hey you fast guys, see what your best farthest distance is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sl@pSh0ck™ Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Can I have at least your upload speed be my download speed pls. :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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