Need Input! Survey about your internet

[xPrometheusx]

Survey link. [https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/32JTLRQ]

Brief introduction: My name is Daniel Zimmerman and I'm a freshman at at my local community college, currently enrolled for a major in business/marketing. For a final project this year, our marketing instructor has told us to market a business of our own invention, and I've decided to market a gigabit-speed internet service, segmented (targeting) gamers/recreational users extremely heavily, instead of the current providers' overarching, tented approach to "just get a bunch of everyone."

I've decided to use the internet as a survey resource. My instructor theorizes that people don't like taking surveys anymore, and I disagree - I think that people are more than happy to take your survey if they're A) being paid for it, or B) actually interested in what you're surveying about. I'd like to provide this opportunity to get a public opinion on their internet providers, and since this is an online gaming community, I figure that internet is pretty important, at least, to some degree.

If you could take a minute and answer these 10 questions, I'd be grateful. I'd ask you to share if you'd like to, since I think a lot of the public is discontent with their internet but don't have a way of getting to a lot of people. If I get enough of a response, I may actually go through and look for funding for my plan. If not, well, I'll just turn it in to the instructor and that'll be the end of it. Of course, all questions are optional, so if you don't feel comfortable or able to respond to a question, you can skip it.

Appreciate it in advance!

 

[Greg White]

I'd wonder how you'd manage a gagabit-speed connection, something only fast-ethernet can do, when the absolute best I've seen was 150mb/s in S. Korea.

 

[Summerstorm]

Ok, filled it out.

One thing to mention: Bandwith after a certain threshold is nearly meaningless for a gamer/poweruser etc.
For example: I could easily switch my provider to one going over cable (Having it over phone-line, standard DSL at the moment) who promises about at least 8x the download bandwith, could be as much as 16x) So WHAT exactly am i going to do with that? Watch MORE HD-Streams at once?

Sure i would like a bit more upload bandwith for filesharing, but anything else: bah. I went for quality. Over six years i had one day (and a few hours on two occasions) where the line went down. I have a great latency and no packet loss. Great for gaming.

 

[xPrometheusx]

fiberoptic cable supports gigabit speeds, to answer your question. This is how it's done in japan, and how google fiber is being developed.

Otherwise, I know that a lot of computers have capped upload/download speeds because the hardware can't handle any more, but even what the US considers "great" is still average/subpar overseas. A lot of average users end up with 50-100 ping playing, say, league of legends, where a higher-speed connection could afford them 15-25 at most. That might not seem like a huge difference, but it's a big barrier to high tier play. Better internet also means that you can play consoles with constant connectivity - having Japanese levels of internet in the US would pretty much guarantee constant hosting privileges in Call of Duty, for example, and if not that, than you'd experience almost no lag. You can also play more on the connection - you may not make use of that bandwidth, but my brother, my mom and I all heavily play online games in the evenings, and the stress it puts on our connection is terrible.

I'm glad you have good internet, though - out of curiosity, who is your provider? I live outside of Sacramento in California, and my two choices are Comcast and AT&T for cable internet, both of which suffer from severe lagspikes at least once every few hours, as well as terrible packet loss, horrible upload speeds (I can't even dream of making youtube videos right now, an HD video would take I-don't-even-know-how-long to upload), inflated prices for the product (if I wanted, I could market an internet service virtually identical to Comcast and AT&T, at half or less the price), bandwidth caps, terrible customer service, faulty last-decade equipment, inexperienced & unknowledgeable staff, etc.

Maybe it's a local problem, in which case, glad I'm planning to start in Sacramento.

In any case, thanks for the responses

 

[beez]

I'm happy with my Romanian internet. 18$, gigabit and free 3G sim. No bandwidth caps. Your move.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I took the survey and left a more detailed summery at the end. I hope this helps in your assignment.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Filled it in for ya.

Overall, I'm happy with my internet. Cheap, fast (60Mb/s is plenty for me), no datacaps, free 3G and it has been getting very reliable over the past years.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Filled it out for you, spoiler alert, I am pretty happy with my service overall.

 

[xPrometheusx]

Thank you for the responses, everyone - I'm quite surprised by the results. In particular, I was very surprised by how many of you live outside of the US. Not that this is a bad thing, just an interesting point.

I'm going to bump this one or two more times and see if I can get a couple more responses, then let it drift off the front page.

Also, 18$ gigabit internet?? That's, like, unheard of here... must be nice. I'm happy for you.