Sony Launches World's Fastest Personal Internet in Japan
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Irridium said:[http://www.speedtest.net]
All you lucky bastards with your greater than 1mbs connection speeds...
The fact that your upload is 3 times higher than your download is very depressing to me.
Ah, Talktalk.Octorok said:MEANWHILE, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
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~300kb a second. That's actually pretty good for here (Scotland). What you can't see is that the connection drops 2-3 times a day. Always at the end of long downloads and during online games.
[sup]Seriously, every goddamn time[/sup]
We were with them... similar speeds and it sucked. Moved over to another provider and now we have 25x what we had before.
OP: Cool for them, I guess
Oh, and mine.
I live in Sussex by the way, yeah, farms and all that.
It's one of the faster connections you can get in Poland. As a bonus, it keeps breaking every few months, it's not the speed I paid for (it should be 20Mbs, but the local infrastructure cannot support more than that), it works like sh** when it gets over 15 degrees Celsius (randomly breaks and fixes itself), and has those weird problems: for example, right now, I theoretically have those >9Mbs, but YouTube has problem streaming even 480p (quite a common occurence).
And a fun fact: I used to have 6Mbs (out of 20Mbs I pay for), but it got to almost 10 few weeks ago, after snow came and broke the telephone cable near my home (I was the last person on my street to have internet, everyone further down the street was cut off), instantly rising my DL speed
I pinged a bit better earlier today, but I'm usually between 22 and 24 on speedtest, listed at 25/2.5.
Gets most things of steam at 'fast enough.'
aceman67 - you were also around Calgary? Try touching base with Nucleus - they can usually provide internet anywhere Shaw can, their prices are slightly cheaper, and their customer service is amazing!
Forgetting porn for a minute, you could use internet like that to make full blu-ray quality streaming video possible for the average person. Current "1080P" internet video uses a much heavier compression scheme than Blu-ray does, which makes the video noticeably lower quality. I can guarantee that somewhere in this world there is someone complaining about how the cable companies still exist, instead of giving everyone alacarte video portals over the internet. The reason for it is the internet doesn't currently have enough bandwidth to do that. This, and Google's 1 gigabit network along with it, are a step in the direction of fixing that problem, and making that all digital future that people keep talking about technically possible. Because right now, it isn't.Product Placement said:
It's a pretty good speed for UK, I guess. However, I can't seem to get it to embed as an image here but this is my connection at my mum's house:
71.56 Mb/s Down
17.22 Mb/s Up
19 ms Ping
Better than 96% of GB
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2603899836.png
Which is pretty damn annoying because I hardly ever go there and when I do all I have in the way of computing is a crappy laptop that freezes constantly.
But I guess we're just waiting for the one or two Escapists who have this 2Gbps connection (because there's always one) to come lording it all over everyone.
You think that's bad? I had about 0.31mbps on the day Max Payne 3 came out, and I had pre-ordered it on Steam. It took a fucking WEEK of constant power to download 30GBs.CalPal said:Pretty much the same over here in Canada - I'm currently in the Capital finishing my 3rd year of study - though there is one day that still haunts my nightmares whenever I think of internet connection up here...
*shivers* that was a bad, near-rage inducing day, that was...
OT: I don't get why internet has such a small focus in the big first world countries (UK, most of Europe, US). If ISPs weren't money-grabbing fuckers and actually worked on making internet like this instead of putting caps and "20mpbs, HYPER FAST SPEEDS!". I can't wait for the day that joining a new server on TF2 is not like Russian roulette with 5 bullets at once for my internet.
I have BT broadband, how the hell do you get that sort of speed? I get 5Mb/s at most. What's most annoying is that all the fibre-optic services offered in my town are everywhere, except the tiny section of road I live in because I live on top of a hill. Utter bullshit, I say!Sizzle Montyjing said:
That would be me!Owyn_Merrilin said:
I refuse to pay for cable companies. I bug the people that pays. I complain about it everytime I watch TV ("what do you mean when you say that you provide a service to remind me when my favorite show is about to start? I shouldn't be planning my apppointments around YOUR schedule! YOU should be brodcasting what I want, when I want!").
I scream to the four winds all my hatred to people being submitted to pay for channels they DON'T want to get the few they do want.
I complain about that almost every second of my waking hours. (and probably during sleep too)
Yeah, my family probably hates me right now!
But I don't think that I agree that this is a connection problem. This is a market problem.
In my country (Brazil) most people that can afford cable TV can also afford reasonable internet (I am talking about the big capitals, of course... Brazil is a big country and things are complicated by the countryside)...
So, even if the market is still small for internet-based television, there is a viable market.
Netflix is there to prove it!
But, as often, the problem is the market clinging to old business models until the last possible moment.
OT: I can't really understand what takes so long for the internet infrastructure to advance with the available technology. When I hear that there are places on the Unites States with dial up I get the sensation that THE FUTURE IS LATE! When I started using the internet, in the late 90s I thought that by 2010 we would be streaming EVERYTHING from the web, that hard drives would be a thing from the past, broadcast times on TV would be dead, and so on ...
In this day and age, places without broadband should be as unacceptable as places without electricity.
I am starting to sound like Adam Orth, but don't misunderstand me. Unlike him, I know that we are not living in that world yet. What I am saying is that it is the unavoidable future, and that I am a little surprised we're not there yet!
It wouldn't matter which of the ISP's was in the area, you'd still got fucked over by them.NameIsRobertPaulson said:DVS BSTrD said:T3hSource said:[http://s1097.photobucket.com/user/Unit-22/media/2579314403_zps1eb973e8.png.html]
Because we've never had anything better. I've smashed my own computer twice (literally) raging over shitty connections. Fios won't even come to my town.[Insert Asian penis joke here]Product Placement said:
that's what she said[http://www.speedtest.net]
You got me beat. Then again, Comcast has a monopoly over in the Northwest, so not like we have options.
They don't compete with each other in the US, pretty much at all. The only "competition" you ever actually see is when you have option A, which only kinda sucks, and option b which is so incredibly inferior that there's no real reason to take option B.
They don't fight over gettin the lowest prices because they've all realized that they can just stay out of each others way and raise prices as high as they want and people will pay for it. People pay for it because of how connected everyone is to everythin at this point. Its bullshit and its why we absolutely need Google to get the fuck out of wherever they are and get some actual competition on the market.
I'm relieved knowing that my crappy connection isn't the worst there is.
The problem comes in when all things are being streamed or downloaded, with no physical media or alternative distribution (cable, satellite, terrestrial) methods. The internet as a whole just doesn't have enough bandwidth to do everything on its own just yet. Things like Netflix work now because A.) they're heavily compressed[footnote]people have done comparisons between "HD" Netflix, an upconverted DVD, and a blu-ray, and I pretty much just listed the quality levels from worst to best.[/footnote], and B.) there are other ways to get that content, and not everybody uses or has Netflix. If suddenly the only method of getting videos, videogames, music, books, you name it became the internet, the whole thing would crash and burn. It would probably do it on movies alone, truth be told. That's one of the biggest reasons the rumors about an online only Xbox are crazy -- the internet couldn't handle that right now. Maybe in 10 or 20 years, if stuff like the network in this article keeps getting made, but not at the moment.Big_Boss_Mantis said:
Well, to New York I get quite a bad speed, 30Mbps download and 5Mbps upload, and to Tokyo even worse, but I do have 100Mbps download and 50Mbps upload local and NY/Tokyo are an ocean away. This is why I love Romania. I don't get 10MB/s in BitTorrent for nothing. Oh yea, all of that for 3USD per month, but I am one of their customers since they were a new neighborhood ISP and that was in 2007. They span half the capital now and it still has ups and downs, but quite reliable nonetheless, not to mention Customer Support. EA should learn something from them. )
Edit: I chose a server outside my town. Quite obvious that I would get the highest speeds in the same town. And NY Optium.
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Edit 2: NY Inerail, the highest speed I could find in NY.
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Oh yea, all of that for 3USD per month, but I am one of their customers since they were a new neighborhood ISP and that was in 2007. They span half the capital now and it still has ups and downs, but quite reliable nonetheless, not to mention Customer Support. EA should learn something from them. )Edit: I chose a server outside my town. Quite obvious that I would get the highest speeds in the same town. And NY Optium.
Edit 2: NY Inerail, the highest speed I could find in NY.
