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  • bigbeark
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    Pretty surprising survey so far.

    The Romanian and Swedish examples are "premium service" I think. But still they are 2 to 4 times faster than any premium service in Canada !!!

    Germany is a shocker with similar performance to Canada.

    I am wondering if high-speed internet is perceived by Swedish and Romanian governments as a competitive advantage, and perhaps the government encourages this.

    In Canada we have the CRTC which is supposed to regulate broadcasting of all kinds to provide better service, but obviously their efforts are a dismal failure.

    Operating a phone/TV/Internet company in Canada is a licence to print money. Your choice boils down to the phone company or a single ISP within a given area. They obviously collude. End-of-rant

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  • ben7
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    Originally posted by Per Hansson
    Bredband2 AB Sweden
    100/100 Fibre
    Price is €38 per month

    OMG! wow thats fast! xD
    And I thought my service was fast!
    Of course its 5x faster than my friends, but wow, that is fast!

    Here it is:


    -Ben

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  • shovenose
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    Yes definitely a ripoff.
    That speed nosedive during peak times sounds very very very familiar to me

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  • Scenic
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    should be DSL 6144/640 KBit/s
    paying about 40eur/month (~54usd) incl. ISDN phone line (3 numbers). nothing else.

    Our ISP (Arcor) was bought out by Vodafone a couple years back and has since turned into complete crap. Service callcenter (a proper one!) was replaced by a computer voice, the lines are ridiculously oversold (starting at roughly 5pm, the speed takes a nosedive down to 1/3 of what it should be.. every day) and the connection drops out a lot.
    We're thinking of switching, but other providers aren't much better. And the faster connections (like 25MBit or 50MBit VDSL) have ridiculous traffic limits (50MBit line will get throttled down to 3MBit if you use more than 25GB traffic per month)

    Cable is pretty much useless here, as they advertise for example 100MBit download speeds, but if you read the fineprint you'll see that the upload is just a pathetic 512KBit or 1MBit.

    Germany is pretty much a 3rd world country when it comes to internet connectivity.
    Speeds over 16MBit/1MBit DSL are either ridiculously expensive, or simply not available at all.

    And instead of fixing the lines, they now try to sell LTE/4G surfsticks as alternatives. Of course not mentioning that the super fast 25MBit LTE connection will get throttled to less than 1MBit if you run into the absolutely ridiculous traffic limit of 10GB (in- *and* outbound). Per month!

    What's the friggin point of a 25MBit connection (sold as a DSL alternative for general home use!) with traffic limits like that?!


    On my netbook, i'm using a prepaid SIM card.
    Crappy traffic limits as well (1GB/day and 5GB/month), but i don't use it much, so it's not really a problem..
    24hours -> 2euro (roughly 2.68usd)
    1month -> 14eur (roughly 18.75usd)

    Speeds of up to 7.2MBit/s (3G+ ?!), but my USB stick is an old one which doesn't support more than theoretical 3.6MBit/s (Huawei E160)


    For the price, it's OK. My bro uses the same provider/prepaid card with a newer Huawei USB stick, and he gets roughly 5MBit down and 1.5MBit up


    edit:
    Originally posted by shovenose
    Through my phone: (I think it's like $80/mo for 2GB of data)
    holy sh*it! ripoff much!?
    Last edited by Scenic; 12-06-2011, 04:23 PM.

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  • shovenose
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    Originally posted by Per Hansson
    Bredband2 AB Sweden
    100/100 Fibre
    Price is €38 per month

    Damn that's an even better deal... I could running a whole web hosting copmany offa that! I want to move now

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  • Per Hansson
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    Bredband2 AB Sweden
    100/100 Fibre
    Price is €38 per month

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  • shovenose
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    Looks like my home DSL is in a good mood right now:
    This is like the best speeds I've ever gotten here:

    Tomorrow I'll test again, it'll probably suck. lol!

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  • bigbeark
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    smason, what does Shaw charge you a month for that?

    I dumped Rogers because they were overpriced, but Bell is truly awful.

    My download speed of 6.21 is exactly what Fibe-6 is supposed to deliver. All this blazing speed for $45/month. We need some competition in this sector!

    The "Fibe" stands for fibre-optic network. Should change the name to "Stone Age".

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  • smason
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    Originally posted by bigbeark
    My ISP is Bell (Canada) and apparently I'm using their FIBE-6 service.

    Pretty slow, PING=18, Download=6.21 MBPS, Upload=.74 MBPS.
    That's not very good. Bell is usually much better than that.
    We just switched from Bell to Shaw at work, mainly die to cost.

    My home Shaw is pretty good. Measured with other computers accessing the net as well.
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  • shovenose
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    $31 for that! Damn, you're lucky! Where I live it's either AT&T or Comcast.
    $19.99/month for 6Mbps down/768K up. It's usually $50/mo but we got a 1-year deal (threatened to leave to Comcast if they didn't lower it)

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  • mariushm
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    100/6 cable here... about 31$ bundled with about 100 channels digital SD and phone (free calls within provider's network, about 5-10 cents a minute for the rest)

    Some minor hiccups the last few days (disconnections for a few seconds a few times a day) other than that it's super stable.

    within the country:

    within europe :


    To be fair, the ISP does limit each connection outside Europe to about 15-20 mbps but I have no problems getting about 60 mbps with several download threads when I need to.

    See how nice it can be when you have loads of companies competing for your money?

    one of my dedicated servers:



    upload speed test is kind of faulty because of the flash updating the screen a lot through remote desktop connection so the small packets plus compression and encryption mess up the flash performance.
    Last edited by mariushm; 12-05-2011, 06:30 PM.

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  • shovenose
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    I've got AT&T for both mobile phone and home internet/phone.
    They suck at both. However, when I tether my laptop to my phone I get a faster connection than through my own home DSL...

    Through my phone: (I think it's like $80/mo for 2GB of data)


    I'll add my home result when I get home.

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  • bigbeark
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    Internet Speed (Speedtest.net)

    My ISP is Bell (Canada) and apparently I'm using their FIBE-6 service.

    Pretty slow, PING=18, Download=6.21 MBPS, Upload=.74 MBPS.

    I could upgrade to FIBE-25 for $80/month and get download speed up to 25MBPS.

    No need to say that this is a hose job.

    Just wondered what speeds you are getting in your location and what it costs you.

    I currently pay about $44 for Internet, but it's bundled with phone and TV.

    (Canada is reputed to have among the worst Internet speeds in the developed world )

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