Ask HN: What is your download speed?
In any order: Download speed, Upload speed, Location? and ISP. Also would be nice to get more details about how your connection is set up. Germany near Hamburg
500MB/s down and 600MB/s up
ISP: DFN http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3174979000 Current ISP: T-Mobile (using a broadband dongle) Location: UK UP: 0.57 Mbps DOWN: 0.53 Mbps Cheap - £30 for 90 days with "no limits" (but with limits). Sucky image caching. Sucky client (but you don't have to use it). Awful customer support. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3183694188 Skövde, Sweden Down 90.32 Mbps Up 10.02 Mbps That's over my Wifi, I could probably get it up to 100 Mbps (that's what I pay for) if I connected a cable to my router. This is an average Malaysian internet connection. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3185041626 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Download: 1.33Mbps
Upload: 0.53Mbps It's around RM140 = 40++USD per month. Currently ADSL with something like 8/1 but in the proccess of moving to cable 100/10. I believe I can get 500/50 or so from my cable company though that costs more than I would like. Current ISP: Telia. New ISP: Comhem Stockholm, Sweden. Southamerican here, guess you would be interested, considering most will come from the Us. Max download speed in transmission(mac) in optimal conditions: 5Mb/s On average: 1Mb/s Up.speed: Can't tell, i barely upload anything.
ISP: Antel http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3201480754
Airtel Broadband, India
Download speed : 0.66 Mbps
Upload speed : 0.48Mbps http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3180321085 Tigard, OR, USA Down: 25.48 Up: 20.93 ISP: Frontier Communications On a good day I get around 15Mbps download and 1Mbps upload. I've gotten upwards of 40Mbps download and 8Mbps upload while tethered to my phone though. Location: Los Angeles ISP: Time Warner Cable Down: 28.08
Up: 4.66
US
ISP:Cincinnati Bell
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3180272022 Download speed is'nt what matters its the quality. http://actual-experience.com/bbfix 681 Mbps down, 641 Mbps up. (http://www.speedtest.net/result/3174926712.png) UK: 37Mbps / 2.4Mbps Down: 100 Mbps Up: 20 Mbps Location: Canada ISP: SaskTel It's a fiber connection. I'm not sure why they limit the upstream so much. > I'm not sure why they limit the upstream so much. So that you don't run a data center from your house, which would saturate the network, which they are likely overselling, and so you don't cannibalize from the hosting services they would also be happy to sell you ala carte. Also, in general web usage, the UPstream data requests are usually much smaller than the DOWN. E.g., "GET http://youtube.com/video" is very small, even with headers and whatnot added in, compared to the size of the video returned. It's more like 100:1 than 100:20, so unless you're trying to run services from home, you're likely coming out ahead. Down 10Mbps, Up 1Mbps, USA, Brighthouse. Connection is through cable TV infrastructure. Down 40Mbps, Up 25Mbps, UK, Virgin Media. We have an optical-fibre line from them. Down: 50 Mbps, Up: 20 Mbps
Location: Tasmania, Australia
ISP: Internode (NBN) Down: 100 Mbps
Up: 10 Mbps
Location: Netherlands
ISP: UPC Cable :) Exactly the same here (NL too). Don't think I need this kind of speed, but it was included in the package...
Note that this costs you about EUR 55 per month, including landline phone AND cable TV. Not too bad compared to other countries! South Europe: Download speed around 10Mb/s, upload 1Mb/s
