WHY WHY WHY did i ever sign up with Slowcast i mean comcast. I have it their service for about 5 months here. They say 'UP TO' 1.5 mps download time. I am lucky if i ever see 20kbs(down) & 5kbs (up). Hell i could go with a local $8 a month dial up ISP and get speeds similar to that geez. the town i live in now has about 150,000 residents. When i had comcast in philadelphia which has a couple million residents, i still got faster speeds than this.

My question is for all you cable modem users. On average what is your download speed, what is your average upload speed. What town & state & country do you live in. And who is your provider. I am just curious if i am the only one, or is my provider the only one over crowding users onto the network.

BTW: what is a DSL connection going for these days? Are the speeds more consident? I would be happy with 100kbs down and 20kbs up.

I get about 4mbps down and 256kbps up
I live in Waco, TX and use Road Runner via Time Warner

When I was on cable, I got 250 - 1.5MB/sec down and 512Kb/sec up on good days.

I attached a test graph I took a while back. During that test I was running Apache, Winamp (straming music), and MSN messenger. I did this test 3 times and this is the one with the second highest values (had one higher and lower but kept this one).

DSL over here (Jacksonville, FL) runs about $40 - $80 with a max of 1.5MB/sec down(Earthlink).

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My ISP was AT&T Boradband (formerly Mediaone). I heard that Comcast is better than AT&T, and that wouldnt surprise me... :eek2: Never had any problems when Mediaone had it, as soon as AT&T got their grubby hands on the network it has gone all to hell... In 2001, over 20,000 complaints were filed against AT&T in Jacksonville alone :eek2:...
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Just my 2 Cents, I'm dont venting now :angry: :D

I also have Comcast and live in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. Download speeds are usually between 100kps to 200kps. Sometimes even higher. I used to get terrible download speeds until I forced them to switch out my modem. But that was when it was owned by MediaOne before they were bought out. I really haven't paid attention to the upload speeds to help with that.

Have TimeWarner Road Runner in Charlotte, NC.

Download speeds actually depend on the server - seen anything in between 4kb-800kb per second. But if I'm downloading something from a large service provider, I usually get 300-400 kilobytes per second.

My upload cap is at 45kb/s - it also depends on who I am uploading to - as you can guess, If I was uploading to a friend who uses dialup - it would be 3kb-4kb/s :)

I just got RR installed for free and first month is free - since I will be going back to school in 2 months, It's just $45/month for two months for 3 months' service...

1.544+ Mbps down / 384+ Kpbs up. (Charter cable via a local cable company in my area). Very nice.

Telstra Cable, Adelaide, Australia. :puke:

Avg 550k/sec down, 600k/sec local, 10k/sec up. My upload is capped to 12k. Download accelerator seems to work - by downloading 6~ versions of the file. Only started using it recently, and it massivly increased my speeds, i'll see how it goes.

I have Adelphia, I'm on top of a mountain by the Hudson river.

I get about 800k/sec down and 12k/sec up : )

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Wow, you guys. I'm feeling pretty good about my cable connection at this point. I'm surprised I'm getting these numbers constantly and solid, when I live in a small-ish town away from any major cities.

PS: AT&T does indeed suck. Don't even get me started (and I'm not just talking about Internet connectivity)... those criminals!

Disregard previous post (couldn't posted by accident w/out attaching)

Charter Communications (Alabama)

- 632 down
- 128 up
(in bits)..

- 77.1 down
(in bytes)

I think some others need the clarify this :D (bytes vs bits)

Originally posted by jw
I get about 4mbps down and 256kbps up
I live in Waco, TX and use Road Runner via Time Warner

4 mbps? :eek:

Road Runner through Time Warner Cable in Waco/Temple/Killeen is supposed to be 2 mbps up and 384 kbps down, so if you're getting 4 mbps, I'd like to know how. ;)

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Originally posted by cimshimy
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I only wish lol

I don't have cable, but I can vouch for DSL.... :)

With cable you're sharing the line with every cable internet user... with DSL you have your own direct line to the central office.

Cable -- speeds vary from day to day...
DSL -- speeds pretty much stay the same every day.

I have Verizon Online DSL -- Sarasota, Florida
Paying for:
1.5Mbps down / 128Kbps up
$59.95/month

I get:
1.2Mbps down / 137Kbps up
Consistantly.

That averages around a 155.6 KB/sec transfer rate -- but I do get a higher transfer rate -- sometimes up into the 200s...

I don't think I would ever go to cable -- I like my speed... I don't want to me in the middle of downloading something -- starting out at 100+ KB/sec and right in the middle of the download drop to 50 KB/sec.

I'm shudding up now... ;)

The cable or DSL provider you go through, is what determines how your connection is, actually. For example, around here people share the DSL line and this can result in just what you said cable does. This isn't true of my provider. We have only one person per connection around here on cable, but DSL has 10 people per line (or some such thing). it's the opposite here. I'm gauranteed 1.5mpbs down, 384kbps up. I have never seen it slow down and I don't see any indication it will. With DSL, I'd have to go through the phone company -- no thanks! From what I've always heard and from my experience, cable is more reliable than DSL and that DSL is the one that shares the line and how more people that log on in the area, the less speed you have, not cable. This _is_ true of my area anyway, but I guess your area has the opposite situation. I'd use DSL for backup, but cable kicks! :-)

Originally posted by rockergrrl
I don't have cable, but I can vouch for DSL.... :)

With cable you're sharing the line with every cable internet user... with DSL you have your own direct line to the central office.

So what if you have your own direct line to the central office? The central office is not the bandwidth provider. The bandwidth is shared from the central office to the bandwidth provider, so DSL is still shared, just at a different point along the way.

Cable -- speeds vary from day to day...

That "speed varies everyday because it's shared" crap is a common misconception. That's not true at all. I have cable and speeds stay the same all the time.

DSL -- speeds pretty much stay the same every day.

I have Verizon Online DSL -- Sarasota, Florida
Paying for:
1.5Mbps down / 128Kbps up
$59.95/month

I have Road Runner through Time Warner Cable in central Texas, and I get 2 Mbps down and 384 Kbps up for $39.95 per month.

I get:
1.2Mbps down / 137Kbps up
Consistantly.

I get 1.8 to 2 Mbps down and 350 to 384 Kbps up consistently...

That averages around a 155.6 KB/sec transfer rate -- but I do get a higher transfer rate -- sometimes up into the 200s...

...which is around 230 to 250 KB/s down and 44 to 48 KB/s up, and sometimes I burst a little faster.

I don't think I would ever go to cable -- I like my speed... I don't want to me in the middle of downloading something -- starting out at 100+ KB/sec and right in the middle of the download drop to 50 KB/sec.

That doesn't happen unless you have a crappy cable provider. I love my speed. In fact, most of my friends have DSL, and I can download and upload much faster than all of them.

I'm shudding up now... ;)

It all depends on where you live. Some areas have crappy cable providers. In that case, you might consider DSL. Some areas have cheaper DSL service. In that case, you might also consider DSL. In some areas, like where I live, DSL availability is limited, and service is very expensive. Over here, DSL as fast as my cable service would cost a fortune, and you would have to sign a contract and purchase an expensive modem, IF you can even get DSL at all. Many places don't qualify because everything's so spread out here.