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God the internet provider racket could be my least favorite thing about NYC. The infra is terrible, ping is pretty terrible, price rates are terrible, providers

by xzel 9y ago

God the internet provider racket could be my least favorite thing about NYC. The infra is terrible, ping is pretty terrible, price rates are terrible, providers are terrible and you probably only have one for your building. Its a real shit storm. There are too many people for the current infra there and I'm sure no one want to foot the bill to improve it. I had Spectrum when I moved from NYC. I probably got 50/50 out of the 100/100 and during times of high traffic (dinner until 11) it was probably more like 20/20. I called, they said eh, you can pay 250 to get a better connection put in.

ploxiln 9y ago
I've never seen a cable company offer 100/100, it was 100/10 or 200/20 or 300/20 (mbps) last I checked. In my experience, the internet available in NYC is way better than most suburban or rural places in the US. 50/50 is actually pretty good, if that's what you were getting - that's like 5 high-definition video streams both up and down.
- isatty 9y ago
  It's bizarre to me that you think that 50/50 is good. I'm on 1gbps up/down and using slower connections at home is not ideal for me.
  - azinman2 9y ago
    It’s more than sufficient to watch Netflix, download things in reasonable times, and browse the web. Few have 1gbps...
  - khedoros1 9y ago
    I would classify 1gbps symmetrical as "stupendous". 50/50 would be "good". I'm paying too much for 50/10, and apparently being delivered about 15/5 (per my ISP's speedtest).
  - maccard 9y ago
    1gb/1gb is incredible, and probably top 1% in the world of connections. My office connection is 1gbps/1gbps, and my home connection is 15mbps/2mbps, with no possibility to improve. The highest package available in my city with any provider (not available in my area), and probably across most of the uk is 300mbps/30mbps
BigJono 9y ago
The median connection in Melbourne, Australia is around 6/1. I'd count your blessings. Last year my house was only serviced by one ISP and the only connection available was 1.5/0.2 ADSL. Half the modern webpages we go to don't even load at those speeds.
- jen729w 9y ago
  Source? I live in Fitzroy and while I’d agree that it’s generally woeful in Oz that seems a tad low. Experience at multiple rental properties puts it closer to 12/1. I just got my FTTB NBN last week and I’m getting 94/34. I am over the moon, which will doubtless make some here chuckle. That’s an epic connection for Australia. (Theoretical max for FTTB VDSL is 100/40.)
  - BigJono 9y ago
    My last 4 properties have been 4Mb/s, the aforementioned 1.5Mb/s, a place that had 30Mb/s cable, and now 6Mb/s. All south-eastern suburbs. I'd say inner suburbs like Fitzroy are probably batting above average. You've got much shorter distances to the DSLAMs there for ADSL2, and more businesses which means more infrastructure. Obviously the average and median are going to go way up now that they're connecting FTTN and HFC everywhere. From the people I've talked to, the average seems to be around 20-30Mb/s. My parent's house is actually slower now that they've officially installed HFC there (they were getting 30Mb/s on cable, now 20) :/ Woeful is definitely a good word for it. Clusterfuck would be up there too.

by xzel 9y ago

ploxiln 9y ago

I've never seen a cable company offer 100/100, it was 100/10 or 200/20 or 300/20 (mbps) last I checked. In my experience, the internet available in NYC is way better than most suburban or rural places in the US. 50/50 is actually pretty good, if that's what you were getting - that's like 5 high-definition video streams both up and down.

isatty 9y ago
It's bizarre to me that you think that 50/50 is good. I'm on 1gbps up/down and using slower connections at home is not ideal for me.
- azinman2 9y ago
  It’s more than sufficient to watch Netflix, download things in reasonable times, and browse the web. Few have 1gbps...
- khedoros1 9y ago
  I would classify 1gbps symmetrical as "stupendous". 50/50 would be "good". I'm paying too much for 50/10, and apparently being delivered about 15/5 (per my ISP's speedtest).
- maccard 9y ago
  1gb/1gb is incredible, and probably top 1% in the world of connections. My office connection is 1gbps/1gbps, and my home connection is 15mbps/2mbps, with no possibility to improve. The highest package available in my city with any provider (not available in my area), and probably across most of the uk is 300mbps/30mbps

BigJono 9y ago

The median connection in Melbourne, Australia is around 6/1. I'd count your blessings. Last year my house was only serviced by one ISP and the only connection available was 1.5/0.2 ADSL. Half the modern webpages we go to don't even load at those speeds.

jen729w 9y ago
Source? I live in Fitzroy and while I’d agree that it’s generally woeful in Oz that seems a tad low. Experience at multiple rental properties puts it closer to 12/1. I just got my FTTB NBN last week and I’m getting 94/34. I am over the moon, which will doubtless make some here chuckle. That’s an epic connection for Australia. (Theoretical max for FTTB VDSL is 100/40.)
- BigJono 9y ago
  My last 4 properties have been 4Mb/s, the aforementioned 1.5Mb/s, a place that had 30Mb/s cable, and now 6Mb/s. All south-eastern suburbs. I'd say inner suburbs like Fitzroy are probably batting above average. You've got much shorter distances to the DSLAMs there for ADSL2, and more businesses which means more infrastructure. Obviously the average and median are going to go way up now that they're connecting FTTN and HFC everywhere. From the people I've talked to, the average seems to be around 20-30Mb/s. My parent's house is actually slower now that they've officially installed HFC there (they were getting 30Mb/s on cable, now 20) :/ Woeful is definitely a good word for it. Clusterfuck would be up there too.