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How do you even get a 2Mb/s connection in 2024?

by Nullabillity 3y ago

donmcronald 3y ago
Move to Canada and pay premium prices.
xboxnolifes 3y ago
Upload? Everywhere in the US. 100Mb/s Down, 5Mb/s Up, but the up really gets 2-3.
- simfree 3y ago
  Even Comcast is doing 50Mbps/15Mbps with overprovisioning giving you an extra 10% or so. AT&T, CenturyLink and other telecoms have ceased making ADSL and often VDSL2 readily orderable, and jacked up the rates on legacy customers to push them off old, slow connections on their aging DSLAMs.
antisol 3y ago
Easy: Be in Australia
- averageRoyalty 3y ago
  The median is 8mbps in Australia, not 2mbps[0]. 0. https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/australia https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/australia
  - antisol 3y ago
    aah, so you've never been out of the cities.
    - averageRoyalty 3y ago
      I have, and even then 2mbps is not a normal speed. Fixed wireless services in rural areas are beating this tenfold: https://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbn/documents/how-we-are-tracking/nbn-october-2023-monthly-progress-report.pdf https://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbn/documents/how-we-ar... Are you trolling, misinformed, or do you have access to some data I can't find?
      - antisol 3y ago
        I travelled about 13,000km around the country less than a year ago. At very few points in that trip did I have 2mbps, let alone more than that, not even in some of the fancy places. I definitely had better than that in Perth, and Kalgoorlie, and I had surprisingly good speed in Ceduna - maybe even 10mbps. It was pretty good in the Barossa, too - it's fine if you happen to be near a city. But the places with good internet represent perhaps 1% of the area I covered. Where in this self-reporting and not-at-all-independent pdf that you've linked to does it talk about what percentage of rural customers are on this fixed wireless service you speak of? Seems to me they're saying that 92% of fixed wireless users are above 25mbps, but I don't see anywhere where it says what percentage of rural users have that service, as opposed to e.g terrible long-haul adsl connections getting a couple hundred K if they're lucky. If they're saying that 92% of users are over 25mbps, and you believe it, then my response is a simple chortle. Maybe 92% of fixed wireless have it, but if that's the case then about 5% of people in the outback are on fixed wireless, it would seem. A couple of places I visited told me "oh, no, there's no phone or internet at the moment, hasn't been for a couple of days"... like it wasn't at all unusual or unexpected.

How do you even get a 2Mb/s connection in 2024?

donmcronald 3y ago

Move to Canada and pay premium prices.

xboxnolifes 3y ago

Upload? Everywhere in the US. 100Mb/s Down, 5Mb/s Up, but the up really gets 2-3.

simfree 3y ago
Even Comcast is doing 50Mbps/15Mbps with overprovisioning giving you an extra 10% or so. AT&T, CenturyLink and other telecoms have ceased making ADSL and often VDSL2 readily orderable, and jacked up the rates on legacy customers to push them off old, slow connections on their aging DSLAMs.

antisol 3y ago

Easy: Be in Australia

averageRoyalty 3y ago
The median is 8mbps in Australia, not 2mbps[0]. 0. https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/australia https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/australia
- antisol 3y ago
  aah, so you've never been out of the cities.
  - averageRoyalty 3y ago
    I have, and even then 2mbps is not a normal speed. Fixed wireless services in rural areas are beating this tenfold: https://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbn/documents/how-we-are-tracking/nbn-october-2023-monthly-progress-report.pdf https://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbn/documents/how-we-ar... Are you trolling, misinformed, or do you have access to some data I can't find?
    - antisol 3y ago
      I travelled about 13,000km around the country less than a year ago. At very few points in that trip did I have 2mbps, let alone more than that, not even in some of the fancy places. I definitely had better than that in Perth, and Kalgoorlie, and I had surprisingly good speed in Ceduna - maybe even 10mbps. It was pretty good in the Barossa, too - it's fine if you happen to be near a city. But the places with good internet represent perhaps 1% of the area I covered. Where in this self-reporting and not-at-all-independent pdf that you've linked to does it talk about what percentage of rural customers are on this fixed wireless service you speak of? Seems to me they're saying that 92% of fixed wireless users are above 25mbps, but I don't see anywhere where it says what percentage of rural users have that service, as opposed to e.g terrible long-haul adsl connections getting a couple hundred K if they're lucky. If they're saying that 92% of users are over 25mbps, and you believe it, then my response is a simple chortle. Maybe 92% of fixed wireless have it, but if that's the case then about 5% of people in the outback are on fixed wireless, it would seem. A couple of places I visited told me "oh, no, there's no phone or internet at the moment, hasn't been for a couple of days"... like it wasn't at all unusual or unexpected.