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1-5Mbps during the day.
It is what it is.But! If I had smartphone with MediaTek SoC (or root access), I could get 30-40Mbps. Currently I get this by using a VPN 24/7.
Lemmy explain:
My carrier (Swan) only has cell towers in 1800MHz band. They partnered with other carrier (Orange) to extend their coverage. Originally, this was done using so called “National roaming” in 2G and 3G. For purposes of internet connectivity, 2G is irrelevant. This was awesome as I could just manually choose Orange and get faster speeds. Unfortunately, Orange shut down their 3G network, and the license was updated so they now provide Swan with 4G except in 800MHz band.
What’s different? It’s not done via “National roaming” anymore, but the phone signs into Orange’s network natively as Swan, without roaming, and it is not possible to manually select Orange anymore.
So, how would MediaTek help me?
They have “Engineer mode”*#*#3646633#*#*with “Band mode” selection where you can allow specific bands manually.
Remember that Swan only has towers in 1800MHz band? Yep, I could disallow that, and stick to Orange towers (also limiting myself from their B3 towers, but whatever).I have tested that with my old MediaTek phone, and it works. So it’s a functional concept.
(Same thing can be achieved on rooted Qualcomm and app like NSG)I found one more workaround (no, not using a jammer which would be illegal). I found out that I won’t get switched away from Orange as long as there is a continuous connection. So, I can take a bus into area without Swan coverage and connect to a VPN using OpenVPN TCP (didn’t help with UDP), and then head back. Important thing is to never disconnect, not even for a second.
That’s how I am currently on 2100MHz from Orange. I must stay connected 24/7.We do not have internet at home, so this is all I have. Overnight downloads go brrr…
10 Gbps symmetrical for 40 bucks a month TV included. It’s absolutely mind boggling for me how expensive internet is in North America.
North America is insane with their internet costs.
Here in VN, I can get unlimited 4G for 40$ a year, and 100mbps symmetrical fiber for about 50$ a year. The biggest provider is the Army. Their customer service is actually pretty fast and good too!
The country is fucking huge to be fair, but it’s also the capitalism capital of the world.
The country can be huge but most people live in urban areas now, it’s not like they’ve gotta waste time and money running fiber all over north dakota. We’re talking cities with populations that rival some countries.
Which country? Some of the countries in North America aren’t huge.
Country (noun):
an area of land considered in relation to a particular featureNorth America country.
Would have great internet too if the telecommunication companies didn’t just pocket the money for installing fiber infrastructure. Twice.
Jesus, 10Gbps!? I’m paying $90 for “gigaspeed” AT&T fiber. But, I’m luckier than most, I have AT&T fiber and Metronet as fiber providers, as well as Spectrum and T-Mobile (but yuck to using 5G as my primary source of internet).
1Gbps symmetrical, business class, because I run my business from my home.
1000 up and down. Fiber is great. Actually having competition instead of a Comcast monopoly in my area is amazing.
The one downside when I bought was only Comcast in the area. 6 months in, Att fiber got dropped in. Now I’m with you!
14 download and 8 upload.
75/15
Everyone around me is getting fiber, but I’m on a private/unadopted road, so not for me 😭
Still better than what I have.
500/500 but average 530+ both ways for $50/month. Up to 5 gigabit is available in my area.
EDIT - In the US the FCC just upped what is considered “broadband” to 100/20 , which still seems sad for upload, but at least moving in the right direction. It was an awful 25/3 before.
Theoretical or actual?
My day job is building ISP networks. It’s been about 20 years since I had a home connection that I didn’t configure up both ends of myself.
I’ve got a 1G / 500M tail into home where I am right now, not that that is particularly impressive. One of the jobs I’ve been putting off at work is standardising our usage of the 10G GPON platform available here in NZ, when I do that I’ll get one of the >1G tails to use at home.
Usually the answer is how ever much I can be bothered building, but my usage is pretty low.
You can come around to my-place and upgrade me.
In saying that we were the first install of fibre in our village. Got a call the wee before it was meant to be installed something like “we have just turned on the fiver network, you are just around the corner from us you want us to install today?”
How’s the rollout of the 10G stuff going? Seems like it’s been coming “soon” for the last couple of years. Not that I could actually make use of 10G down.
We did an address check when we could first order it and about a third of the folks in the office could get it about a year and a half ago. I know the majority of the address checks that we do for commercial locations in tenders come up positive now.
It is not cheap to get an off the shelf router that does a solid job of forwarding multiple gigabits and the vast majority of folks ( me included ) probably will rarely notice the difference outside of speed tests. The last firewall build that I did for home was with a pair of virtual Linux boxes with 10G interfaces just so I could do a 2G or 4G GPON upgrade later on without having to throw everything out.
In New Zealand it seems like 10G GPON services are mostly cannibalizing high quality lit ethernet services at 1G and 10G subrate rather than replacing consumer tails. So more likely a business is going from spending $1500 a month on uncontended 1G to spending $400 a month on contended 4G, rather than a residential user going from spending $150 on 1000/500 to $280 on 2000/2000.
120/100 and seems to be max all the time.
3-5MB/s download on my computer, 1-3MB/s on my phone.
it’s supposed to be 100mb/s but in reality it’s about 0.5mb/s, I’ve seen it drop as low as 5kb/s (my landlord is a cheapscate and won’t replace the busted wifi extender in my uni dorm block)
380/260, for “gigabit fiber”
1000 down and 100 up for ca 40 euro a month
Damn, I pay something like £65 for that speed in the UK.
