How fast is your Internet Connection?

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How fast is your Internet Connection?
The government of India just announced plans of offering all citizens free high-speed broadband Internet by 2009– just two years away, with speeds around 2 Mb/s. Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?
This got me thinking about how much I’d be willing to pay for Broadband Internet. If your country one day decided to offer everybody free broadband Internet at the “lowest” of high speeds, but you could pay for faster speeds, would it be worth it to pay for the even “higher” high speed Internet?
How fast is your Internet Connection? Right now I get 10 Mb/s download and around 950 kb/s upload for a price of $30 per month.
Speedtest.net has a list of the top 5 countries, continents, and ISPs for Internet Speeds. If you’re not sure what your speeds are, it’s a great place to find out.
The top countries for Internet speeds are:
Japan – 9,290 kb/s download and 3,445 kb/s upload
Sweden – 6,951 kb/s download and 2,454 kb/s upload
Latvia – 6,001 kb/s download and 2,297 kb/s upload
The top two continents are:
North America with the average download speed of 4,204 kb/s
Australia with the average download speed of 3,305 kb/s
It looks like Japan is definitely the place to be for some of the best speeds on average.
So, how fast is your connection?
http://www.speedtest.net/

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my speed :o

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Tried it just out of curiosity, since I’m on dialup.

Download was about what I expected, a few hundred kbps. In practice, I can usually count on about 12-15 mB/hr for getting large files.

Upload – well, my system must have been on uppers that suddenly kicked in. 7000 kbps, over 20 times the download speed??

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here’s mine

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@ MikeBCda
My average download speed is basically the same as yours for dial-up.

The speedtest.net upload check is totally up the creek on dial-up, it just can’t seem to get it right as basically it will be about half that of your download speed.

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Here’s Mine. I usually do a little better, but right now there’s a few tornado watches and warning in my area and my connections a little unsteady.

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2997 down 254 up. wow and for this I pay $40 when drhayden gets over 3x the speed for less? Shame on Charter

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hmm I got 4057 Down and 898 Up

hmmm second try I get 5623 Down and 935 Up