Can i get a what what?

[revl8er]

I only get download speeds of 5kb/s and it sucks. I'm just waiting for an isp to bring dsl down where I live which should be withing the next 2 months or so.

 

[zAlbee]

zAlbee:
You have a 5 mb connection and only download at 600 kb? My connection is 4 mb and I have seen 700 kb and higher although average is like 400 on most sites, except windows update where I downloaded like 15 mb in less than a minute. I pay $20 a month (canadian) and its DSL.

hmm, maybe you have an uncapped connection, because,

5 Mbps / 8 = 0.625 MB/s

and my max rate is about 606 K/s. it's also possible your ISP is caching certain sites to make them go faster. wait wtf, $20 CAD?? we pay $45 for cable (cogeco). it's split between my roomies though, so i end up paying $15.

Martin: wow, that's awesome... university connection?

Xade: i have a feeling you're seeing an unfair representation here, as people with fast connections enjoy talking about them more

 

[Xade]

I damned hope so; I'm beginning to feel kinda inadequate here!

But yeah, I mean 512Kb is standard issue around my neck of the woods; it's pretty rare that people have a 1Mbps connection. I think that the max available to us is 2Mbps, but that's £45+ ($75) !!!

We might have 4 tops, but then you can only dream of the prices

ANYWAY half of you guys are at college, and that just doesn't count! I could stroll into my dad's office and start downloading at 1 megaBYTE a second!!