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How much bandwidth?

Postby Shaun832 » 15 Jun 2009, 03:00

How much internet bandwidth does everyone get per month?

I get 25Gb per month although I'm not the one who pays for it. I'm asking this because I'm annoyed that me bandwidth has been used up and my internet speed had been slowed to about 15kb/s. Although, I live in Australia and we have slow internet regardless. My usual speed is about 150kb/s and... NEVERMIND! Sorry for getting off track. Just answer the question please...
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Unlucky » 15 Jun 2009, 03:14

60gb a month. 40 from 12am to 12pm and 20 from 12pm to 12am. We get shaped to 64kbits a second (8Kbytes a sec) once we go over that. We pay, I believe, $80 a month for that. Our normal speed, I believe, is 10mbits a second theoretically. Works out to anywhere between 50-700Kbytes a second speed wise.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Mats » 15 Jun 2009, 03:36

We used to be forced to take this crappy over-prised local ISP since they were the ones who built and maintained the net and were at that time limited to 12 Gb a month that was later increased to 24.

After several protest where we managed to get the fact into the local news and various other places that the ISP was owned by a company, that in turn was owned by the city and that the net had been built using tax-payers money and they were charging over-prizes (double a normal ISP).

Then the city council pressured the ISP to finally decided to open up the net for other contractors, which means I'm paying half as much as I used to and now have unlimited 10/10 traffic up, down, sideways or any other direction.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Unlucky » 15 Jun 2009, 03:43

Unlimited? Like, really unlimited? Where do you live?

I was doing some research and it turns out that true unlimited at 1.5mbytes\s down would cost $330 a month here. At least, that's unlimited without any kind of excess capping. Most of the plans seemed good, until you read the fine print and then it was just an overly expensive regular plan. :\

Also, my up speed are 512kbit\s I think. Also, unlike most plans, my uploads aren't counted towards my bandwidth usage. Thank God.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby empath » 15 Jun 2009, 05:46

Hmmmm...I don't really know - I'd been working customer service for the cable company when they introduced a monthly bandwidth cap of 60Gb a few years ago, but my landlord has DSL from the phone company, and...I don't remember whether they ever followed suit. Just a min...


...okay, according to the information I can find, my ISP provides unlimited bandwidth. And in all honesty, I'm pretty content with d/l speeds of about 150kbps, but according to their advertising, the cheapest service has "Speeds up to 1.5 Mbps"...

...I guess teh intarwebs must REALLY be slow and poorly maintained beyond "the client's modem and {ISP}'s switching facilities." :roll:
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Stroggo » 15 Jun 2009, 05:48

whoopdyfuck! I'm (my flat...... 3 GAMERS) on 4GB a month at 5.5 Mbit/s
Whoo! its so fast it's BURNING UP THE PHONE LINES.










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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby King Kool » 15 Jun 2009, 05:54

I have no idea, but I've never gotten any complaints about it, so I guess I'm not stressing the tubes as much as I could be.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Unlucky » 15 Jun 2009, 06:16

Stroggo wrote:This is the bit where the Aussie's laugh at us

Where in the nine hells are you!? 0.o 4gb a month? Seriously, I didn't know anyone could top us in crap internet plans, but HEY...How much do you pay for that too?
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby empath » 15 Jun 2009, 06:21

Yeah, 5.5Mbps is actually decent, but you end up using your service unthrottled for what...the first three days of each month?!?
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Sable » 15 Jun 2009, 06:24

1.0Mb down / 1.0 up over WiMAX in theory.

About 1.0Mb down / 512k up in practice.

In theory it's unlimited, but it's not exactly super fast. Also, because AT&T is amazingly bad at setting up WiMAX (I say this because my company uses some of the same equipment elsewhere and I know what they are doing wrong), it's almost 110ms latency to the local router (as in, the AT&T gateway router between their network and the greater Internet), let alone out to the Internet proper.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby empath » 15 Jun 2009, 07:00

Yeah, Sable? I used to hate people like you when I worked CSR! :D

I knew what you'd were talking about but being a peon in a Giant Bleeping Corporation™, I'd have neither any control over the parts of the internal network involved, nor any means to contact those who DID. :(

I think "Up to" and similar 'marketing' phrases¹ are the laziest things in the world and responsible for more dissatisfaction and low-grade stress...


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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Evisr » 15 Jun 2009, 07:02

I have Shaw's Xtreme-I package

100GB a month
15 Mbps Down
1 Mbps UP
$50/Month

Also they have this powerboost thing or whatever. Basicly it will double your speed when you start a big transfer for about 5-10 seconds. I've seen downloads go up to 3MB/Sec.

Also I've gone over that limit many times and they seem to be fine with it. Most people say that Shaw limits their torrent speeds and other stuff but I haven't had a problem. I guess for being a customer for 7 years might have something to do with that.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby masamune » 15 Jun 2009, 07:44

recently 25gb. before that 12gb. australia sucks for broadband.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby wedrinkritalin » 15 Jun 2009, 08:15

I have BT, bandwidth is irrelevant as my internet drops every half an hour and the only time I get above 200 k/bs is in the morning
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Lord Chrusher » 15 Jun 2009, 09:11

I have Shaw High Speed 15 Mb/s down, 512 kb/s up, 60 GB monthly cap. Too bad I do not have the download speeds I sometimes get at work - ~100 Mb/s. Admittedly the site I am downloading from has an one gigabit connection to my work but it is nice to be limited by your LAN speed rather than the internet.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Evil Jim » 15 Jun 2009, 09:29

Before I moved I had cable Internet at 10MB/s service with basically unlimited downloads. But now I'm out in a rural area my options are limited so now I have mobile broadband & am limited to 5GB per month, & if I go over I am charged $0.25 per megabyte!

So basically I have to be really conservative with whatever media I watch or listen to. The latest Commodore Hustle alone probably ate up three days worth of downloads. I'll have to wait until after the 17th in order to watch this week's new LRR & Unskippable & I usually go into town with my laptop to download podcasts on free WiFi.

Not only that but the connection manager my ISP provides is never accurate up to the present. Right now it is 12:25 on 06/15/2009 & their update on my usage says As of 06/14/2009 11:26PM, you've used about 4.86 GB of your 5 GB monthly data allowance. That's more than 12 hours distant.

If anyone knows of a way I can monitor my downloads up to the minute, either through my own system (Win XP SP3) or a separate program I would appreciate any help I can get.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Master Gunner » 15 Jun 2009, 09:37

I currently get 95GB/month with Rogers, with I think 10up/10down for $60. For next year a lab was pointed out to me that can apparently get 100mb/s, that a group of people sneak into every night to play WoW on. It's also right down the hall from the supercomputer, server, and cryptography rooms (go figure).
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Evil Jim » 15 Jun 2009, 10:56

empath wrote:I think "Up to" and similar 'marketing' phrases¹ are the laziest things in the world and responsible for more dissatisfaction and low-grade stress...

What? I'll get "up to" 3MB/sec? Well fine. I'll pay "up to" the amount you post on my bill.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Tapir12 » 15 Jun 2009, 12:05

I have no idea what I get, but I'm on Shaw here. It used to be 10 gigs down and 1 gig up a month, which was really annoying, but they must have changed it because I have been downloading quite a bit and I haven't had any problems. I still try to limit my uploading though, just in case.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby theDreamer » 15 Jun 2009, 12:13

I have Rogers's best package. That is 95 gigs bandwidth limit up down, and a supposed 10/10 MB/s up down speed. Never seen that, EVER. The best I've ever gotten was 1 meg per second down, split between 5 torrents.

I also almost cap out, every month. The rest of my family accounts for maybe ten gigs a month, I do the other 80 or so.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby wilson_x1999 » 15 Jun 2009, 12:16

I've unlimited bandwith, but it's DSL so, right now I can download at a max speed of 100kbs/s and upload 10kbs/s so that makes it soooooooooo fun when uploading galleries for my site ¬_¬

I pay about 40 dlls a month and this includes the phone service.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby ecocd » 15 Jun 2009, 15:21

Evil Jim wrote:If anyone knows of a way I can monitor my downloads up to the minute, either through my own system (Win XP SP3) or a separate program I would appreciate any help I can get.


FreeMeter worked for me for a while before bugging out and I had to uninstall and reinstall losing my logs. As long as you back-up your logs, it should do a pretty good job.

My current ISP, Comcast, has been great to me. The up is crawling small 35 KBbs max, but the downloads have capped out over 1.3 MBps which rocks. They have an unofficial bandwidth cap at 250 GB/month. With the Major League Baseball high def streaming, I actually bumped close to the cap (via Freemeter) in May with completely legit media consumption. Go figure.

Unfortunately I'm moving and I don't know what kind of service, speeds or caps I'll get with Wide Open West. They treated me well in Columbus, Ohio so I can only hope for the same in the Chicago suburbs.
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Keith K » 15 Jun 2009, 15:53

60gb a month
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby empath » 15 Jun 2009, 16:27

theDreamer wrote:I have Rogers's best package. That is 95 gigs bandwidth limit up down, and a supposed 10/10 MB/s up down speed. Never seen that, EVER. The best I've ever gotten was 1 meg per second down, split between 5 torrents.


And you know what, you will NEVER see "10Mbps up/down" through to the Internet; you [/i]might[/i] see something close to that when you're browsing the ROGERS YAHOO HIGH-SPEED content that Teddy's got stashed within the Rogers network itself. Maybe.

Because of that wonderful 'get out of jail free' fine print:

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Which is fine if you wanna stay in the kiddie pool...
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Re: How much bandwidth?

Postby Stroggo » 15 Jun 2009, 16:28

Unlucky wrote:Where in the nine hells are you!? 0.o


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