Posted on 07/04/2015 9:23:13 AM PDT by xzins
h2>Do you think your Internet is slow? That's nothing compared to what these folks are going through.
If you live in Chicago, and try to connect via AT&T (T, Tech30) from 4 p.m to 11 p.m., speeds for certain websites and Internet services are basically like dial-up in the 1990s.
There are a handful of other examples from researchers at M-Lab, which provides tools to assess Internet performance. In some cases, Internet speeds can be as slow as 0.5 Megabits per second.
Take Seattle, where CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds. New York's Time Warner Cable (TWC) customers from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Verizon customers from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. speeds are so slow that they can't access certain sites and services.
The same goes for Verizon (VZ, Tech30) customers in Washington trying to access particular sites at either 7 p.m. or 10 p.m.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Comments: is you service fast or slow?
My AT&T uVerse in Sacramento rocks 7x24x365 but costs an arm and a leg.
My service is so fast I had to chain down my laptop and I still fear getting too close to the screen.
Comments: is you service fast or slow?
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My answer: Both. As good as 100 Mbps and as bad as .3 Mbps.
And this variation can be over a time period of a few minutes: Great. Terrible, Great in less than 5 minutes.
Time Warner. Maybe that explains it.
158 mbps hard wired, about 93 mbps wireless.
I’ll take slow speed over no speed. Ours won’t connect half the time and the other half is spotting with flashes of disconnections.
Slow, CenturyLink slow. (central Wisc.)
My cable internet used to get sluggish between 4 and 6 p.m.
That was when school let out and business days ended.
Now, the cable co has upped the speed a couple of times in the last 18 months — from 12 Mbps to 50 Mbps.
They are preparing for the 4k television and streaming. They also upped the upload and download of data from 250 Gb per month to 350 Gb per month.
They have also upped the internet portion of my monthly bill by about $10 in the last 18 months.
Time Warner Metro Milwaukee. I pay for 30 mbps DL, reliably 32 + UL pay for 5 mbps usually 5.5. I pay $115.00/month for Internet including router, Cable TV including 2nd set top box and Home phone + taxes and fees
A lot of people have gotten rid of Home phone but my wife and sister live half a country apart and cell phone voice quality does not cut it.
I had a very successful and very profitable business until high speed cable came along.
56K ?
1200, 2400 is more like it.
I get “You are not connected to the internet” a couple times a day. TWC, Summit County, Ohio. Most times I can unplug the modem for a few minutes, then reboot it. But that doesn’t always work. And I have bundled service, so if the modem goes offline, I lose the phone too,,and sometimes cable tv.
Yep, CenturyLink. If it was going any faster where I live it would be going backwards. Average download speed is around .7mb/sec. Ugh.Forget any on-line movie viewing or Youtube. Constant buffering every two or three seconds.
We were a club of "mighty" Commodore 64 Users working out the bugs of the Modem world back then.
No matter how many times I get a faster connection, it's always too slow after a while. 8-)
Did you try the “Free version” of Mosaic or did you do like me and go out and buy it?
The good old days of the BBS!
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