Speed

[Wayne Goodwin]

This is my new internet speed offered by Charter . 55 per month plus tax . Upgrated from 30 Mbps ro 60 Mbps for the same price .

What speed do you have ?

[frenchy]

10mbps and thats fast enough for me .. but then i have a pretty fast computer with lots of ram and memory so it can keep up .. a lot of the times its not your internet speed but the sites you go to and how much traffic they can handle .. the internet is like this great big road that if a lotta cars are in your way it won't matter if you're drivin a ferrair or a yugo you're still only gonna go 18 miles per hour .. 

[AmerikinWmn]

34.04 Mbps on the download speed. 9.75 Mbps on the upload speed. I don't have any trouble, everything seems to load quickly so I'm happy. I think frenchy is right, though. If traffic is slow, you aren't getting around any faster. I would guess the higher download speed might help if you're streaming video or gaming although I don't seem to have problems.

[Wayne Goodwin]

They offer 100 mbps but cost 200 dollars to get it . We getting fiber optic in our area . Maybe in a few years . Dang i thought i had something . Well it didn't cost me anything to upgrade to the 60 Mbps . I can dream .

[frenchy]

that upload speed does look a little suspect there chiefy .. i don't think i ever saw one even close to that fast .. usually your upload speed will be way less than half of your download speed .. and yours is just off the charts there .. i'd run that again just to see if there wasn't some kinda mixup or somethin .. your download speed while not all that fast is good enough for most stuff .. my roku recommends about 3mbps to get movies streamed without all that bufferin with the little circle tellin you to please wait .. 1.5 is even ok most of the time ... so 5mbps is really all you need .. and thats a lot better then when we had dial up .. anybody here remember aol and what a goatrope that was ?? they would tell you you were connected at 56k and nobody ever got 56k .. more like 47k if you were lucky.. and that was only till somebody called you and knocked you offline .. eeeeeee.. so to go from 47kilobytes per second to 5.78 megabytes per second is quite an improvement .. i think its like 1000 kilobytes to a megabyte .. so you're doin like 5,780 kbps now . as opposed to 47.. one giant leap for mankind huh ?? you can tell your grandkids why i remember when we didn't even have the internet .. and when we finally did get it we could only go like 47kbps .. that is if we didn't get knocked off line .. they'll be lookin at you sayin no way ..  they'll think its some kinda fairy tale .. only 47k ?? what kinda story are you tryin to sell me granpa .. stop it .. you don't expect me to fall for that do you ??