:hotbounce good link

it's great having a 5mbit connection at home, got the video in 13 seconds. nice zoom.

Interesting

5mbit? At home? Ok, thats just not fair. Bloody americans ....the best i can get here is 1mbit and that costs best part of £50 a month....thats why im stuck with a 56k modem

Steg

3Mbit is the mainstream speed here ( Belgium ) & I do believe it's far from being the fastest in Europe.

Isn't it strange how the leaders of the industrial revolution just three hundred years ago are now the furtherst behind technology?

I blame corporate greed, and government taxation.

very observant.......unfortunatly its also true.....blame BT - it must be their fault....either that or its Tony's fault.....
Typical....just typical....
I have a friend in Tokyo, Japan who pays the equivilant roughly £30 a month for 6mbit...thats fairly fast....

Steg

I'm still waiting for Broadband over Power Lines. They trialed it (are trialing it, take your pick!) somewhere in the country.

For now, I just have to settle for a crappy 256/1024 bit connection from AOL at £35, aka $50, per month.

BT aren't much better service-wise either

I'm in the US as well at $35/mo for 256/256 and in some areas my cable company offers 512/512 for $45/mo but not quite far enough for me to get it.

BTW, we had a thread about bandwidth once, but I'm not going to look for it right now. Also, wasn't this thread originally about something else? Or was this the intention?

I posted under intersting links. I posted it also on an electronic music forum that has an interesting mix of nationalities and many folks were complaining about the their slow connections so I thought I'd try it on the friendly Techspot folks.

I have cable at ~$50 a month and adverage 300-400k/s. My total cable bill is $115 a month and I dont even have all the channels. I do have HD finally though.

I am luckily right around the corner from my C.O., and my speeds are always right around 512 for my DSL...my cable downstairs is usually around 300-400...I guess I am lucky...no intentions of moving any time soon...

my 5mbit connection is fixed at $45, here or in europe prices will vary depending on the location and provider. competition will play a big role in price as well. SBC must have lots of competition around here I guess.

This is the broadband thread I mentioned earlier. I figured I'd direct you to it since it seems no one can use the search function.
http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6386&highlight=broadband

another cool link

I was rooting for the lion

Stormbringer you really must try to stay on topic:stickout:

I guess I'm very lucky...11 mbs for 25.99 a month...it's good to be canadian