America ever getting solid MEGAbyte speeds?

[dbzlotrfan]

Is this forsaken country ever getting decent download speeds across the crappy board? I may have ~350 KB/s (~3 Mb/s) but it feels like i'm still on crappy arse 56K. If I download anything from Steam (any of the larger games anyway) it takes upwards of TEN HOURS on this connection while on a meg or two it'd download it within an HOUR. We supposedly pay our ISP "extra" for upwards of a meg (probably somewhat less) yet we can't even get HALF . . . . By the time this country gets decent speeds the rest of the world will have upwards of terabyte (bits?) speeds and we'll be stuck with megs.

 

[Nukem]

It depends on where you are and what time of day your trying to D/L...

This is what I have as of this afternoon. Tonight it's going to be different of course; More people will be home...
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[Trotter]

From work. Yay for Chattanooga's EPB Fiber.

 

[dbzlotrfan]

I'm somewhat in East Texas - Around Plano/Fort Worth/Dallas. Regardless of what time of day I try the MOST I can ever really get is 350 (lest on this computer). On a laptop I have I can get upwards of a mega if I'm doing some other sort of downloading . . . . . .

 

[Nukem]

From work. Yay for Chattanooga's EPB Fiber.

SWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEET! Dang, I'm jealous now... (but that is from work. I wouldn't want to pay the price tag for that kind of speed for home use!)

 

[Peter.Cort]

at work
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at home >.<
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I can get like 20MB down through comcast for like 60 bucks a month, which isn't too bad..

 

[dbzlotrfan]

892 milisecond ping? That's the longest ping I've ever seen, so you get a A LOT slower speeds than I do it seems. This is why I complain, regardless of the size of the country, the urban areas SHOULD NOT get have LESS than at lest half a meg (i'd think) if not 3/4 (750 KB). Again by the time this country gets meg across all 50 states the rest of the world will most likely have Gigabyte if not terabyte speeds probably IMO.

 

[theopfor]

In Central Oregon, USA, at home.

Ping: 52ms
Download: 12.26 mb/s
Upload: 1.86 mb/s

But the graph line goes up and down like a roller coaster on the download speed. Got a C-.

 

[Nukem]

Like I said in the earlier post... but I should have expected this for a Friday night

D/L - 15MB
U/L - 8MB
Ping 46ms
Grade - A-

Go figure

 

[iFargle]

Mine right now isn't too bad...