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What is considered slow internet?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by 713, Nov 6, 2012.

  1. pirc1

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    I find on my home network wifi is about half as fast on speed test.
     
  2. AMS

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    My LTE upload speeds are almost 5 times faster than my ISP.

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  3. Haymitch

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    Do I win?

    This is at work though. At home it's probably much worse. I have Uverse 18 mpbs.
     
  4. DJNICK

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    25 mb/s down and 4 mb/s up with a 5ms ping. This Is with crapca$t.
     
  5. elindio23

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    internet on campus
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    Damn dude. UT should share that on Facebook and/or send it to prospective ECE students.
     
  7. elindio23

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    haha we already too many EE's
     
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    Good enough I guess.
     
  11. LCII

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    5-6 Mbps is the minimum IMO. Anything less than that and you'll have trouble streaming er...youtube videos.
     
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  12. LCII

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    But compared to 10 years ago, even 'third world speeds' like 1 Mbps is yards better. Internet speeds have definitely improved faster than what we can use the internet for.
     

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