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  • "250 symmetrical", but my router usually reports around 270ish each way. Recently moved somewhere with fiber to the home.

    Previously the cable co I was with kept sending notifications that they had "upgraded" my service. I went from like 100mbps down to like 300 down with them, but they never changed the 10mbps up...

  • Melbourne Australia: ~75/30mbps. Was getting 1000/1000 at my last place near the city, but we bought a house in a forest.

    Thanks to the left wing government, we'll get upgraded to 1000/1000 in 1.5 years.

  • 1-5Mbps during the day.
    It is what it is.

    But! If I had smartphone with MediaTek SoC (or root access), I could get 30-40Mbps. Currently I get this by using a VPN 24/7. :::spoiler Lemmy explain:
    My carrier (Swan) only has cell towers in 1800MHz band. They partnered with other carrier (Orange) to extend their coverage. Originally, this was done using so called "National roaming" in 2G and 3G. For purposes of internet connectivity, 2G is irrelevant. This was awesome as I could just manually choose Orange and get faster speeds. Unfortunately, Orange shut down their 3G network, and the license was updated so they now provide Swan with 4G except in 800MHz band.

    What's different? It's not done via "National roaming" anymore, but the phone signs into Orange's network natively as Swan, without roaming, and it is not possible to manually select Orange anymore.
    So, how would MediaTek help me?
    They have "Engineer mode" *#*#3646633#*#* with "Band mode" selection where you can allow specific bands manually.
    Remember that Swan only has towers in 1800MHz band? Yep, I could disallow that, and stick to Orange towers (also limiting myself from their B3 towers, but whatever).

    I have tested that with my old MediaTek phone, and it works. So it's a functional concept.
    (Same thing can be achieved on rooted Qualcomm and app like NSG)

    I found one more workaround (no, not using a jammer which would be illegal). I found out that I won't get switched away from Orange as long as there is a continuous connection. So, I can take a bus into area without Swan coverage and connect to a VPN using OpenVPN TCP (didn't help with UDP), and then head back. Important thing is to never disconnect, not even for a second.
    That's how I am currently on 2100MHz from Orange. I must stay connected 24/7. :::

    We do not have internet at home, so this is all I have. Overnight downloads go brrr...

  • 250/40 no caps, 70€/month, germany on the edge of a city. The city has fiber but we‘re not there yet. Stuff is slow in germany since telekom owns most of the infrastructure and is a private company that really needs to be disowned rn!

  • £21/mo for a 100Mb/s VDSL connection split at 80/20: speeds as advertised, ~10ms latency. I'm living in the centre of a large market town in the North of England.

    Two doors down, my neighbour is paying £25/mo for symmetric gigabit FTTP with negligible latency, but the fibre network doesn't extend to my property. Fuckers.

    Oh, I also have a backup/travel LTE service which provides about a 1150Mb/s down and 300Mb/s up with 20ms latency which costs me £18/mo.

  • 513/74 this evening. My fttp package is 150d but I get the 500 at the 1Gig price.

    The install and billing issues after were so bad that i ended up with almost two years of credit. Only started paying in December and they haven't said or changed anything.

    I'm going to see how long it lasts.

  • it's supposed to be 100mb/s but in reality it's about 0.5mb/s, I've seen it drop as low as 5kb/s (my landlord is a cheapscate and won't replace the busted wifi extender in my uni dorm block)

  • 500/500 but average 530+ both ways for $50/month. Up to 5 gigabit is available in my area.

    EDIT - In the US the FCC just upped what is considered "broadband" to 100/20 , which still seems sad for upload, but at least moving in the right direction. It was an awful 25/3 before.

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