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What's your home Internet speed?

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MacMane

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May 1, 2009
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Since the new iPad has a gorgeous retina display that is capable of playing some nice 1080p videos but slow Internet makes this impossible to enjoy, I was wondering how fast is your home Internet speed?
 
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MacMane said:
Since the new iPad has a gorgeous retina display that is capable of playing some nice 1080p videos, I was just wondering how fast is your home Internet speed?
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bobalou?

you mean my ipads lte speed? or my home connections?
my ipad gets 50 mbps down :) 30 mbps up :)
my home connections, timewarner wideband gets 60 mbps down and only 5 mbps up :(
 
Slower Internet speed makes watching hi-res videos a hassle because it takes forever. My home Internet is only 3mbps, it sucks.
 
20/5 from Comcast. But for some reason, my ipad and iphone get way less than that using speedtest. My imac sees the full speeds.
 
dixie8123 said:
1.5mbps up 250kbps down, when it works.
As you can tell, Netflix is sooo much fun to watch. :p

PS: I have AT&T
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Also have ATT but at 18/1.5

IPad wifi will pull 29mbps on Dad's Comcast, so its wifi chip will at least do that. Thats on a 5GHz N network. My guess the other poster is on a G network which will top out around 20mbps.
 
Menel said:
Also have ATT but at 18/1.5

IPad wifi will pull 29mbps on Dad's Comcast, so its wifi chip will at least do that. Thats on a 5GHz N network. My guess the other poster is on a G network which will top out around 20mbps.
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Well the people at att said I can only have 1.5mbps. Funny, considering I live ten minutes from a downtown of a quite large city (The Apple Stores there)

:(. I think we like Comcrap better
 
I pay Charter Cable for 25 down and 3 up. That's the quickest speeds I can get from them at home.
 

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25MBps/25MBps from Verizon FiOS, which I'm able to get when I do speedtests. I originally had 15/5 when I first had it installed but a month later went into my account online and changed to 25/25, it was a $15 difference (then). A couple months ago I wanted to see how much it would cost to go to the next level of speed. I do a lot of streaming, but my speed was perfectly fine; I just wanted more! Haha. But, the prices have definitely increased! My 25/25 plan is a lot more expensive and the 50/50(?) is ridiculous.

Since my speed was increased with no hardware change or anything at all to my place, does that mean FiOS has a pretty high maximum speed that's just being capped because of pricing?
 
Cox Cable
3MB/1.5MB
$39/mo

It's a ridiculous price and speed but Cox is the only player in my area and they know it. I lowered it from a faster connection because cox throttles the heck out of our service if I dare to download any file over 500MB (even when doing a Lion update or downloading an iTunes movie I got throttled to 50kb after 10 minutes) so my iPad definitely isn't taking advantage of high def content as often as Id like.
 
I have Time Warner. I get 16 up/ .98 down. And I pay them $48 a months. Sounds a little high to me.
 
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