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Re: What is your speed, service price, and location and ISP?

Price: 59.99 for Unlimited
Location: North Texas

ISP: Adams.net
Location:West Central Illinois
Speed 512up/down
Price:39.99

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Just remoted into my parents' computer back in Texas from my dorm (shared university OC3, connection variable, sometimes lower than 25/15, sometimes higher than 50/50) and here's what I got:

»www.speedtest.net/result/262417533.png

ISP: Bee Creek Communications, www.beecreek.net
Locale: Fredericksburg, TX
Tower Distance: Close (mile or two), easy LOS
Equipment: Will check on when I get back home
Backbone: DS3 for 1500-ish customers, that's why their speeds are...
Advertised Speed: 512/256
Bandwidth Limit: 25 GB/month, less if they think you have a virus aka you download a gig or two of data in one day
Price: $200 on setup, $42 a month (all plus sales tax), was $10 more per month because wanted a 1-year contract instead of 2-year
Spectrum Usage: 2.4 GHz channel 6 iirc
Backbone distance: ~40 miles (5.8 GHz microwave backhaul to Kerrville)

Also did the VoIP speedtest. Results in a sec...pings to Google were very consistent, ~50ms, however I've seen them at 75ms before. Also, can't keep an AIM or Skype video call going, though Windows Live seems to work a bit better. They just started doing DHCP so when they convert to a Qwest T3 (still a T3!?!) they don't have to mess with customers' IPs. However to keep RDP going I got them to keep our static IP, though the DHCP seems to have some sort of NAT so they manually had to open (and forward from 6900 to 3389 geez) the port for RDP.

Anyway, here are the VoIP figures. Note that this is at 1 am there, so the network is in as good a condition as it'll get. Will post tomorrow during peak with those results. I think unmetered speeds get ~3 Mbit symmetric from my location.

QoS: 99%
Jitter: 0.1 ms
Packet Loss: 0.2%

Yes it's pretty awesome considering the figures for my college connection aren't nearly as good, even though the connection funnels into a hub along with ~19 Gbit of other connectivity and that in turn heads out to 12 Gbit of backbone, distributed between six providers. I think my school just needs to up their link to gigabit instead of the OC3...we're the slowest link on the POP.

At any rate, while the service seems to have decent equipment and customer service is generally good (I think they have six people working in the whole outfit though...maybe a few more...by no means a large establishment so they could afford to spend more on backbone) their whole deal with switching to DHCP and setting up the firewall as such is quite annoying. Also, speeds, while pretty darn stable, aren't great. As such, I'm going to try and convert to Millenicom now that the Bee Creek contract is up. No contract required, the service is actually mobile, and while there will be more latency downsream and upstream speeds during peak times will be 2-3x what they are now with the rA coverage and no firewalling or bandwidth limit!

Personally though I'm planning to, enterprising me, start up a wireless ISP, hopefully WiMax-based, to actually give people a choice rather than having one high-profile WiSP (who I'm thinking would charge $150+ for their 1.5-2 Mbit plan) and one satellite provider (WildBlue) as the big options outside of town. Most people don't know about Sprint Broadband but hopefully that'll change too :/

Price: $39.95/mo
Location: RC/Watertown, SD
Speed:2meg down/1 meg up (latency is horrible when uploading)
2.4Ghz to tower then the rest is fiber

120ms to west coast, sub 100ms everywhere else in the U.S. & 36ms to Wichita, KS (69.65.13.105)

Checking the connection again during relatively peak hours.

There was some ping loss to Google but the average seems to be 56 ms or so now, maybe a little closer to 60.

Heh, looks like DL/UL is 520/842.

However, jitter is up around 3.6 ms and packet loss is 1.2%. QoS is at 99% though.

QoS is actually better than my campus's shared OC3 by a long shot, however all other figures are worse

Be back later with a friend's speed test reports.

One more speed test, from a friend's Bee Creek connection. Seems like he's farther out than I am...

524/304 (though uploads went into double digits, even low ones, when doing testing)
56-ish latency to Google
QoS: 98%
Jitter: 5.7 ms
Packet Loss: 10% upstream (!?!)

VoIPReview's speed test is a sweet thing. Bee Creek..not so much. Then agai, I like fast internet, and would rather have an EvDO connection with 150-200ms latency, 250ms max, than something 1/2 to 1/3 the speed, fixed, with better pings.

Location: Chicago, IL
Provider: Sprint Broadband Direct (sprintbbd).
Equipment: Fixed wireless antenna on roof, RF modem.
Cost: $45/month + $10 x 2 for two additional IP#'s.

Did a speed test at »www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and I'm getting:

Last Result:
Download Speed: 5155 kbps (644.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 172 kbps (21.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

Sprint Broadband direct is getting terminated by 6/30/08, due to FCC's regulations, so I'm looking for a comparable provider.

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 4036 Kbps about 4.04 Mbps (tested with 4096 kB)
Download Speed is:: 493 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 4339 Kbps about 4.3 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 530 kB/s
Tested From:: »testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/07/23 - 6:18am
D-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-OWZ5I0164
U-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-RPCXATBN9
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648) [!]
Provider: www.wifi45.com Corsicana, TX
Price: $50
I couldn't ask for better service or speeds from these guys.
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Download :: 2111 Kbps or 2.11 Mbps (258 kB/s)
Upload :: 240 Kbps or 0.2 Mbps (29 kB/s)

have a few tree branches in way (coming down this weekend)

WISP: Arialink.com
Price: 18.99 a month, no contract, 25.00 to install
Location: muskegon, michigan area
Support: top notch!

Note: I am getting internet & phone service from them for under 40 a month

Verizon DSL i was getting less then 1500 down, was too far for the 3.0 package
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Download Speed: 218 kbps (27.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 84 kbps (10.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

The lowest speed you can technically call it broadband but it depends on what kind of phone you have, I am using EDGE, tethered to my phone over wifi.

$20 per month
AT&T
South Los Angeles
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My next laptop will be an Apple, I am fed up with PC's and Windows.

My WISP is Wireless Beehive. »wirelessbeehive.com. I am very happy with this speed. It is a lot faster than what I got from Frontiernet before I canceled them.

It's $39.95 per month. (A $29.95 plan is also available.) No contract is required. There is a $49.95 installation fee. It requires an antenna on your roof that looks a lot like a Dish Network dish.

Location: North West Alabama
(Florence, Muscle Shoals, and surrounding area)

WISP: www.netspeednow.com

Cost: $39.95/month residentual
Minimum of $100 installation
No contract, no caps that I know of, no equipment to buy
5 e-mail accounts with pop3 and web mail

Speeds: Advertised 1MB down/256kb up

My speeds: I usually average around 3Mb down and 1 to 1.5Mb up

I have had this service for 2 months and have been well pleased with it so far. I have had a couple of down times with equipment problems, but the bugs have been worked out and it seems to be reliable now. This is the only alternative in my area, other than mobile wireless. Bellsouth DSL is just spotty in the rural areas, and they don't seem to be interested in expanding. I even started a petition in the area with over 200 signatures within a 2 mile radius of my neighborhood, and sent it to Bellsouth, with no results. I am very pleased with NetSpeedNow.

My speeds are 1.75Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up

They never advertised any actual speeds, but they are planning a new speed upgrade by the end of the year at same price.

I have AT&T UsbConnect 881U Air Card with the 3G network and my IP shows as Cingular,

I have a 2 year contract at 60 dollars a month, but have unlimited MB, no roaming charges, so no overage charges. They gave me the card so can't complain, I am in a rural area and no DSL here.

WISP: DTN SpeedNet
Tower is located 2 miles from my home. On top of the local water tower so we have a clear view.

Download: 3000Kbps
Upload: 1000Kbps
We subscribed for 1024/384 so I guess they boosted our speed without telling us.
Price:49.95 a month
Pings usually in the area of 45ms to major sites.

Speeds are pretty steady sometimes more around 2500/1000 but I can't complain. only problem is our speed will drop to like 100/70 randomly but a power cycle of the router and modem? will fix it.

Speed: 993/298
Provider: Verizon wireless broadband
Location: Muscle Shoals, AL
cost: $59.99/5GB

This is awesome!!! For an area that has no other choice besides ATT wireless (which sucks) this is fantastic!!! ATT will try to sell you wireless broadband and tell you that you can get service like this in their Edge network which is NOT true. I switched to Verizon only a week ago and am amazed at the difference. Verizon's broadband network covers much more service area than ATT, which has 3G only in large metropolitan areas.

Speed : Paying for 1.5 down 1 up
Actual: varies from 1 to 3 down and .7 to 1.2 up

Price 34.99

Location: Carpenter, WY

ISP: LP Broadband (changing their name to SkyBeam)

Speed: 256kbps aggregate MINIMUM, no max, no download/upload limits.
Price: $44/month after taxes.
Location: Bonnechere Community Internet, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.

Provider »kcweb.net

$55 if paid monthly $45 if paid (semi)anualy

Speed according to them 512 Down 128 Up.

according to »speed test.net 522 Down 256 Up.

varies between 512-550 Down and 256-300 Up depending on howmany computer are on in my house.

Re: What is your speed, service price, and location and ISP?

ISP: AirLogic Wireless
Throughput (RX): 30-Mbit/sec
Throughput (TX): 20-Mbit/sec
Location: Sandwich, IL
Primary feed from: Newark, IL (6 miles)
Price: $100.00 per month

I probably better offer an explantion. I let them use my ham radio tower as an access point/repeater to provide local service here at the airport. All equipment is custom designed via Mikrotik and for my end...they simply left me "un-capped" and "un" everything. Nice eh?

Tim
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Re: What is your speed, service price, and location and ISP?

200 kbps down 64 kbps up
^ speedtest.net with only 100meters from server.

INDONESIA
TELKOMSEL FLASH UNLIMITED

200.000 IDR per month or 22$ / month.

Use 3.5G

system e6750

dedicated, managed point to point link
4.8 Mbps up/down
20-40 ms ping
no caps
$300
central VA

www.wifi45.com Rock solid 4meg down and 3 meg up. $50 per month.

ISP: ruralNetwireless (on 5.8ghz tower)
Location: Vail, Az 85641
speed: Pay for 1.5M down/ 768k up
actual speed: 5M down/ 2.5M up
ping: 20ms
extra services: Static public IP
price: $85/month

~Mark