Endless Paradigm

Realistically that is.
What speed would you like to have, that you could realistically make use of, say, over next year? (so don't put down something like 10Gbps up/down, cause I really doubt anyone could fully make use of that)

Note, referring to achievable speeds, not rated speeds (that is, assume a 8Mbps actually does deliver 1MB/sec).

I'd probably be plenty happy with a 25Mbps down 15Mbps up.  Realistically I doubt I could use any more than that in the near future.

I've got a 20mbps down 3mbps up connection now, and I'm pretty happy with it, although I wouldn't mind a better up speed.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote: [ -> ](so don't put down something like 10Gbps up/down, cause I really doubt anyone could fully make use of that)

I sure as hell would. You should see the list of albums I'm trying to download on a 10 year old DSL connection and modem.

Anything that is more than 10Mb/s DL is good enough for me seeing as that was the previous one I had and I was ok with it. The only thing that made me change to my current provider was that I paid a few dollars less for 3 times as fast.

This isn't even my home connection. It's slower.

Realistically speaking, dunno, 8Mbit/s down is probably enough, up doesn't matter too much as I hardly ever upload anything, but preferably not too shitty (lets say 1Mbit/s).  The problem for me isn't really speed, but quota (most Australian internet plans have quotas).  Needless to say, I would prefer unlimited or a high cap like 100GB/month.

All the above is assuming I live by myself and thus have the whole internet to myself.  In reality, that's not the case, so probably like 30Mbit/s and 500GB+ cap (sharing with siblings, parents, and 2 downstairs people who rent the house).

20mbps down 5mbps up 24/7?

id be happy ..

currently, i get about 200 KBPS down and 40 up :))))

2000kB/s sis fine for me i think i got 2700 or 3000kB/s

Crud... thought it was faster.

i use a wide range of connections in different houses i visit, and i find anything lower then 1Mbps is a bit slow for me, my dad lives in a very small and (for this area) remote part of the town, so they're being slow about improving his internet, so most of the time, the connection is 500KB/s.

where i am now is not too far away from there, but i can pick up one of the UK's best connections (virgin) which means i get around 2MB/s peaks, but averagely around 1MB/s, this is still plenty good speeds

in my uni house, from what i tested (for like a day), it's on a fibre optic virgin connection, so it can max, and sit comfortably at 5MB/s!!! i personally think this is more then i need, seen as a lot of websites in the uk seem to load slower then that, but it's not something I'm going to complain about :).

so, what i was trying to say was, anything around 1MB/s - 2MB/s is good for me:)