First *broadband* connection you got?

[anon]

Mine was a 128Kbit Cable line. :zocka:

[cheatos]

DialUp 56kBit,

now you'd say i wasn't capped well not really :P
the limit was 50Hours/Month.hehe

[anon]

DialUp 56kBit

Dial-up isn't broadband! :tongue:

[cheatos]

ok then mine was 512kBit :P
7GB/month :frown:

[dreamer]

512 also.. no limits though
it quickly turned to the 1.5 (down) I still have lol

[yoco]

Mine was 1024 kbps

[cheatos]

Mine was 1024 kbps

oh, do we have a winner ? :drool:

[v6ph1]

Afaik broadband is defined as 2Mbit/s and up.
So I still have no broadband connection - only 768kbit/s.
Otherwise I don't know if my old ISDN with 2 connections (=128kbit/s) is allowed here.

best regards
v6ph1

[anon]

For me broadband is anything with a speed higher than 56Kbit that doesn't use your phone line. :happy:

[caballero]

Afaik broadband is defined as 2Mbit/s and up.


From Wikipedia:

Although various minimum bandwidths have been used in definitions of broadband, ranging up from 64 kbit/s up to 2.0 Mbit/s[1], the 2006 OECD report[2] is typical by defining broadband as having download data transfer rates equal to or faster than 256 kbit/s, while the United States (US) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as of 2009, defines "Basic Broadband" as data transmission speeds exceeding 768 kilobits per second (Kbps),

Sorry for the long quote

On topic: mine was 356kbps, unlimited usage. It's a strange number, that was 7 years ago

[ghostfucker]

6 mbit/s

[tokiodrift1]

from 56kb/s (dial-up) to .....756kb/s (broadband)

[alpacino]

My first broadband was a 350kbit/128kbit ADSL.

[yoco]

I think everyone should write also when did they get it? I got it 2003.

[thecoolest]

before 3 years ago...25kBps dl speed still download about to 30gb month

[Mihai]

Mine was a 128Kbit Cable line. :zocka:

I'm still on dial-up and it's 2 Mbit:biggrin:

[Extraterrestrial]

Mine was 256kb and i was very happy that i have this overwhelming speed compared to dial up :rolleyes2:

[Owyn]

my friend got 512 kbps and was so happy about it so i'd thought about getting an internet too and got 1mbps adsl that time *_* omg so long time ago so low speeds

[anon]

I think everyone should write also when did they get it? I got it 2003.

2004 here!

The thing was a spaceship back then. Most of my friends didn't even have a computer at home :biggrin:

[crystal]

mine was 512 kbps from dialup , so it was a huge leap at that time . you could not imagine how much happy i was seeing download speed reach 60 KBps when the maximum i saw was 6 KBps :biggrin:

[anon]

you could not imagine how much happy i was seeing download speed reach 60 KBps when the maximum i saw was 6 KBps :biggrin:

Your old line had a speed of 6 kilobits per second, i.e. 0.75kB/s? That must have been exasperating :biggrin:

[Owyn]

i even managed to keep a screen of my dial-up :D

http://i50.tinypic.com/33bfuxl.jpg

[alpacino]

Broadband arrived on late 2000 in my city, but I couldn't subscribe until 2005, when they made it available to my neighborhood. So it was 4 years of waiting and using friend's connection. :biggrin:

[dreamer]

2003-2004.
I think it was something between these two years.

[Grambo]

20/1 MBs.
Only two years ago.

[dreamer]

and up until 2 years ago you didn't use the internet?
or even worst had 56K modem? :redface:

[Grambo]

In the nineties I had internet at school.
From 1999-2007 I didn't have internet.

[saebrtooth]

well thats a massive jump and Im sure ur very happy compared to getting others low speeds, ur plan speed is maybe 20/1 but is that the real speed ur getting?

[Grambo]

Your comment made me look at my 1st post.
The speeds I meant are 20 / 1 mb.
Sorry about the confusion.

Changed my ISP not long ago.
I have better upload now.

[saebrtooth]

those figures are drool worthy ;)

[crystal]

Your old line had a speed of 6 kilobits per second, i.e. 0.75kB/s? That must have been exasperating :biggrin:

no , i meant 6 kBps not 6 kilobits ;) . thats why i wrote KB in Caps in the previous post :biggrin:

[anon]

those figures are drool worthy ;)

20/1 is very good for a home connection, although if I had to envy something that'd be Swedish 100/100 lines :biggrin:

[lolz]

768kbps d and 384kbps u :|

[Grambo]

20/1 is very good for a home connection, although if I had to envy something that'd be Swedish 100/100 lines :biggrin:


Those swedes are lucky.

[saebrtooth]

20/1 is very good for a home connection, although if I had to envy something that'd be Swedish 100/100 lines :biggrin:

100/100 is no laughing matter and Im sure any1 here would love it

ah but now South Korea that is something really worth envying :wink2:

Speedtest.net - World Results (http://www.speedtest.net/global.php#0)
1.....South Korea
14...Sweden

[Owyn]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/361925842.png

my result :tongue:

[saebrtooth]

182.16Mbs down, 39.75Mbs up

you must be doing this at ur company or a Uni :tongue: thats really fast!

I think you would be the first one here list those types of speeds

[shawshankraj]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/361925842.png

my result :tongue:

why you have posted 2008 speed test result..Just want to know...:top:

[anon]

Because he no longer has such a connection. :shifty:

[Owyn]

:wink: cuz now it doesn't show such big numbers


*i have a more recent one if you want :)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/799228387.png

[Darth]

When broadband connections were introduced in Germany there were only 768kbit down and 64kbit up lines available for private homes. That was my very first broadband connection. I upgraded from a dial-up ISDN Connection which had 64kbit down/upstream when the channels were bundled... That was so incredibly fast back then! Now almost 15 years later i have 50mbits down and 10mbits up for the same price! But i still could use some more speed ;)