So, How Fast is Your Internet?

[9mmPatriot]

My internet is delivered by a flying donkey up to a satellite owned by Hughesnet, then back by the same donkey. Sometimes he gets tired. Me too.

I have to laugh at those remembering 14.4 dial up speeds. My early computers had no modem at all and then the internet came along. I was excited to install my first dial up modem at 1200 kbps. Imagine the thrill of 14.4! And updating memory to 1 MB!! Lot's of little parts and no You Tube for advice.

My first modem was 1200 Baud...

 

[Bozz10mm]

Some of you make me jealous. I get 6 down and .5 up on a good day. I have Century Link DSL and they say that's the best I can get in my area. Costs about $60 a month.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Got Hughes Net. Our flying donkey has a broke wing but still head and shoulder better than the Century Link garbage we used to have.
We are supposed to be getting fiber optic in about a year through our electric coop. They are promising tremendous speeds. I certainly hope so.

You live in the Ozarks!!! You still got dual floppy computers for cryin out loud If you haven't upgraded to the flying monkeys no wonder you are slow

 

[LVSteve]

I get this when plugged into the router. It has some ancient form of WiFi with Morse code that limits the speed to about 12 Mb/s. That would not be an issue except that every website these days seems determined to use the maximum amount of bandwidth it can between ads and poor coding. I plan to upgrade to -11ac Wifi later this year and then I'll up my Internet plan with the thieves at the local Cox monopoly. (OK, we do have CenturyLink, but DSL? Really? On these phone lines?)

 

[6518John]

My internet is so slow my newsfeed just announced Alaska and Hawaii had become states!

 

[LVSteve]

My internet is so slow because I have a newsfeed.

...fixed it for you. They should be called adfeeds to be strictly accurate.

 

[arjay]

My internet is delivered by a flying donkey up to a satellite owned by Hughesnet, then back by the same donkey. Sometimes he gets tired. Me too.

I have to laugh at those remembering 14.4 dial up speeds. My early computers had no modem at all and then the internet came along. I was excited to install my first dial up modem at 1200 kbps. Imagine the thrill of 14.4! And updating memory to 1 MB!! Lot's of little parts and no You Tube for advice.

You're actually connected up there!? What a world we live in lol

 

[Golddollar]

My internet is so slow my newsfeed just announced Alaska and Hawaii had become states!

My internet is so slow that it announced that Lindburgh landed in France.

 

[Krogen]

Something you guys getting single digit speeds should look at: are you quoting Mbps or MBps? Mega bits vs. mega bytes. There are 8 data bits in a byte, as many as 10 if you include other "stuff."

BTW, a few of you mentioned 1200 baud modems. I used a 300 baud acoustic modem back in the day. Glacial? Yep, by modern standards. But it sure beat spending all night in the computer center punching Hollerith cards! I could use a dumb terminal at home. Upgrading to 1200 baud was exhilarating!

 

[jeffrefrig]

My computer system is just a tad slower than Spencer Reid's brain. It has a 186 IQ and can only read 19,999 words per minute.

 

[stu1ritter]

I'll just keep quiet.

Stu