Is 3 Mbps "high speed" internet?

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TakeNoPrisoners

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3Mbps is twice the speed I get at home. Good thing I'll be moving to a place where I will have 100mbps Comcast within the month.

Looking forward to actually being able to watch 1080p on Youtube!
 

darkewaffle

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For most purposes, yeah I'd say it's plenty of bandwidth. Once video (or any mass downloading/streaming) comes into play though that will quickly bottleneck you.
 

BurnItDwn

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Thats ok for gaming and for streaming low resolution. compared to 56k or 512k or 1.5mbit, it's high speed. But, in today's world, it is really quite slow.
 

blankslate

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Looking forward to actually being able to watch 1080p on Youtube!

with 100 mbps down stream you should be able to watch several different 1080p videos in your browser at once. My connection has come in at about 4 to 7 mbps depending on the time of day, no trouble watching 1080p youtube videos even during prime high traffic hours.
 

2is

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Remember when T1's were legendary?

I do remember that, and even today, ISPs who lease T1s cling to that piece of nostalgia when trying to sell it.

I have a 30mbps pipe and no streaming issues at all. I've watched a 4k YouTube stream without issue as well.

Just remember when you start getting up there in bandwidth, to also have proper supporting hardware. Docsis 3 modem if its a cable service and a relatively modern router that has the processing power to handle the speed.
 
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Red Squirrel

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What's funny is T1's are still widely used today. They're ridiculously expensive too. Businesses tend to use them for their PBXes, in the form of ISDN. Gives 23 "lines". (T1 has 24 channel but in the form of ISDN it's 23 + 1 D channel)

T1's are also used a lot between CO's and cell sites. Some of our cell sites are only fed by T1's. Some are fibre.

You'd think given the cost of fibre vs copper, and the cost of running it, that everything would be fibre now days. Even if you end up using some kind of converter at both ends, at least the fibre is there and it's easy to just upgrade the end equipment later.

If T1's were not so expensive I'd look at getting a fractional T3. Would be nice to get a couple meg upload at least.
 

Mathlover

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The FCC rates "broadband" as a minimum of 4mpb down and 1 up. Anything below that is considered "almost broadband".

Proof that everything on the internet is true
Given the field of the internet, I, over the complex plane, \mathbb{C}, and one universe,
\int_0^I f(r)\,dr = x
where x is a statement found on the internet and r is the constant of accuracy of the internet given in units of monkeys per typewriter (MPT). Rearranging this along the complex plane, \mathbb{C}\subseteq I, we can easily solve for the r of the internet:
r = \int f(\sin{I - x})\,dx
r = 29\cos{I}
r = 1.0101011
Note that the constant of accuracy of the internet is higher than 1, which means that every statement is also a religious fact. Therefore the internet is also Jesus in binary form.
This formula also negates any statement on the internet that says that not everything on the internet is true. This leaves no way for those nay-sayers to get away with such foolish claims.
This proof can, however, be disputed by this simple paragraph. The internet being true is a huge lie, as is proven by the rule 'A guy in disguise unless proven otherwise'. Most girls who play games, watch Anime, watch porn or do anything like that on the internet are ACTUALLY guys posing. Simple way to prove this. Walk up to a female character in a internet game. Ask for 'her' to talk or send a pic or SOMETHING. They will run away from you, afraid of being found out.
 

Mathlover

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Proof that everything on the internet is true
Given the field of the internet, I, over the complex plane, \mathbb{C}, and one universe,
\int_0^I f(r)\,dr = x
where x is a statement found on the internet and r is the constant of accuracy of the internet given in units of monkeys per typewriter (MPT). Rearranging this along the complex plane, \mathbb{C}\subseteq I, we can easily solve for the r of the internet:
r = \int f(\sin{I - x})\,dx
r = 29\cos{I}
r = 1.0101011
Note that the constant of accuracy of the internet is higher than 1, which means that every statement is also a religious fact. Therefore the internet is also Jesus in binary form.
This formula also negates any statement on the internet that says that not everything on the internet is true. This leaves no way for those nay-sayers to get away with such foolish claims.
This proof can, however, be disputed by this simple paragraph. The internet being true is a huge lie, as is proven by the rule 'A guy in disguise unless proven otherwise'. Most girls who play games, watch Anime, watch porn or do anything like that on the internet are ACTUALLY guys posing. Simple way to prove this. Walk up to a female character in a internet game. Ask for 'her' to talk or send a pic or SOMETHING. They will run away from you, afraid of being found out.
 

Soundmanred

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Oct 26, 2006
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Proof that everything on the internet is true
Given the field of the internet, I, over the complex plane, \mathbb{C}, and one universe,
\int_0^I f(r)\,dr = x
where x is a statement found on the internet and r is the constant of accuracy of the internet given in units of monkeys per typewriter (MPT). Rearranging this along the complex plane, \mathbb{C}\subseteq I, we can easily solve for the r of the internet:
r = \int f(\sin{I - x})\,dx
r = 29\cos{I}
r = 1.0101011
Note that the constant of accuracy of the internet is higher than 1, which means that every statement is also a religious fact. Therefore the internet is also Jesus in binary form.
This formula also negates any statement on the internet that says that not everything on the internet is true. This leaves no way for those nay-sayers to get away with such foolish claims.
This proof can, however, be disputed by this simple paragraph. The internet being true is a huge lie, as is proven by the rule 'A guy in disguise unless proven otherwise'. Most girls who play games, watch Anime, watch porn or do anything like that on the internet are ACTUALLY guys posing. Simple way to prove this. Walk up to a female character in a internet game. Ask for 'her' to talk or send a pic or SOMETHING. They will run away from you, afraid of being found out.
 
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3Mbps is high speed 5-6 years ago. Today it would be entry level and not comparatively highspeed in most locales.

I am on a 50Mbps plan with comcast that tests out at 100Mbps.

This. FCC really needs to redefine broadband as starting at 10Mbps.
 

slag

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well you are just a fucking nerd and we can't help that :biggrin:

ok for most people 3mb is enough. lol. forget people here are anal and have to use extreme's to make a point.

I wouldn't call that an extreme. I think a lot of us have been there or bought games off steam that are 20-30 GB in size.
 

olds

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mnewsham

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Oct 2, 2010
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This. FCC really needs to redefine broadband as starting at 10Mbps.

hell, i'd go further and say define it as 20-25Mbps, 10Mbps is enough for 1 HD stream, which is a start, but I think "high speed" should be fast enough for a household of 2-3 to do normal browsing without feeling constrained.
 

TheVrolok

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Dec 11, 2000
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Yep. Pretty valuable necro. Also, I remember the day we (my parents' house) switched from 56k to DSL. I stayed home from school that day to "make sure the install went well." (translation: download as much porn as possible on my new high speed connection). Glorious.
 
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Paratus

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Jun 4, 2004
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So let's talk about the elephant in the room. A noob who appears to be an alt account of Soundmanred necros this thread with a post full of pseudo-spiritual malarkey, (ya malarkey, I said it. :colbert: ), while obviously high on huffing paint thinner and nobody says a god damn thing.

What the hell people. :colbert:
 

Linux23

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Apr 9, 2000
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I found a thread in the OS section that might help you down the road even if you never have an outage on your main connection again.


http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2327497

Someone offered a solution that lets you down load updates for whichever MS OS you choose (within reason) and office as well and then store those updates locally.

That way if you're stuck with a computer that can't get on a fast connection to update after a reinstall you can at least install many of the updates from a local source.

wayliff mentioned WSUS offline in his post
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=35190792&postcount=3


after some searching I found these youtube videos about the utility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXAOvbNJYyE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUt5Pywdns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yRZbRTEW1U

You can keep the updates on an external hard drive or burn OS specific patches to DVD (a DVD for Win 7 and another for Win 8 for example) or put them on a large capacity USB drive.

this is the site
www.wsusoffline.net

the author of the program is German but there are english instructions on the site and the program interface is written in English as well.

Thanks dude. Really helpful stuff.
 

walkur

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May 1, 2001
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I'd consider anything under 10Mbit as slow internet.
My ISP has 3 packages
50Mbit (which I consider average)
120Mbit (which I consider fast)
200Mbit (which I consider very fast)