Is 3 Mbps "high speed" internet?

[mikeymikec]

All Linux users are pirates. They never pay for their software.

This reminds me (IIRC) of a news article where the BSA had sent out a cease & desist letter to someone for downloading OpenOffice via FTP

 

[shortylickens]

3mbit is actually great for surfing. But I've been on 60mbit for a couple weeks now and I would never give it up. Good for HD and downloading Steam as well as huge mods for Skyrim.

 

[phucheneh]

3mpbs is good enough for a sub 100 ping on a few servers

I don't think you can feed HD content though

Back when there were these things called 'dedicated servers,' I could get sub-200 on a 56k and anything over 100 was garbage on a >ISDN connection. Response time does not really correlate to bandwidth.

Three megabits (375 kilobytes, a little over 50x 56k) is most certainly high speed. Should stream 720p, but it might be kinda close. Compression is not exactly a consistent thing.

To kind of break it down, that would be about 45 mins for a 1GB file. When downloading very good quality video files, an hour of 720p seems to fall anywhere in the 1-2GB range. I'd think streaming would fall on the low end of that, if not less.

 

[mikeymikec]

Response time does not really correlate to bandwidth.

+1

The first hop beyond my broadband router is 11ms.

 

[zanejohnson]

Got a special two year deal for my business phone that added the DSL for no extra charge. My main business line is thru Comcast and is 80 Mbps.

i remember working for a small dial up isp

our connection was a pots T1!!! it was supreme!

 

[zanejohnson]

+1

The first hop beyond my broadband router is 11ms.

i'm in the single digits sometimes, cap is at 10/10...

 

[BudAshes]

All Linux users are pirates. They never pay for their software.

More like damn commies.

 

[Murloc]

Are there a lot of folks here that have backup (hardwired) internet connections? I mean technically many people have backup connections through a tethered smart phone so lets leave that out of the equation.

nope never heard of it.

Anyway 3 mbit is good enough to browse the internet and even watch normal definition youtube videos.

 

[BoomerD]

By "our" standards? Nope...not high speed at all, but when compared to dial-up...it's lightning fast...thus the "high speed" designation.

 

[zanejohnson]

More like damn commies.

ah dont be jelly!!

 

[Sonikku]

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

 

[ThinClient]

Yes, 3MBps is "high speed."

Anything more than 128kbps is "high speed."

 

[RelaxTheMind]

3mps is definately high speed. For those that live out in the sticks thats pretty much all you can hope for other than dialup or satellite which is more like 700kBps.

If people only knew how much more intuitive (and bloated) Linux has gotten over the years...

I actually installed linux mint 13 on my parents computer and they have been using it for like 6 months already and havent been called once. which is a record.

 

[silverpig]

2001 called. They want their internet back. You should just check altavista to see if 3Mbps is high speed or not.

 

[dighn]

yes. it's not fast, but it's high speed.

 

[Paratus]

As a proud user of Verizon DSL that tops out at 2.8, no no it's not.

 

[Soundmanred]

Highspeed was designed for piracy, just like the internet is for porn . ISP TV commercials even say stuff like "download movies and music faster" in their advertisements.

You do realize there are ways to "download movies and music fast" other than pirating, right?
Right?
Or is this yet another example?

 

[blankslate]

Did a clean Windows 7 install. Total downloads after come to about a gig. Plus had to download Office from the web. Not to mention a 300 mb HP driver.

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.

 

[Broheim]

my internet went out for a few days a couple of months ago and I had to use my phone as a modem, it was awful. These days anything under 10Mbps is slow to me.

 

[BladeVenom]

yeah. if you aren't downloading pirated sotware. its good enough for 90% of the shit you will do

A 25GB game is 25GBs whether it comes form Steam or the Pirate Bay.

 

[Malak]

2001 called. They want their internet back. You should just check altavista to see if 3Mbps is high speed or not.

Didn't have 3mbps till maybe 2004.

 

[Leros]

1Mbit used to be considered high speed. They're all marketing terms so who knows. I'm surprised that there are "high speed" options less than 10Mbit these days. The lowest package for TWC is 20Mbit where I live.

 

[Gintaras]

All Linux users are pirates. They never pay for their software.

And you pay? I'd like to ask, what currency do you use?

If you pay US dollars - you're a distributor of counterfeit money...

What Federal Reserve does - it's a crime in legal terms....
Every printed dollar has to cover value of produced goods....otherwise - counterfeited monetary bills.


Look around yourself and tell, what do you have made in a country that you use currency of that same country to pay for goods/services?

 

[zinfamous]

that is what I have because I don't need TV and my cheapest (Read: only) option is 3mbs for like $40/month.

It's fucking horrible. Comcast, of course. Oh...and I pretty much only get 400k down if I'm lucky. I don't even understand how that is possible.


Right now, I'm downloading Borderlands 2 from Steam, that is it, nothing else sharing bandwidth, and damn AT is slow to load.

 

[shortylickens]

A 25GB game is 25GBs whether it comes form Steam or the Pirate Bay.

Better on Steam. More reliable downloads, and faster on average. Also self-checking and cloud saves and backups too.