Pigeon Beats Broadband in Speed Test... Again

[Marcus Yam]

Man vs. Nature. Nature wins.

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[Silmarunya]

No surprise to me. I currently have Internet over COAX (EURODOCSIS), which has pretty good download speeds, but upload is terrible...

 

[kelemvor4]

They should install Jefferies tubes and get a bunch of mice running through them to solve the problem permanently.

 

[taidaan]

Sounds like a problem that most of rural America may share. My upload speed is 250 Kbps on a good day.

 

[idisarmu]

[citation][nom]taidaan[/nom]Sounds like a problem that most of rural America may share. My upload speed is 250 Kbps on a good day.[/citation]

That's still 10 times my average. According to speedtest, I usually get about 0.7-1.2 mbits down and 0.25-0.5 mbits up. I pay $45/month for something advertised to be 2.0 mbits down and 768 kbits up. Rural Canada blows.

 

[nurgletheunclean]

[citation][nom]taidaan[/nom]Sounds like a problem that most of rural America may share. My upload speed is 250 Kbps on a good day.[/citation]
That's really not that bad. Many people in rural areas are relegated to using satellite for their internet and upload speeds are slower than dialup.

 

[aaron88_7]

As long as this Pigeon ISP offers Netflix I'm in!

 

[liveonc]

Even after this test, they can still beat it for several years with a 64GB USB 3.0 pen drive. ;-)

 

[killerclick]

This could be done anywhere in the world with a 32GB stick or a stack of microSD cards.

 

[Haserath]

Well, my download rate is 30 pigeons and my upload rate is 10 pigeons. What about you?

 

[Haserath]

The cost for making rural broadband would be huge compared to the return that the companies would get. The only reason that city speeds are faster for less is that they can service more people with the same lines and the length from the main hub isn't very far compared to rural areas. Gotta choose whether to live in the rural areas with less speed or live in the city with more, cost is the main issue here.

 

[blibba]

[citation][nom]liveonc[/nom]Even after this test, they can still beat it for several years with a 64GB USB 3.0 pen drive. ;-)[/citation]
[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]This could be done anywhere in the world with a 32GB stick or a stack of microSD cards.[/citation]

And by having the pigeon fly 50 yards, not to another county.

 

[sykozis]

[citation][nom]Haserath[/nom]The cost for making rural broadband would be huge compared to the return that the companies would get. The only reason that city speeds are faster for less is that they can service more people with the same lines and the length from the main hub isn't very far compared to rural areas. Gotta choose whether to live in the rural areas with less speed or live in the city with more, cost is the main issue here.[/citation]

If the rurals areas have cable tv....then offering cable internet doesn't add much to the cost at all, compared to the number of possible subscribers.

 

[Guest]

@haserath cost isn't the issue, it's corporate profit margins that are the problem. If you take into account the social capital which comes from rural nextgen broadband, as well as the £££s, then installing into rural areas becomes a no brainer.

 

[azgard]

[citation][nom]idisarmu[/nom]That's still 10 times my average. According to speedtest, I usually get about 0.7-1.2 mbits down and 0.25-0.5 mbits up. I pay $45/month for something advertised to be 2.0 mbits down and 768 kbits up. Rural Canada blows.[/citation]

256k down 160k up
for $55 rural America at its best.

 

[duk3]

20mbs up, 3 down
I like comcast

 

[towely]

[citation][nom]taidaan[/nom]Sounds like a problem that most of rural America may share. My upload speed is 250 Kbps on a good day.[/citation]

I guess you've never been to Africa?

 

[pepperman]

[citation][nom]idisarmu[/nom]That's still 10 times my average. According to speedtest, I usually get about 0.7-1.2 mbits down and 0.25-0.5 mbits up. I pay $45/month for something advertised to be 2.0 mbits down and 768 kbits up. Rural Canada blows.[/citation]

1 Kbps = .001 Mbps so 250Kbps = .25Mbps

 

[siliconchampion]

81 Mbps down. 13 Mbps up. Non-rural American universities at their (near) best. (Oh, yeah, it's free...)

 

[Startingline13]

2.5 Mbps Download
2.1 Mbps Up


Long Island, NY (Optimum Online) FTL!

 

[igot1forya]

A local ISP just installed fiber down main street and offers 75Mb-up/75Mb-down full symmetrical for $250/month. The bad part is that I live 6 miles outside of town in the rurals and have wireless DSL (3Mb-down-750Kb-up).

 

[DM0407]

Can you get sued for Pigeon2Pigeon file sharing?

 

[zinabas]

12 MBPS down 768 kbps up... oh the joy of having DSL, where downloading is fine and uploading is a no-no. It cost $50 but hell. 1.5 MBps upload is need for overhead just to keep the download speed constant.

 

[im_caius]

14MB down, 3MB up.. Bigpond Really isnt that bad in Australia anymore.. It's $89 for 200GB

 

[Guest]

Hmm. Dinner and a movie. This has potential.