EVE General Discussion

mine is 40 Mb down 12 up

Down: 1.5mbps
Up: 0.38mbps

UK city location.

mind speed

Now tell us what your ping latency is so we can have a real laugh. Then after you have a cry, go ask your government why they haven't run a cable to Japan.

ADSL
8-11 megabits down.
0.5-3.2 up.

Theortically average would be 9.5 megabits download, which is 1.2 megabytes per second, so 6GB would take approximately 1 hour and 24 minutes.
In reality, it I ignored it for about 4-5 hours.

According to Speedtest. here in rural northeastern Oregon I'm getting 4.33mb down, 0.90mb upload, with a ping of 80.

That's a DSL connection, and DSL is new to the area - we only just got it here about two months ago. US $36.00 a month. I was ecstatic the day it was turned on

Before that, was using a wonky 3G-equivalent "radio microwave" internet service, which maxed out at 1mb down ($70 a month, "unlimited" downloads but you got throttled to 256k once you exceeded about 20-25gig a month in downloads). On the positive side, such crappy speeds broke me of any and all Facebook game addictions I may or may not have had, much less any Youtube habits I may or may not have had...

Rural areas are shafted here in the United States when it comes to internet service, and "rural" doesn't necessarily mean very far away, either. Where I am right now is just 18 miles (29km) away from the next nearest city of any significant size, yet we only got DSL-level internet service a few months ago.

I've lived most of the last 20 years in assorted small towns, all within 50 miles (80km) of larger towns/cities, and every one of them was at least 10 years behind what our neighbors within an hour's drive of us received. It's a disgrace, imho.

Anyways... a typical Eve release takes a few hours to download, but Eve itself runs just fine even on this slow connection.

Sky Fibre Pro in the UK

Down : 76Mb/s
Up : 16Mb/s
Ping : 10ms

50Mb down
3Mb up

100/10 Mbit/s U/D

Even at those speeds at least you are getting about the same ping times as the rest of us.

6 Mbit/s down at home

1 Mbit/s down at work

Fiber just became available in the area a 50 Mbit/s down and up and I was thinking of switching over but its run by the local electric company and they won't (can't?) tell me if its unlimited and what kind of uptime their pulling right now on their brand new system.