Unfortunately, I can't test those speeds since my in-laws connect to the internet via ISDN. And as they only use it to email, they really don't need a faster connection I suppose. And I agree that advertised speeds are only that. Insight advertises 10M, but I never get up past 6. And the fact that I am in Saitama, which is next to Tokyo, makes a big difference in rolling out bigger pipes to the home (especially when you see how close together all their infrastructure is). But I still find it amazing that the advertised speed for a dsl connection is 5 times faster than the advertised speed in Bloomington. When I see that other countries are getting much, much faster connections than I am, I can't help but wonder why all of my choices don't even come close. I mean, how many places in the U.S offer fiber connections at 100M? I think Verizon is rolling out a little bit of fiber in some places, but I don't think it's that fast. I suppose it really just boils down to wanting what my neighbors have.
And even if I couldn't get 100M, or even 50M, faster upload speed would really, really be nice. I do some dabbling in digital audio and I like to do offsite backup to my shared hosting account, and sending uncompressed wavs upstream really takes a long while.
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