How fast are your broadband internet connections?

[Sunny]

For Bandwidth facts, please check out
http://yocum.org/faqs/bandwidth/

Summarized below:

OC-255 13.21 Gbps
OC-192 10 Gbps
OC-96 4.976 Gbps
OC-48, STS-48 2.488 Gbps
OC-36 1.866 Gbps
OC-24 1.244 Gbps OC-18 933.12 Mbps OC-12, STS-12 622.08 Mbps
OC-9 466.56 Mbps
OC-3, STS-3 155.52 Mbps
CDDI, FDDI, Fast Ethernet, Category 5 cable 100 Mbps
OC-1, STS-1 51.84 Mbps
T-3, DS-3 North America 44.736 Mbps
E-3 Europe 34.368 Mbps
Category 4 cable 20 Mbps
Token Ring LANs 16 Mbps
Thin Ethernet, category 3 cable, cable modem 10Mbps
E-2 Europe 8.448 Mbps
T-2, DS-2 North America 6.312 Mbps
Standard ADSL downstream 6.144 Mbps
DS-1c 3.152 Mbps
E-1, DS-1 Europe 2.048 Mbps
ADSL, T-1, DS-1 North America 1.544 Mbps
ISDN 128 Kbps
DS-0, pulse code modulation 64 Kbps
U.S. Robotics x2 modems, 56 Kbps
56flex56flex, x2 modem communications rate 33.6 Kbps
V.34, Rockwell V.Fast Class modems 28.8 Kbps Level 1 cable, minimum cable data speed 20 Kbps
V.32bis modem, V.17 fax 14.4 Kbps
modem speed circa early 1990s 9600 bps
modem speed circa 1980s 2400 bps

:confused:

[Midi Magic]

WOW

I thought I was doing well, having just upgraded to 1Meg Broadband, here in the UK. What a long way I have to go.

Mind you when I connect for work, AND I work for a MAJOR telcomms company we use 56K dial-ups, but I only get 33K out of it. Plus when I use my lap top I have to use GSM which is a blistering 9600.

Oh well should be there by 22nd centry.

[tomtomsf]

My first modem for my IBM PCjr was 300 baud or bps. I used that for over a year until a local BBS sysop took pity on me and gave me his old 2400 bps modem. Then I was really flying!

:)

Tom G.

[PEPyle]

Before I retired, I worked at AT&T 1998-2000, than MCI 2000-2003. I heard that quite a few people had T-1 internet service and and heard of one private T-3 internet line. Mostly computer game developers, but also some afluent on-line game players...

Private internet OC (Optical Cable) connections will be hard to get, unless you move to an office district where the OC is already under the street!

[osarika]

Let's get realistic.. most people are going to be operating on dial-up or broadband.. few have DS-3 lines or above. This is from a USA perspective.

OC-768 40Gbps <-- does exist, Internet2 provided by Qwest
OC-255 13.21 Gbps <--doesn't exist in practice
OC-192 10 Gbps <--most carriers use this as a national backbone
OC-96 4.976 Gbps <--not used
OC-48, STS-48 2.488 Gbps <-- commonly used for redundancy on national backbones, aggregation points
OC-36 1.866 Gbps <-- doesn't exist in practice
OC-24 1.244 Gbps OC-18 933.12 Mbps <-- doesn't exist in practice
OC-12, STS-12 622.08 Mbps <-- aggregation points
OC-9 466.56 Mbps <--doesn't exist in practice
OC-3, STS-3 155.52 Mbps <-- very common with large enterprises
OC-1, STS-1 51.84 Mbps <--European standard STS1
T-3, DS-3 North America 44.736 Mbps <--very common for businesses
E-3 Europe 34.368 Mbps <-- very common for businesses
Category 4 cable 20 Mbps -- who would use this?
Token Ring LANs 16 Mbps -- and this is WAY legacy
Thin Ethernet, category 3 cable, cable modem 10Mbps <-- i sincerely hope you aren't using this
E-2 Europe 8.448 Mbps <--E-2? why would anyone want an E-2
T-2, DS-2 North America 6.312 Mbps <-- doesn't exist in practice
Standard ADSL downstream 6.144 Mbps <-- varies by carrier The "A" is for Asymmetric... what about IDSL, SDSL, VDSL
DS-1c 3.152 Mbps <--doesn't exist in practice
E-1, DS-1 Europe 2.048 Mbps <--very very commong
ADSL, T-1, DS-1 North America 1.544 Mbps <-- you forgot to mention HDSL
ISDN 128 Kbps <--in reality, it is 144Kbps if using signaling channel for data
DS-0, pulse code modulation 64 Kbps / or 56Kbps if using the 8Kbps for signaling


everything else is too slow to mention