How fast is the internet on your work computer?

Considering I own/run an ISP and our office has a L2 connection to the data centre @ Gbit, it's pretty fast :)
 
20Mb/20Mb fibre to our group MPLS, which then breaks out to a 30Mb internet connection.

Not my decision - group politics unfortunately won out.

Prior to that I had an aggregation of 3 ADSL lines and a 20Mb/20Mb Internet facing business fibre (aka leased line) with Satellite for backup :)
 
12/01 when the management isn't in
0.1/0.1 when they are because they love sending over-sized pdf's to a 10,000 strong mailing list from the in-house exchange server.
 
Chimp Paradox said:
I wasnt even aware you can get these speeds. Does it mean fibre is coming straight into the building?
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Yes a dedicated fibre into the building.

Installation costs were crazy as they have to "blow" a new fibre all the way back to the exchange, plus terminate on site etc. Which is why it tends to be a business only product.
 
Armageus said:
Yes a dedicated fibre into the building.

Installation costs were crazy as they have to "blow" a new fibre all the way back to the exchange, plus terminate on site etc. Which is why it tends to be a business only product.
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They're also highly, and I mean highly, monitored. If you were to download an ep of Game of Thrones on it, the ISP would be contacting your IT dept almost immediately. We've had a few...instances like that.
 
Armageus said:
Yes a dedicated fibre into the building.

Installation costs were crazy as they have to "blow" a new fibre all the way back to the exchange, plus terminate on site etc. Which is why it tends to be a business only product.
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Long lead times, excess construction charges, wayleave agreements etc - it's a pain in the bum at the best of times. About £1000 a month as well.
 
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Not too shabby :D
 
speedtest.net gives me 80mbit both down and up. Ironic, because our PCs are late-2003 spec (P4 2.8), and it takes around 30 seconds to load a BBC news article because the CPU can't keep up. Coupled with the fact that we run Internet Exploder 7 that can't render half of the internet lol.
 
0.5Mbit/s each way... a vast improvement on the 64Kbit/s single ISDN channel we had up until recently.

Most of us use our phone 3G or similar for anything not sensitive as its usually quicker.
 
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about 27down 10up on the uni wifi at its best, the stations themselves vary, the ones in the engineering block are abysmal blocked Internet that 9 times out of ten fails to load the intranet. ironically wifi is pretty good in the same room
 
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