How fast is your internet connection?

I think a fast connection helps with:

• Watching educational material/talks etc
• Downloading large back-ups
• Uploading large files/back-ups
• Can you think of any more?

This is my current connection (connected via wifi on a 5Ghz band):

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Costs £50/$62 a month (includes line rental and unlimited land-line telephone calls and 2000 call-minutes to UK mobiles)

(Note, if your router only offers you 2.4Ghz, it is well worth upgrading to one that has a 5Ghz band.)

I live in Indonesia, don’t ask me about internet connection quality. It’s really sad, pretty embarassing to share the speedtest result.

I just live a few kilometers from the capital, btw.

“do you think a fast connection is needed for software development?”

For these needs:

1. git pulling and pushing
2. basic ssh, curl and other terminal things
3. visiting stackoverflow

i think it’s already good. Having a good stable connection is already a heaven for me.

I can tell you that it makes a huge difference when remotely debugging, as I learned from my previous Xamarin mobile ibGib apps.

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For me, it’s not the actual speed I need but fairly low latency. I moved all my dev stuff to the cloud (Azure VMs) last month, and I SSH to the server and do some work there. The good thing about it is that I do not need to actually download say Ruby or Postgres over my network. VMs have crazy high speed so apt-get anything is blazing fast always.

I tried programming on much slower connection but with good ping, it actually feels really good too. Latency more important than the actual throughput.

The provider/cost is Orange LTE, 2 year contract, 79PLN (15 GBP) / month with 150 GB monthly data limit (night transfer between 24-08 unlimited). I think that’s pretty good deal, just need to restrain myself from too much Netflix (which is good to do anway ;))

I feel your pain. I live in a small town here in brazil. Besides the problem with the internet connection there is the problem with the devaluation of our currency which limits very much the ammount of paid material we can get each month.

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Comcast, ~$60/month

By Bulgarian standards it’s a really mediocre connection, but I don’t think bandwidth really matters. The latency is generally nice enough to anywhere in Europe.

We pay about $14/month, by the way.

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Pretty pointless though as comcast has very aggressive traffic shaping in place they obviously don’t restrict the speed test though :). This is like 65 USD I think in Kiev (Ukraine) it would be about $5/month with a better speed.

My situation is pretty similar, and my internet speed is the same as yours, I just happen to be downloading an update of Unity, but here’s my test:

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35€/month, modem, router, wifi, TV box all comprised in the price. No data cap

I need to call them to uncap the bandwidth a bit, i should be able to get more.

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