I voted 56 kbps because I never rarely take my 14.4 kbps computer on the internet. Just to slow

I have my school's >T1 line. I have no idea what that extrapolates to me having. At home, we have ~3-4mb/s cable. When we had dialup, however, we got ~4kb/s. Not fun.

i have t3 connection

I love school networks. You get such blazing fast download speeds, and inter-network transfers are even faster. It makes using software like myTunes so great, because you download the songs in < 1 second. I love downloading and seeing things like "speed: 3678 kB/s"

My high school had DSL until my senior year, then they got a T1. I am not quite sure how they can afford it (it is a private Christian school), but the DSL was *way* too slow with 20+ students trying to use it at a time (there were only about 600 students total).

Private schools never run out of money.

thats like us, cause of the crappy telephone lines, I dont even know what our modem is capable of because our transfer speed has never exceed 6.1kbps

It's sad, but I don't know. I have a DSL hookup, and I love it! (very fast)

Upstream or downstream?

My Verizon Online DSL service just got activated today!!! :) I'm so happy even though it's the 768k one.

I have a cable modem to use the internet and it is very fast. I don’t need a faster connection than 4Mbps.

I'd take 768kbps DSL any day over this crap 512kbps cable!

Interesting question.

I'm currently sitting on a University pipe, with 10Mbps intranet pipes, hooked up to a pair of (IIRC) 40Mbps pipes to the internet (through 2 different providers -- AT&T and Fast.net). However, I'm also sitting behind a traffic shaper that limits my outbound to the internet to 500Kbps, so that's the option I chose.

Yes, I work for the campus IT people.

Hmm, up at UAkron I was able to get 1MB/s (megaBYTE) up AND down at the same time once, over 802.11b. That only happened once. After they put .11g access points in my dorm it seemed to have slowed down. :-\ But it's still peppy! I got 5MB/s (!!!!!) once on a wired connection where I work (where all the old computers from campus come after they die or get replaced).

It appears my college limits bandwidth with a client-side program. At least, the Windows users get a maximum around 400-600KB/s, while I get that on average & max over 10MB/s. Silly IT people who ignore Linux (yet they run Unix on their servers...). :)

T1!

Er, faster than T1. LAN!

Depends... how fast is your LAN? 100Mbps is the connection between your home network, but what really counts is how fast the connection is to the internet... ;) I have a 3.0Mbps connection ^_^

I got 5Mbps down and 512Kbps up. But it never runs at that, even when it does work. I hate you Time Warner!!!

100. :)

Too bad the internet is MUCH slower than that,

Wow, the poll so far seems evenly divided among several categories.