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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
You're talking about download speeds.
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No, I'm indeed talking about upload speeds. My current internet connection is 120 MBit down, 12 MBit up (15MB/s down, 1,5 MB/s up), and somewhere in march/april, it will even be raised to 150/15 (18.75 MB/s down, 1.875 MB/s up). This is the intermediate internet connection at my ISP (Ziggo). To be honest, I don't really need this massive speed. However, dropping down to the lower connection is not worth it: I'll be paying 75% of the price I'd pay now, but I'll only get 25% of the speed. Switching to another provider is also useless at my location. I'll still be paying 75%+ percent of what I'm now paying, while my speed will drop to 40% or less.
While I don't need this speed, I'm not willing to sacrifice at least 60% of it for a 25% saving. As I can afford the extra money compared to the slower connections (a switch would save me €150 a year, at most), it would be a bad price/performance trade-off.
I was, however, a bit optimistic regarding the slowest connection available at my location. It's not 5 MBit upload; it's 4
The slowest connection I could get would be 40/4. I could get a non-cable connection, but they all hover around that 40/4 mark for prices comparable to Ziggo's. (At least, at my location.)
By the way: ADSL, does that still exist? I thought it had been replaced by ADSL2(+) and/or VDSL/VDSL2 a long time ago.