What was your internet connection speed?

I am using bsnl wireless datacard. It is not good in speed. Sometimes it is good and internet speed is 5-7 kbps. So I am planning to switch a new broadband connection which is good in speed.

I was always confused in which units internet speed is stated but when i run speedtest.net at home it says i have 8-10 Mb/s but when i visited a programing company they had speed of 40 Mb/s but when i looked at lan it said 1.0 Gbps.

I have bsnl BB connection.. with nearly 200kbps speed :))

I don't honestly know what the speed of my first internet connection was. I know that it was a dial-up in the mid/late 90's when I first had internet in my home and to think about it now is painfully slow. Then all through when I was in college to a couple of years following college I was on a 56k modem. Finally, in 2002 we upgraded to a cable modem. The speed when we started with that was at 1 meg, but our service now is up to 10 meg/sec.

Hello, well, you can still have that 4-5kbps speed, which you mean the download speed of course. Here is something I would like to add to this discussion. The speed at which our internet connects can be calculated by multiplying your download speed by 8.33 (approx.). A typical dial up connection will give you at the most 4-5kbps download speed as you've mentioned here. Now about modern broadband services. Actually the bandwidth is multiplexed and filtered to meet the need of individual users. If you are registered for a 512kbps - 1mbps speed, that essentially means that 1mbps is the highest possible speed your connection can have. The internet while connected doesn't maintain a fixed bandwidth all the time. It may drop or rise depending upon several factors. The common dial up services were slow because they were not actually meant for internet access. Users who do internet this way have to do it within the tiny bandwidth that is required for voice signals. That is why the quality of dial up connection is the worst. God bless you all