Which is the better internet connection choice? 1.5mb or 3.0mb?

Question

I'm living on a college campus and the connection here is very poor, i think. It's hard to watch any youtube videos/play any games or anything like that.

Maybe I'm wrong and the speed isn't as bad as I'm making it out to be, but right now the stats are:

Speed: 1.0Gbs

Bytes sent: 3,254,000

Received: 25,444,300

IPv6 Connectivity: Limited

the company that I'd have to buy from prices 1.5Mb for 35.00 dollars and 3Mb for 45.00 dollars

Am I getting ripped off?

Answer 1

The faster the better, for streaming you need as much as you can get.

Answer 2

buying the 1.5 or 3 for those prices are just insane.  we're paying $25 for 3 DSL, and even that gets slow when i'm download a large file.

but you would get pretty fast internet with the 1.5.  definitely enough to youtube.  

Answer 3

Your internet connection is NOT 1.0gbps. The 1gbps speed is the speed of the campus network. To find out your actual internet connection speed, go to http://www.speedtest.net or a similar online speed test. Your connection is likely much lower than 1.5mbps or 3.0mbps (1500kbps and 3000kbps, respectively)

If you do end up buying your own internet service, I'd recommend the 3mbps plan. Also, note that your connection may operate at a lower speed than advertised, depending on the amount of users that the ISP is servicing at any given moment.

Answer 4

"Your" speed - between your computer and your provider, is all your provider can guarantee.  If you have a good path to the server from which you're downloading, increasing "your" speed will make your connection faster.  But the internet still has bottlenecks, and I'm still downloading at 40kbps on a 15Mbps (big-M) connection at times - the entire path from me to <wherever> is beyond human control; my provider can only supply the first link.  (The internet routers connect to wherever they decide to connect - it's an ever-changing thing.)

If you want good video action, download the file, and watch it after it downloads.  Or start watching it, pause it (it's still downloading) and resume watching it after the whole thing is downloaded.

As far as file downloads, you'll get them when you get them.

I ran a 1.5mbps download connection for years and got along fine with it.  (And Yahoo runs *slower* on my faster connection - it's Yahoo that's slowing own, and I can't do a thing about that.)

Answer 5

not necessarily. You just do not know where the bottleneck in your connection is.