Fastest consumer internet available in Lithuania (?) - Hardware & Software

It was promised about 2 months ago, in February, when our biggest ISP - TEO announced that they will have 200Mbps plans ready in March. It was really unbelievable back then, and I really had doubts that it will come true, since I was yet to hear about any ISP offering such service. But such speeds in our small, 2nd world country? Well here we are, the month where we were promised to get 200Mbps plans for anyone with regular fibre optic lines. And indeed, it is here. They started advertising it on TV and magazine/newspapers not too long ago, maybe a week or two ago. I checked myself TEO's internet plans in their site and they now have more plans than before. Before they had maximum of 100Mbps local (Lithuanian servers only) and 10Mbps Worldwide. It was around 29€/month at the time and was pretty reasonable at the time (we have many other ISPs that offered 100Mbps lines much before this one, but available at less locations). Now they have a 200Mbps to Lithuanian servers and 80Mbps Worldwide, which is really great in my opinion, again, I'm yet to hear anything similar in any other country. This fastest plan now costs 29€/month and the old 100Mbps/10Mbps plan is no existent at all. The other plans include 100Mbps/40Mbps, 80Mbps/20Mbps and 20Mbps/5Mbps. Pricing at 23€, 15€, 10€ per month accordingly. Upload speeds are same as download speeds and bandwidth is unlimited (we don't have this shit in Lithuania). So yeah, even though 200Mbps sounds awesome, in real life it would be very hard to achieve maximum speeds with such a connection because if you turn it into MB, it turns to be 25MB/s which hardly any server allow such speeds. Mostly servers are on 100Mbps line. That's it I guess, in my opinion it's a great leap towards much higher internet speeds and even lower ping/latency. tl;dr - we got 200mbps to anyone with fibre optics; we're super cool

God I wish USA would get fibre optic cables. FIOS is as close as we can get unless you're in kansas with google's 1Gbps line

We should email our ISPs about this I mean seriously, If Lithuania has it, why are we stuck on 10mb/s?

Oh I forgot to mention that anyone who had 40Mbps plans before, now get upgrade to 80Mbps for free and monthly payment is still the same. (And it automatic)

[QUOTE=ManningQB18;20923849]We should email our ISPs about this I mean seriously, If Lithuania has it, why are we stuck on 10mb/s?[/QUOTE]Because it's a tiny country and easier to upgrade the lines. The USA is huge. Lots of money to redo lines.

i was assuming this is gonna be a let down thread, but they actually did it, i'm stuck with shitty 2mb/s :[ [editline]10:15PM[/editline] 2 Mega Bits/second

[QUOTE=pl0xinat0r;20924044]i was assuming this is gonna be a let down thread, but they actually did it, i'm stuck with shitty 2mb/s :[ [editline]10:15PM[/editline] 2 Mega Bits/second[/QUOTE] Same here.

[QUOTE=Unreliable;20923821]God I wish USA would get fibre optic cables. FIOS is as close as we can get unless you're in kansas with google's 1Gbps line[/QUOTE] We should be getting it in michigan. :buddy:

[QUOTE=ManningQB18;20923849]We should email our ISPs about this I mean seriously, If Lithuania has it, why are we stuck on 10mb/s?[/QUOTE] Because Lithuania does not have 1.9 billion acres to cover.

3Mb/s here. :smith:

I'm stuck with 1.5mb/s.

Paying for 10, getting 3

[QUOTE=stone555;20924018]Because it's a tiny country and easier to upgrade the lines. The USA is huge. Lots of money to redo lines.[/QUOTE] More like ISPs hold large monopolies and try and get as much cash out of customers as they can with minimal speeds. If you read news on networking, there are both small and large communities trying to build a "smart grid" which has fiber optic, power, phone and other utilities bundled. Big ISPs are trying to put a lid on these efforts by suing the people behind the projects and tying them up in courts for years. There have been a few successes though in places like Louisiana where the bundled fiber service gets up to 100 mbits to customers for like $30 a month. They had to fight tooth and nail with the big ISPs in the area (which by the way were only offering 512k or dialup because they considered the area as "rural" and "backwards" and "didn't need it").

Right now I have 8 meg and getting 8 meg. Feels pretty good from the 1.5 meg I had before.

[IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/759007013.png[/IMG] $160 a month for internet, cable, and telephone.

I have comcast as well, most things download at 2 MegaBYTES a second (so yeah around 16 megabits) [editline]10:28PM[/editline] Also why are hard drive files measured in MB but internet speed in Mb? Marketing?

[QUOTE=thrawn2787;20929636]I have comcast as well, most things download at 2 MegaBYTES a second (so yeah around 16 megabits) [editline]10:28PM[/editline] Also why are hard drive files measured in MB but internet speed in Mb? Marketing?[/QUOTE] It was a standard, but at this point it is just marketing.

[QUOTE=TrafficMan;20929572][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/759007013.png[/IMG] $160 a month for internet, cable, and telephone.[/QUOTE] Comcast is very greedy. They have an income of over $7 billion, but they can't spend more than a small percentage of it on expanding upon its networking. It's ridiculous that all companies in the U.S. think that the amount you make is better than staying technologically and availably ahead of other companies.

[QUOTE=thrawn2787;20929636]I have comcast as well, most things download at 2 MegaBYTES a second (so yeah around 16 megabits) [editline]10:28PM[/editline] Also why are hard drive files measured in MB but internet speed in Mb? Marketing?[/QUOTE] network stuff is usually shown in bits, storage related stuff in bytes

Whoa. The fastest we can get over here in Germany is 100/10 (download/upload) via cable or FTTH with VERY few city ISPs or 50/20 via VDSL for 50€/month (including voice), which is only available in a few major cities, with our country's biggest, formerly state-owned provider Deutsche Telekom. And everyone thinks it's hot shit.

[IMG]http://imgur.com/jlkO7.png[/IMG] Seriously, I'm annoyed by what's available. When I look for an apartment/house in the not-so-recent future, I'm going to be looking at internet speeds available so I don't get my hobby ruined.

24mb/s here.

Jo cia faktas.Lietuvoje pats greiciausias internetas.As pats esu lietuvis :q:

28mbps here, no complaints. :smile:

Fucking Australia.

[QUOTE=PaperStrike;20934325]Fucking Australia.[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/759373201.png[/img] We were given the wrong router and should have 30Mb/s.

[QUOTE=adzicents;20934837][img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/759373201.png[/img] We were given the wrong router and should have 30Mb/s.[/QUOTE] And you didn't complain?

If a small country like Lithuania can get speeds like that then there is [B]literally no reason whatsoever[/B] that the fastest speeds that most people can get in the UK is just 20mb. In cities you can get 50mb but it's expensive shit. They're planning a 100mb infrastructure but it isn't fast enough dammit. The Tories are also saying that they are going to roll out 100mb fiber across the country if they get in. Circa 2017, and by that time 100mb/s will just be the new dialup. Lithuania, Sweden, Japan and Korea will all have 10gb lines in 2017 :saddowns: The ISPs in the UK are decent when it comes to investing, but they are just too slow.

Holy shit. The fastest speed I can possibly get (no matter how much I'm ready to pay) is 4-5Mbit/s and I live in the second biggest city in the whole country. :frown: [b]Edit:[/b] I just read an article how there are tons of fiber lines where I live but our stupid politicians are too fucking lazy to get off their fat asses and make them accessible to costumers. :argh:

I'm in Lithuania and stuck with 25 kbps, no fibre optic here... :smithicide: