Sim racing point of view eh?

I can safely say that no sim would ever require even half of that bandwidth. Surely you wouldn't pay a high price for that unless you were a business?

15MB is a ridiculous amount of bandwidth, don't think you'd see any gain at all over say a 5MB connection.

You would if you used it to host anything.

I'm planning to get Fios, I pay 39.99 for a shitty 1.2meg up, and maybe if I'm lucky 384k down. (Contract)
With 3 computers runing in my house, sharing it.

Wifes gettin pissed everytime I tell her not to online for an hour and a half, lol.

I'd get the 52 dollar package.

I see your point Aaron, however, don't you think 15MB would be an overkill package just for hosting race sims?

I could understand that if he were hosting Race2Play or something.

I HAVE FIOS AND WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING. I HAVE THE LOWER PACKAGE oops just saw caps were on sorry
10 up and 5 down i think. blazing fast for downloads and uploads and gaming is second to none

It's my understanding that it must be fiber optic cable all the way to the house. Where I live, which to many is boondockville, it is fiber optic only to the main phone box and then #9 fron the box to my house about 1100 ft away. Does anyone know for sure if that's true?

I hear Aaron on the "pissed" thing. I go thru the same thing.

Lots of bandwidth you only get full use of if the other end and every point in between is that same speed. So you get 10 meg or 15 meg or whatever, but if your connection goes through some routers/dns server etc that are slower, or the pipe to the end server is only dsl or cable, you get the slower speed anyway. I don't see the point until it's in very wide use everywhere. Until then any current dsl or cable connection is fine for online gaming and just about everything else.

My cable connection is supposed to over 2megs download speed, I download lots of movies and videos, but have never seen the speed over 900kbytes, it all comes down to whats between you and the end server, and the pipe to that server.

I've had Fiber for over a year now. I love it. I'm 10mb up and 10mb down. They ran the fiber to my house, then it's connected to a 10 or 12 port switch. From there i have CAT 5 to my TV's, phone, and Router.

I've seen downloads up to 1.5mb, but most of the time i'm cut back by whom i'm connected to, usually around 750mb.

As i was writing this i did a quick speed test from CA to NY.

Thanks Mark, you just proved my point - 10MBs pipe and only ~750KBs downloads, terrible. My cable is really slow compared to your fiber but I get downloads of around 900KBs when there are enough people in the torrent cloud for any particular file. People get all caught up on the 'gotta have the fastest possible' kick without thinking any further. Of course this goes on in just about everything, not just internet access speed.

I guess i should have brought up the price i pay.

Comcast:
Cable TV 65 bucks a month
Cable internet 50 bucks a month
Pacific Bell:
Phone 35 bucks a month

my Fiber is 98 a month, with tv, phone and internet.

So the bottom line is that it's cheaper and faster. ;-)

I have Cable from Optimum and my ping is usually darn right fast.