Faster Internet and What That Really Means

We all know that dial-up Internet became too slow due to changes in Web pages and usage. Dial-up was a text based connection. As soon as sound and pictures were added, it became just too slow to use – like the silent movies in the early 1900’s, technology has moved on to deliver a more satisfying experience.

Now DSL Internet is too slow, because, just like dial up it is due to changes in Web pages and usage. Now Web pages have multiple moving pictures, sounds and video. Not only that, but today’s Internet needs to be able to send up pictures and video too, not only receive it. If you can’t stream a video at 1 or 2 Mbps down, you can’t send a video up at 1 Mbps up, or less.

What is the average Web page size? As of May 2014 it is about 1.8 MB and it is growing in size at a rate of 24% to 50% each year.

Growth

So you are correct in thinking your current Internet is slowing down, because there is just more to download from any Web page. So today’s internet provider needs to give you the broadband speed to have music and movies that are not chunky, paused or buffered; be able to send multiple photographs or home movies to your social media accounts or websites; give you VoIP and Skype that does not jitter or pause; be able to use online gaming and be able to quickly backup your data to “the cloud.”

To give you an example of how today’s internet speed is used, here is a simple software download example with Avery Wizard for Microsoft Office. The file itself is about 108 mb in size, so how long will it take to download?

108 Megabyte File Download:

At 2 Mbps down, it will take 7.2 Minutes to download.
At 4 Mbps down, it will take 3.6 Minutes, or ½ of the time of the 2 Mbps.
At 6 Mbps down, it will take 2.4 Minutes to download, or 1/3 of the 2 Mbps.
At 8 Mbps down, it will take 1.8 Minutes to download, or 1/4 of the 2 Mbps.
At 12 Mbps down, it will take 1.2 Minutes to download, or 1/6 of the 2 Mbps.
At 18 Mbps down, it will take .8 Minutes to download, or 1/9 of the 2 Mbps.

Of course, this is only a single file download. But everything that you view on the web applies to these numbers. So, instead of minutes, you can receive or view in pages in seconds. Below is the same file but calculating the upload time.

108 Megabyte File Upload:

At .512 Mbps up, it will take 28.1 Minutes to upload.
At 1 Mbps up, it will take 14.4 Minutes, or ½ of the time of the .512 Mbps.
At 2 Mbps up, it will take 7.2 Minutes to upload, or 1/4 of the .512 Mbps.
At 3 Mbps up, it will take 4.8 Minutes to upload, or 1/6 of the .512 Mbps.
At 4 Mbps up, it will take 3.6 Minutes to upload, or 1/8 of the .512 Mbps.
At 5 Mbps up, it will take 2.88 Minutes to upload, or 1/9 of the .512 Mbps.

At GoBrolly℠, we believe that reliability, cost, and speed are the three most important customer requirements for “Faster Internet,” and in that order.

Reliability from GoBrolly means that when you need to use your Internet connection, that it will be available at a performance level that is acceptable to you. A connection that is available, and usable, is our definition of reliable, and fast. Cost from GoBrolly means that you will be offered the best Internet at the best prices as compared to the other competitors in our market. We compare our offerings to all of the competitors that you can choose from. Speed from GoBrolly means that you can have any level of service that you require for your needs, both receiving and sending.

This is what we mean by “Faster Internet.”