what is a decent broadband speed?

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im movin home for a while after college and i am not going to be able to deal with having to use a modem all of the time (plus it doesnt work on my PB). i was looking into getting verizon DSL, and price is going to be a major playing in getting this. there seems to be 3 plans available on the website:
up to 5MBPS/2MBPS for 40/month
up to 12/2 for 50/month
up to 30/5 for 200/month

basically between the first two what is the best option?? mainly i would be using the internet for surfing and downloading programs

im also open to other options that are available in north NJ
-chris
 
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5mbps is definitely more than adequate.

See if Optimum Online is available in your area
 
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whoa, 5 mb would be alot.

im on a DSL line that's a paltry 768 mb...

I can DL pretty decently with it.
 
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yea i can get optimum online at home as well....yet the site will not tell me anything about speeds other tahn "150x faster than...." price is 49.99...and i think we have their cable tv so we could save 5 bucks a month on that....but then again we actually just won a 50-inch HD plasma tv so my dad was thinking about upgrading the cable to HD so i dont know what the heck is going to go on with that right now
 
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SErgini0

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Quite frankly all depends on you application. I am quite happy with a 2/1 Mbps.
 
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Tel

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I have 1.5mbps and I get about 120Kbps down and about 15kbps up, its ok for browsing the net and downloading stuff.
 
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Im on my laptop running wireless internet through a router from my cable internet and I got

4337 Down and 979 Up.

Im assuming thats good?
 
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holy cow...thats 4.3 mbps! My girlfriend gets 2.2, and I thought that was good. Once again, im the slowest kid on the block with 768 down. Boo.
 
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Why are British people left with rubbish ? I only just got 2MB DL after running on a paltry 56kb (actual 36kb), we dont even get 5MB per sec unless you pay over £50 per month ! 2meg is easily enough !
 

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