Broadband Speed

[szh]

Our new work network connection has improved a lot:



On some sites, the upload is even faster:



I like it!

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[R6_240sx]

[szh]

An even faster upload (this is what I was expecting in the previous tests, but the speedtest.net program has bugs on anything over 25 Mbits/sec ... it seems to miscalculate the final number, but got it this time!)





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[S13FX]

I have Verizon FiOS and I get max 185 kb/s.

But its fiber-optic though... and only between 4-8 pm. Main-day average is about 40 kb/s.

How is your Fios so slow? My friends rips like a bat outa hell, I'm about to get it to my new house.

I doubt there is anything better then straight fiber to your door. I mean for the price that is.

[notslow]

Im supposed to be getting 12/mbps with shaw for $90 CAN/mnth.

Why do I have a feeling Im getting rolled?

[bmike818]

How is your Fios so slow? My friends rips like a bat outa hell, I'm about to get it to my new house.

p0rn slows computers down

[szh]

Now THIS is the way to access the Internet!

At our newly opened Chicago office today:



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[Ozzie]

[MinisterofDOOM]

All I can get in my area now is CenturyLink and while I'm inclined to call them garbage, I hesitate because connecting my router to a pile of garbage might actually be faster.

I recently moved to a pair bonded setup that's nominally 80 down, 40 up, but I rarely see nominal speeds on downstream. It also drops out constantly because apparently twisted pair copper is a new technology that nobody understands. I really hate CenturyLink a whole lot.

[szh]

At my home, Comcast is doing well. I have 150 down /10 up service and this is what I get (and it is pretty consistent ... the down may come down to 165 Mbits/sec and up may get to around 11 Mbits/sec in the evening):



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[Jesda]

I'm getting 9mbit on free wifi. I put a laptop upstairs to capture the signal, plugged in a router to send it downstairs, and by the time it reaches my office on the main floor it's 5mbit. But the price is right!

[MinisterofDOOM]

I feel like anything under 20Mbps owes me money for wasting my time.

[Jesda]

People have been oversold on bandwidth needs by ISPs.

Most people post on Facebook, watch p0rn, and stream Netflix. You need 5mbit to do that. That's it. You need even less to connect to workplace resources and remote environments.

Exceptions are gamers with large downloads and latency requirements and households with multiple simultaneous users.


Comcast is now offering 200mbit. Unless you're running a polygamist compound, you don't need that. Ever.

[timay]

Not too bad in my shop office.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Comcast is now offering 200mbit. Unless you're running a polygamist compound, you don't need that. Ever.

I could periodically saturate a 200Mbit downstream, and it's nice to have spare overhead when I want to pull down a big file (like an ISO) quickly. Bandwidth is like horsepower: you can't have too much but you can definitely have too little.

And, anyway, nominal downstream is only a tiny part of the story. As I noted earlier in this thread, I TECHNICALLY get 80/40 but that 80 is rarely achieved and Centurylink's copper likes to panic anytime you try to throw any real throughput down it. Even with that "80/40" package, I still have occasions where it can't keep up with video streaming (which is highly optimized and shouldn't need more than 5-10Mb for seamless operation) or where a download chokes.

I have a local RAID share where I keep commonly-used large files so I don't have to pull them down again and can benefit from near-gigabit speeds, but most of those are OS ISOs and new versions roll out so frequently that I'll either be pulling down gigs of ISO or hundreds of megs of patch data so I see plenty of relevance for 200Mbit connections.

Also, with games commonly exceeding 50GB in size PRE PATCH (because everything needs a day one or day zero patch now), it's nice to not have to queue up a download before going to bed and hoping it's done by morning.


Well, would you look at that...
Centurylink's having a good half-hour. We'll see if it holds.

[Jesda]

Comcast is now offering 200mbit. Unless you're running a polygamist compound, you don't need that. Ever.

I could periodically saturate a 200Mbit downstream, and it's nice to have spare overhead when I want to pull down a big file (like an ISO) quickly. Bandwidth is like horsepower: you can't have too much but you can definitely have too little.

That's all highly atypical.

It's nice that they offer it for those who want it, but for the typical home it's a way to take advantage of rubes who couldn't tell a megabit from a toothpick.