I didn’t find any recent threads on this so I’d just like to see how good my connection is.
I get about 50mbps download and 20 mbps upload.
Over to you…
I’m on my PC currently that is on a cat-7 wire to the router through a switch. My speed with Verizon Fios right now is 884.6 Mbps down and 871.6 Mbps up. This is probably the fastest connection in the house, but I do have a mini-pc in the game room that runs directly to the router, I’ll have to check that one.
Retest on my PC is 913 down and 885 up.
Your speed seems slow, like I would expect on my phone when not on WiFi.
Moderating: I’m moving this to In My Humble Opinion from Factual Questions as you’re really doing a survey and not looking for the answer to a specific question.
I have 73 up, and 11 down. Fastest I’ve ever had and it seems lightning fast compared to my old DSL that struggled in the 10 to 14 mbps range. I have Starlink.
I’m sure you have that backwards.
Anyway, at home, I get about 250 mbps up and down.
OP, while on the slower side, it’s probably still plenty fast to stream HD movies while having a video call.
Cable internet. 120mbps down, 10ish mbps up. I could have sworn the up used to be higher.
It’s the lowest tier, and it’s sufficiently fast for me. Even if I did upgrade to fiber I’d still get the lowest tier. But even though I could get 3 times the speed for $10/mo more with that upgrade, I don’t consider it worth it.
Fiber came to my neighborhood a couple years ago and it was a godsend. My cable internet was flaky and a real problem at times for my remote work. Now I’m locked in at 965 Mbps down and 971 up.
936 down / 62 up (Xfinity San Jose “up to 1GB” $60/mo)
T-Mobile fiber.
Peak was about 940M down and 1.8G up, but there’s a pretty broad variance from test to test. It’s also a little peculiar that upload link is so much faster than download.
Spectrum cable, or maybe it’s fiber by now. 526 down, 505 up ( 
)
It would really help the thread if everyone would detail how they’re getting their internect and what they signed up for. I signed up for 500 and I’m getting 500.
I just tested on my phone, got 139 mb/s down, 1.6 mb/s up. From this same spot I get at the best times around 240 mb/s down. The most I’ve got (same phone, same network, different location) is 1 gb/s.
Verizon FIOS, 300 mbps service.
These articles are pretty interesting, in terms of what you really need:
Basically, 100 bps is really enough, probably even 50 mbps for most needs. This push for 1GB is silly, at least for now. The only time I wish I was faster is when a new AAA game is released and it takes a while to download it. Otherwise, I never notice delays at 300 mbps, but it’s the slowest I can get.
Yep. Backwards.
Sorry about that. Anyway, it seems to me that anything over 50 mbps is plenty.
I’m with British Telecom Full Fibre.
They said:
We estimate your:
- download speeds of 74Mbps
- upload speeds of 20Mbps
It may take a couple of days while things settle down for you to get this speed.
The Tom’s Guide article seems to disagree with you.
- Consider gigabit (1,000 Mbps) speeds, if available. Those who use a lot of data will want faster speeds and more bandwidth. If they’re available where you live, gigabit-speed internet plans are the best you can get in many homes right now though some ISPs have begun rolling out multi-gig plans but they are still quite expensive.
They go on to say 200Mbps is probably enough.
The real answer is the need varies. We have 4 in the house and a lot of machines and connected devices. My son is a gamer. My wife often works from home. When we moved in we both worked from home. I could get away with a stepdown to the lower plan, but I like the high speed being there. Even with it, we suffer some WiFi issues as I only have 1 extra access point beyond the router.
Well, the service I signed for is nominally 1G down, so I’m pretty close. No complaints, really, other than one 24 hour outage caused by some technical issue in the community-level distribution box (low laser level in our port) in the entire more-than-a-year I’ve had it.
Xfinity. 686 down, 42 up.
AT&T fiber recently was installed in my neighborhood, so when it’s available we’ll likely switch to that.
1291 mbps down, 1348 mbps up with AT&T Fiber.
The OP’s 50 mbps is probably ok if they live alone, but it’s barely enough for two simultaneous 4K streams. And a file download would take 25 times longer than on my connection. It’s like stone knives and bear skins.
That is your connection speed, presumably exactly what you are paying for. It does not tell you how good your connection is. Are you hooked up with the latest fiber technology? Are your modem and router up to snuff? Is your connection online close to 100% of the time? How about round-trip ping times and buffer bloat issues?
Theoretical maximum of 5Gb up and down; my gaming/work computer has 2.5 Gb dedicated to it, rest of the house’s devices share the remainder. Most services can’t take advantage of the full speed, but I sure download steam games quickly, and my Google Drive for Desktop allows seamless use of my cloud-based (and very large) files.
ETA: I will run a speed test when I get home and see what it reports. What’s the best test method? I’ve always used speedtest.net, but our IT guy uses fast.com.
705/40 right now though we’re having heckin’ storms so who knows if that’s having an impact. When I was directly connected to the modem, I could get over 900 but I’m on Wifi these days.
My wife and I both work from home and were hitting monthly data caps. The uncapped plan is supposedly “Gig Speed” so that’s what we have. On one hand, yes we could live with slower speeds but it sure is nice when I’m downloading a new 125GB game off Steam.