How does my Internet speed compare?

[Pork_Rind]

Outstanding. I’m still a slave to the grind, but my wife is retired and loves this kind of shit. I have a new mission for her.

[dougrb]

@BigT

But even though I could get 3 times the speed for $10/mo more with that upgrade, I don’t consider it worth it.

I currently have 50mbs coax for $60/month. They have run fiber to my house and I could have 250mbs for $68/month. Not interested, 50mbs is way faster than I need. I’ll have to upgrade when they force me to.

[motu]

When I moved in I signed up with RCN (cable) but within 1-2 months they were bought out and became Astound. Don’t remember any problems with my 300 connection until about 14/18 months ago. About 60% of the time only single digit download, maybe 35% double digit and rarely a triple digit download. Why I put up with that for so long I do not know.

I recently switched to AT&T fiber and couldn’t be happier. Half the price I was paying Astound, regularly 370 up/down, paying for 300. They ran a line from the pole in the alley into the house. No more yelling at the crappy connection speed.

[Bear_Nenno]

Download Mbps: 917.14

Upload Mbps: 40.04

I have Spectrum Cable Internet. I hate it. It’s unreliable and cuts in/out all the time, especially at night.

[echoreply]

@Pardel-Lux

those speeds should be plenty for what I have been doing all day (simple surfing, no heavy use, downloads or backups), but it felt slow

Sometimes the important number is packet loss and retransmits, not maximum top speed or ping time. If there are Internet problems, and they are causing packet loss, then things can feel very slow because every request is something like:
Send a packet
Wait for reply
Wait for reply
Wait for reply
Retransmit
Get reply
Send next packet
Etc.

[BigT]

Goodness. I pay $30 a month for 120Mbps cable. It was originally either 25 or 50 Mbps, but they upgraded it without increasing the price.

I didn’t particularly find the lower speeds bad, but I had also just upgraded from 7Mbps with a company that was horrible at outages and junk, even after I completely bypassed the internal wiring in our house.

[Pardel-Lux]

And now, shortly after noon, it is
Download: 198 Mbit/s
Upload: 131 Mbit/s
Ping: 11 ms
Same ballpark, so this is what we get.

[dougrb]

@BigT

Goodness. I pay $30 a month for 120Mbps cable.

The woes of life in a small town. Five years ago I was paying AT&T $65/month just for their wire that my ISP used for DSL at $35/month. So $95/month for 5mbs DSL. And you know what? 5mbs was ALMOST fast enough. If I could pick a speed, 25Mbs would be plenty.

[hajario]

@hajario

I just got an email that my 1G/1G internet was going up from $65 to $80 so being that I am retired and have nothing better to do, I called to politely complain. I told the rep some sob story and she asked me a bunch of questions about how I use the internet in my home she put me on hold and came back five minutes later and offered to upgrade me to 2G/2G for the original $65/month locked in for five years. They are going to send me updated EERO routers in a few days before I get the benefit of the faster speed. The new bill has like five or six new discounts to get me that benefit but whatever. You may want to look into getting that for yourself.

My 2G/2G just went online. The fastest I have been able to get standing right next to the modem/router with my iphone is:

up: 1546
down: 1411

From my quick and possibly ignorant Googling, that is about the most that can be expected from a recent iPhone. To get to actual 2000/2000 one would need to be hard cabled with a device that can handle it. True?

[echoreply]

@hajario

From my quick and possibly ignorant Googling, that is about the most that can be expected from a recent iPhone. To get to actual 2000/2000 one would need to be hard cabled with a device that can handle it. True?

This is probably true. I’m not sure if any wifi can hit 2000 in actual real world conditions. Even connected with a wire you’ll need at a minimum 2.5Gb ethernet to hit those speeds. There do exist USB-C 2.5GbE adapters, if you really want your phone to go that fast.

The real benefit of 2000/2000 connection isn’t that any single device can hit 2000, but that multiple devices can simultaneously hit 500-1000. It also means that the “last mile” is no longer the slowest part of your connection to any given Internet location.

[hajario]

Thanks. That’s what I suspected. It’s also future proof I suppose but that future could be a ways off.

I have a small mesh (two additional routers). The far end of the house used to be 250/250 and it’s now 500/500 so that’s another difference. I swapped out routers (EERO 6e to EERO 7Pro) which was necessary for the change.