I got 6.0, but I’m in Australia with a shitty copper wire system from the ancient days of 1930 still persisting, rotted away by weather and rust and never updated.
It is indeed.
3.6 is a bit under the odds even for here - I tried again just then and got 5. But still…
As far as I know the absolute fastest internet speed anyone is currently offering anywhere in the country is 100Mbps. Our area still needs to use ADSL - I’d rate us as medium-lowish in local terms.
Your ISP should be able to help. It could be as simple as changing the channel if you’re on wifi and it’s getting interference.
1.6 On the other hand, I don’t pay income tax so I got that going for me.
A lot of times, companies will have deals or discounts that existing customers can get. You just have to ask for it–they already have you, so they’re not going to bother to tell you about such things.
Mine is 52 Mbps with a seven year old laptop, 161 Mbps with a one year old phone. That’s over WiFi on both. I’m paying for 150 Mbps.
Last time I checked, 942 megabits down, 1002 megabits up.
I’ll pause for a second for you all to take that in.
Google Fiber is freaking awesome!
Download 100, upload 119.
The link the OP provided isn’t very good.
The one I use gives you an analysis after your speed test so you actually know what the numbers mean and what you should be capable of.
Can’t provide a link because it just appears as a pop up box if you Google “Speed test”.
I’m getting 70 and paying for 65.
The link in the OP is run by Netflix. I use that as a check because if your ISP is also your cable television provider there is an incentive for them to degrade your Netflix experience compared to your normal internet browsing capability. If Speedtest.net shows you a significantly higher speed than fast.com does your provider may be throttling Netflix.
I know I’m paranoid, but I worry that I’m not paranoid enough.
Neither do 95% of the people who have it. It’s an essentially useless upsell that makes providers more money for, mostly, nothing.
Fast says I’m at 29.
Speedtest says 29 download, 4.75 upload.
I’m in San Diego, on AT&T residential cable.
They charge too damn much money every month…but I’ve got no complaints about the actual quality of service.
Hearthstone is smooth with the gigabit service.
What’s needed for 4k HDR streaming with no compression though?
Can cable companies do that? That’d be awful.
I can’t get that on fast.com.
On Internet Speed Test – AT&T Official Site I get higher results than fast.com.
I can’t work out AT&T in San Diego. They don’t seem to have very much coverage.
I live at the very north end of North Park, just north of Adams Avenue near the 805, and AT&T is not even an option for me. I check every now and then, on their website, but their website says that the fastest internet package they have available here is 1.5 mbps. These days, that might as well be dial-up.
I’m in a relatively new building (<20 years old) in a comfortable middle-class neighborhood, about four miles from downtown, in the eighth-largest city in the richest country in the world, and i have exactly one viable choice when it comes to getting internet service. For me, it’s Cox or nothing.
So much for the marvels of competitive capitalism.
I am paying for 3 Mbps (DSL) and that’s what I get. I am going to upgrade soon to 12 Mbps which will be the highest speed available to me.
Unfortunately, the company that provides my DSL has a monopoly on service in my area, and the only other possibility is satellite.
The OP’s link showed me at 15 Mb last night, 17 this morning, and Google gives me 16.7 down, 17.4 up. That’s from my laptop; I imagine the numbers would be slightly better from the PC that is cabled directly to my router. Since I’m paying for 15/15, that’s perfectly acceptable to me…I could get 100/100 if I wanted to pay for it.
33.x down and 6.x up
I got 190 on Fast.
Once upon a time I used Speedtest and it always told me I was getting 90. I’d try other tests and get better speeds but it frustrated me that Speedtest had me seemingly locked at 90. Then I realized you could pick other destinations than the one Speedtest defaults you to. Randomly clicking the map had me testing from Chicago to San Diego and I got the full score all the other sites were giving me. Pretty much my local server/node was the issue, not me or my connection.
And how many full-spectrum 4K streaming sites are there? Or likely to be?
HD streaming is about 6mbps max. Which means that three people can stream without buffering issues and a little headroom on standard 24-25mbps service.
4K is 12-15mbps, which means two people can simul-stream with only occasional hiccups.
Until even compressed 4K becomes more widely available and there’s even some time with more than one viewer pulling it down at a time, 24-25mbps is more than fast enough for nearly all residential users.
23.6 down, 2.3 up.