# My Internet Speed is 17.6 MBPS **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785 "2019-08-17T05:35:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/41 "2019-08-18T03:20:58Z")
bing: Ping 1 ms Download 94.57 Mbps Upload 27.04 Mbps this is what spectrum says they use ookla on their site btw : download 95.8 Mbps Upload 23.8 Mbps so am i getting what im paying for ? im on spectrums “internet ultra” ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/42 "2019-08-18T04:43:48Z")
241 up / 940 down (Google Fiber) Which is strange, why is my download speed so slow right now? I guess heavy usage in the area, this being late evening? ETA: [speakeasy.net](http://speakeasy.net) shows 928 down / 193 up. Does [speedtest.net](http://speedtest.net) use a reverse definition of upload vs download?? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/43 "2019-08-18T04:54:03Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > 241 up / 940 down (Google Fiber) > > Which is strange, why is my download speed so slow right now? I guess heavy usage in the area, this being late evening? > > ETA: [speakeasy.net](http://speakeasy.net) shows 928 down / 193 up. Does [speedtest.net](http://speedtest.net) use a reverse definition of upload vs download?? Not that I see. I have pretty much the same numbers on both. Downloaded is reported first; upload second. ETA: Wait, you reported the first as 241 up and 940 down, which is in reverse order, but labeled correctly. So you got 940/241 on speedtest and 928/193 on speakeasy, so the numbers are similar. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/44 "2019-08-18T12:36:58Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Not that I see. I have pretty much the same numbers on both. Downloaded is reported first; upload second. > > ETA: Wait, you reported the first as 241 up and 940 down, which is in reverse order, but labeled correctly. So you got 940/241 on speedtest and 928/193 on speakeasy, so the numbers are similar. Thanks for the correction, but I think I just wrote it wrong, I think it was 940 upload 241 download. Right now I’m getting 420 down / 910 up on speedtest, and 700 down / 110 up on speakeasy. Maybe it’s just limited by the connection between the local fiber network and each server. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/45 "2019-08-18T15:58:09Z")
130.70 down, 5.88 up with my el cheapo Comcast plan. Seems like I should be doing some fancy internetting with all that speed, but I don’t know what that would(or could) be.🙂 I wish they would let me cut those speeds AND my price by half or more. Google tells me that only about 4Mbps is necessary to watch videos, which I rarely do except for the odd Youtube link the SDMB sends me to. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/46 "2019-08-19T17:21:40Z")
139 down 48 up We have fiber to the street, existing copper wire from the street to our building. Swisscom now but earlier we had cable, which was half that. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/47 "2019-08-19T18:06:24Z")
Here at work: Down 934.20 Up 921.40 ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/48 "2019-08-19T18:09:56Z")
55.1 down, 7.11 up I’m staying with relatives who think the internet is a new fad. This is painfully slow. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/49 "2019-08-19T18:15:04Z")
13.3 down. Honestly. Xfinity, we need to talk! I also need to upgrade this ancient laptop. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/50 "2019-08-19T18:23:39Z")
522 down/426 up. This is at my office. We recently upgraded. I wasn’t aware how good it was until I checked just now. My home internet is considerably slower, but it works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/51 "2019-08-19T21:35:29Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > 55.1 down, 7.11 up > > I’m staying with relatives who think the internet is a new fad. This is painfully slow. What on earth are you doing that you perceive 55 Mbps as “painfully slow”? That’s enough for 2 simultaneous 4K video streams. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/52 "2019-08-19T22:07:35Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > What on earth are you doing that you perceive 55 Mbps as “painfully slow”? That’s enough for 2 simultaneous 4K video streams. Video games are often ~100 GB. That’s 4 hours at 55 Mbps. It’s painful if you just bought a game and want to play it now. Also, plenty of web pages these days are several megabytes. That may only be a second or two to download the content, but that is more than enough to make the web feel not so “snappy”. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/53 "2019-08-19T23:04:33Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > Also, plenty of web pages these days are several megabytes. That may only be a second or two to download the content, but that is more than enough to make the web feel not so “snappy”. I’m skeptical that the servers delivering typical webpage content are generally fast enough that ISP speed is the limiting factor. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/54 "2019-08-19T23:46:42Z")
My husband works from home (computer industry), so that eats a chunk of bandwidth. Throw in my parents watching movies, my son and daughter playing games, and I can’t get the Dope to load without switching to my phone hotspot. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/55 "2019-08-19T23:49:56Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I’m skeptical that the servers delivering typical webpage content are generally fast enough that ISP speed is the limiting factor. Eh: ```auto C:\scripts ettest>wget --no-check-certificate https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/18941977/6400_1.jpg --16:45:20-- https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/18941977/6400_1.jpg => `6400_1.jpg' Resolving cdn.vox-cdn.com... 151.101.40.124 Connecting to cdn.vox-cdn.com|151.101.40.124|:443... connected. WARNING: Certificate verification error for cdn.vox-cdn.com: unable to get local issuer certificate WARNING: certificate common name `*.concert.io' doesn't match requested host name `cdn.vox-cdn.com'. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 48,412,522 (46M) [image/jpeg] 100%[====================================>] 48,412,522 57.86M/s 16:45:21 (57.83 MB/s) - `6400_1.jpg' saved [48412522/48412522] ``` Well, its only getting 460 Mbps instead of the ~900 that I get at Speedtest, but that’s still pretty good. Pretty much everyone uses fast CDN edge servers now. This image was from a random cell phone camera [article](https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20770385/realme-xiaomi-64-megapixel-phone-camera-photo-samples) on The Verge. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/56 "2019-08-20T00:08:12Z")
Back in San Juan PR for a couple of days. From my observations: On the CATV box: between 20M and 60M down depending on when, consistently between 14 and 18M up On the DSL through conventional old-school twisted copper pair: consistently 3.9M down, 680K up ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/57 "2019-08-20T02:01:58Z")
I live in an exurban, fairly rural part of Connecticut. We had DSL before we moved to our current address (living in the same town), but couldn’t get it when we moved to our new house because it was a new neighborhood, and the phone company based DSL availability solely on whether your address was in their database (which it wasn’t, because it was a new neighborhood). :rolleyes: Anyway, I finally gave up on the phone company and switched to the cable company shortly after we moved. This ended up being a good move, as least as far as internet speed is concerned. Our speed has regularly increased over time. It is now more than 10x faster than a decade ago. Current speeds are as follows: Download: 248 Mbps Upload: 11.5 Mbps ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/58 "2019-08-20T05:01:32Z")
Down 94 Mbps Up 12 Xfinity/Chicago. I haven’t checked my line speeds for years. The connection is always more than fast enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/59 "2019-08-20T14:15:56Z")
Must be nice getting those fast speeds. I barely get 9 Mbs and 1.5 up with AT&T UVerse I’ll check it again after I get home. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/60 "2019-08-20T14:26:41Z")
At home I pay Verizon Fios for 75/75. When I checked last night I got 84.02/86.28 on Ookla, so good job Verizon, even if your website still sucks. (suburban DC, Maryland side) . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785.md?page=4)