# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/61 "2019-08-25T03:58:19Z")
Wow, what’s wrong with me? Download: 6.38mbps Uploade: 0.77mbps Ping: 742ms (whatever that means) I do live in a large apartment complex, FWIW. ---
**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 25, 2019, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/62 "2019-08-25T05:30:26Z")
> [@robby](#): > > I live in an exurban, fairly rural part of Connecticut. > > …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 I just checked my speed on my iPad, which is connected to my home WiFi, and got the following speeds: Download: 33 Mbps Upload: 12.5 Mbps Using my cellular service (Verizon LTE) for my iPad at home, I got the following: Download: 12.5 Mbps Upload: 1.25 Mbps ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/63 "2019-08-25T06:04:04Z")
Charter/Spectrum, fiber to the (rural) neighborhood hub, then copper to the home, wired to the computer(s): [Speedtest.net](http://Speedtest.net): 111Mb/s down, 11 up, 37ms ping Nominal is 100/10 I have a commercial account in a residential neighborhood; some of my neighbors don’t have a computer and most use it only for emailing pix of their grandkids. So I get the full bandwidth all the time, not like at work, where the connection is shared with many offices, and slows down during the workday. And I know Charter doesn’t throttle me, as I just finished uploading 40GB of video and speedtest still shows the max. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/64 "2019-08-26T20:37:12Z")
I’m at the library. Theirs is: Ping: 16ms Download: 8.44mbps Upload: 9.29mbps I should add that the advertising on the Dope changes at a speed approaching that of a strobe when I’m here. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/65 "2019-08-26T22:13:46Z")
> [@FinsToTheLeft](#): > > I’ve got fibre to the house. At the moment, my iPad is showing 210/160, but on a wired desktop I get 950 down and 750 Mbps up. Damn! Incredible speeds! > [@Dobbs](#): > > 95.4 Mbps up, 109 Mbps down, Verizon FIOS, northern Virginia, fiber to the house. Damn! Incredible upload speed! > [@beowulff](#): > > 172.93 Mbps down/ 10.59 Mbps up (talk about asymmetrical…). > This is Cox Phoenix. They keep trying to push me to 300 MBps or “GigaBlast,” and my thought is “why?” > The only advantage for me would be unlimited data. We currently use almost 500GB/month. Funny. I have Comcast cable internet and pay for their version of that “blast” or whatever. During June and July while my sons were out of school we almost hit our data cap with Comcast (which I didn’t know existed) of 1024GB…per month. Our normal usage is about 500GB/month also. > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > 285.28 down > 32.48 up That’s similar to what I get. 300 down, 30-something up depending. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Here at work: > Down 934.20 > Up 921.40 That’s just insanity. I bet the Dope only takes five minutes to load now instead of ten! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/66 "2019-09-02T22:44:53Z")
At this moment I have 30 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, and actually get slightly better than that, and it’s only because I didn’t see any real need for anything more for the stuff I do. But with increasing use of streaming services the problem that’s recently come up is the 250 GB monthly download cap. Turns out, this is an obsolete concept and I only have it because my obsolete plan is grandfathered. Next week I’m changing over to what is actually now the _ **minimum** _ tier, which is 150 Mbps with unlimited downloads. The max in this area is 1 Gbps. Technology is changing fast, obviously accelerated by competition between cable broadband and telcos’ DSL. ---
**Author:** ![pdhenry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pdhenry/32/5561_2.png) [@pdhenry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pdhenry)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/67 "2019-09-03T01:03:00Z")
131 down / 6.83 up / 12 Ms ping. The upstream speed is some artificial limitation from Comcast - there’s no practical reason it shouldn’t be higher except that Comcast doesn’t want me running a server or something, probably. FCC defines Broadband as 25 Mbps minimum download. ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785/68 "2019-09-03T03:20:27Z")
8M down 700K up. That is without checking if either of the two gamers are online or if the 2 youtubers are using it. I do know we aren’t streaming ATM unless one of the gamers is. The speed s the best I have available. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-internet-speed-is-17-6-mbps/838785.md?page=3)