What is your internet speed at home?

[GH85Carrera]

This is mine. Cox Cable bills it as Gigablast or:

COX GIGABLAST INTERNET with speeds up to: 1000 Mbps download; 35 Mpbs upload.

I am not getting the full 1000 Mbps down but my upload speed of 37.4 is pretty good. That upload speed is the biggest reason I went with the higher speed service.

I will admit to some cheating. My business, that I work at from home is the real reason I am paying for the top tier service. I have files that are sometimes 2 TB to upload to customers. That used to take forever.

The techs told me the only way I can ever get the full 1000 Mbps is to pay for a fiber installation. That sure is not likely to happen. 900+ Mbps is just screaming fast.

When data CDs were first introduced I was amazed to have 650 MB in one little disc. Now I can download that much data in under a minute.

I remember my first modem. 300 baud, and I had to dial the phone number then flip a switch for the modem to connect. And that modem cost several hundred bucks.

[wdfifteen]

Mine tested 17 down and 2.5 or 3 up. All we can get out here in the cornfields is copper DSL. We can watch Netflix and Hulu at the same time. The quality may be degraded, but it’s better than the 13” b&w tv we had when I was a kid.

[osidak]

supposed to 200 down and 10 up

I rarely see more than 120 down but the 10 up is pretty stable

[stealthn]

Don't even ask...Canadain companies have such a monopoly here that they gouge the crap out of you for everything..

Luckily my company pays for mine

[red-beard]

Google Says my Office is 58.8 down and 10.7 up I pay for 50/10

I'll check the house later. It is 150/10. I need to upgrade it to 200/20.

[stomachmonkey]

You are getting 92% of your potential throughput.

Thats pretty good.

Be happy with it.

[red-beard]

Man, Comcast RAPES you on the Business Internet.

[dad911]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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I remember my first modem. 300 baud, and I had to dial the phone number then flip a switch for the modem to connect. And that modem cost several hundred bucks.

300baud? That was fast.

110. Stick the handset in. 110 for printing also, a converted teletype. As I recall all caps.

I'm getting 310 down (while streaming 2 tvs also) and 110 up. Fios.

[javadog]

I have the cheapest plan, tests at 31.1 down and 3 up. Works fine.

My computer network connection thinks I'm seeing 1.0G.

Don't know which is lying...

[JackDidley]

30 down and 5 or 6 up. They want too much $$$ for faster and fiber optic is 6 miles away. . No problem with video at 30 so I am OK with it.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by dad911

300baud? That was fast.

110. Stick the handset in. 110 for printing also, a converted teletype. As I recall all caps.

I'm getting 310 down (while streaming 2 tvs also) and 110 up. Fios.

I used a handset modem to transmit photos to Time Magazine back in 1973 or 1974. We had to process the film, make a print, transmit it to the editors. They then verbally told us how to crop it even tighter and we sent that new 8x10. They published it in the next issue as a small image.

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Man, Comcast RAPES you on the Business Internet.

not to mention their home internet...


South Korea has 2x our speed and half our cost...

I am hoping & hoping that Verizon will deploy 5G so I can dump commie-cast


also hopeful the 5G will irradiate some of the crazies around here....

[john70t]

https://www.visitestonia.com/en/why-estonia/estonia-is-a-digital-society
Estonia is a digital society. So with all this connectedness it's not surprising that wireless internet is almost everywhere in Estonia, and almost always free and speedy. Wireless internet access points can be found in most public locations: parks, squares, pubs, cafés, restaurants, airports, trains,..

https://money.cnn.com/2014/05/20/technology/innovation/chattanooga-internet/index.html
Chattanooga rolled out a fiber-optic network a few years ago that now offers speeds of up to 1000 Megabits per second, or 1 gigabit, for just $70 a month. A cheaper 100 Megabit plan costs $58 per month. Even the slower plan is still light-years ahead of the average U.S. connection speed, which stood at 9.8 megabits per second as of late last year, according to Akamai Technologies.


I don't know if I'd want to use public internet for anything business/personal, but for just info and maps it seems like a nice thing.

[SiberianDVM]

43.7 down and 10.7 up on WOW!, going thru Wifi. Supposed to be getting "up to 100 Mps"

[Deschodt]

638 mbps Download
844 mbps Upload (!!) on the wifi mesh...

On ethernet it's 900+ /850+-

Gig fiber... The upload speed is crazy to me but I tested it with several apps and it's real...

[pavulon]

186/11.4. cable.

[beatnavy]

My home in Virginia essentially sits on top of MAE (Major Area Exchange) East, the confluence of fiber for the East Coast. I could get just about any bandwidth I wanted, if I really needed it (I don't).

By contrast, my home on eastern shore of Maryland is on a rural, lightly populated road where our options are: Hughes satellite (ugh) with advertised download of like 12 to 20 Mbps; or what we have now -- good ol' fashioned DSL! Yes, I'm getting less than 1 Mbps download and about 500K upload! Sooper fast! There just isn't a business case for any of the providers to lay fiber down our road. The local utility company told me it would cost essentially $17,000 per household to get fiber to each. Funny thing is, my wife and I could sort of deal with the crappy DSL if it would actually work reliably. We can stream a movie (if everyone turns off their devices) and generally browse ok. What frosts me is that I have to reboot the router at least once a day. I've gotten to just turning it off at night. When my kids and/or family visit, it does become unusable.

A couple of my neighbors and me are now looking at BoIP -- they resell AT&T wireless with an unlimited plan (which you can't get direct from AT&T) and some proprietary software on a router. $150 / month, which I'm contemplating now. I can probably get at least 20 Mbps down.

[RWebb]

how old is the router?

[mepstein]

We used to have dsl and it would turn off halfway through the day. Called phone company, they sent out a tech and said the person who installed the phone lines in the house used cheap extension cord. It was causing the router to overheat. He replaced it with the correct cable and it worked fine after that.
Now we live on a school campus so internet, utilities, housing, food is all free so no complaints.

[beatnavy]

Originally Posted by mepstein

We used to have dsl and it would turn off halfway through the day. Called phone company, they sent out a tech and said the person who installed the phone lines in the house used cheap extension cord. It was causing the router to overheat. He replaced it with the correct cable and it worked fine after that.
Now we live on a school campus so internet, utilities, housing, food is all free so no complaints.

That’s worth looking into. Router is less than a year old. Thanks Mark!