Show off your internet speed!

jbcarreon123 · Mar 26, 2023

MisterEd said:
I was confused by how high your upload speed was compared to your download. You had Download 236.31 | Upload 806.57. I have never seen anyone with such a high upload compared to download. So what Internet tier do you have? Do you have 300/300 Fiber?

I have 1200/35 Mbps through a cable provider. With my desktops I get about 940/40 Mbps. My download speed might be a little higher but it is capped by motherboards which only have 1000 Mbps Ethernet ports. My laptop WiFi speeds are actually limited by their hardware. My old laptop only supports 802.11 ac WiFi. It typically gets about 350/40 (5GHz band). My new laptop has 802.11 ax WiFi. It typically gets about 850/40 (5GHz band). Note this is not much less that my Ethernet speeds.

I have 4 choices for Internet service. Two are traditional cable providers while the other two are fiber. I am still using one of the cable providers only because it still has the traditional TV service. The two fiber Internet providers stopped offering traditional TV and only offer streaming TV via the Internet. My wife likes the traditional cable TV so Fiber is not an option.

You said you have FTTN Fiber. Both of the Fiber providers I have acccess to are at least FTTC because they have Fiber on the utility poles outside my home. What I don't know is how they would connect to my home from there. It could be Fiber, copper cable or some combination of both.

I have 200/200 internet, and over delivering is pretty common on our ISP so...

Always Why · Mar 27, 2023

Internet cost with basic cable HDTV is $115.00 monthly.

Deleted member 952 · Mar 27, 2023

Mine, now I have a new ISP.

MisterEd · Mar 27, 2023

Always Why said:
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Internet cost with basic cable HDTV is $115.00 monthly.

Do you have Gigabit Internet (1000 Mbps) or Gigabit Extra Internet (1200 Mbps)?

Back in 2021 I had Blast Internet (200 Mbps). When my bill went up more then I wanted to pay they said my bill would be lower if I switched to
Gigabit Extra Internet (1200 Mbps). My 24-month deal will be up in a couple months. When that does I have to decide whether to keep that plan or switch to another one. I won't know what that will be until I see what the plans costs will be. In other words what deal can I make.

A Guy · Mar 28, 2023

No internet for 4 days! Good to have it back

A Guy

badrobot · Mar 28, 2023

Recently upgraded my home wifi mesh to Wifi6 and the difference is night and day.

sigmaphi · Apr 3, 2023

brotherboard · Apr 4, 2023

Carey Brown · Apr 5, 2023

Comcast/Xfinity, Denver, Colorado

lord levis · Apr 15, 2023

MisterEd said:
I was perplexed by your plan name. I am getting
Download = 932.30 Mbps
Upload = 42.08 Mbps

All my computers with an Ethernet port are Gigabit (1000 Mbps). That limits their speeds to that. I suspect that if one of my computers had a faster Ethernet port it would get a download speed closer to 1200 Mbps.

BTW, I have a Comcast XB8 Gateway. The problem with such fast Internet is that your wireless devices need to support Wi-Fi 6 802.11ax to take advantage of fast wireless speeds. My phone and new laptop supports that. My laptop gets the following wireless speed:
Download = 848.07 Mbps
Upload = 40.77 Mbps

Around April 2021 I started getting what was then called Gigabit Speed from Comcast. I just checked net speed test and see they renamed that plan to Gigabit Extra around January 2022. Here are the current plan names.

Gigabit: down/up = 1000/20 Mbps
Gigabit Extra: down/up = 1200/35 Mbps

this my pc internet speed

Hazel123 · Jun 11, 2023

Still happy with my Starlink speeds and have now attached the previous Asus router via the ethernet adapter. So have my guest networks back and much better coverage in the house too. Best think since sliced bread for a rural area with virtually no broadband speeds.

Iggy_AZ · Jun 11, 2023

MisterEd · Jun 11, 2023

Hazel123 said:
Still happy with my Starlink speeds and have now attached the previous Asus router via the ethernet adapter. So have my guest networks back and much better coverage in the house too. Best think since sliced bread for a rural area with virtually no broadband speeds.

The federal government has been saying for years that everyone is entitled to high speed Internet. The problem it is cost prohibitive in many rural areas. Satellite Internet has been around a long time but it was known to be relatively slow and expensive. It is good to see companies like Starlink come along that are filling a need for a lot of people. I expect you startup costs were high for Starlink but as long as your monthly costs are affordable that is all that matters.

Marcus Vinicus · Jun 11, 2023

blackroseMD1 · Jun 12, 2023

Cox gigabit. Best I can get in the old building that I live in.

At least the upload speeds have finally improved from the 10-15 Mbps that they used to be.

Wynona · Jun 13, 2023

We finally got upgraded to fiber. I'm paying for 500 mbps, and get around 615 mbps with upload speeds a tad bit higher.

jvickers · Jun 14, 2023

Wynona said:
We finally got upgraded to fiber. I'm paying for 500 mbps, and get around 615 mbps with upload speeds a tad bit higher.

I'm very excited because I, too, shall be entering the 21st century. They finally ran fiber around the town where I live. I have an install window this Saturday for a 1Gig line. I can hardly wait!

jvickers · Jun 17, 2023

jvickers said:
I'm very excited because I, too, shall be entering the 21st century. They finally ran fiber around the town where I live. I have an install window this Saturday for a 1Gig line. I can hardly wait!

Nothing like sitting around waiting for the Kinetic guy to call saying he's ready to come install my new line...

jvickers · Jun 17, 2023

These are the results on my 11-year-old MacBook Pro booting into Windows 10:

My main system is down for repairs, but it will be connected via ethernet cable and not using 11-year-old WiFi technology. I'm certain I'll get faster speeds on my desktop once it's up and running.