Internet speed test

andino said:
Dave, what is your bandwidth percentage usage of 2.5Gbit line?

I have 1 Gbit up and down and with 5 kiddos all streaming/gaming I hardly use 50% of my bandwidth.

They offer 2 Gbit and 5 Gbit lines here but I am having a hard time pulling the trigger on it.

Am I missing something?
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I actually recently backed it down to a 500/500 fiber connection. 2.5gb/s is cool and all but I live alone and besides steam/epicgames store, nothing can actually max out this connection. Saving $70 a month dropping it down to 500/500, and I actually get 650/650 on speed tests.
 
I've been in this house for ~3 years. Choices were Comcast ~40mps, or At&t fiber ~15mbs... yup, it's not real fiber, not all the way to the house, and it's super slow. We went with Comcast.

Well once the pandemic started (2 years ago) I went back to comcast and they had better options, bumped me up to 100mbs for the same price. That was the fastest option they had.

Well we just got a flyer in the mail saying Verizon has come in with gigabit speeds available, for ~ twice what we're currently paying.

Go to Comcast, and they volunteer to bump me up to to 600mbs, just for being a good customer. Same price, btw.

Funny how Comcast is INSTANTLY able to offer better options once a competitor comes into town, eh?

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SubCog said:
I've been in this house for ~3 years. Choices were Comcast ~40mps, or At&t fiber ~15mbs... yup, it's not real fiber, not all the way to the house, and it's super slow. We went with Comcast.

Well once the pandemic started (2 years ago) I went back to comcast and they had better options, bumped me up to 100mbs for the same price. That was the fastest option they had.

Well we just got a flyer in the mail saying Verizon has come in with gigabit speeds available, for ~ twice what we're currently paying.

Go to Comcast, and they volunteer to bump me up to to 600mbs, just for being a good customer. Same price, btw.

Funny how Comcast is INSTANTLY able to offer better options once a competitor comes into town, eh?

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Enjoy gai :3
 
Dave has a DMP SE with the 2.5 gbps WAN port. Sadly the switch in it isn't 2.5 gbps, so unless you buy an expensive switch to go along with it... You're not seeing those speeds.
 
Internet out again. Running phone WiFi hotspot from the kitchen because that's the only place it gets more than one bar.

 
AT&T is trash where I'm at. Everyone that moves to the neighborhood switches to something else.

T-Mobile is better at my house but worse almost everywhere else. I was going to switch to them anyway but Verizon sent me a free home repeater. Home repeater relies on home internet to work. So I am where I am.

Also, learned that my plan limits hotspot speed to 600 kbps anyway.
 


When they came out to fix, they talked me into an upgrade from 75/75 to 300/300 and it saves $12/month from previous plan. 75/75 only sucked when downloading a game or a gigapatch.

Not getting the 300 up they told me I would but don't care.

EDIT: Did another test - EDIT 2: And another.

Looks like my upload speed might be heavily dependent on which server is chosen.
 
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Had some wonky issues that wasn't dropped connections but just refused to load anything, so I decided to try a speed test:


I think that's record low for tests I've done :bleh:
 
Moved into a new house in Texas. We had planned to get Spectrum gigabit, but it was a self-install thing. I just needed a modem, so drove over to the Spectrum store, and got the ABSOLUTE WORST CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE EVER. Actually my neighbors have complained alot about Spectrum, besides the poor customer service, that they have reliability problems and you never get anywhere close to your full gigabit speed.

Thing is, we have a cell phones through t-mobile and we've always been happy with them, and they happen to have a store across the parking lot from the Spectrum store... 15 minutes later and I'm driving home with a t-mobile home internet hotspot thingy. Service costs half as much too.

Anyways, we max out ~300mbs on t-mobile, but it's very stable and haven't had any problems with it. Biggest issue I have is I don't have the house properly wired for ethernet yet, so we lose alot of speed over the mesh wifi (the house is nearly 4,000 sq ft).

AT&T came in this week and dug up everyone's yards to put in Fiber. Not sure when that's going to be available for service, but it's wild to have so much competition... Between Spectrum, At&T, and all the wireless providers (I have line-of-site to a giant cell tower from my driveway), there's (going to be) lots of good options here. I've seen similar situations before in other cities, where you have only a single provider (comcast) with no competition and it's utter shit... then a 2nd competitor comes in, and suddenly Comcast is fantastic! It's especially insulting when you realize that they had the ability to be good the whole time, but just didn't bother since they didn't have competition.
 
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Google Fiber:

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and my Comcast fallback (because, here in East Nashville/Inglewood with all of the construction and utility work seemingly everywhere, GF can't keep goobers from cutting their fiber with backhoes and such):

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​Ahh, the advantages of rolling my own router with OPNSense (though you can also do it with pfSense AFAIK); if GF goes down, OPNSense automatically fails over to Comcast within about 20-30 seconds or so, then back over to GF when it comes back up. It took me a few days to get the settings hammered out and tested and I had to give up IPv6 because it was too much of a PITA to try to set up a failover routine for IPv6 that would work and not make me want to cry trying to figure it out, but even with IPv4 only on the WAN links and the LAN, it seems to work OK.
 
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Finally joined modern society. Was still running the original "test" equipment from Cincinnati Bell when they first rolled out fiber many years ago. Had 50 megabit service all these years. It was so antiquated their newer systems had us tagged as still on copper with DSL basically, lol... Was finally given a free upgrade to their now base 400 megabit service since they're trying to completely phase out the remaining copper and move everyone to fiber. All the tech had to do was change out the ONT. On another note Cincinnati Bell is now doing business as "altafiber".

Old vs new:

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Wow that setup is huge... have fiber to the box here and its just the modem and the tv box... up to 1.5 gbit but they are rolling out the 2.5 gbit now. Not sure if it needs new equipment. Need new nic for that tho.
 
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