Internet speed test - new modem installed

[DubiousDan]

My speed is supposed to be 30Mb/s down but I've been told it will go up to 300Mb/s in the next month or so. Here's hoping.

I get similar results at the M-Lab site.

 

[mitchntx]

My daughters can truthfully say this is not their father's Internet.

Sometimes I long for the Procomm plus and XTree Gold days and the trusty ole Amiga 2500 ...

 

[karlac]

Sometimes I long for the Procomm plus and XTree Gold days and the trusty ole Amiga 2500 ...

Norton Commander, and 8.3 file names...

 

[FrEaK_aCcIdEnT]

I have TWC Extreme. Supposed to be 50mb service right now and going to 200mb by the end of the month. I just bought a SB6183 cable modem that is good for 300mb service. I am getting 34 down and 6 up. I am going to call to see why it isn't the advertised 50mb service right now.

DudiousDan, sounds like we are on the same service. Can't wait for the new speeds to kick in. We jumped on the 34.99/month deal for standard Internet with free extreme upgrade for a year. So 34.99/month for 200mb service in the end. I can handle that!

We also just cut the cord for cable TV bought a HDTV antenna and a preamplifier. Now we get every station down here that is free in HD.

 

[IXLR8]

/<TinFoilHatOn>/
That faster speed will sure cut down the time that the NSA has to deal with you. They can get what they need real quick now....

/<TinFoilHatOff>/

 

[DubiousDan]

I have TWC Extreme. Supposed to be 50mb service right now and going to 200mb by the end of the month. I just bought a SB6183 cable modem that is good for 300mb service. I am getting 34 down and 6 up. I am going to call to see why it isn't the advertised 50mb service right now.

DudiousDan, sounds like we are on the same service. Can't wait for the new speeds to kick in. We jumped on the 34.99/month deal for standard Internet with free extreme upgrade for a year. So 34.99/month for 200mb service in the end. I can handle that!

We also just cut the cord for cable TV bought a HDTV antenna and a preamplifier. Now we get every station down here that is free in HD.

The way I look at it is that I'm very happy with the 30Mb/s I have now and after it goes up to 300Mb/s and if they raise their prices I can go to a lower tier of service and still be happy.

 

[99taws6]

I just now got 50mb but am supposed to have 300. Time warner frustrates me

 

[Vaquero]

Question.
What speeds are your devices wifi or ethernet cards capable of?

 

[karlac]

Question.
What speeds are your devices wifi or ethernet cards capable of?

Much faster than what is available from a ISP.

Wireless devices, somewhere up to 450Mbits/s, and soon up to 800
Ethernet +100Gbits/s

 

[cwesh]

Not too shabby...

 

[DubiousDan]

I got an email from TWC today saying my internet speed has been increased and this is the result. It was supposed to be 200Mbps. At M-Lab it was 165Mbps. It could be because they just rolled it out or because everyone in my neighborhood is testing it out. It's still a big increase from the 30Mbps I had before.

Just tested again and got this.

 

[Vaquero]

Depressing.
Then again, I don't know what my tablet can digest.

 

[FrEaK_aCcIdEnT]

I got this over night last night. This was on my WiFi using my cell phone and not my hard line. I have to get and hard line to my pc this weekend to see what Ican really get.

I'm one happy camper right now. I will post a pic of my cleaned up OnQ box. I had to fit a Netgear R7000 AC1900 router, Motorola AARIS 6183 cable modem, and all my antenna/cable in a small OnQ box. Spent more than I should have on specialty fittings, but it will be an engineering feet when done. I have to modify the cover to accept the 2 120mm fans. :-)

 

[DubiousDan]

Depressing.
Then again, I don't know what my tablet can digest.

I think the WiFi adapters on most tablets and laptops can handle 150Mbps. Some adapters will do 450Mbps but I don't know how common they are.

 

[MitchKov]

Yall are flying...I pay $60 a month and my speeds are garbage.

Measured last night and this morning, 18-20 down, 2 up

We've been looking to switch cable and internet but think seeing all these may have sealed the deal

 

[karlac]

Long dead thread, but how times change:

 

[benenglish]

Long dead thread, but how times change:

Wow.

I'm still using exactly who I was using in the exact same configuration as when this thread started. So I get exactly the same ping times; my up/down speeds are roughly doubled. And the price has gone down a bit. That's progress but it's nothing like what you've posted.

 

[karlac]

Wow.
I'm still using exactly who I was using in the exact same configuration as when this thread started. So I get exactly the same ping times; my up/down speeds are roughly doubled. And the price has gone down a bit. That's progress but it's nothing like what you've posted.

Fiber was installed on the poles behind my home less than two months ago. A few days before Christmas AT&T emailed and offered a 2 year deal on 1Gb fiber for $13/mo more than I was paying for 24/5Mbs. Jumped on it immediately ... AAMOF, it was actually installed on Christmas eve, took about four hours, and the two man crew didn't leave until 6PM that night.

What you see is a Cat 5e Ethernet connection to their router, on a five year old laptop. I doubt if I can get much more out of the theoretical 1Gb with Cat6.

WiFi connections are about half that on the 5Ghz band (basically symmetrical), mainly due to an older wireless LAN card in the laptop (outdated protocol support). I could increase that somewhat with a new USB wireless card/antenna, but haven't bothered.

Basically the old iPad and iPhone wireless are WiFi bottle necks, but the ability to connect more WiFi devices does makes a noticeable difference, especially connecting to the 2.4Ghz band for those devices on the second floor, and on the back deck.

Can finally watch my weekly TWIT fix anywhere on the back deck with the iPad, and the RING doorbell views instantly with no buffering.

Only drawback thus far was an apparent problem between YouTube and AT&T where YouTube's adaptive bit rate streaming doesn't play nice with AT&T's network, which was causing excessive buffering on any video above 144p.

I'd previously had problems with AT&T's DNS, solved by disabling IPv6 on the old LAN connection which the installation processes had re-enabled. When I disabled it again, the buffering problem ceased immediately. Not convinced that was the problem, but haven't had to the chance to check it out further.

So far, waiting for other shoe to drop ...

 

[Recoil45]

That's quite impressive.


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[F350-6]

I recently upgraded to the newly available 8 MBPS service in my area and have been tickled to death that it always seems to test out in the 8 - 9 range. I can watch youtube now without buffering. Won't be seeing 800 here anytime in the foreseeable future.