How fast is your broadband?

[phenomlab]

@baris is there an installation charge? That's common in the UK.

[baris]

@phenomlab yeah there is. There is no competition here so 3 companies just rip Canadians off

[phenomlab]

@baris pretty much the same in the UK.

[brazzerstop]

In my country 8$ (USD)/month for plan with speed 10 Mbps.

[julian]

@brazzerstop still cheaper than Canada

[julian]

@phenomlab said in How fast is your broadband?:

@baris pretty much the same in the UK.

But do your ISPs do dumb things like call non-fiber internet "Fibe" to fool people into thinking they have fiber?

[phenomlab]

@julian oh yes. Copper phone lines to carry fiber, which would be a miracle in itself. Those in the trade know that there's FTTC and FTTH - and the only ones capable of delivering true fiber speeds in the UK without it costing a fortune are cable companies like Virgin for example.

Even back in 2007, the minimum speed to the house in Japan was 100Mbps...

[razibal]

In theory I have gigabit fiber, but I've never seen anything above 600 even when hardwired to ethernet. This is on WiFi

[omega]

@razibal It was 5 bucks extra to get 1 gigabit.

I thought if I get 600Mbps on that it's better than getting 300 on the 0.5 gigabit package!

I see comments that think providers will give improved performance if you're speed testing on one of the well known speed test sites, both of these seem more real, but good to run in conjunction with the others.

• https://speed.cloudflare.com
• https://www.dslreports.com/speedtest

I've read comments online that think when you try the popular speediest sites teh ISP's have it so you get great performance, DSLreports might be one of the more reliable ones out there. I say run about 3-5 different tests and see what you average.

There are also these one too:

• https://speedof.me
• https://fast.com
• https://testmy.net
• https://netperf.tools/

[julian]

I think I know why NodeBB is so fast. Our internet is so shit we have to build lean backends otherwise we're old and grey by the time the page loads.

[omega]

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[omega]

@julian Indeedily, less is truly more.

Oh and here is the opening online comment from a run of comments on the issue of ISP magic and speedtests.

I want to start by saying this is anecdotal, and I feel paranoid for even thinking it. But often my internet will feel very slow, so I'll open speedtest to check if something's wrong. When I do, all of my stalled tabs suddenly spring into action and finish loading.

The tinfoil hat wearer inside of me speculates that my internet provider is overloaded and throttling my bandwidth, but immediately prioritizes me when it senses that I'm trying to check if I'm getting what I pay for.

Has anyone else noticed this pattern? Is there a way I can test this more scientifically?

Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest? | Hacker News

(news.ycombinator.com)

[julian]

So, there was a summer deal for one of the local resellers — I jumped ship.

   Speedtest by Ookla

      Server: Netprotect - Chicago, IL (id: 37497)
         ISP: QuadraNet
Idle Latency:    21.16 ms   (jitter: 3.00ms, low: 20.40ms, high: 25.49ms)
    Download:   118.80 Mbps (data used: 132.5 MB)                                                   
                181.93 ms   (jitter: 56.73ms, low: 24.27ms, high: 628.93ms)
      Upload:     9.41 Mbps (data used: 11.2 MB)                                                   
                 71.33 ms   (jitter: 17.23ms, low: 24.16ms, high: 421.23ms)
 Packet Loss: Not available.
  Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/0226b58d-f5d3-41d1-b8f4-687793a9c17d

I am now paying the same price for twice the speed — 120/10

[alexanderG]

This is mine, paying 200k COP (around 50usd as for today)

[julian]

@julian said in How fast is your broadband?:

So, there was a summer deal for one of the local resellers — I jumped ship.

As it turns out, that reseller (the last third-party reseller, I think) is planning to sell their company

Why can't we have anything nice here.

[baris]

This costs $70 Canadian pesos per month which is a promotion, gonna be $95/month when it runs out

I am just glad I'm not on cable anymore which disconnects multiple times a day.

[julian]

@baris "Your internet connection is very fast"

According to whom? the people serving you the internet?

[baris]

@julian That text was the exact same when I had 30/5

[tankerkiller125]

When I test from my modem itself I have 1205/1211, but due to a shitty AP/Router combo in between I actually end up getting around 940/960. I'm hoping to replace that mess with SPF+ and a good firewall in the next year or so.

[julian]

@tankerkiller125 said in How fast is your broadband?:

hoping to replace that mess with SPF+

A good SPF is important. I like SPF 60 myself