How fast is your broadband?
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In my country 8$ (USD)/month for plan with speed 10 Mbps.
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@brazzerstop
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@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...
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@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.
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:
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@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?
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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-b8f4-687793a9c17dI am now paying the same price for twice the speed
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This is mine, paying 200k COP (around 50usd as for today) -
@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.
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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.
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@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
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@julian said in How fast is your broadband?:
BEHOLD, MY AWESOME INTERNET SPEEDS (not really)
It's been just over a year since I created this topic.
BEHOLD, MY AWESOME INTERNET SPEEDS (this time, really.)
Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test
Use Speedtest on all your devices with our free desktop and mobile apps.
Speedtest.net (www.speedtest.net)
It's beautiful
all I ever wanted was an internet connection that was fast enough to completely saturate my LAN. The provided speed is actually 50% faster, but my crap consumer level hardware can't handle it I guess the ethernet card on my Dell XPS caps out at 940 megabits
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@julian said in How fast is your broadband?:
I guess the ethernet card on my Dell XPS caps out at 940 megabits
That's pretty good for gigabit ethernet (though I'm not entirely sure about the specific Speedtest methodology).
To get anything higher you'd probably need to use jumbo frames, and even then getting to actual 1000Mb/s isn't realistic.
Unless you're Fortinet's iperf3 implementation using UDP, then I guess you can push 1300Mbps through a 1Gbps port with just 100% packet loss (yes, it really does that. At least it did on FortiOS 7.2, maybe they fixed it.)
