How fast is your broadband?

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

julian

@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

oplik0

@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.)

omega

@julian Happy days... but how mush is it costing!

I'm seeing 2Gbps being advertised the last while. I really don't need it, but I'd take an upgrade at the same price.

https://speedof.me
https://speed.cloudflare.com
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
https://fast.com
https://testmy.net
https://netperf.tools/

A thought, when constructing this reply. I had posted this links before but they all got a preview box. No need.

So, I wonder is there a worth having a "do not preview links" option for a post in composer

or

Maybe better, a new tag that keeps the link live text

Then is you still you want text url but are dead link, then revert to the code tag as I have done above.

Again not all links need a preview by default.

julian

If you don't need a preview, make it an anchor and set some text. As long as it doesn't match the link itself it won't unfurl

julian

@omega said in How fast is your broadband?:

but how mush is it costing!

In one of the great Canadian injustices, I am paying the exact same amount as @baris, purely because he happens to live 5 towns over

mush

omega

@julian

So you mean use the link button

7 cans short of a six pack here... best of luck with the extra mush!