How fast is your internet?

[Wries]

You demn copper people receiving as great speeds as my precious fiber currently does! :|

New shiny fiber converter arrives in two weeks, though. Gigabit, up and down, from then on! I shall have the last laugh!

[Erous]

The only other significant ISP that offers FTTH is Verizon, and their service is one of the worst experiences money can buy. Horrendous routing (they'll route you half way across the country just to access a server 30 miles away from your home), intentionally clogged peering points, aging CO stations that bottleneck with too many users, etc.

The main thing with Google fiber is that it's CHEAP compared to other cable/phone/internet packages. Add that to their insane speed and line quality and it's a no brainer. That's where all the hype comes in.

[Wries]

New fiber converter and Gigabit arrived

I think maybe it's the router limiting it. It had a QoS limit set to 100Mbit max for a single transfer, confusing the hell out of me and the technicians who were here for installing. I lifted it now, obviously, but we saw even better speeds when they had a laptop plugged in directly to the converter. As expected, I guess.

edit:

I guess it's the quality of the test servers that matters more at this point

[Shakadam]

It's probably your router yes, most of the "consumer-grade" routers cap out at around 700-800mbps WAN to LAN throughput. See link for a list:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwa...er-charts/view

[Wries]

It's probably your router yes, most of the "consumer-grade" routers cap out at around 700-800mbps WAN to LAN throughput. See link for a list:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwa...er-charts/view

Interesting list. Though I measured some more this morning and got above 900Mbps down as well. I think I'll settle with the Asus N56U that I have for now, doesn't seem to be too shabby.

[Xolgrunek]

$60/month

[Djinni]

Had a BT Boost Engineer come out this week. He fitted a REIN filter.

Before:


After:

[Bolson13]

Different server though

[sheffield]

200 down 20 up

[OnlineSamantha]

It's supposed to be a 100/100 connection, damn it!

Really though, I'm very happy. It only costs a little over $50 a month, but there was an initial investment of about $2500 to get the cables in, though!

[Vintersol]

Should be 200/10 connection. My ISP told me, that there is currently a firmware issue with the box and will be fixed soon.

[Revi]

6-8 down, 1 up. The lines going to my house are really old, so I can't get higher atm. Had issues last week when my provider turned up the speed without telling me, it would be great if it didn't overload the line and cause it to go down every 5 minutes.. Had to call them and get them to cap it at 10 again to make it stable.

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Should be 200/10 connection. My ISP told me, that there is currently a firmware issue with the box and will be fixed soon.

Can you even tell the difference? Unless you are constantly downloading many large files at once, I can't imagine ever using it to capacity.

[Deleted]

Living outside on the country, near a farm. Yet I have 1gbps/1gbps. Gotta love Sweden

[Wries]

Starting to get somewhere

[Djinni]

Can you even tell the difference? Unless you are constantly downloading many large files at once, I can't imagine ever using it to capacity.

5 up and would just about manage to keep up with the TCP ack's on that connection.

[zealo]

Starting to get somewhere

I wish i could have a 1gbps connection Max is 500 here.

[Deleted]

I wish i could have a 1gbps connection Max is 500 here.

How will you ever survive

[Djinni]

I wish i could have a 1gbps connection Max is 500 here.

bps? kbps?

[Lora]

I have comcast so not at all.

[krunksmash]

12Mbps down 1.5Mbps up my ISP is stupid