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This reminds me of the time Apple removed their time remaining estimates on the Mac. Next thing they'll be asking for is to hide your battery status cos that totally isn't important.
How about an AI that compares signal strength over time to other carriers and other Android devices and produces a graph that shows which is the worst (spoiler: cumcast).
But no, that'd be too consumer friendly, like how Cumcast helped delete the worldwide net index that showed which ISPs are the best/worst.
Can't be revealing too much now. Consumers might complain, can't be having that.
You’ll be pleasantly surprised by AT&T fiber. We have had it for about 1.5 years after moving to the area. We had Comcast prior to that. Night and day difference.
Edit: Seeing as this has drawn a lot of comments, here's a speedtest being on day 9 of my billing cycle w/ 600GB+ usage - https://www.speedtest.net/result/7808727971.png. Some people don't trust speedtest.net so I checked fast.com (netflix CDN) and got 580Mbps down, 540Mbps up.
Ready for this sub to rage? I've been working out of the Rogers building downtown Toronto (not for Rogers, mind you):
The first Fast.com result can't be correct. The Starlink Dish and PoE adapter only have 1Gbps ports. Still threw me when I saw this result though. 300-400Mbps is still a great speed either way! Location: Bendigo, VIC, Australia.
> 4G was introduced in 2008 with smartphones in mind. It transmits data at speed of at least 100 megabits per second.
4G LTE as introduced in 2009 had a maximum downlink speed of 100 megabits per second, not "at least".
In practice, even today in 2019, 100mbps would not be typical for a "4G" connection. The very fastest 4G averages in the world (Singapore, some European countries, South Korea) are still below 50mbps.
> Is your ISP throttling your traffic?
Try Netflix own speed test: https://fast.com/. If it's a lot slower than what you're paying for, you may complain to your ISP.
If that doesn't help, and switching providers is not an option, the easiest solution is to connect through a VPN. (source: r/Netflix-VPN)
You can have better connection and those forgotten people in caves with 1000ms will still kill you 10-15 sec after you killed them on your screen.https://www.speedtest.net/result/8911857612.png My connection for reference. P2P is horrible and bungie should feel bad for relying on it
To be honest if the low bandwidth streams keep up they are going to have to do this in the UK as well, I'm giving some real thought on cancelling based on the last couple of months.
I'm at 200mb+ down any speed service I test and they keep pushing me onto grainy what look like 480p at best streams and no I pay for the middle package not the basic one.
I don't expect 4k I just expect at least 720p and I'm just not seeing it.
This is Netflix testing how fast data goes to you from their servers. It's more useful than a test that your ISP is aware of, and will adapt for.
edit: apparently Google's own test is a better one, my data shows 1/3 the throughput through theirs.
The US also ranks 8th in fixed broadband connection speeds compared toFinland at 40th.
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And considering how much bigger the US is and more spread out it is, I would say the US clearly has better internet.
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Throw in the fact that according to this article, that is from 2010, all people only have the right to 1Mbps connections. It does say that they'll have everyone on 100Mbps by 2015.... but it's closing in on 2020 and they're only at 58Mbps. Government is great guys!
Ha ha! I wish I had Charter. If you had AT&T U-verse you wouldn't have anything bad to say about Charter. Or Comcast. Hell, my 4G internet from my phone is faster than my AT&T "24 Mbps" on most days.
Realistically if it gets repealed, we go back to the era of 2014.
Which should not be that long ago to remember.
The issue was that netflix, youtube, etc were experiencing throttling. This was -- ostensibly -- because they wouldn't pay the ISPs the premium fee.
Assuming things go back to that, you could use a VPN and have non-throttled rates -- or -- complain directly to the ISP. Some had even noticed that using speed tests would show decreased speeds. Then they noticed they didn't, but netflix still seemed slow. So they came out with Fast.com, which does speed tests directly through netflix servers.
Netflix, you see, was the biggest target of the ISPs.
This issue will be a battleground for many years, and we can expect this to go back and forth for awhile. There is a lot of money behind both sides. That's how it'll work.
It's run by Netflix and uses the same ports and IPs Netflix uses. That means that ISPs can't cheat it by detecting that you're on a testing site like speedtest and then throttle Netflix.
Only if you blindly believe Iranian state propaganda. Trump could declare free 100TB internet for everyone, infrastructure doesn't get created as easily as that.
In reality the US has, on average, the 8th best internet speeds worldwide. Iran has some of the worst in the world with 122 countries ahead of them. Source
https://www.romania-insider.com/bucharest-gaming-capital-speedtest
https://www.speedtest.net/insights/blog/gaming-cities-lowest-latency-2019/
> First place Bucharest, Romania is home to super-low ping, a lightning fast download speed and a thriving gaming culture. From Bucharest Gaming Week (which includes the CS:GO Southeast Europe Championship and the FIFA National Tournament) to their numerous local game studios, Bucharest is a great place to be a gamer whether you’re online or out and about.
I was on a gigabit connection so not long at all. A good rule of thumb is to go to www.speedtest.net, do the test, see how fast your internet is. That second number, the upload speed, divided by 8 is about what your upload should be in MB per second. So if you are getting a 10mbps upload speed you'll probably get like 1.25 MB/s so say 100 gigs is what your syncing. Math, math, math, and we've got about 22 hours on a relatively slow connection, 2 1/2 on a 100Mbps, and like 15-20 minutes on gig......... sorry used to work for an ISP.... =P
Usa o https://fast.com, é um medidor da Netflix usando os servidores deles. Ou seja, se estiverem aumentando a velocidade dos medidores, vão ter que priorizar a Netflix inteira que consome uma banda fudida.
Link to rankings + some fun rivalry matchups
I'm disappointed that UCLA/Stanford aren't the 2 fastest ones since we're the birthplace of the internet
Try running a speed test on https://fast.com. It uses Netflix's servers exclusively, so of your ISP is throttling Netflix, there will be a large disparity in the numbers you get there and on something like speedtest.net.
I don't get it... I mean it's not like anyone would use more dial up modems to increase the blocksize.
Why should anyone restrict their network based on a technology that's almost 2 decades out-of-date at this point?
Heck, [The global average internet speed was 5.6Mb/s] less than 4 years ago. Now it's 10x that
I'd be against a gigantic increase, but I think there's pretty clearly room to compromise on the blocksize without "adding more modems."
Except fast.com which fetches content from deployed netflix cache servers around the world. Any interference to make netflix slower would show up there too. It's not a public service as they marketed it, it's self-defense against shaping.
> Is your ISP throttling your traffic? [x-post from r/technology]
Try Netflix own speed test: https://fast.com/. If it's a lot slower than what you're paying for, you may complain to your ISP.
If that doesn't help, and switching providers is not an option, the easiest solution is to connect through a VPN. (source: r/Netflix-VPN)
/u/Jacob_Cx you should use a signal map to plan the route to ensure the stream doesn't F constantly.
If they go to Phoenix first, and then go from Flagstaff to Albuquerque using Interstate 40, they would have a much better signal along the way. There's probably more changes that could be made.
https://opensignal.com has a good map of all the networks.
It's been noted that most ISPs don't throttle Speedtest/Ookla because they're collaborating with each other to give better theoretical results without real-world measure.
Use fast.com ; it's Netflix's own speed test and uses their services to test the speeds if you were to stream a Netflix video. Chances are this is more accurate.
Doesn't mean that ISPs aren't throttling other services and might just be prioritizing Netflix. Same thing happened to the MOBA League of Legends where they had to pay off ISPs nationally to get better speeds.
This is why Net Neutrality is important and America (knowing the context that you're a third world country) got fucked by the FCC because corruption.
Big corporations are scum.
Ist euch mal aufgefallen das der Speedtest auf der Vodafone Seite immer höhere Angaben angibt als andere Teste? Ja mir ist bewusst Server und so aber da sind bei mir teils erhebliche Unterschiede von bis zu 300bmbits mehr bei den Vodafone Speed Test
Ergebnisse vom Speed Test gerade
- OOKLA: Mbps 514.79
- Fast.com : 200 Mbps
- Vodafone: 756 Mbit/s
- Bundesnetzagentur : 104 Mbit/s
If you have a Netflix account, try this speed test: https://fast.com/. If you find it super low compared to what you think you should be getting, you may complain to your ISP.
If that doesn't help, and switching providers is not an option, the easiest solution is to connect through a VPN. (related subreddit: /r/Netflix-Via-VPN)
Romania, Thailand, France have better Internet speed than the USA according to the Speedtest Global Index. Laughing in Danish that is also higher than the USA.
That's bullshit. Out coverage map looks much the same. Large areas of no coverage where there are no people.
Australia:
Canada:
> video streams probably look the same as just trying to watch a video when you analyze the data.
I'm pretty sure that's not how T-Mobile's video throttling works.
I'd put my money on it being a fixed list of IPs that are always throttled because they're owned by a streaming provider. This would explain why services like fast.com are throttled despite not being video.
They already did, which is why Netflix created https://fast.com, because ISPs prioritize speedtest.net.
But i havent seen any proof theyve tried anything new yet already, theyll probably wait a bit for the dust to settle, because they know theyre already right on the edge of what people will tolerate as it is. At this point im surprised Comcasts headquarters hasnt been molotoved.
My torrents have been super slow all week, and paranoid me is all "ITS BEGUN", but i think i fucked up a setting somewhere.
if the speeds between the two are drastically different for you then youre already being affected by your ISP's. i found out yesterday that verizon is throttling my service. i plan on getting a hold of whoever i can in Michigan because of this. i want to help with this.
Engineers in a lab, I'm sure. Regular consumers might have the bandwidth for it, but there are many factors influencing actual data rates, including backhaul, usage, device capabilities, etc. This is probably about as fast as it gets right now: (B66+B46+B46+B46+B4) https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/4988720048
First check if your playback settings are the reason. It should be on "Auto" or "High" (unless your have data restrictions of course)
If that isn't the reason go to fast.com. Netflix isn't throtting you, but your ISP might.
Tahoe isn't exactly the middle of nowhere.
https://opensignal.com/networks/usa/verizon-coverage
https://opensignal.com/networks/usa/t-mobile-coverage
When I'm in south eastern Oregon and I want my cell to work I use Verizon!
T-Mobile did not match Verizon in coverage. They match them in availability. Big difference.
If you read how they measure it. https://opensignal.com/methodology/availability/
They only count data if the user has LTE service on their account and if they have ever connected to LTE and that they actually get a LTE signal. So in an area where TMobile doesn't have coverage doesn't get counted into the report as no one in that area would have a T-Mobile phone with the open signal app on it to report the data.
As much as I'd like to see him do this, Uganda's data coverage is so poor it would be either in Kampala, or shitty 144p (if even) stream [](#FeelsBadMan)
Lets do the following troubleshooting to find the issue:-
- goto either speedtest or fast.com to check the internet speed. Check when alone and when your sisters and parents are using it to confirm the bandwidth available.
- connect to your office VPN and run the same speedtest and/or fast.com to check the speed on VPN. my previous company used to limit the VPN speed to 5meg per person and that used to cause a lot of issues when running skype and voice applications.
- do not and i repeat do not install skype on your personal laptop and if possible run it from the office computer which you use to remote into if possible.
- if you take calls on SKYPE try installing it on your phone and running it on your phone. makes the call less janky as well.
- thanks
> Source: 4G/LTE Availability opensignal.com
> This chart http://i.imgur.com/sEUBXc5.png shows how consistently accessible 4G networks are in each country. Rather than measure geographic coverage, OpenSignal's availability metric tracks the proportion of time users have access to a particular network. For example if a country has 50% 4G availability, then on average that country's 4G users can find an LTE signal half of the time.
> A high 4G availability can be an indication of good geographic coverage, but the metric tracks more than where users can find an LTE signal on a map. It accounts for indoor connections and times of high congestion when it's often difficult to get a 4G signal even on high-coverage networks.
> For this report we analyzed 17 billion measurements conducted by 500,687 OpenSignal 4G smartphone users between July 1 and Sept. 30.
Holy hell I'm insanely jealous.
Comcast is the only ISP in my area. At $80 / month, I get 3.46 Mbps up. Using Plex from outside the house is a nightmarish joke.
> Germans are comparatively slow on the Internet. According to the latest Speedtest Global Index, the Federal Republic of Germany is currently ranked 31st with 69.4 Mbit/s in the ranking of the countries with the fastest Internet access. This puts Germany in 25th place compared to 2017 and 2015 with 22nd place reached, worsened again.
> The Americans also enjoy fast internet. The USA ranks 8th with 117.3 Mbit/s.
Damn, and before I moved to Germany I thought US internet was already pretty mediocre.
Evo i brzine mobilnog interneta
- mjesto po brzini 4g mislim da nije loše :D
Base on nPerf, this are the places with SingTel 5G Connectivity. So far driving around SG I do get 5G around CBD area (on GOMO though)
But then again even with 4G/5G connectivity, I don’t know why my GOMO/SingTel line has issue with loading contents. I can have a full bar 4G but not be able to login to POSB without being timed out.
are you the one providing the internet access to him, ie, it is your name and credit card details on the account with the ISP? if so, i would just let your tenant get their own internet connection themselves, so you dont have to be involved. the last thing i want to do is call tech support for my tenants.
otherwise there isn't anything you can do, if they are using that much in one day they are either streaming or downloading movies with torrents. either way, they might be getting throttled by your ISP to slow down their speed.
have them go to FAST.COM or speedtest.net and send you a screenshot when they are having issues. if it is close to the speed that you are paying for, then tell them to kick rocks.
Sites like www.speedtest.net optimize the test to get you the highest result possible; essentially they're trying to find out what your maximum speed is.
It's not a real world scenario.
Google's test will more accurately measure what your speed to their servers will be.
As other have said, compression is the culprit.
a lot of cable-modems these days also do on-the-fly compression to their head-end, and that can also artificially inflate speedtest results, even when not using a VPN. Speedtest.net seems to use hugely compressible data (they're idiots), which leads to massive inaccuracies.
Try the http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest speedtester, or http://www.testmy.net/ tester. They both actually use properly incompressible data, which is the only way to get accurate results.
In my country, last year they started implementing 2G as a result of customer complaints, because 3G is too high-frequency to penetrate the communist reinforced walls.
So, you lose signal for 4G and all you'll have is 4G. That means your signal will become intermittent.
Try to choose a provider with better coverage in your area: https://www.nperf.com/en/map/US/-/-/signal/
Getting 100mbps on Fast.com right now and using Edge actually fixed the problem. Been working flawlessly so far.
Any idea why It's not working as good on Brave? Seems weird since every other streaming service is working fine
The US is 33rd for average *mobile internet speed globally, which is decently high given the low population density.
*We’re 9th for average broadband speed.
https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
For my own internet I'm getting 78/6 with 11 ms ping. I think I pay for 75/5.
I even use their limited package and this shit is extremely slow these days and disconnects like every 30mins. I'm really frustrated.
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Also OP, don't use speedtest.net for check the internet speed. The ISPs have whitelisted it so it can show unrealistic speeds. Use a service like fast.com
Comcast does not offer gigabyte service anywhere. Nor does any internet company list their speeds in terms of bytes.
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If you do a fast.com or speedtest.net test those will show you the bit speeds you are getting, for which 600-700 is acceptable. But if you are looking at download speeds in steam or chrome or wherever those show bytes, which is 1/8 the bit number
https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
this is the site yo'ure telling me to use. Usa is 7'th on the global speed index there with 120.30 Mbps
Wich means the country everyone complains about having slow internet is one of the fastest according to that data.
It's a disgrace to not have a good working SIM in Netherlands. There was enough time and even Andries lives there and could have fixed it for him.
There is no excuse we had such a low-quality stream. Streamer like Sebbity who streams in South Korea (midland), Jordan and now has a good quality stream in Romania in less than 1 day.
And there is enough sim coverage in the centrum of Amsterdam (https://www.nperf.com/en/map/NL/2759794.Amsterdam/10391.KPN-Mobile/signal/), but there just hasn't been any research what were the best options for the Teradek/S8.
Don't use speedtest, its basically a scam that doesn't really tell your true speed from different ISPS.
Use fast.com, Netflix made that site because too many people were complaining about this exact thing. It will show you your true down and up speed.
WTF? That's FTTH? That's lit brooo WTF. I mean, you only have it on Speedtest (that's something sketchy they're doing to get our country a higher ranking on Speedtest), but fast.com and all other websites should have the speed you're subscribed to.
Doesn't change my question, what fucking great city do you live in? Masha2allah y3ny
Some shady ISPs will boost priority to speedtest.net so connections appear to be faster.
Try an alternate site like http://www.testmy.net and see if the results are the same or not. If you have a smartphone I would also recommend testing on both the phone and the computer.
If any of those results vary the problem can be isolated.
Not true. Australia has the 9th fastest 4G speeds in the world which are literally DOUBLE the average US speeds (32 vs 14mbps) and i'm with the fastest carrier. Go look at https://opensignal.com/reports/2016/02/state-of-lte-q4-2015/ and check Telstra in Australia vs anything in the US.
Lol something like this happened to me recently, i was at work at this woman was complaining about they phone internet. So i was like let me check it out, they hand it over and i open browser to go fast.com and it comes up with "hardcore gay cowboy gangbang black cocks"! 0.0
Looks like you're all the way down in 91st place despite being over 16x smaller than the US. Imagine bragging about getting better internet speeds than Bubba in Montana.
Broadband improvement hai. Broadband speed nahi. Speed to abhi bhi China and US ki nearly 7 - 30 times zyada hai. here. ki kahin zyada hai. And I dont think that India has an improvement of 18.8 Mbps. I think its average speed is only 18.8 Mbps and that too, not everywhere. https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/india
According to non ookla resorces the average speed of broadband in India is 6.5 Mbps which seems to ring truer.
What kind of problems are you experiencing? If it's related to internet, then the game will have a smooth framerate when you for example rotate the camera but your character will be slow to respond when you click something. If the problem is with your computer itself then everything looks choppy when you rotate the camera, but your character will generally respond well to input.
If it's internet which causes the problem, first try checking task manager to see if there is nothing else on your computer that is using up all the bandwidth. Stuff like Steam suddenly deciding to update your library can severely impact the stability of your internet connection for example. You may also want to do a speedtest ( https://speedof.me or https://speedtest.net) to see if your bandwidth isn't limited. If the problems appeared suddenly then you might have reached a data limit and depending on your ISP the internet can become really slow and unstable after that.
If it's your PC which seems to have a problem, check if it may have a problem with temperature. If you open the performance tab on task manager, then you should be able to see the current CPU speed and the base speed. While you're running the game, the current speed should be higher than the base speed. If it's lower then you probably have overheating problems. Those are often caused by dust so in that case cleaning your computer might help. You may also want to check the processes tab in task manager and click on the CPU percentage to sort all programs by CPU usage. If something other than Runescape is at the top spot then this is probably a software issue (could be malware, but could also be just a normal program misbehaving, either way doing a virus scan shouldn't do any harm, but don't manually delete or force stop a program of which you don't know what it does).
If you can give more details then I can help more.
Man, after ~~weeks~~ months of no dramas with my customer, they've had everything fall over yesterday due to a VPN issue on their side, then first thing this morning, it looks like they've lost access to everything that we supply them with that requires a licence.
Just as I was gonna chuck a sicky.
On the plus side, the NBN guy actually came at exactly 8am this morning and was gone in about 15-20 mins, leaving me with a fully functioning service. Looks like even the switch from Telstra to ABB has gone smoothly!
You would be a qualified candidate for several Phoenix area companies in the 100k+ range. Many of those do have remote positions available. Can I PM you some postings? Where are you located and what is your internet speed? (Fast.com)
I'd advise against using speedtest. If there's intentional throttling in place, ISPs temporarily disable it so that it's not reflected in speedtest report. Alternatively you can use fast.com which is owned by Netflix, and more difficult for ISPs to trick.
Theoretically work from home demand shouldn’t come close to 1080p and 4k streaming demand at 9 shouldn’t it?
I’ve been doing intermittent speed tests all day all week and I’ve seen nothing different to usual speeds.
I’d like to add though the 4G network might come under more strain. Some companies are giving employees 4G dongles (paid for by company) to work from home. But Australia’s 4G network is great to start with anyway.
NBN: https://www.speedtest.net/result/9154523055.png Everything normal
4G: https://www.speedtest.net/result/9154528504.png Download normal but upload bad. Though I could check back in ten minutes and get wildly different speeds.
Immediate thing that comes to my mind: something like https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli, throw the data into a database of some sort, then point Grafana at it.
This isn't a bad idea - I might have a playaround with this to see what I come up with.
I actually did a hacky sort of thing recently when my ISP had a state-wide drop to about 1mbps up and down. There's a cli tool for speedtest here, and you can automate it by adding a script like this to your crontab. Doesn't do ping, just upload/download with a timestamp, but it's a good place to start.
LLAMA - Location Profiles can show you what cell towers are in the area.
Cellreception.com says there is one registered tower near killenworth, seems to have poor reception, and a T-mobile tower. Two towers for the entire oyster bay / glen cove / bayville peninsula.
There are a lot more around the highways.
Yeah, kind of red around the area on https://opensignal.com/
Her er hvad du gør. Du går ind på opensignal.com (alternativt henter du deres app) og finder ud af hvem der dækker bedst hvor du bor/arbejder/færdes. Derefter tegner du abonnement hos selskabets no-frills brand: TDC = Telmore eller Fullrate, Telia/Telenor (det er samme netværk) = CBB eller Call Me eller 3 = Oyster. Alle de selskaber har et billigt abonnement, der koster mellem 80-150 kr/md, afhængig af hvad du vil have med i pakken.
God fornøjelse.
- Énormément de compétition, les services de télécommunication sont très nombreux en Russie. Par contre, internet a tendance à être plus lent qu'ailleurs.
- Pas vraiment. La couverture de téléphonie mobile est presque exclusive au sud-ouest (la région métropolitaine).
Provided by nperf.com, you can have a look at the maps yourself. There should be no issue with the amount of coverage in LA, most is Red and Orange with T-Mobile (4G). Using "shit NA Internet" just isn't a good excuse. /u/Jacob_Cx and /u/Ice_Poseidon you should have a look at this.
Your connection is not the only limiting factor. A lot of places have traffic shaping so even if you could theoretically hit 250 mbps down you'll never go beyond what they are limiting you to.
Generally speaking the best benchmarks are Steam downloads (huge CDN and basically unthrottled), YouTube's built in "Connection Speed" under Stats for Nerds (stream something like a 4K 60 FPS video), Fast.com, and Speedtest.net. Fast is mostly useful for Netflix and Speedtest is known to be inflated. Torrenting like you tried is also great but can provide mixed results with little use outside of other torrent downloads.
On the flipside of USG, try using a non-biased third party tester as a control test: https://fast.com
fast.com is owned and operated from the same servers Netflix uses to host their streaming service. They have a vested interest in identifying the sources of network issues in order to resolve or offload the blame for a customer outage as their payed for and provided service is 24/7 streaming HD videos.
Verizon (and other ISPs) has been known to white-list the normal speed testing sites and downgrade traffic to multicast. So I have issues trusting most speed testing sites due to the ISP fiddling with preferred protocols and paths.
Like I told the other guy just now:
> In the future, I would recommend using something like https://fast.com/, which Netflix (a company ISPs love to slow down) runs off its own servers. The beauty of it is that, because it runs off the same servers Netflix uses to stream video, ISPs can't artificially speed it up without speeding up Netflix's streaming service as a whole.
I can't believe they expect me to wait 17 whole minutes to patch the game dude. So unfair. =O
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Europe is way ahead of North America.
https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
I have fibre at home and truly unlimited LTE at nearly 150 Mbps for 20 USD / mo.
What American ISPs and carriers are doing is basically unprecedented in the West.
Folks, to see what internet speed you are truly getting, go to https://speedof.me/ and click Start Test. After it spins for a bit you'll see two lines like below. You may have to try this multiple times to get an accurate assessment. (But the truth is, I had 7mbps from BellSouth for years and watched Netflix just fine over it, so don't let a vendor talk you into a zillion Mbps unless you really need it!)
Download Speed: 71.36 Mbps
Upload Speed: 56.99 Mbps
If the user is on a carrier that throttles video (some wired internet providers do it as well, but it's less common than wireless) using WARP can help. This is why people in the US made a big fuss about net neutrality on Reddit a few years ago - providers are treated differently.
If you're curious about whether your provider does this - run a test on SpeedTest and one on fast.com. The latter tests to Netflix's servers, so it'll give you your video streaming speed.
Verizon / T-Mobile / AT&T in the US will all throttle your Netflix speed on their base plan, though some offer addons / upgrades to full speed.
>I tested Ethernet speed from each cable using an Xbox one s , PS4 and the tv (Netflix) and am only getting ~57mbps down from each cable.
For starters, don't use consumer entertainment devices for network throughput testing.
Use a PC or a wired laptop.
Use a variety of internet speed test sites- fast.com, speedtest.net, whatever has a local server.
- That iPad supports Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax). If you're connected to a Wi-Fi 6 router, then it'll most likely be faster.
- You have to make sure you're connected to the same network and wireless band (5 GHz vs. 2.4 GHz). The latter will almost always be slower as long as you're not too far away.
- I have an iPhone XR and I've hit 600+ Mbps easily with my old wireless router from 2017. I get similar speeds with my new Wi-Fi 6 router but without any of the Wi-Fi 6 benefits. It's definitely not a "weak antenna" or "design flaw" situation with the XR. At least not when it comes to Wi-Fi.
- Use Speedtest.net. I find that it provides more realistic results. Fast.com caps out at around 200-250 Mbps for me.
Nope. If he's paying for 30Mbps, he's only really getting 30Mbps (OP can test on fast.com or try downloading and he'll get what he's paying for (which are up to 200)).
I am not salty, I am just mad WE is doing this thing, whitelisting Speedtest servers and giving them full line speed, to increase Egypt's ranking on Speedtest while throttling all (and I mean all) other websites. I hope we can get these Speedtest for real use one day, with acceptable quotas for sure.
I’ve hit over 300mbps on T-Mobile LTE. I don’t think matching those speeds will be an issue once they receive sprints spectrum, if the merger goes though. https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/3568450514
When I moved I went from Comcast's fastest package at the time, 250 Mbps down and 25 Mbps up, to symmetrical gigabit and the internet now feels like an extension of my own home network. I don't have to use any traffic management rules at my router anymore, I can just let things go without any speed limitations, and everything else using the internet can't even tell I'm doing anything. I fully support everyone should have access to good symmetrical fiber connections, DSL & cable really do feel old after having fiber.
I'm on CenturyLink's price for life package for $65/month after taxes and fees.
Agree, Fiberlink 500 de la Digi, nu pica, nu limiteaza, ba chiar uneori primesc 750 mbps. (nu am afiliatii cu digi, doar am avut ocazia sa incerc si digi si romtelecom, am tras concluzia ca digi e mai ieftin si mai bun, asta in regiunea mea)
https://www.speedtest.net/result/8343435809.png
To use Speedtest without Flash, try speedtest-cli. It's even usable without a GUI.
Shumway works for replacing basic Flash functions like “copy to clipboard” buttons.
Back on topic, it's too bad they call it digital rights management when it is really in fact digital restrictions management.
1Gb/sec is fairly easy to obtain termination wise. It should be the same as with 5e.
10Gb/sec in homes is fairly up in the air. It should be possible in shorter lengths on CAT6 and even CAT5e, however I think that will be a "wait and see how it works on consumer grade hardware when that time comes".
If it were me I would not invest in testing equipment for your home. It is expensive and overkill. Instead I would leave some slack (couple feet) in each of your runs (on both ends) to allow for re-termination if needed when that time comes (10Gb/sec).
I have had good luck with LanSpeed Test (http://www.totusoft.com/lanspeed1.html) to ensure the run is capable of 1Gb/sec. If you get close (900Mb/sec) with no packet loss, your termination job is just fine.
If you've gone over your 22gb, then you could be deprioritized like people on the Go plan.
But Open Signal says T-mobile is the best in OKC.
https://opensignal.com/reports/2018/07/usa/state-of-the-mobile-network
It's largely because carriers and ISPs have been caught overtly and covertly throttling high-bandwidth services like Netflix before. It's essentially a cost-saving measure because the less bandwidth each person takes up the more people they can shove onto the net without having to upgrade it to accommodate more people.
5G is a nice and promising standard, but applications starting to support 5G and 5G being deployed in certain places won't mean that the backbone of the internet is going to simultaneously be upgraded to handle the average increased throughput by a factor of like twenty.
Even 4G is technically supposed to support speeds of upwards of 1Gbit/s, while 4G LTE (what's commonly referered to as 4G despite being a different shittier standard) is supposed to support somewhere around 50 Mbit, but this source for example claims the average speed in the U.S. is a paltry 16 Mbit/s. Quite far behind even current-day technology, let alone any promises 5G might hold.
Because upgrading phones to 5G and starting to provide 5G coverage does not mean that the backbone of the U.S internet infrastructure (gateways, cables, datacenters, etc) is going to be upgraded, and given U.S. ISP's history of throttling high-bandwidth services, introducing data caps or trying to charge extra for them (likely an effort to drive average consumption down) rather than investing in upgrading the network, I feel the likelihood that 5G will roll out and not cost either a truckload of money or be a miniscule upgrade is quite low.
This is what I meant with what Netflix taught us. ISP's seem to prefer to drive average consumption down while offering the illusion of choice (get 1 GBit/s for only 2 thousand a month!) rather than actually offering upgrades. 5G might arrive, and it might be fast, but with the current trend I'd expect it to be more of a super expensive premium option.
They also have the best speeds/4G availability. I used to be on 3 and it was pretty annoying the amount of times you were on 3G. There was also that issue with the iPhone 7 and not connecting to 3’s 4G.
Some important due diligence to perform before switching to MVNOs (or any provider, really):
Check the coverage in your area to be sure the network you're going to be relying on is strong where you will be using it.
Check your device to make sure it is compatible with the appropriate network bands.
I recently switched to MintSIM after being on Verizon forever. Bought a used iPhone SE on Swappa (to adhere to the GSM requirements of the TMobile network) and am currently trying out 5GB data with unlimited voice for $20/month for 3 months. No complaints so far and barring any type of major issue I will be purchasing the year long pre-paid plan when it comes due.
No speedtest sites are accurate to measure gigabit speeds. Fast.com is the worst even speedtest.net is inaccurate.. many times I get 1+ gbps when my port itself is gigabit.
Granted a speed test isn't a true test of reliability, but the only time I haven't gotten those speeds was when my modem got a problematic firmware update.
Look at Mr fancypants over here with 5-10 megabit upload speed. Meanwhile in Australia.
Good thing this isn't a speed test taken in the capital city of the country, that would just be depressing..... (Kill me).
Well, according to Ookla, the average mobile download speed in Afghanistan is 6.29mbps and upload speed is 2.70mbps. keep in mind that back in 2012 only between 5-10% of Afghans had internet though, and the download speed was around 0.56mbps, and wealthier, more westernized and technologically-savvy Afghans are likely to use Speedtest, and foreign military bases that use Speedtest may influence the results. Also, obviously the Taliban are not often residing in undamaged developed areas, so they will likely be using mobile or satellite data, which has much higher latency. Also, more tech-savvy members would probably have installed proxies or VPNs on their devices to avoid monitoring of their traffic and location by enemy forces.
Additionally, the vast majority of Taliban grunts would not have access to the internet at all, as the Taliban leadership sees it as a vector of Western corruption and immorality.
First, every ISP sucks. They all just suck different ways. Moving on....
Had Comcast and switched to AT&T Fiber in February. I'm in the Tower District.
Just tested (at 4:50pm) at 329.83Mbps down and 171.97Mbps up, 17ms latency. (speedof.me).
That seems about average for me.
Had one problem right after installation (like the next day); one of the fiber connections hadn't been made well by the tech and the connection went out; they fixed it the next day. Haven't had problems since.
Unlimited data use is awesome.
https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/united-states
Data is gathered based on people who run speed tests. The chart's accurate title should be, "Average speed of users who decided to run a speed test while on their network."
We should know, and account for: 1. How many people ran the tests from each carrier. 2. Why are they initiating the tests? (New area? Slow speeds? Etc.) 3. What are other carrier speeds in similar locations at similar times? 4. Where were the tests run?
I could go on and on, but aggregating 85 million speed tests run from an app to provide an overall performance score is pretty lame.
https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/afeb0a86-21e9-4d45-b002-c543ea9e88e1
FTTN. Connected last week. It all depends on your distance back to the node. Mine is approximately 392m.
Once your area goes live, you can go to https://futurebroadband.com.au/sq/ and enter your address. This will tell you what NBN estimates is possible for your address and so far I’ve found it to be accurate within 1Mbps over a few tested connections.
Also I’d suggest going with a high quality, highly skilled and transparent company such as Aussie Broadband.
If you like, I can assist you along the way and answer any questions you have. In exchange I’d ask that you use my referral code when signing up for Aussie Broadband so that we both get $50 credit. (I’m handing out my mums referral to get her a discount).
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- Testing over Wifi for ISP speed or latency is bad, wifi testing merely shows 1- you need a new AP or 2- Your device is having issues. It does not test line speed of the ISP.
- test to a different speedtest server , like speedtest.net ; or use fast.com
- Fios officially Sells 940/880; so you may not get more then that, but many do.
Right let's take a look at this that tracks the amount of active 5G masts globally. Lets look at the UK and, more specifically, Scotland... since we're on r/Scotland.
There are only 14 active 5G masts in the whole country. The exact same number as there was at the beginning on the pandemic. So it doesn't look like there is any rush from any of the mobile providers to be upgrading the infrastructure during the pandemic. The number for the whole of the UK, 204 masts, has also remained the same since the beginning of the pandemic.
>or part of some plans to further an authoritative agenda, endgame being similar to how China operates?
How does one make the jump from "mobile technology that allows you to browse the web on your phone slightly quicker than on previous technology" to "iTs ThE sTaRt Of FaScIsM"? Gonny enlighten me because I just really can't get my head around that at all.
>Please show me the "public records of the money being given to these companies". I'll wait.
no need to wait long.
seeing as most of our major cities don't even have an actual fiber network 20 years after the target date, you might be able to make the connection that half a trillion dollars worth of infrastructure hasn't been laid.
please, babe, do explain where all these hundreds of billions of taxpayers dollars went during years of already profitable business with no real infrastructure improvement to speak of.
>I also look forward to seeing how the US does not have a "modern network"
uh, sure. let's go check some unbiased speed comparisons.
what's that? the US doesn't make the top ten for average broadband speeds worldwide, and doesn't even crack the top 30 for worldwide mobile speeds? whaaaaat?
the other issue that the US has is that we have a massive rural population that isn't getting anywhere near "average" speeds. our average speed is about ~130Mbps according to the above speed tests, yet we have nearly half the country trying to get by with less than 5Mbps.
how the fuck do you think we have a modern network when so many people are relegated to internet speeds DSL owners got nearly 30 years ago on literal telephone lines?
...lemme guess, you think the Super Nintendo is still bleeding-edge tech in 2020.