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Not amazing compared to some of the speeds on here, but Spectrum (the only option where I live) just upped our DL speed to 400 Mbps. Still 10 up, but this is the 3rd time they've upped the DL speed over the last few years, seems to be about every 2 years or so.

Price is still the about same as it was after my promotional price ended. It went up $3/month this year, but that's the first increase I've seen.
 
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Christopher11 said:
Could it be your cellular provider? Which one do you use? I use Xfinity, which I believe is on the Verizon network.
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I am a long-time VZ subscriber.

Personally, I lean towards congestion of the network being at the root.

That being said, there's absolutely no excuse for a regular subscriber on any network (in any Metropolitan Area) to face signal deficiencies.
 
120/30.

I tried 1000/1000 Wi-Fi 5 for a year in 2019 and 1500/1000 Wi-Fi 6 for a month in 2024, but this one needs to be in the basement. It would result in roughly a 100/100 connection upstairs, but it was so unstable I could barely work.

For me : Stable 120/30 > Unstable 1500/1000
 
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1000/1000. It makes life with a VPN easier since whenever I leave the house my WG von activates and sends all traffic through my router and then back to my phone. It’s $109.99 for the speed, and static IP’s.
 
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My last software update came in at 150-160 MB/s. That's impressive, but I'd rather have more upload speed. My provider (Rogers in Toronto - cable internet, same hardware as Comcast in the US) already provides 200 Mbps upload for residential service in other neighbourhoods, but hasn't bothered upgrading our neighbourhood yet. Actually, that's not true. They do have 200 Mbps up in my neighbourhood, but only if you pay through the nose for business internet service.

BTW, I just got my first 10 GbE Mac, the new M4 Mac mini. Before that it was always Gigabit. However, my existing CAT5e was not up to the task of even 2.5 Gbps, so I had to switch to my CAT6 run.
 
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FWIW, my 930/930 Mbps internet service costs $89(US)/month with fiber installed about 2.5 years ago. Before that it was Spectrum with 240/10 Mbps - with my wife just using streaming TV, we've completely cut the ties with cable.

The PON supposedly has a 2.5G Ethernet port, and I'm contemplating getting a 2.5G router and other hardware to speed up my intranet. I'll be curious to see if the CAT5e cabling is up to snuff for 2.5GE. I did get the 10GE port for my new Mini, one weekend project will be setting up the new machine - my wife was very surprised at the size.
 
my 3Gbit/3Gbit fibre from Bell Canada is $85/month (CDN) with the student discount they give out every fall.
 
IvyKing said:
FWIW, my 930/930 Mbps internet service costs $89(US)/month with fiber installed about 2.5 years ago. Before that it was Spectrum with 240/10 Mbps - with my wife just using streaming TV, we've completely cut the ties with cable.

The PON supposedly has a 2.5G Ethernet port, and I'm contemplating getting a 2.5G router and other hardware to speed up my intranet. I'll be curious to see if the CAT5e cabling is up to snuff for 2.5GE. I did get the 10GE port for my new Mini, one weekend project will be setting up the new machine - my wife was very surprised at the size.
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If you have a good wireless router that can be used as a wireless access point, you may want to consider getting a mini PC with 2 x 2.5 Gbe LAN ports installing pfsense or opnsense to wind up with a very powerful and versatile wired router.
 
Audit13 said:
If you have a good wireless router that can be used as a wireless access point, you may want to consider getting a mini PC with 2 x 2.5 Gbe LAN ports installing pfsense or opnsense to wind up with a very powerful and versatile wired router.
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That's one of the options that I've been considering as I greatly prefer a wired router over a wireless router and usually set up "wireless routers" as access points. My take is that the fewer things going on with the router, the more secure it will be. I'm really tempted with doing an OpenBSD installation on a mini PC and set it up so that administration is done via the serial port. Another advantage of the mini PC approach is that the "guest network" can be completely separate from the home intranet.
 
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IvyKing said:
That's one of the options that I've been considering as I greatly prefer a wired router over a wireless router and usually set up "wireless routers" as access points. My take is that the fewer things going on with the router, the more secure it will be. I'm really tempted with doing an OpenBSD installation on a mini PC and set it up so that administration is done via the serial port. Another advantage of the mini PC approach is that the "guest network" can be completely separate from the home intranet.
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pfsense or opnsense may be better and simpler to maintain remotely since both can be configured with the OS GUI.

Both sense versions can accomodate VLANs, VPNs, Adguard, etc. which are also popular features.
 
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Audit13 said:
pfsense or opnsense may be better and simpler to maintain remotely since both can be configured with the OS GUI.

Both sense versions can accomodate VLANs, VPNs, Adguard, etc. which are also popular features.
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I checked the pfsense website and noted the associated Netgate products list. The 4200 looks to be the closest to what I was thinking, with the distinct advantage that the hardware was specifically designed for use as a firewall/router, including a USB connection for serial port. The OpneBSD approach would aso use "pf" as the basic routing/firewall engine, though with manual configuration and finding suitable hardware.
 
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Another speed test that includes buffer bloat is here: https://www.waveform.com/tools/buff...a3DhR6jMdu8vW9e3ivK4J7wg_hN8stpD9knZDO1HMQ_Wt
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Thanks to you & I believe there was someone earlier who posted a speed test that measures buffer bloat. I'd never heard fit before, but work from home, so this interested me. Turns out my router has an SQM setting, which was turned off by default. By turning it on. I was able to move my test result from a C to a B. Not an amazing result, but for something as easy as turning on a setting, I'll take it.
 
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Back on 1000/50 (churned ISP at same price I was paying for 100/40), though still on a HFC connection. The 225 Mbit is through an aging UniFi AC LR AP and the other using an ethernet adapter. Now to upgrade the AP.

Though not in a rush, my small server (does the heavy downloading), Apple TV and PS5 are wired and I'm just general browsing on my Air. Though transferring between Air and server could do with a boost.
 
"Pretty slow: https://www.speedtest.net/result/17063626602"

431mbps isn't "slow". Even if the upload speeds are slower, it's the "downstream" that really counts.

For years, I was using ATT "Uverse" DSL, getting about 3.5mbps, and thought I was doing ok.

(these days, have Frontier fiber, with about 940mbps, much better...) :cool:
 
Upload speeds are important if you're doing a lot of backups to the "cloud". Oe of the first things I did when I got my M1 Mini was loading photos from the SD cards (they're cheap enough that I don't bother to erase) and wondering why the transfers were taking so bloody long. I then found out that the transfers were limited by the 10Mbps cable upload, so turned off iCloud backup of photos. 84Mbps is much better than 10Mbps.

Frontier fiber should be turning into Verizon fiber in the near future - after unloading a lot of the former GTE assets to Frontier, Verizon apparently is realizing the former GTE franchises are worth something as fiber looks to be the future of fixed telecom.
 
I work from home and often upload files that are 1 to 5 GB in size so fast upload is essential for me which is why I stick with fibre even though cable internet would save me some money.
 
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I would take symmetrical 250 over my 1000/50 if it was available/same price. We do have 1000/400 here but only for FttP and a high price.
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Yeah, I'm on 1500 / 50 and getting 1800 / 50, on cable internet. I'd rather have 300 / 300.

A lot of the neighbourhoods in my city have 1500 / 200 service but I guess they haven't updated my neighbourhood's infrastructure yet. What really makes me jealous is those other neighbourhoods were also on 1500 / 50 but they each just got automagically updated to 1500 / 200 one day with no change in their prices.

What really annoys me though is that my neighbourhood does have 1500 / 200 for business accounts, but it's either 2-3X the price or else requires a 3-year contract. So clearly some of the infrastructure is already in place, but I guess it isn't robust enough yet to support entire neighbourhoods at those speeds.

We do have symmetrical fibre here but it has its own problems, particularly related to TV service (which unfortunately my family still wants).
 
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