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  • ptrooper
    ptrooper Posts: 729
    edited September 27
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    I'd like to see if anyone can beat that.. B) .ethernet all the way. No 1gb bottlenecks there,Gaming heaven,100gb in under 6 minutes <3
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  • halen
    halen Posts: 743
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    I had every room in my home re-wired beyond 6E. It was not required of short distances. I also upgraded my routers to wifi 7. Older laptops and phones do not have the hardware built in to handle the speeds. So I upgraded most of those as well.

    The grand scheme of things, I am no where, remotely, considered fast compared to others around me.

    As for speed of downloading a song. I wish I could boil water that fast on my camping trips with my kiddos.

    Cheers.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 20,357
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    Halen, that is seriously impressive. I have the latest and greatest modem and router (mesh), but my speeds are nowhere even remotely close to those kinds of speeds. Are you on some sort of hyperdrive plan or what?

    Tom
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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 2,154
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    Wow, way faster than my computer could handle.
    Awesome.
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  • halen
    halen Posts: 743
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    treitz3 wrote: »
    Halen, that is seriously impressive. I have the latest and greatest modem and router (mesh), but my speeds are nowhere even remotely close to those kinds of speeds. Are you on some sort of hyperdrive plan or what?

    Tom

    Hey Tom.
    I originally was going for the 1gb up/down speeds but decided what the heck, I love bandwidth. With every device in my connected home streaming HD content or whatever... it does not come close to 1gb speed. All the HD movie streaming. Yeah seriously compressed.

    I am a sucker for a great price and additional bandwidth. So I went with 2gb fiber straight to my home connected via an ONT box. For half the price running on copper at 1/4 the speed. A carton of cigarettes cost more than my monthly payment. There are much higher speeds available that do not apply to me. Such as having a crypto mining setup.

    What I save there, I throw into index, mutual, etf, for my kids custodial growth accounts.

    Cheers.
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  • ptrooper
    ptrooper Posts: 729
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    I have fibre into my office and started with the 500mbps plan.

    The maximum residential bandwidth available in Caversham, Perth, is 1 Gbps (1,000 Mbps) download. Because Caversham is part of the greater Perth metropolitan area, it is serviced by fixed-line NBN network infrastructure.

    The actual maximum speed you can get depends entirely on the physical connection technology at your specific address:

    NBN Connection Technology Maximum Download Speed Eligibility & Availability
    Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) 1 Gbps (1,000 Mbps) Available to fully upgraded homes. Supports NBN 1000 tiers.
    Fibre to the Curb (FTTC) 500 Mbps Supports up to the NBN 500 tier.
    Fibre to the Node (FTTN) 100 Mbps Highly dependent on how close your house is to the neighborhood node.
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,873
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    WiFi 7 router made a difference here as well. I ran Cat5e to as much of the house as I could, every TV and device in the HT is ethernet connected too, though the limitations of the devices themselves renders most speeds moot (at least that's what Optimum installer told me). @halen I am curious what device you measured with to get that speed? Even a 1Gb ethernet card in a PC only gets about 1.4Gbps download, my plan is 2GB.
    So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?


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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 8,237
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    Many newer computers come with a 2.5Gbe ports. My Mac Mini has one, but the rest of my network is all 1Gbe, so it isn't utilized. I looked at getting a 2.5Gbe switch(s), but they are still pretty expensive to get one that isn't a cheap consumer grade product. I like to use at least SMB or retired enterprise equipment and those haven't hit the used market yet.
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,873
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    I see that I can get one cheap enough, but spending $25 and configuring the card just to see if I'm getting what I'm paying for doesn't seem like it's worth the effort. I can actually upgrade to 5 or even 8Gb if I wanted, but it's overkill IMO. I have noticed that all of my wireless cameras are much easier to access, but that's probably also due to the fact that I added 2 WiFi extenders?
    So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?


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  • halen
    halen Posts: 743
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    The first thing I did was replace my home 1gb network switch to 2.5gb. My home mesh network are connected through cat cables.
    Then. Updated to newer Laptops, and tablets. Phones will be next but not high on the list. I did benchmark the speed on a newer phone over wifi and I was shocked how fast it was.

    Cheers.
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,873
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    So I now realize I would have to start there; I'd be replacing a 16 port, an 8 port, and 3 x 4 port switches, all of which are 1Gb, to take advantage. And even then, everything else would be where the limits would show themselves (TVs, PS4s, Wii, etc.). I will live with the mystery of what my broadband ethernet potential could be... B)
    So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?


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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,447
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    $130/mo for these blazing speeds.
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  • halen
    halen Posts: 743
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    I feel your pain Paul. Six years of dealing with a monopoly at my place. When home 5G ultra came along, I was excited. For about a minute. It sucked.
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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,447
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    halen wrote: »
    I feel your pain Paul. Six years of dealing with a monopoly at my place. When home 5G ultra came along, I was excited. For about a minute. It sucked.

    Sadly and unbelievably, these speeds are an upgrade over my former provider. Unfortunately, I’m in some odd little pocket right outside of town where my only choices are Starlink and my previous local provider. My brother lives in the boonies and has more choices and better service.
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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,865
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    Spectrum Cable service, my iPhone was used as the device:

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    The test was run while my wife was on a video conference. Not sure if that had any impact.

    We briefly switched to Verizon Fios, but went back to Spectrum as the service from Verizon was horrible.

    We had more internet drops with Fios, and then a failed modem within 5 weeks of install.

    The best part, Verizon wasn’t willing to send someone out to fix it for over a full week.

    I called them back and let them know their crap was on my porch, and I had reconnected service with Spectrum in under 12hours.

    My understanding from someone that works for Fios, the technology is solid and technically more stable/faster. But they are using cheap as hell hardware that’s glitchy at best and fails frequently.
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,873
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    776 on RG6 coax is nothing to sneeze at. And until Optimum offered fiber, every plan they had capped uploads at 40Mbps, never found out why. Fiber is supposed to be balanced, and I guess it's better but not always close to download.
    Optimum stuff is still low-bid, volume discount gear IMO; it's why I got a TP-Link router of my own and two TP-Link WiFi extenders.

    And you still got a nice pool table. :)
    So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?


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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,865
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    polrbehr wrote: »
    776 on RG6 coax is nothing to sneeze at. And until Optimum offered fiber, every plan they had capped uploads at 40Mbps, never found out why. Fiber is supposed to be balanced, and I guess it's better but not always close to download.
    Optimum stuff is still low-bid, volume discount gear IMO; it's why I got a TP-Link router of my own and two TP-Link WiFi extenders.

    And you still got a nice pool table. :)

    Download speeds on Fios were actually slower than what I’m getting from Spectrum.

    1gb plan from both:

    Fios was 600/600 on average.

    Spectrum is 750-800/40 on average.

    The way lower upload speeds haven’t been an issue on my end.

    My wife does a lot of video conferencing, and she doesn’t notice any difference between the two services. If anything she likes Spectrum more strictly because Fios was disconnecting randomly so much.

    A lot of our issues seem to point to a faulty/poor modem (actually, an ONT). We have always used our own router networks.
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