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amdx[_3_]

On 2/27/2018 12:17 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:36:00 -0600, amdx wrote:

I have 30Mbps

I often wonder how that translates to the real world. I had a lot of
conversations with various tech support groups leading up to switching
my web host and the problems that prompted that.
The consensus was running a speed test to your ISPs test site was
meaningless other than what the max is you can get. When you go to 3d
party sites, that is a test of your servers and their servers but the
real issue is what you can actually get when talking to a web site or
other service. I know my news server is not even close to being able
to keep my 10mb pipe full. I have also had times when Amazon was not
able to keep a stream going without buffering, even tho I still had
plenty of capacity on my end. (I could start a Netflix). It was just a
new show on Prime and I am guessing they were slammed.
That huge capacity may be good for multiple users hitting multiple
byte hungry sites but I am not sure it is of a lot of value for 1 or 2
users. My wife's place was running the whole club on one Comcast line
and they finally had to buy another one, not because of throughput but
simply because one IP address could not support the number of unique
sub net IPs they had on the LAN. Granted all of them were not
streaming cat videos on Facebook but it was more than a few.

I don't know, I just know, I'm not limited by my internet speed, unless
my kids are home and my son is game playing and my daughter is streaming
something.
When I'm at the marina on their wifi, for 10 years I survived on just
under 1Mbps! In the recent past, I hit over 3 Mbps on a speedtest,
Blazing speed :-) I just did a speed test I got 1.91Mbps, I fired up the
Foxnews Youtube live stream and then did a speedtest, it dropped to
1.45Mbps.
Mikek