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On 2/27/2018 3:34 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:49:43 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/27/2018 1:17 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. Years ago when we wintered in Florida we had DSL because cable was not available. It worked ok but videos and HD media was not as popular and as heavily downloaded back then. When I opened the guitar shop in 2009 the building was not wired for cable so I had to get DSL again. That's when I really starting to notice the difference between the shop's DSL Internet speed and the speed of Comcast cable we had at the house. I used to update the shop's website daily and the program I used reloaded all of the website's content which would take forever on DSL. I ended up doing it at home after the shop closed. On cable the complete site would upload in less than 30 seconds. At the shop it sometimes took 5-10 minutes and often it would hang up and I'd have to start all over again. There is a difference, especially when more and more devices are added. Now with two or cell phones constantly connected, multiple computers, tablets, Smart TVs, etc., I can't see how DSL can be quick enough, but I don't have it anymore so I don't know. === DSL was always much slower on upload compared to download if I recall correctly. It was a feature. :-) I think that's true of cable also. But here's something I found interesting when I did the speed tests to compare the AT&T WiFi in the truck and Comcast WiFi. AT&T's uploads were always a bit faster than the downloads. Maybe it's because the download speeds were very slow in comparison. |
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