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| Thread ID: 142981 | 2016-10-24 22:33:00 | Gigabit broadband experiences? | Nomad (952) | Press F1 |
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| 1427797 | 2016-10-24 22:33:00 | Just wondering if anyone have tried this and what your experience have been? Just curious about it. We are on a 100/20 connection. Let's say it is a single computer or at the time single use in a shared household. Streaming I would assume practically the slower connections should be more than enough. We don't really do fullsize media uploads. For those who do a lot of downloads, what is realistic one could get? Obviously using a network cable instead of Wi-Fi etc etc. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1427798 | 2016-10-24 22:56:00 | Just wondering if anyone have tried this and what your experience have been? Just curious about it. We are on a 100/20 connection. Let's say it is a single computer or at the time single use in a shared household. Streaming I would assume practically the slower connections should be more than enough. We don't really do fullsize media uploads. For those who do a lot of downloads, what is realistic one could get? Obviously using a network cable instead of Wi-Fi etc etc. You need to be realistic. :) A PC downloads will be limited by your HD write speed(on big files), by the speed of the servers hosting that file, by the speed of the internet connection at the other end : remembering the 'other end' may have many trying to download at once , by the number of hops & the speed of the connection between you & the other end. Even the increase in Netflix use was enough to slow down many actual home internet speeds not long back, during peak use . Gb will be the connect speed, thats all . Should be good for speedtest.net results bragging :) |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1427799 | 2016-10-25 02:41:00 | It varies. I'm on Gigabit, I can get over 400mbps to California even at peak times, so basically everything is *insanely* fast. It means family within NZ who I share my Plex Library with also can happily watch things at the original quality, multiple streams, with no issue. That said, when Battle.NET are on a go-slow, there's nothing I can do about that and my speeds to them are not increased as a result, because they are the limiting factor. I've also had to replace my router, as my TP-Link TL-WR1043NDv2 (Also tested with the TP-Link Archer C7) maxes out around 160mbps. Borrowed a friends Asus router he got for his 200/200 plan and I couldn't get much faster than the 200mbps, so I've gone with a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter-X, and the WiFi is now operating in a "WiFi -> LAN Bridge" mode, not doing NAT, so I'm able to sustain MUCH faster speeds even on WiFi. I have another mate who's on a 200/200 plan with 2degrees. To California, he gets just shy of 5mbps during peak timing (Though still gets 200mbps nationally). Keep this in mind, because your ISP can play a HUGE role in where you get good speeds to. If you're only doing the odd upload and you don't "live" on the internet, the 100/20 plan is realistically more than sufficient for most households, especially given many ISP's will charge a decent 'premium' over and above the 100/20 plan price for gigabit. It's a "nice to have", Gigabit, without a doubt... But when we tell most of our customers that if they want an all-in-one router they're gonna be spending close to $600 for one that will actually *do* gigabit (Keeping in mind just because it has a gigabit port doesn't mean it'll ever actually get anywhere near that speed if the router is doing NAT), they decide it's not worth it. Look at it that way for yourself: You'll need to either get a new router like the Nighthawk R8000 to make the most of it. Are you OK with forking out for that premium? Will your ISP also keep up with you and give you those speeds over and above 100mbps internationally? If you do a speedtest.net test at 8PM / 9PM, say to Monkey Brains server in San Francisco (California), do you currently get 100mbps? If you're not getting 100mbps, on your 100mbps plan, you'll see no benefit of "The Gig" aside from national downloads (Steam, Akamai, and MAYBE a Netflix cache, though generally Netflix / YouTube comes from Aus), so is it *really* worth paying a premium if your ISP can't keep up? Do you often notice "Damn, I'm peaking my connection at 12.5MB/sec and I really wish it would hurry up and go faster!"? If not, again, probably not really worth it... Marketing, it's great, and same for comparing e-penis size, but otherwise it's largely over-hyped. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1427800 | 2016-10-26 20:24:00 | Under http://speedtest.monkeybrains.net/ I get 28/4. Thursday 9.24AM. How do you manage to get 400MBps Chill? |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1427801 | 2016-10-26 20:37:00 | Under http://speedtest.monkeybrains.net/ I get 28/4. Thursday 9.24AM. How do you manage to get 400MBps Chill? at work this morning ,both Mb/s ( not MB/s) monkeybrains : 7.5/1.7 speedtest.net : 90/25 so either monkey brains is bandwidth limited, giving false results or ISP's are prioritizing speedtest.net , to give false results that dont match actual real world usuage through that ISP Ive long suspected some ISP's might try & rig things to fudge speedtest results . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1427802 | 2016-10-26 20:39:00 | Do a test to it through speedtest.net, and not direct to that "mini" one, coz it seems that server itself is slow. Even testing from a VM I have in the USA, I only get ~40mbps to it, same from my home. Definitely go to speedtest.net and find the server manually: 7605 |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1427803 | 2016-10-26 20:57:00 | Here it is .. www.speedtest.net I get a 88/10. Would gigabit customers get more or prioritized by the ISP? Or would they just get the same as me. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1427804 | 2016-10-26 21:06:00 | That monkeybrains test shows really low results - far lower than we are seeing in real-world usage. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1427805 | 2016-10-27 22:09:00 | So 88/10 isn't *too* bad, for a 100/20 UFB connection. My mate who's with Snap (Now 2degrees) gets under 10mbps during peak times. Agreed, the monkeybrains speedtest.net Mini server must be on some other server of theirs that has limitations, and isn't a good test. Gigabit is nice, was downloading from Steam last night at 32MB/sec, but the problem was the NZ Steam server couldn't keep up with me. Was downloading to a SSD, so I know the issue wasn't my side, and was able to bring up and do a speedtest and still get another 500mbps+ internationally at the time: www.speedtest.net The way I see it: It's faster than 200mbps UFB, but you won't get "gigabit" to the rest of the world in a single threaded download. It means wherever you're downloading from realistically can't be on Gigabit, but rather has to have a 10G SFP+ Fibre connection to the rest of the world, and most places simply don't... As far as I'm aware, for the most part ISP's aren't giving Gig any priority, if anything they'd lower it because it CAN abuse the network so much more (eg 10 users doing a speedtest will max a 10G link, however 50x 200/200 users would nee dto be doing a speedtest to max that same link). For the most part, the traffic graphs for a Gig user are around the same as a 100/20 user, they'll "spike" a bit as they download whatever file, but then it'll go back to sitting idle again... It just spikes a bit higher and goes back to idle a bit faster. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1427806 | 2016-10-31 08:35:00 | i've got a tplink archer c2 AC750; what sort of performance should i expect? rang vodafone up a few days ago after they started laying fiber outside my house. was told i'd get 100 credit if i wasn't connected within 3 days. a few moments later they tried to renege after it turns out i can't be connected for several weeks/months. Needless to say i ended up getting my $100 credit after talking to a few managers. I'm currently on 130/10 megabit cable, pretty satisfied but i signed a 12 month contract 2 weeks ago days before they started their marketing campaign. was told repeatedly (as i have been for the past several years) that they didn't know when gigabit will be available. i'm going to convert my 12 month contract to 24 months to get the next 6 months internet at half price. i only signed the contract because i was being screwed about with their technologies for paid called prevention. i had bestmates and free national calling but people were ringing cellphones and racking up bills without my knowledge. so i got a tollbar and cellphone blocking but both of those technologies conflicted with the services i was paying for so in the end they gave me unlimited national landline and cellphone calling and my 130/10 cable for $109 per month and credited me the past 6 months of calls. |
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