How Fast Is Your Internet?

@ACraigL The best TWC offers here is 300/20, I think. I strongly suspect they'd still be sitting at 100/10 if Google Fiber wasn't coming to the area, even though they insist that had no bearing. I'm sure it has nothing to do with AT&T upgrading their Uverse service to GigaPower, either. 😒 Unfortunately, Google Fiber isn't coming to my suburb.

@jqubed Google Fiber is flirting with Jacksonville FL, and the suspense is killing me. 'Ongoing negotiations', then up to 18 months for construction if the decision is made. No timeline.

@OldCatLady Perhaps we could offer them some of the $45million the city council wants to give the Jaguars.

@magic_cave Ah! A fellow sufferer!

@jqubed - All the comments had me curious - Google Fiber has a long way to go . https://fiber.google.com/newcities/

@KDemo It's amazing what the threat of competition does in markets where they plan to go, though. The fastest fiber AT&T offers me is 12 Mbps. Time Warner Cable's fastest speed was 50 Mbps. Then in January Google announces they're coming here and Time Warner Cable boosts their highest speed to 300 Mbps and I'm now getting 200 Mbps for the same price I used to pay for 30 Mbps. AT&T is starting to upgrade their service to gigabit speeds throughout the market. Of course, they say Google has nothing do with it, but the timing seems curious.

@jqubed - Haha - guess we owe Google gratitude. Weird that it seems to be limited to the more southern parts of the country.

@sammydog01 Try again?

@jqubed Ping 15, download 29.07, upload .58

@sammydog01 The Verizon network diagnostic tool is spinning it's wheels. No wonder everything is slow.

@sammydog01 That sounds like a problem. You might want to contact your ISP.

@jqubed Verizon said it's the router. They're sending me a new one. Thanks for the heads up- it's really hard to do anything on a computer with .07 upload speed.

@connorbush

internet pirated from my neighbor

@KDemo That's more like how mine was before TWC upgraded their speeds.

@jqubed - Is it somewhat decent, though? I guess it means the horrible performance is all in my computer. (I opted for a slower speed to save $).

@KDemo Yeah, it's decent. I think YouTube's top quality 1080p stream is 10 Mbps so you should be good unless you're trying to stream 4K video. That would be at the top end of your capabilities, depending on who you're trying to stream from.

@jqubed - TBH, I never noticed the difference when I changed to this speed. Made me mad that I was paying extra for so many years. Thanks so much for the info.

@KDemo Yeah, unless you're doing heavy downloads you probably won't notice much difference in day-to-day browsing.

@KDemo You want horrible, scroll down and see mine. Mine are beyond pitiful.

@The_Baron I get about the same

@djslack Sometimes it depends on how far away you are from a relay or if it's connected with your home cable wiring that has a lot of branches.
I live in an old 19th century row house with lath and plaster walls, so I have to deal with a lot of wireless fuckery to get the entire house connected.

@The_Baron Thanks. I'll have to check the house wiring and see if I can eliminate branches, nothing is connected but the modem. At my old house they had to put in a splitter and hang the cable modem off the -7dB side because the signal was too hot. I got great speeds there.

@djslack Howdy. That does suck, but I can tell you from experience that Suddenlinks customer service is awesome. You don't even have to call them! The Suddenlink website live chat actually has the power to modify your account. I recently used it to upgrade my service. Everytime I check it, I'm getting at least the 50mbit I pay for. AT&T has salespeople knocking on my door at least 3 times a month promising they can outperform my current service, they ask me a few questions, try to tell me "well that's what they say you are getting but you aren't really". One of the girls, after I told her I test my service regularly using more than one style of speed test, stopped trying to sell me their service and wanted to come inside to watch me do a test. lol.

I got a little off track there, anyway, their Live Chat Reps are more than salespeople, you might want to check that out.

@medz where the shit do you work ??

@connorbush this is what @medz will probably say...

LOL

@medz A+ is right!

@duodec 5.1Mb?

@Stallion Looks like it, each T1 line carries 1.5 Mb/s.

@cutroil @Stallion correct. 6Mbps theoretical, 5.1 is actual when there is no other traffic. It sucks considering we have to support a lot of microsoft crap so we're downloading tools and patches and ISOs all the time.

@duodec Ah, I remember when a T1 seemed fast. Our school had one; so much better than the dial-up at home.

@Kidsandliz - Ouch - poor baby.

@KDemo Yeah - can we say might as well have dial up? LOL

@Kidsandliz Damn that is weak, my phone can crush that. No hate though, I feel for you, hope that jack it way up soon!

@Thumperchick Well clearly I am not competition until turtles win over rabbits LOL

@Thumperchick I've never even tried for one! 😁

@brhfl Looks about the same as mine, neighbor

Pretty much get what I pay for, $30/month.

@Nemesis158 Damn, I want.......

@wellsroderick

No one's even close to that. A couple are almost a gigabit which is rare but not surprising in major cities.

@wellsroderick some people work at places with gigabit. some people live in a cities with gigabit (century link, google fiber, ting gigabit, Chattanooga)

@wellsroderick Someday...

https://www.cox.com/residential/internet/gigablast.html?sc_id=cr_dm_camp_z_giglife_vanity

@cutroil thought sonic would have done better than that

@Cerridwyn I have Fusion, which I believe is just repackaged AT&T service. Sonic doesn't deliver their real stuff to my area. It's not a great deal... I only switched because I was so fed up with Comcast.

@cutroil ah okay. My daughter has 'real' sonic down in San Jose and it rocks majorly. and is cheap too.

was going to fix the formatting, but lost the connection altogether. I'm on limited microwave service. If the trees around here get any taller, I won't even have that.

@walarney Buy a knife from meh, and go cut down some branches.

@kyle170 @medz you guys co-workers?

@connorbush I can neither confirm nor deny this.

@connorbush @medz no comment.

@kyle170 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/8/30/1325887/-Fastest-Internet-in-US-It-s-Chattanooga-TN-Thanks-to-Local-and-Fed-Ps-Big-Cable-Very-Angry

@ceagee Try a couple computers, plugged directly into the modem?

@mitchell2222 Nice! Fiber's not available at my house even though there's a fiber cable under my street!

@mitchell2222 hi! do you need a roommate?

@carl669 sorry, my wife is my roommate. :)

Also, it's only $70 a month.

@Kyser_Soze Darn... sadly the older generation that is usually running local, state and national legislation doesn't seem to realize that a faster internet improves basically everything in the immediate locality of the improvement. Odd that you already have the infrastructure and still don't have it though. That is normally the biggest issue.

@lisaviolet So A+ isn't good enough for you ?
I have speed envy. Sorry for the snark. It's all @taRDy's fault.

@ceagee Not when others are getting higher speeds for the same price we pay, gosh darn it.

@lisaviolet, If you are bothered with me causing @ceagee's snark, have no fear! I can update my chrome extension to remove any post made by @ceagee from your webpage. I will also be adding a feature that will autocorrect the mis-casing of my username. -TaRDy

@TaRDy That was snark? Damn it, I thought I finally had a handle on the concept. - sigh -

@lisaviolet @ceagee Yeah, @mitchell2222 is getting 900 Mbps for the same price as my 200 Mbps! I want that!

@jqubed Noo....people using Cox in San Diego, the same place where I get my internet from, are getting Gigablast. I am not. Just because it's not yet available in my area of San Diego shouldn't matter.

I want a discount, damn it! (laughing)

@cranky1950 There's a whole thread of VW lovers on here !

@ceagee, @cranky1950 Me, me!

@medz I think he misspoke and meant 40 mb/s.

@marklog I win for strangest stats. Also I think some of my download got stopped at the border.

@phatmass You and me both. If you want to feel any better I am even slower than you are... not a contest I want to win LOL

@phatmass I get about the same on download and I have only occasional problems with Netflix. (No HD, though.)

@Cerridwyn how much are you paying for fios?

do they offer the 100down/25up and the 300down/100up plans for you?

@communist basic service for a year was paid in my lease. So I have the package including phone for dirt cheap. I'll probably lower the TV to basic when my year is up. But my internet right now is 20 a month, until July.