From the app, pretty ordinary speed
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Internet Speeds?
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carlos21
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Hi buddy.
Hey C, what you up to mate?
carlos21
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Nothing just on my phone.
tnc85
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Wowza is that for real. I need an upgrade pronto
Honestly I don't even need that, FTTH with an HDTV android box, pay about 18 euro for it per month. Download most everything at 20mb/s+ (steam/epic/blizzard download at 50-60mb/s)
Does everything I need and more, so not even gonna bother upgrading, pointless.
People with 1G at home - why? Honestly lol
Also dial-up? Really?!
a little less than double mine...I love how they use Mbps, instead of MB/s, yay for marketing.
Luckily I am only 80 metres from the exchange so I get really fast speeds ?
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I had no idea it was that bad as can have both tv's watching netflix whilst on phone and the kids watching YouTube etc on their tablets and it's fine so tbh don't exactly need it any faster.
@DualityNSNO twas a joke about dial up as our internet speeds in Australia are so much slower than the UK by the looks of it.
yours is to be expected mate, since you ran it on a phone.
Ah righto, I'm a bit of a dummy with this stuff so didn't even know it'd make a difference. I took today off work to do some landscaping in the yard (haven't even started yet as wasting time on here lol) and my laptop is in the office so will get the wife to see what speed her laptop gets when she gets home from work this afternoon.
These tests are highly variable...I'm on broadband cable which means I share bandwidth with a boatload of other people in my area (unlike something like DSL) and I live in a metropolis of 4.6 million people. These tests don't mean too much in the end, main thing is it's working for you satisfactorily.
The truest test for you wife's laptop is on wire if you can, wireless is too flaky.
DSL shares bandwidth as well.
The intricacies of internet speeds is widely varied. I am not going to do a big long write up, but even me on a dedicated fiber connection shares bandwidth. I am only solo back to the area 'exchange' then it lumps in with all the other customers in the area back to the datacenter the ISP locates it gear in. Then it heads out onto the public internet through things known as peering agreements, but priorities are wildly variable. But ultimately, for things like watching your netflix/disney/youtube etc most CDN's have caches in most datacenters frequented by ISP's so that is why you will always get great performance to them.
Because it is only $10 a month more than a 200/50 connection.
Mbps is a perfectly valid tool to measure internet speed. For those who don't know, take your Mbps and divide it by 8 to get your MB/s (ie, 100 Mbps = 12.5 MB/s). Its a term right from the telco industry standard, which is founded in base 10, rather than our MB which are founded on base 2.
My understanding was DSL was dedicated bandwidth but that's from back in the day when first popped up...I do remember it was better, the closer you were to a main trunk or whatever they term it.
Mbps is valid to people in the industry and that's it...and you know this, man! It's marketing and has no relevance to the general public.
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