29 ping 14.22 down 2.21 up....says I'd get better speed if I didn't use my wifi connection. Fast enough for me as is.
Thanks again@Beth Gallagher I'm happy with what and how fast my system is doing for me, happy about learning new stuff. .
Most of you have Internet speeds many times faster than mine yet, between my wife and I, we stream television on two different devices all day without trouble, and I can't imagine a webpage coming up any faster than they do for me. There are days when I get buffering but a reboot often fixes that problem.
Holy cow. I did a speed test comparing my new Macbook and my old Dell laptop. The Macbook has newer network connectivity since the Dell is 5 years old, but I never expected such a huge difference. These are side-by-side wireless connections. Macbook: Laptop:
As an aside to the internet speed discussion, we recently had a Comcast "technician" come out to check the lines and see why our speed was lagging. He installed a new modem and pronounced us "good to go." Well, yeah. Unless we wanted to use the phone. For several days after that, I couldn't understand why we weren't getting any incoming calls; the phone would ring and the calling number display on the TV screen, but the line was always dead. So with a decided lack of enthusiasm, I contacted Comcast today to see if nitwit connected everything correctly; I had already reset the modem and done every thing I knew to do from here. After working with a "level 1" support person and then being bumped up to "level 2," they finally asked me to look at the back of the new modem and tell them where the phone line was plugged in. The installer had plugged it into the wrong connection. Maybe I should have posted this in the "what I learned today" thread.
Download 85 Mbps? Gosh is that fast. Got a call from Telekom some days ago offering me a faster connection, i.e., twice the speed I was having for the same money but including a 50% discount for the first three months. I didn't object. Current download speed now is 55 Mbps, upload 15 Mbps. I can watch movies and things easily. What more do I want?
To add to this already boring story, I was told when the tech came out there was no charge for the service call. On this month's bill, there is a $70 charge for that visit. So another annoying phone call to Comcast. I wish they had some serious competition in our area; we are held hostage by them. But our internet speed is excellent.
Still not as good as some of you have, but we're doing far better than we were. Until we switched to Bee Line Cable today, the best I was getting was 16 Mbps download from GWI.
My download speed on desktop (just tested) is 204.8. On my wife's laptop, it's 15.8. Then again, my the desktop is directly connected to the Comcast modem, whereas the laptop is connected by WIFI to the modem. The desktop is a couple of years old, but the laptop is only a few months old.
After switching providers, my speeds have gone up from a high of about 16 Mbps download and 0.70 Mbps upload, but nothing seems any faster. I didn't feel particularly deprived before, and it doesn't seem any better, as far as my web use goes. I click on a link and the new page comes up, just as before. Where the difference is clearer is in streaming, since I don't get so much of the buffering or the failed connects anymore.
In my job with Aviva Directory, I have been working on the Computers & Internet categories for a while now. In one of the books that I paged through for information to use in writing category descriptions, there was a recommendation for speeding up slow DSL speeds. According to the author, many DSL providers limit the speeds available to customers through the modem that they provide them. DSL providers will often offer three or four levels of service, with varying prices. The author said that often, the only difference between what is provided to customers at these various levels is the modem that they provide. His recommendation was to buy a faster modem yourself, replacing the one provided by the DSL provider. I don't know if this is true or not, but it makes sense to me. When I first started connecting to computer BBSs, my first modem 1200 baud. Then, I upgraded to a 1400 baud, and a 4800 baud, each increasing the speed at which I could connect to the BBS. When I began running a BBS, I had two 14.4 kbit/s AT&T modems, which worked very well. When I added a fourth call-in line, I bought a couple of 28.8 kbit/s modems, which allowed for faster speeds both for my own call-outs, as well as for my customers who were calling in, providing they had 28.8 modems. However, when I bought 56 kbit/s modems, they didn’t seem to be any faster than the 28.8s. Apparently, 28.8 was the best that my phone line would support so anything faster than that was wasted. So, it makes sense to me that the modem speed would limit the speed of the Internet connection. When I have upgraded the level of the DSL service, I don't think they replaced anything other than the modem, but I'm not certain of that. However, the book also said that some ISPs would insert a clause into the customer agreement that most people sign without reading that would specify that you use their modem, but he said that most didn't. Just an idea, nothing more. I'm happy with the cable Internet service that I have, at least until something faster comes along.