Show off your speed

Darren

Moderator
Staff member
Why is Comcast so bad? You all have Comcast and your speeds are great.

Mine aren't that bad though

Terrible customer service that tries to weedle you out of your money and charge you out the ass for things it shouldn't. That's just my impression from reddit, which surely is exaggerated. I don't have it here so have no idea what it's actually like.


Why is the tag for this thread... "poop"..?
 

Geoff

VIP Member
Why is Comcast so bad? You all have Comcast and your speeds are great.

Mine aren't that bad though
Their customer service is awful. They call me several times a month trying to get me to use their phone service. The thing is, they usually call around 9 or 10PM.
 

ghost

Active Member
^ Holy crap! Why do you need a line like that? You wanting to download the entire internet or something?
 

voyagerfan99

Master of Turning Things Off and Back On Again
Staff member
^ Holy crap! Why do you need a line like that? You wanting to download the entire internet or something?

He works for a University now. When you have a 15,000 count student body, plus all the faculty and staff all accessing the internet at once, you need that kind of speed.

This is what I get at Central in my dorm. You're most likely connected directly to the trunk or something.

 
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Geoff

VIP Member
^ Holy crap! Why do you need a line like that? You wanting to download the entire internet or something?
He works for a University now. When you have a 15,000 count student body, plus all the faculty and staff all accessing the internet at once, you need that kind of speed.

This is what I get at Central in my dorm. You're most likely connected directly to the trunk or something.

I work for UNH, which besides having tens of thousands of students and faculty, is also the center for their New Hampshire-wide fiber network, which provides 10Gb/s links to other universities all over the state. This site has a direct link into Boston to tier 1 ISPs. I don't know the connection speed into the backbone of the internet, but I'd venture a guess that it's in the 40-100Gb/s range at least. I'd assume that in the dorms, like at your school, they limit the max throughput for students. Either that or your school was still on 100Mbps links :p

The limiting factor is clearly the 1Gbps connection to my laptop, I'm sure if I was able to connect at 10Gbps I'd see a much higher speed ;)
 

voyagerfan99

Master of Turning Things Off and Back On Again
Staff member
Is that at home? That's some nice download speed, did you recently upgrade?

Is that your entire WAN package? :p
Yes it's at home. No recent upgrades. The modem was replaced a few months ago with a newer one. I haven't done any direct modem tests, nor do I know specifically what we pay for. But the speeds are good and there's no issues streaming Netflix to multiple devices at the same time.
 

Geoff

VIP Member
Yes it's at home. No recent upgrades. The modem was replaced a few months ago with a newer one. I haven't done any direct modem tests, nor do I know specifically what we pay for. But the speeds are good and there's no issues streaming Netflix to multiple devices at the same time.
That upload though :(
 

voyagerfan99

Master of Turning Things Off and Back On Again
Staff member
Brought home a Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC to trial for my father. If he's happy with it he'll order one for the house.

This was on my phone connected AC.

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