Once you reach a point where you can do all the day to day stuff you need to in a timely manner then the diminishing returns kicks in. If a download takes 10 minutes at 10mbit then you'll notice going from 10mbit to 20mbit as it halves the time - you'll notice 5 minutes saved - but the gain becomes smaller the faster you go so by the time you get to the 5th iteration it's not significantly different to the 6th as we're now talking less than 10 seconds saved. Obviously in some applications 10 seconds is massive, but not usually on a home connection.
looking at new house with dedicated FTTH
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Had it installed today... seems pretty quick but not as quick as I should be getting so they are going to look into it but pretty fab! its interesting to see how FTTH is installed to the house.
Which package did you get?
I went for 300mb up and down
Once you are talking 300+Mbit then to max it out in a speed test you have a lot of potential considerations including potentially your storage medium, local network and performance of devices and routers (i.e. if they have an OS and CPU upto it) as well as finding a speedtest server with enough bandwidth available.
Few years back I had a dedicated server with a 1GBps connection and rarely saw speeds much about 400Mbit unless I really carefully choose a speed test host or did a direct transfer from another server with a gigabit connection.
Few years back I had a dedicated server with a 1GBps connection and rarely saw speeds much about 400Mbit unless I really carefully choose a speed test host or did a direct transfer from another server with a gigabit connection.
I have just noticed that when I do a speed test the company that I have the fibre from are actually a host of speedtest.net can this make a difference? obviously why its such low ping ?
Been doing tests today on broadband.co.uk speed tests and max is 80up and down
Been doing tests today on broadband.co.uk speed tests and max is 80up and down
802.11n or 802.11ac?
Wireless-n is unlikely to get to 300 Mbit - the top speed is 150 Mbit per stream (using 40 MHz channel width and 400 ns GI) but it's possible with MIMO to get multiple streams (up to 4), so depends on your laptop and the access point.
Wireless-ac depends even more on the number of streams but 433 per stream is pretty typical. A BT HomeHub 5 for example has 3 streams for ~1300 Mbit max. Not sure what you mean by 1gb, if that's rounded up or down.
So what router/hub/access point are you using? In any case you should be able to get 300 Mbit at least in the same room unless you're on a very noisy channel.
Very sensible way to do things.
Pity it seems so expensive.
Not a good idea. Do you really co-locate to host websites?
Ah, I see now. Get a dongle or perhaps borrow someone else's laptop to test.
These 'indie' FTTH providers that can't/won't wholesale their services tend to massively overcontend their links out to the wider world, and the lack of a massive user base means it's harder to benefit from the majority not using their service to the fullest. If you're a provider that only does FTTH and has a couple thousand customers, and offer 1Gbps links then you need a stupid amount of backhaul to not leave people upset.
If your connection is sometimes fine and sometimes crawls then assuming you're using a cabled connection it's really unlikely that there's a problem with anything in your house.
If your connection is sometimes fine and sometimes crawls then assuming you're using a cabled connection it's really unlikely that there's a problem with anything in your house.