Show off your internet speed!

jvickers · Jun 24, 2023

Alrighty. I was connected to the Ethernet connection on my Asus ZenWiFi hub. I was poking around in the Network & Internet settings and decided to turn on my WiFi. Both the Asus network and Wifi are WiFi 6. Here are the results of enabling WiFi.

badrobot · Jun 24, 2023

Still the same speeds from the beginning of this thread (Post #2)...
I've been on this plan for 5 years now and first posted it in Ten Forums...

jbcarreon123 · Jun 25, 2023

James · Jun 26, 2023

This is about as high as mine ever gets. It is fibre etc, usually 20 download 2 up. Not fun, but could be worse!

nunya · Jul 19, 2023

snerd · Jul 25, 2023

wordsworth · Jul 26, 2023

Nothing like what some have here , but this is a great new speed for me.

Flashorn · Jul 26, 2023

This is mine:

I have a rant. They tell you it's 1Gig connection But, it's really 100 MB/s . They say it's now the norm
to advertise in Mb/s. I see that as False advertising. They are misleading people who don't know better.
I have told Rogers (my provider) as much many times and they keep telling me that is the way it's done.
I call BS on those money hungry (explicit). Even ookla has it in Mb/s. I can remember and not so long ago
that, the speeds were reported in MB/s. Really faffs me off. End of rant.

badrobot · Jul 29, 2023

https://imgur.com/a/95KrrUS

Senecio · Jul 29, 2023

Flashorn said:
They say it's now the norm
to advertise in Mb/s. I see that as False advertising.

When I started using the internet, everything was "Baud" and I always found that very unhelpful. When I worked as a network admin, networking speeds were always in bits/second, rather than bytes, so I would disagree that they used to use Bytes/second, although marketing folks may have done. The real reason is explained here: Why Do We Use Bits to Measure Internet Speed but Bytes to Measure Data? | NCTA — The Internet & Television Association

RingTailCoon 11 · Jul 29, 2023

Flashorn · Jul 29, 2023

Senecio said:
although marketing folks may have done

This was my point. I'll have to fire up my Eurocom from 2012 as I still have most of my screens on there.
When I first got connected it was through a phone line but, never paid attention to what was offered , I
think it was 300 bits/s or so. Not sure. And then, I remember Bell Canada providing me with a 5MB/s line.
This is what I'm talking about. It used to be advertised as MB/s. Just recently they switched to Mb/s.
Maybe data centres used the Mb/s but , commercial companies started using the MB/s ads. and did so
until this year. If I can recover those screens , I'll post them here.

jeeter2 · Sep 17, 2023

Brad1138 · Sep 17, 2023

For all that speed, pages can still load a bit sluggishly...

Brink · Sep 25, 2023

Kees · Sep 25, 2023

Fabler2 · Sep 25, 2023

pparks1 · Sep 25, 2023

Flashorn said:
This is mine:

I have a rant. They tell you it's 1Gig connection But, it's really 100 MB/s . They say it's now the norm
to advertise in Mb/s. I see that as False advertising. They are misleading people who don't know better.
I have told Rogers (my provider) as much many times and they keep telling me that is the way it's done.
I call BS on those money hungry (explicit). Even ookla has it in Mb/s. I can remember and not so long ago
that, the speeds were reported in MB/s. Really faffs me off. End of rant.

All networking is measured in bits per second. Always has been. 10 megabits, 100 megabits, 1gigabit. Never have I ever seen network gear or ISP's measuring anything in megabytes per second.