Thebobo
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Got home, ran the test.
916Mbps up and down.
I'm going to go cry tears of joy.
Lool me to when I first got fios. Came from 3k dsl
Got home, ran the test.
916Mbps up and down.
I'm going to go cry tears of joy.
Yeap. I make this comment quite often. When we were on dialup, websites had to be simpler and more "to the point" so they loaded in a tolerable amount of time (no comment on how long it took those.... *ahem* jpgs I was always downloading though) But now that we all have decent speed, designers throw every stupid little thing to slow the process down. A lot of that is "weight" is thrown on the local user's PC too - having to fire up java, flash, embedded this and that - if you dont have a SSD, you're screwed.
I agree, I've had gig fiber for a while now and I've yet to download or upload anything that can take advantage of the speed. The next lower tier is 100mb/s but it's only $20 cheaper so there's no point.IMHO, 1GBps is way overrated. I would save $20/month and drop down to the 300/300 tier, which is really more like 400/400. Just got AT&T installed last week, no complaints. I'm using my own Nighthawk router behind their gateway. Be sure you setup IP passthrough and disable the gateway's internal firewall and packet filtering for max performance. I ended up having to reset my router and redo the setup wizard to prevent double NAT issues.
edit: forgot the obligatory speedtest brag...
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/69e3cccc-64c9-4d18-8544-b8133bcaa03d
I agree, I've had gig fiber for a while now and I've yet to download or upload anything that can take advantage of the speed. The next lower tier is 100mb/s but it's only $20 cheaper so there's no point.
/sigh first world problems.
What makes it worse is most of it is advertising. I'm sure you're already running ad block for your browser, but consider something like pihole to block all the mobile devices, etc.
Can you host my server?
I wish ISPs would allow hosting servers. Most don't. I don't even see the point of gig connections if you're not allowed to host stuff. A lot of those also don't offer static IP blocks or ability to own an IP block like say, a /24. So even if you were allowed to host stuff you're still stuck using some kind of dynudns or no-ip type service.
Yeah, I used to surf with image loading disabled by default back in those days...Yeap. I make this comment quite often. When we were on dialup, websites had to be simpler and more "to the point" so they loaded in a tolerable amount of time (no comment on how long it took those.... *ahem* jpgs I was always downloading though) But now that we all have decent speed, designers throw every stupid little thing to slow the process down. A lot of that is "weight" is thrown on the local user's PC too - having to fire up java, flash, embedded this and that - if you dont have a SSD, you're screwed.
Grats OP! I just got Gigablast (Cox DOCSIS3,1) installed a couple days ago...getting about 970 down and 8ms pings. Very nice.
Using the bandwidth? Try NNTP.
Please see several previous posts where I mention NGs/Usenet/etc
IMHO, 1GBps is way overrated. I would save $20/month and drop down to the 300/300 tier, which is really more like 400/400. Just got AT&T installed last week, no complaints. I'm using my own Nighthawk router behind their gateway. Be sure you setup IP passthrough and disable the gateway's internal firewall and packet filtering for max performance. I ended up having to reset my router and redo the setup wizard to prevent double NAT issues.
edit: forgot the obligatory speedtest brag...
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/69e3cccc-64c9-4d18-8544-b8133bcaa03d
0 cap as I get TV from AT&T as well One of the primary drivers of keeping TVNice. OP, what's your monthly bandwidth cap? Comcast/Xfinity only gives me 1024GB/month at 180 down/12 up.
Pointless for me to go any faster if I end up using that cap and go over. I don't want to pay $50 more to go unlimited.
IMHO, 1GBps is way overrated. I would save $20/month and drop down to the 300/300 tier, which is really more like 400/400. Just got AT&T installed last week, no complaints. I'm using my own Nighthawk router behind their gateway. Be sure you setup IP passthrough and disable the gateway's internal firewall and packet filtering for max performance. I ended up having to reset my router and redo the setup wizard to prevent double NAT issues.
edit: forgot the obligatory speedtest brag...
https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/69e3cccc-64c9-4d18-8544-b8133bcaa03d
I'd still probably downgrade. Unless you're running a streaming server for multiple clients or doing major file transfers for snapshots/backups where time is a factor...$30/month sounds nice. You can do a lot with a 20meg connection....gig seems overkill.
