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Well, I've been ... waiting... salivating... for gigabit internet.
Finally, I got my upgrade, around 3am.
At first, I wasn't sure. I did a speedtest. got 277Mbit/sec down, and 280Mbit/sec (approx) up.
I thought, hey, that's faster than my previous 150/150 upgrade I got last week, that one scored 150/170 on speedtest.
So, I did another couple of speedtests, seemed like the limitation was my router, and not the connection. (Was wondering if they provisioned me for 300/300, if they couldn't do gigabit.)
So, my Asus AC68R, running Shibby Tomato 140, I found the CTF (cut-through forwarding, AKA "Hardware NAT"), and enabled it. (I was not using MultiWAN, or QoS currently.)
Now, (drum roll please), I get:
http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6554256157
(That's 800Mbit/sec down, and 750Mbit/sec up. Not too shabby. Still not "perfect", but I would be content to leave it at that, actually.)
So, I figured, lets go to distrowatch.com, and download some lightning-fast Linux distros.
Well, that might have been a bit optimistic. The fastest that any one distro downloaded, was at 5Mbytes/sec, which equates to 40Mbit/sec. Could have easily done better than that on 150/150 service.
Ah well, so that's what it's like to have gigabit service. Like using a Ferrari to pick up milk. At least, now, I can claim I have the "Ferrari of internet".
Finally, I got my upgrade, around 3am.
At first, I wasn't sure. I did a speedtest. got 277Mbit/sec down, and 280Mbit/sec (approx) up.
I thought, hey, that's faster than my previous 150/150 upgrade I got last week, that one scored 150/170 on speedtest.
So, I did another couple of speedtests, seemed like the limitation was my router, and not the connection. (Was wondering if they provisioned me for 300/300, if they couldn't do gigabit.)
So, my Asus AC68R, running Shibby Tomato 140, I found the CTF (cut-through forwarding, AKA "Hardware NAT"), and enabled it. (I was not using MultiWAN, or QoS currently.)
Now, (drum roll please), I get:
http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6554256157
(That's 800Mbit/sec down, and 750Mbit/sec up. Not too shabby. Still not "perfect", but I would be content to leave it at that, actually.)
So, I figured, lets go to distrowatch.com, and download some lightning-fast Linux distros.
Well, that might have been a bit optimistic. The fastest that any one distro downloaded, was at 5Mbytes/sec, which equates to 40Mbit/sec. Could have easily done better than that on 150/150 service.
Ah well, so that's what it's like to have gigabit service. Like using a Ferrari to pick up milk. At least, now, I can claim I have the "Ferrari of internet".