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Originally Posted by BroadHopper
I'm assuming they are one and the same. Metrocast in Laconia with high speed internet subscription averages around 20ms. They claim after the last upgrade I should see 35 mbps. The latest mbps is 20, the same as it has been since I upgraded the router to DOCSIS 3.0.
My neighbor has Fairpoint DSL, which average around 10 mbps with average ping around 5 ms. His browsing speed appears faster than mine. Is it because of the ping?
Both testing is done over a year time span with speedtest.net.
Comments wifi?
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Yes, I was referring to Satellite lag time. Browsing speeds and download speed really have some skeletons in the closet.
I have Time Warner at my house. Typically, in the earlier times, ISP's would use "bursting" to give an allusion of snappier browsing. This is where they give you a fixed time or amount of data, before dropping you back to a lower speed. Heavy downloaders get penalized, rightfully, for a fixed resource i.e. total network bandwidth.
If you run a test on, say: speedtest.net you can see the "speedometer" and graph and get a feel for your speed over a few seconds. My Time Warner residential account, get a very slowly building up to my paid for bandwidth, before the test terminates. Their test takes the maximum speed it sees and reports that as your bandwidth. Well, it always comes up to close to my speed, before the test terminates. So, one has to wonder what happens after that ??? Why build it up slow ?
So, I go to
www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html and download their 1 gig file, and it shows roughly 10 Meg(vs the 30 purchased) download speed. So, TW uses a reverse burst method, to fool the tests, then drops it way down to throttle downloads. I don't fault them, they can't support everyone running full speed over forever. I see that problem too, they have fixed resources, just like I do.
So, in answer to your Verizon vs Metrocast experiences, there is a lot in play behind the scenes with bandwidth shaping.