Internet - Are You Paying For Too Much Speed?

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Something prompted me to do a little research on internet speed. Wish I would have done it sooner. For several years we've paid $100 a month for speeds up to and over 100mps. I thought more was better.

Several internet articles suggested that 50mps would be more than enough. It's just me and the wife. We sometimes stream content all day long as well as surf the net. Dropped our speed down to 50mps and haven't noticed a drop in performance over the period of a week.

Only save about $30 a month but it adds up. :eek:
 
AT&T offers access, but I swore off them a long time ago. I got the cable company's lowest speed tier of service available, but it is always faster than it's guaranteed minimum speed. $44 a month.

This is it's speed right now.

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Even with a 10 year old Apple router, everything runs smooth enough on "N", but a new "AC" router would probably work better since everything we connect has an AC antenna.
 
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Just checked mine.
108 Mbps down, 6 up.
Ping 8ms.
Don't sure how much is too much, but I do like my fast connection!
 
10 MBPS for $30/month in my little burb from the cable company. The phone company can only offer DSL at about 1 MBPS for about the same price. Both are higher than large cities, economy of scale.

10 MBPS meets all our needs, including streaming videos like movies. Don't know why anyone needs higher unless you are a serious game player.

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FREE for me.
No I wont tell you how or why.
But FREE.


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I haven't noticed much if any difference downloading or streaming media content since it was at 20Mbps years ago. I'd say the overwhelming amount of bandwidth I use isn't with the computer but via the TV with Netflix.

Comcast/Xfinity has kept increasing the speed and I keep negotiating the price back to where it was. Internt plus HD TV and DVR service and 140 channels with nothing worth watching costs me $80. If I never called Xfinity and griped about the price I'd probably be paying close to double that. How long they'll allow me to keep doing this I don't know... but I've been fussing at them about price for as many years as I can remember. On the flip side, they have provided excellent service so I haven't much room to gripe other than the fact that they are in competition with EPB in this area. That really helps...

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Unless you have multiple people streaming video in the house, 10 Mbps is usually sufficient.
 
Mine runs 1.9 Mbps download and 1.4 Mbps upload. That has always been good enough for any purpose I have. But I seldom have any need for downloading or uploading massively large files. I still remember the days when you had to use a telephone dial-up connection through a modem. Talk about slow.
 
I have Verizon wifi and I have noticed since school has been out for the summer my downloading/streaming videos speed has dropped way low. I hope when schools open back up that my speeds go back up. I hope I am not being speed throttled down by Verizon. I pay $92 a month for 12gb data usage. I have no choice since there are no cable or phone line service available here. The satellite internet providers are poor service at best.
I just checked my speeds and they are not good at all. DL best was 1.09mbs...worst was .73mbs. Up load best 6.91mbs ....lowest 2.19mbs. I need call Verizon about this because my speeds were much faster when I first got their service.
I am guessing the times are slow because the kids out of school and I will check speed again when they go back to school in a week or two.
 
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It's just me and I pay for 12mbps but actually only get 9-10mbps.Have no need for any faster speeds and definitely not for what they charge.

It doesn't bother me a bit considering I only had dial-up capability for years and managed just fine with that.I used to setup whatever I wanted to download before going to bed or work and let the computer do it's job.

Now if there was a way to smoke a rack of ribs to perfection in less than 30 minutes you would have my complete attention.
 
gman51 said:
I have Verizon wifi and I have noticed since school has been out for the summer my downloading/streaming videos speed has dropped way low. I hope when schools open back up that my speeds go back up. I hope I am not being speed throttled down by Verizon. I pay $92 a month for 12gb data usage. I have no choice since there are no cable or phone line service available here. The satellite internet providers are poor service at best.
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What you are seeing is the WiFi network getting loaded down with kids at home streaming videos, using Facetime and all those other bandwidth hogs. It slows the network down for everybody because there are always choke points.
 
I do not feel I have too much or too little speed, but I feel $62 per month for this speed and an old wireless router is too much to pay. My only other option at this location is 4-G LTE cellular. That offers comparable speed, but the price would be dependent on use.
 

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gman51 said:
I have Verizon wifi and I have noticed since school has been out for the summer my downloading/streaming videos speed has dropped way low. I hope when schools open back up that my speeds go back up. I hope I am not being speed throttled down by Verizon. I pay $92 a month for 12gb data usage. I have no choice since there are no cable or phone line service available here. The satellite internet providers are poor service at best.
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Yikes!

Wife and I use between 250-350gb every month on a Terabyte plan, and combined with HD TV service is still less $ than that. You must be way out in the boonies?


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I spent to much time on a dial up modem, worried about how much the phone call message units were going to cost. No thanks not going back.
 
LVSteve said:
What you are seeing is the WiFi network getting loaded down with kids at home streaming videos, using Facetime and all those other bandwidth hogs. It slows the network down for everybody because there are always choke points.
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Call me stupid but I didn't think or realize that cellphones worked off of a public WiFi.

I also have a smartphone with Verizon but it recognizes the private WiFi router on my computer so it's just me using it.Maybe I'm not understanding the conversation. :(
 
Too much speed? NOT POSSIBLE!! :D

Really, rule No. 1 of the 'Net: "There is never too much speed"

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coltle6920 said:
Call me stupid but I didn't think or realize that cellphones worked off of a public WiFi.

I also have a smartphone with Verizon but it recognizes the private WiFi router on my computer so it's just me using it.Maybe I'm not understanding the conversation. :(
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It's the whole Internet network infrastructure as a whole that gets bogged down. It doesn't matter if the connection is from your phone to your home wifi and then onto the Net, or direct from other folks' computers or via the phone network by 4G, if there is s dramatic increase in Internet traffic in your locale, things will slow down. There is only so much bandwidth, and it is ALWAYS being shared.

One of my biggest beefs with Web page writers is that they seem to work on the assumption that everyone is using a Cray with an infinite bandwidth Internet connection. Not so much for most of us, I suspect. Web page writers should be forced to learn efficient coding at the far end of a 28.8 kbps twisted pair. Until they can pass that test, they shouldn't be allowed to write anything for the Internet proper.
 
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