FTTH rules the roost!

[Astro What]

Brightspeed was pulliing fiber through our neighborhood last month.
After the issues I've been having with our cable modem ISP (been a customer for 15 years) and their inability to troubleshoot the issue over a two month period I decided to switch.

I can live with this for awhile.



Twice the speed for less money (and it's symmetrical and not asymmetrical like the cable modem) and then getting Hulu Live and I'm still almost $100 less than I was paying.

 

[Hitcore]

>2253/2192 mbps
>2 ms ping



Jesus Christ...

 

[Retro]

Lucky you. Wish I could get anything anywhere near that.

Other than a speed test, do you ever see those speeds when downloading or uploading big files? Just wondering as I reckon that this could be faster than many servers can handle, especially while serving lots of other requests.

Please let us know how fast it goes with these tests:

Apparently, this becomes less accurate at superfast speeds.

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Use Speedtest on all your devices with our free desktop and mobile apps.

speedtest.net

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/download

 

[Retro]

Jesus Christ...

You called?

 

[Hitcore]

Just wondering as I reckon that this could be faster than many servers can handle, especially while serving lots of other requests.

A single server probably wouldn't be able to match that (if only for being capped per connection), but I think that -in theory- if you would download something through BitTorrent and it has like 1000+ seeds and you'd somehow connect to most of them, then all those connections add up, reaching combined download speeds in excess of hundreds and hundreds of megabytes per second, assuming your hardware can keep up.

 

[Astro What]

Lucky you. Wish I could get anything anywhere near that.

Other than a speed test, do you ever see those speeds when downloading or uploading big files? Just wondering as I reckon that this could be faster than many servers can handle, especially while serving lots of other requests.

Please let us know how fast it goes with these tests:

Apparently, this becomes less accurate at superfast speeds.

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Use Speedtest on all your devices with our free desktop and mobile apps.

speedtest.net

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/download

Limited to 1Gbps on the Mac Mini due to the ethernet port. And I get that easily.
WiFi is slower of course as current router WiFi doesn't do 1Gbps over WiFi.
From my 2013 era Mac Mini.

Ookla Speedtest (server about 40 miles away)



Server about half the country away (California from Texas)



Server test in London UK



Fast.com (Netflix supported)



The 5GB download is only a 5 minute one at the thinkbroadband link.
As for downloading big files... I was finally able to connect to my NFS server and sync my site backups. About 210GB. It was done in around an hour.