New Broadband report out

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Story:
Xfinity takes out Ookla's US broadband report | ZDNet

Report:
2018 Speedtest U.S. Fixed Broadband Performance Report by Ookla

I am on the fastest ISP in my city, which I kind of already knew.

 

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Story:
Xfinity takes out Ookla's US broadband report | ZDNet

Report:
2018 Speedtest U.S. Fixed Broadband Performance Report by Ookla

I am on the fastest ISP in my city, which I kind of already knew.

Wow, kinda surprised to see my region has the fastest speed in the nation! Go KC

BTW the Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl

 

[Jimbo]

Wow, kinda surprised to see my region has the fastest speed in the nation! Go KC

BTW the Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl

BUT .... Can they Win it ?
I'll take the Saints !

 

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fastest ISP where my folks live.

 

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View attachment 136459fastest ISP where my folks live.

Only slightly faster than my DSL

 

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Only slightly faster than my DSL

Supposed to be DOCSIS 3.0. Pretty sure they have a back haul issue.

 

[harshness]

fastest ISP where my folks live.

I see you were running the test on an iPhone. What was your connection to the modem?

 

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I see you were running the test on an iPhone. What was your connection to the modem?

802.11ac 5GHz direct to the modem/router from about 3 feet away.

 

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I see you were running the test on an iPhone. What was your connection to the modem?

Here is my the same phone on my home Internet connection (100mb fiber).

 

[harshness]

802.11ac 5GHz direct to the modem/router from about 3 feet away.

This would mean more if I didn't occasionally see people complaining about their Wi-fi speeds as compared to their broadband speed. I'm not a fan of Wi-fi as there are so many considerations that it makes an apples-to-apples comparison pretty much impossible to construct.

I recently had my new Fire Stick 4K sitting four feet from my router and it couldn't keep up a stream (even when using the supplied extension cable). I switched to 2.4GHz and the performance was better but still buffered. I have nothing connected to the 5GHz side of my router and on the 2.4GHz side I have an Echo, an Ecobee thermostat (Alexa built-in) and an Android tablet (none of them were actively doing something during the test).

Now my Fire Stick is outfitted with the Ethernet adapter and I'm not looking back.

I'm not suggesting that measurements must be made at the modem, but I give less credibility to data coming via Wi-fi connections.

 

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This would mean more if I didn't occasionally see people complaining about their Wi-fi speeds as compared to their broadband speed. I'm not a fan of Wi-fi as there are so many considerations that it makes an apples-to-apples comparison pretty much impossible to construct.

I recently had my new Fire Stick 4K sitting four feet from my router and it couldn't keep up a stream (even when using the supplied extension cable). I switched to 2.4GHz and the performance was better but still buffered. I have nothing connected to the 5GHz side of my router and on the 2.4GHz side I have an Echo, an Ecobee thermostat (Alexa built-in) and an Android tablet (none of them were actively doing something during the test).

Now my Fire Stick is outfitted with the Ethernet adapter and I'm not looking back.

I'm not suggesting that measurements must be made at the modem, but I give less credibility to data coming via Wi-fi connections.

There could be a problem with the wi-fi on the Router/Modem at their house, for sure. That said, that is pretty much the speeds everyone in town gets, albeit probably all with the same or similar modem hardware. Compared to the 6Mb DSL from Frontier that is the alternative, people are happy with what they get from Spectrum, although not necessarily what they pay. It was completely usable while I was there for everything I did, including streaming Netflix and Prime video. The speed test just showed less than advertised speeds. I should have done a DSL Reports speediest as well, but I didn't remember until right before I left for the airport to go home, so I ran out of time.