sojevgny,
I suggest you 'test without ads'
I'm afraid that they will limit my bandwith if I test without ads.
This is the first and only time I bought something from a door salesman. I wanted a 100Mbps line, but had to agree to a 300Mbps line to make him leave.
kodabmx, nice connection.
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Way up in the woods of Maine, I'm getting 13% more than I paid for, according to test.
Watching the test, it is clearly "throttled". It comes up to speed, then drops back and flutters like an ill lawnmower.
On real websites, 35KB/sec (0.28MB/s) is more typical. Also Bangor server is MUCH closer to me than most of the world. And I do wonder if ISPs monitor SpeedTest and loosen the drag.
Watching the test, it is clearly "throttled". It comes up to speed, then drops back and flutters like an ill lawnmower.
On real websites, 35KB/sec (0.28MB/s) is more typical. Also Bangor server is MUCH closer to me than most of the world. And I do wonder if ISPs monitor SpeedTest and loosen the drag.
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You all have me wondering what you are doing with that extra bandwidth. I am an IT professional working from home, with multiple VPN tunnels to various parts of Canada, monitoring dozens of systems and viewing surveillance streams from over 1300 cameras (not all at the same time, of course), participating in video conferences, etc. Meanwhile, my daughter is nearly constantly streaming something on Netflix/Youtube/whatever, I am streaming music, and we are all browsing the Internet much of the time. On top of that, I run a mail server from home and a web server which hosts images for a forum (my ISP provides me a static IP address and 100% unfiltered connection).
By all measures, this would be considered far above average Internet usage. I do not find it to be "slow" in the least, I never get any complaints from my family, and I never have any issues with my connection speed.
Higher speed connections are available at a much higher price. The big Telcos have tried pushing these services on me. No thank you (even though I work for one of the big Telcos).
I think many people upgrade their Internet bandwidth without realizing that in most cases their perceived issues are in their home. More specifically, their Wi-Fi.
By all measures, this would be considered far above average Internet usage. I do not find it to be "slow" in the least, I never get any complaints from my family, and I never have any issues with my connection speed.
Higher speed connections are available at a much higher price. The big Telcos have tried pushing these services on me. No thank you (even though I work for one of the big Telcos).
I think many people upgrade their Internet bandwidth without realizing that in most cases their perceived issues are in their home. More specifically, their Wi-Fi.
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20mbps is dog slow. It's like the 1200 baud of 2020 LOL
Maybe no one complains because no one has anything fast to compare it to?
It would take several hours to download GTA V through steam with that. The fact it takes 20 minutes is still too slow IMHO (it's ~70GB). In fact, 20mbps is even too slow to watch my television service with. It required 25mbps for 1080, and 50mbps for 4k...
Maybe no one complains because no one has anything fast to compare it to?
It would take several hours to download GTA V through steam with that. The fact it takes 20 minutes is still too slow IMHO (it's ~70GB). In fact, 20mbps is even too slow to watch my television service with. It required 25mbps for 1080, and 50mbps for 4k...
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I can easily stream 4k Netflix on my connection.
I am never in a rush to download anything. I plan ahead.
We have all used the Internet at my father's place. He got sold the 300 meg connection. Yes, it is fast - but entirely unnecessary. Also, when I am at my office (at one of Canada's largest data centers) my connection speed is basically unlimited. I know what "fast" means.
Our home connection does not prevent us from getting work done or getting our entertainment. Zero issues. Why pay more?
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The same reason I have a phone instead of a pair of cans and a string - it works better for me.
It's the same reason I run 4th gen NVM.e instead of 5400 RPM SMR disks... and a Ryzen 9 instead of a Celeron I guess.
At least it's not dial up LMAO
I mean you don't use 10/100mbps LAN because 1gbit is faster and cheap now, right? I used to pay 80$/month for the "One Meg Modem" 20 years ago - Then I moved. They didn't have cable in the building. Going from 50mbit cable to 1mbit DSL was terrible! I moved when the least was up.
I get planning ahead, but if I buy a game, I want to play it now, not tomorrow when the download finished - Gone are the days of encoding a CD to mp3 for 18 hours, too (Pentium 166).
It's the same reason I run 4th gen NVM.e instead of 5400 RPM SMR disks... and a Ryzen 9 instead of a Celeron I guess.
At least it's not dial up LMAO
I mean you don't use 10/100mbps LAN because 1gbit is faster and cheap now, right? I used to pay 80$/month for the "One Meg Modem" 20 years ago - Then I moved. They didn't have cable in the building. Going from 50mbit cable to 1mbit DSL was terrible! I moved when the least was up.
I get planning ahead, but if I buy a game, I want to play it now, not tomorrow when the download finished - Gone are the days of encoding a CD to mp3 for 18 hours, too (Pentium 166).
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I'm interested to hear about your experiences with LCSC... I've never used them. Parts quality okay?
LCSC is good. Shipping is kind of expnsive, but it's quick and the parts are far less money (if you buy bulk).
The resistors I tested are all on point.
The caps are mostly within spec with the odd dud (100nf cap that reads like 85nf). The meter says the caps have very low or non-existant ESR and no Vloss.
I got 4187 parts for under 200$ delivered including resistors, relays, sockets, caps, diodes, MOSFETs, fuses, 5 turn 2W pots, and nylon screws. The same compliment of parts (not the same brands, obviously) would cost thousands from Digikey.
I also like how they have footprints for the parts that plug right into EasyEDA
The resistors I tested are all on point.
The caps are mostly within spec with the odd dud (100nf cap that reads like 85nf). The meter says the caps have very low or non-existant ESR and no Vloss.
I got 4187 parts for under 200$ delivered including resistors, relays, sockets, caps, diodes, MOSFETs, fuses, 5 turn 2W pots, and nylon screws. The same compliment of parts (not the same brands, obviously) would cost thousands from Digikey.
I also like how they have footprints for the parts that plug right into EasyEDA
When the WWW was much less bloated, I remember being the first person in the building to get 10-speed ethernet.
Here I had the 25 package. It was fine, when it worked at all. It felt like if 3 houses on my street were NetFlixing, the pipe was clogged.
I switched to the 100 package partly because I "might" gain priority parity with those neighbors. But mostly because the ISP is schizoid and the other logo had become a better deal. Same price but NEW HARDWARE. The stuff they sent in 2009 was old even then. (No WiFi.) And they rented it on terms favorable to them. And while BYO was legal it was clear they did not like it.
