What is your Internet provider and speed?

[FordSVTGuy]

My two adult sons (share a house) just moved into a house where Xfinity was their only real option. I encouraged them to try Xfinity Now for $30, all in price. It’s their prepaid service and they give you an old Xfinity modem for free. Download speeds are slightly over provisioned to 130 Mbps and upload is 25. No data cap and latency of around 17 ms. For the two of them it’s plenty of bandwidth.

 

[AandPDan]

Time Warner now Spectrum here. 100/20. It's more than what I need. Have a bunch of camera's streaming, use VOIP, and Xumo streaming for Spectrum TV and a couple of Roku's.

Been extremely reliable for the past almost 10 years. Last time it was down was for a region wide power outage.

 

[jmillet]

Xfinity 1100 Mbps with XB8 Gateway.

 

[Geekhead]

Bell fibre, got a wicked deal to switch away from cable. I'm on 1.5Gbit/900Mbit (It appears to be actually more like 1.5Gbit/1Gbit).
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I'm on 500Mb fine up and down. I find Bell always gives you a little bit more than the listed speed, at least to the first node. Uploads can vary more than downloads which are almost always above 500Mb.

 

[SupremePossum]

Primary: AT&T Fiber 1Gb/1Gb
Secondary: Verizon 5G Home Internet 300/30
Tertiary: Starlink on Paused Roam Plan ~150/15ish on average

I never want to be without internet

 

[Geekhead]

Nice! Bell used to offer 8Gbit symmetrical but pulled the package.

In my area the 8Gb is showing for $130/month yikes. My daughter got a home show special for the 1.5Gb plan for $65/month which is not bad.

 

[Heywood7860]

I am on Bright speed here and I have the 600 mps package. So far it works great. Super fast downloads and web page loading.
It used to be Fidelity Internet but was purchased by Bright speed.

 

[cutlassvillager]

I'm getting a little over 1 Gbps Down /40 Mbps Up (at the router) after just switching to Xfinity's new 1gig / 1 year plan. It also removed the 1.2TB monthly data cap. I should be paying $50 ($7 more) moving from my old plan where I was seeing 480Mbps down.

I've recently started a long overdue network upgrade.
Old: Motorola SB6121 and a TP-Link Archer C7
New: Netgear Nighthawk CM3000 via 2.5Gb to Ubiquiti Dream Router 7

I've also started running CAT6 – first was my office moving my main desktop from ~120 Mbps down (WI-FI and old equipment) to ~900 Mbps down – now limited by the 1gig NIC and office switch.

Supposedly the “mid-split” upgrade has just been completed in my neighborhood so I'm hoping that will eventually result in faster uploads!

 

[Wireman1987]

HTC - ISP
Download Mbps
474.70
Upload Mbps
503.67

 

[chorty]

T mobile prepaid smartphone plan 4G LTE, $50/month
One plus 6T android phone, sim unlocked and boot loader unlocked.
LineageOS, no gapps/google framework

Turn on tethering, I'm smoking nearly 900Gb a month of data transfer, never experience "slowdowns"

I have a raspberry pi2 that connects to mg phones hotspot automatically, modifies the TTL so T-Mobile doesn't know the phone is routing, and passes everything to the local network.

The only odd duck is sometimes Netflix doesn't work, but using VPN fixes that.

They're watching data packets.....

 

[cutlassvillager]

I'm getting a little over 1 Gbps Down /40 Mbps Up (at the router) after just switching to Xfinity's new 1gig / 1 year plan. It also removed the 1.2TB monthly data cap. I should be paying $50 ($7 more) moving from my old plan where I was seeing 480Mbps down.

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I've recently started a long overdue network upgrade.
Old: Motorola SB6121 and a TP-Link Archer C7
New: Netgear Nighthawk CM3000 via 2.5Gb to Ubiquiti Dream Router 7

I've also started running CAT6 – first was my office moving my main desktop from ~120 Mbps down (WI-FI and old equipment) to ~900 Mbps down – now limited by the 1gig NIC and office switch.

Supposedly the “mid-split” upgrade has just been completed in my neighborhood so I'm hoping that will eventually result in faster uploads!

Update - Mid-split upgrade has been completed in my neighborhood! While nowhere near fiber symmetrical speeds - uploads improved to 120 Mbps.

 

[SOUNDMAN5000]

Spectrum, 1 Gbps down x 40 Mbps UP!
Its PAST time for Symmetrical Spectrum!

 

[alarmguy]

Spectrum, 1 Gbps down x 40 Mbps UP!
Its PAST time for Symmetrical Spectrum!

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Horrible, but dont think its possible to do symmetrical with copper cable?
I was under the impression you need fiber. (chances are I am wrong but maybe not on the consumer level)
PS I hate Spectrum with a passion. We were stuck with them for years and their high prices for what they gave us. Since we moved we now are part of an internet Co-Op.

I have to be honest, I rather have my 300/300 at $57 actual payment in our home.
We can get 1gig symmetrical for $77.95 and 500/500 $67.95

I see on their site they are not offering the lower price 300/300 (on their main page)anymore but I think with some digging you can still get it. I hope they keep me grandfathered.

That is what Spectrum did to us before we moved, kept increasing our speed, then a year later increasing the price. Became a never ending cycle being forced into speed we didnt need. Also as you noted their upload speed sucks, we were at 12 mbps at the time and 300 down for close to $80 a month.

 

[walterjay]

Armstrong.......I don't know the speed but we are paying for fast. Wife does gaming on occasion and says it works well.

 

[SOUNDMAN5000]

FASTER upload speed is coming from Spectrum via copper, the tech is called High-split DOCSIS As I understand when that arrives across the US we will see speeds like fiber if not perhaps faster setting us up for a 10G speed future with copper.
As I understand some states / areas have it now, some won't see it until 2026 or 27?

Personally, I had a tuff go with Spectrum early on ( back in my TV days as I never felt the Digital TV and those boxes worked well and the early Spectrum TV app didn't work well either ) Spectrum made it easy to cut the plug on TV as it just worked so bad when service such as Sling TV etc worked better at least in my area on those same Spectrum copper lines.

However after a eager Spectrum tech and my $20 tip I got to the bottom of my issues. He did some local in my home rewiring, changed every coax end, he found a old hidden under my house Radio Shack amplifier that was causing all kinds of issues that I was no aware I even had such a thing as was from a previous homeowner and hidden! He ran new coax from my house to the street and the the street crews actually moved the old telephone pole above ground lines to underground ( my entire city block ) and then after testing he was able to get the street crew to tap the corner transformer at a higher db signal and I have now had rock solid internet ( with my personal WIFI mesh system in the house ) a good solid 5 years!

I get a consistent 1K down, I am for now limited to 40 Mbps up but I'm excited to see change soon ( I hope ) for faster upload but I seldom if ever loose my internet or have any issues now, my Spectrum internet simply works 99.999 of the time.

I have a large family that are heavy internet users, (5) HD Tv's streaming, 2 gaming PC's on and on and on. Last count I had 36 "things" connected to my wifi and thats not counting my hard wired stuff. Even with all that my Spectrum internet just works, even in my garage, every corner of my home, front porch, back porch it just works ( My 5 Mesh WIFI Nodes with Cat 6 backhaul helps ) but I'm long past being ready for more upload speed.

I truly needed better upload a few years back when finishing a graphic art school and had to upload my huge graphic art project files but except for my one gammer kid still at home the the 1G download is what I use most, upload not so much but 40 Mbps up in 2025 is not cutting it.

I do however run into issues on my day job as I install Church video streaming camera / production Systems and I have ran into bottle necks with Spectrum upload 40 Mbps cap as modern Churches may stream at 1080/ 60 ( soon 4K ) and Churches are now adding more and more remote door locks, to smart everything to lots of security cameras to many guest now using the public WIFI and that 40 Mbps upload runs out fast on a Sunday morning so its past time Spectrum! We have a need for speed, upload speed!

 

[OVERKILL]

FASTER upload speed is coming from Spectrum via copper, the tech is called High-split DOCSIS As I understand when that arrives across the US we will see speeds like fiber if not perhaps faster setting us up for a 10G speed future with copper.
As I understand some states / areas have it now, some won't see it until 2026 or 27?

Personally, I had a tuff go with Spectrum early on ( back in my TV days as I never felt the Digital TV and those boxes worked well and the early Spectrum TV app didn't work well either ) Spectrum made it easy to cut the plug on TV as it just worked so bad when service such as Sling TV etc worked better at least in my area on those same Spectrum copper lines.

However after a eager Spectrum tech and my $20 tip I got to the bottom of my issues. He did some local in my home rewiring, found a old hidden under my house Radio Shack amplifier that was causing all kinds of issues to he was able to get the street crew to tap the corner transformer at a higher db signal and I have had rock solid internet ( with my on WIFI mesh system in the house ) and my important stuff is connected via cat 6 and even with the fact I get a consistent 1K down i'm limited to 40 Mbps up I'm excited to see that change soon ( I hope ) for faster upload but I seldom if ever loose my internet or have any issues.

I have a large family that are heavy internet users, (5) HD Tv's streaming TV's, at last county I had 36 "things" connected to my wifi and I will give credit, it just works, even in my garage it just works ( My 5 Mesh WIFI Nodes with Cat 6 backhaul helps ) but I'm long past being ready for more upload speed. I truly needed better upload a few years back when finishing a graphic art school and had to upload my huge graphic art project files but except for my one gammer kid still at home the 1G download is what I use most.

I do however run into issues on my day job as I install Church video streaming camera / production Systems and I have ran into bottle necks with Spectrum upload 40 Mbps cap as modern Churches may stream at 1080/ 60 ( soon 4K ) and Churches are now adding more and more remote door locks, to smart everything to lots of security cameras to many guest using WIFI and that 40 Mbps upload runs out fast on a Sunday morning so its past time Spectrum!

According to the DOCSIS 4.0 developer, UHS-684 enables up to 6Gbit upstream:
https://broadbandlibrary.com/mid-split-high-split/

This article gets into the challenges of expanding the bands, how it interacts with FM and how leakage can be a huge issue:
https://blog.viavisolutions.com/202...-the-upstream-via-mid-splits-and-high-splits/

Basically, it's a lot more complicated to do this with coax than with PON fibre, where one is already able to get 8Gbit symmetrical from some carriers (though Bell has pulled that offering right now, not sure why).

 

[dbias]

Xfinity 500 mbps. $40 a month because I called to cancel and go to frontier fiber for the same speed and price.

 

[alarmguy]

Our internet provider just forced us into a higher speed plan. We had 300/300 for $57.95 a month actual payment.
They no longer offer that speed so forced to accept 500/500 at $67.95 a month. The speed is completely useless to me and most homeowners.
I called them up to complain, no dice. Wont give in.
I also measured my speed and I am not getting 500/500 but unless I hook up a ethernet to the router they wont send someone out.
I know I am right, so I filed a complaint with the FCC. I KNOW I will be hearing from the internet provider within a week to check it out now. *LOL*
I cut off the top part of the email sent to me by the FCC so I dont reveal my account number here.

I also sent two speed tests from different sources and we are not close to 500/500 service. Its more like our older 300/300

anyone else want to complain? Here you go.
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/...nternet-Form-Descriptions-of-Complaint-Issues

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UPDATE, LESS THAN 50 MINUTES AFTER POSTING THIS. We got a call from our internet provider, they got the FCC complaint and will be here in 10 minutes. (long story short, this is after been blown off by a lower level employee and refused my request to have someone come and check it out.

 

[Hermann]

After my recent switch 2 months ago from ATT fiber to T-Mobile 5G wireless my average speed is 250 mbps. My bill is $45 and that includes enhanced security and boosted signal. The only time of day that is weak is evening drive time. By weak I mean 100-130 Mbps. Speeds tested with Speedtest by Ookla

 

[SOUNDMAN5000]

Our internet provider just forced us into a higher speed plan. We had 300/300 for $57.95 a month actual payment.
They no longer offer that speed so forced to accept 500/500 at $67.95 a month. The speed is completely useless to me and most homeowners.
I called them up to complain, no dice. Wont give in.
I also measured my speed and I am not getting 500/500 but unless I hook up a ethernet to the router they wont send someone out.
I know I am right, so I filed a complaint with the FCC. I KNOW I will be hearing from the internet provider within a week to check it out now. *LOL*
I cut off the top part of the email sent to me by the FCC so I dont reveal my account number here.
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I also sent two speed tests from different sources and we are not close to 500/500 service. Its more like our older 300/300

anyone else want to complain? Here you go.
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/...nternet-Form-Descriptions-of-Complaint-Issues

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I have never thought about anyone complaining to the FCC about an issue with the internet company. Thats interesting... Did you threaten to cancel your service and ask for the retention depart?

I was surprised my ISP offered me $10 off per month to keep me just last week when I told them to pull the plug! I always found the secret is not asking for a discount but telling them I'm leaving as I have decided to go with a less expensive ISP... I can get T-Mobil Home Internet added to my cell service for $35 a month so as long as you got a cell tower around you got options as far as less money and a way to cut the cord... But, that 500/500 you now have sure would be missed going with Cell Home Internet... Sometime you just gotta "Pay The Man"...

I have no idea of your exact wifi setup or router location and home layout but based on my experience your provider may not be far off suggesting you need to be connected directly to the router via a Cat-6 cable as so many things WILL slow the wifi signal down.

The age of your WIFI unit or even the age of the phone, PC card can cut the speed in half vs wired.

I had very bad WIFI using my ISP rented $5 a month WIFI so I purchased a multi node Mesh wifi system and now I have great wifi... I now even have a Mesh wifi node in my detached garage so I now get reliable wifi at all locations inside or outside my property.

However, my mesh WIFI is now getting old so if I want to keep up with GIG or GIG+ speed its time to upgrade but for me and my wireless WIFI needs as long as I have a rock solid wifi connection ( I do ) I'm okay not getting the 1G wired speed as my now aging mesh wifi caps out at around 500 Mbps so I get about half what my wired devices get but again, its a ROCK SOLD 500 Mbps via my Wifi and ALL my computers I have hard wired and get my 1 Gbps download speed.