Who really needs gig Internet?
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I actually have 20mbps down and I'm fine with that, It's with At&t that is just incredibly reliable compared to the other services I've had and it's the cheapest option in my area and i have a 1tb cap but i struggle to get to half by the end of the billing cycle. I just did a speed test in chrome and it came back at 18up and 2down.
Kids can play on their playstation without complaining about internet and i can stream 1080p on my 85 inch 4k tv without issue and it still looks just fine i still don't get what the 4k rave is about. 4k does look a sharper but not by as much as i thought it should be. It can play 4k 30fps smoothly without a hitch. If it's 4k60 then it needs to buffer for a minute first to not have an issue.
Web browsing on a phone or laptop is snappy. Downloading huge files takes a bit but it's fine. When i had comcrap the internet was like 6mbps i think and was actually painful with the kids on their playstation and trying to do other things.
Kids can play on their playstation without complaining about internet and i can stream 1080p on my 85 inch 4k tv without issue and it still looks just fine i still don't get what the 4k rave is about. 4k does look a sharper but not by as much as i thought it should be. It can play 4k 30fps smoothly without a hitch. If it's 4k60 then it needs to buffer for a minute first to not have an issue.
Web browsing on a phone or laptop is snappy. Downloading huge files takes a bit but it's fine. When i had comcrap the internet was like 6mbps i think and was actually painful with the kids on their playstation and trying to do other things.
I signed up for ATT 1G when it became available. I've since downgraded to the 500 meg tier and may drop to the 300 meg. Having the symmetrical down/up is useful for doing online/cloud storage. Mostly, it's about price:ATT 500 tier costs me less than what vdsl 30/6 was. Internet pricing makes no logical sense (other than maximizing profits).
77 OLED LG tv.
I upgraded to gig with Comcast. It's better than the 200 I had before. One thing that is quite obvious is how quickly the 4K picture "forms" when starting in the middle of a show. Like stopping at night and restarting the streaming the next day. I don't get many reductions in pix quality during a show either.
In other words, the picture would be low-res for about a minute or two with 200, and about 10 seconds with gigabit internet.
The other thing I notice is the blacks/shadows are no longer pixelated with good content. Prime 4K such as on the the show, "The Expanse" is clearer and sharper, as are many shows with great 4K content. This may be due to the equipment on my side, and how they deal with streaming. But the results are obvious.
I upgraded to gig with Comcast. It's better than the 200 I had before. One thing that is quite obvious is how quickly the 4K picture "forms" when starting in the middle of a show. Like stopping at night and restarting the streaming the next day. I don't get many reductions in pix quality during a show either.
In other words, the picture would be low-res for about a minute or two with 200, and about 10 seconds with gigabit internet.
The other thing I notice is the blacks/shadows are no longer pixelated with good content. Prime 4K such as on the the show, "The Expanse" is clearer and sharper, as are many shows with great 4K content. This may be due to the equipment on my side, and how they deal with streaming. But the results are obvious.
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This coming spring I'm planning to upgrade to 5Gb and run a couple of servers from home. It's still cheaper than co-locating them in a data center somewhere and paying through the nose.
Been signed up for a shaw package that includes unlimited data for home as well as 5 cell phones with unlimited data. total cost is $250 per month. Having teenagers using home and cell data is costly but would be more with other carriers.
Whether I'm surfing the web or streaming videos on Roku, when I went from 200 to 1000 I didn't notice any difference at all. When downloading files from the Internet there wasn't any difference either because the other end is controlling the speed. I would gladly downgrade to a lower speed if the price was lower.
You are right on but you dont have bragging rights if you cant say you have 1gig service.
Actually I feel best with a safety net of 200 down, also what some ignore is upload speeds. 200/12 Spectrum service is garbage and if you can get 200/200 from another provider that is nice. For many people they bump up speed do too a bad household network so the solution is to build in more speed/
Like driving 4 cylinder car down the road with the emergency brake on, so you get a 6 cylinder or 8 cylinder car to overcome having the emergency brake on all the time.
More speed = more profit for the internet provider. Why do you think they require you do sign up for so much speed and not let you downgrade?
When I upgraded from 25 mbs to 350 .... I didn't notice much difference either
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Uploads speeds is what I'm after. I'm not sure why upload and downloads cannot be asymmetric on cable, apparently its only possible with fiber optic to you door, which is rare.
Because wife.
Hahahhaha movies. Movies. Phones. Devices etc........our cell service is sucky and when folks are over, all kinds of people over.
Plus 1G is never a full 1G, I mean not that often, costs no more than 500 here, so............
That said we don't upload that much.
Hahahhaha movies. Movies. Phones. Devices etc........our cell service is sucky and when folks are over, all kinds of people over.
Plus 1G is never a full 1G, I mean not that often, costs no more than 500 here, so............
That said we don't upload that much.
How many people have gig internet and then use wi-fi to connect it?
We have to, and yeah it cuts down the speed looking singularly, but as I mention, helps with multiple devices.
Only things I have on wi-fi are a Roku and my laptops. One of which doesn't even have an ethernet port, had to buy a USB ethernet adapter for those times when I need to use a cable.
No ethernet port on a laptop...and it was a $800 laptop at Costco a few months ago.
I noticed a difference with streaming 1080 when I went from 25 to 75. 75 is all we need, as long as we can stream two devices at once we are good.
My coworker is a single guy and has I think 750… seems totally overkill. At work we have 600 and that’s for like ten people and it is more than enough.
My coworker is a single guy and has I think 750… seems totally overkill. At work we have 600 and that’s for like ten people and it is more than enough.
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I have 1/2 gig AT&T fiber. The provided wi-fi box is 300 mbps max and is usually in the 180-200 range most of the time. The biggest difference I notice is on the scrollers at the bottom of the screen. Goes blurless almost instantly. Amazon movies go into the best res almost immediately. My $45 rate for this service is locked for life and no commitment contract. I have had it a year and by far the best internet I have had. Strong and reliable.
I have 300meg Comcast.
Except my cablemodem is only 8 downstream channels so it maxes out at 275meg or so.
It's also a voice cablemodem so I have to see if Comcast will let me connect another cablemodem with more downstream channels to use for data and just keep the other one for voice.
275 megs is enough for what I do.
Except my cablemodem is only 8 downstream channels so it maxes out at 275meg or so.
It's also a voice cablemodem so I have to see if Comcast will let me connect another cablemodem with more downstream channels to use for data and just keep the other one for voice.
275 megs is enough for what I do.
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If your router and device are Wi-Fi 6, you can theoretically download at up to 9.6 gbs.
Theoretically if you are nowhere near any other access points on other networks, sure.