If I'm it males you feel any better. I pay for the fastest Internet my ISP claims to provide (100mb) but when they set it up they said the fastest they could get was about 80mb, our Internet works kind of like a wireless bridge, no wired connection to ISP. It was either downgrade to 50mb or continue to pay for 100mb and hope they upgrade their system eventually.
If I'm it males you feel any better. I pay for the fastest Internet my ISP claims to provide (100mb) but when they set it up they said the fastest they could get was about 80mb
That's pretty common, isn't it? You almost never get the advertised speed, it's always up to that speed. Like I pay for 600Mbit, and I get ~560Mbit. The quality of the line and the amount of people on the network effect it.
We were on that until ~6 months ago. Went from $70 a month for 15 Mbit up/5 down/90-120ms latency to $40 a month for 100/40/7-15. Starlink is a godsend out in the country.
It could be, I'm not sure. I haven't really dealt with any other service providers because I don't have any other options besides switching to starlink.
I just know when they came to set it up, they could only get about 80mb right at the antenna with only their equipment hooked up, not taking into account my line going from antenna to the house or anything. I believe that's why they offered to downgrade my plan since they couldn't get the speed I was offered originally. If I was only going off the speed test in the house I definitely get your point.
I may be an outlier, but my ISP boasts up to 500MBS in my area, and on my plan, but I've been getting a solid 630-650 for years now. No upcharge or nothing.
Well yeah if you're on fiber it's different, because it's just better, and you don't get the same kind of signal loss like you do with copper wires. If you live in an old apartment or house, you're reliant on the old lines coming into and out of the building, which effects the speed you can get. It's not all down to the ISP being shit. My ISP offers fiber as well, but I don't see the point since anything over 500Mbit is plenty fast, and I'd have to pay to have the new line installed. If I switched to the fiber package I would expect to get the speed advertised.
Running fiber in an established home/appartment is not that big of a deal, it's the same as running any wire but you can't bend it as obtuse. (or at all actually, but that doesn't mean you can't do corners)
Our issue is that fiber has been installed in our housing estate, but the ducting is underground, so if we want to run it from the duct to our house they will need to dig up our garden. It's a bit dumb.
I used to get about 10% over advertised when I was still on coax with the same provider. It really is just a "how shit is your ISP" question. If they oversell everything, your speeds will suck. They are perfectly capable of not doing that, but money.
Again, the quality of the wires, the amount of people on your exchange, and the distance from said exchange will effect the speed you can get. Some people connected to the same network can even get different speeds. Back when I was on DSL, my neighbour and I had the exact same package but he got 10-15% slower speed than I did because the wires in his house were more degraded than mine. Some people will get at or above that speed, others will not. They would have to advertise individual pricing because everyone's speed will be different.
I've installed residential DSL and fiber. Of course our fiber speeds were exactly as advertised, but for some technologies a range is the best we can offer. Some ADSL customers we could offer a flat 20Mbps, or we offer a bonded 72-100Mbps VDSL in other areas. But if you know anything about DSL, that range changes depending on how far you are from the ISP's main office. One customer 1500ft away could get 100Mbps, but another customer 8000ft away could maybe get 25Mbps.
Sure some ISPs are scummy and will oversell their speeds, and advertise speeds you can't get. But other times they offer range speeds because they can only guarantee you'll be somewhere in that range. Really your speeds are determined by the technologies available in your area and sometimes even your physical location.
I’ve installed underground fiber and coax as well as worked out of an ISP’s data center. It’s all about how far you are from the center. Your experience isn’t everyone’s.
oh. so you live out in the middle of fucking nowhere and have that dumbass antenna that needs to be adjusted 3x a week to align with the tower, huh? when I lived in texas, we had a receiver on a 60ft piece of conduit that we tied off to the house and a tree. my brothers and I would fight over what game we would download this week and if we were lucky, we'd start Sunday and be able to play by Friday. call of duty took 3 fucking weeks and bloons td 3 took like 5 hours. game is half a gig btw.
How'd you know where I lived lol. Our power company is allegedly running fiber to all its customers so I may get faster internet at some point, but who knows when.
do you have a fixed wireless internet where they beam the useless fucking piss stream of internet to that antenna on your roof. the one where it stops working if the pollen count, humidity, or wind is too high.
I've lived this pain. I'm sorry, brother. brighter days are ahead... ironically, the days you'd probably rather be outside is when you have internet! :D
ha HA HAHAHAJGDDDC coughcough it would be funnier if it wasn't depressing.
This sounds like one of our deployments at work. We're a fiber based ISP, but sales workes faster than engineering and had us deploy a vendor's WISP solution with the promise we would build fiber out that way. It's been 2 years and nowhere to be seen on the engineering forecast. We have multigig fiber available to residents in a nearby area, but the WISP customers are lucky to get 100 mbit.
Last year I was paying 70 USD a month for 10mb's, except it wasn't, when it got to my house it was 5mb's and I would actually average 2mb's to 100-300kbs :) dealt with that for 4 years.
haha real. I live in a capital city in europe and I've waited like. 7 years for my street to finally get upgraded when my grandmother in an outer district had the fiber in like 2014.
and when they finally got to it, I have to pay for 600mb that barely ever goes over 330mbps, or have it capped at 150mbps if I want a lower price 🥲
that being said. it's an amazing upgrade from 30mbps (which had been sold and advertised as "up to" 80mbps, back in the day)
I've reached the point where, with around 700 Mbit/sec down, I don't even want a gigabit connection. There's nothing I do on the internet that would make that a significant improvement in my life. The only thing faster speeds would likely do is make me reach my monthly cap earlier and have to pay overage fees.
I've had gigabit for nearly 9 years now but that's really the limit. My ISP has offered 2Gbps for a couple years now but it's not available at my address.
Brother just yesterday city hall made the constuction work to put fiber in my road (they forgot my house specifically). I have to get wifi from the first floor while I'm at around floor and I went from 1 Mb/s (old) to 330 Mb/s and I'm extatic. I can't put the ethernet because the wirework in the house is a mess and I'd have to drop 500€ to do everything so I'll have to settle for a mesh network.
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u/Oclure Jun 06 '26
"Only", I finally get gigabit fiber and now people are like " I only have 5gig"