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To: daniel1212; ShadowAce; opxnv; newfreep; eastexsteve; ConservativeMind
Let me show you what I mean by advertised speed versus real world speed. A couple of minutes ago I went to Speedtest.ne and checked my connection. Here is the result:

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Then I went to one of my tv sites and started to download a program. This is what I call the real world speed and it's what matters to me. When we had DSL I would tell my next door neighbor that I was only getting 2MB/sec down and he would tell me that I must have some kind of a problem because his speed was 10 times faster than mine. We were getting the same speed, just describing it differently.

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53 posted on 01/27/2021 10:08:04 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
OK--I still do not see the problem. Speedtest is describing your speed as 96Mbps, and your screenshot is showing 12MBps, which translates to 96Mpbs.

Seems pretty identical to me.

54 posted on 01/28/2021 4:25:12 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Let me show you what I mean by advertised speed versus real world speed. A couple of minutes ago I went to Speedtest.ne and checked my connection. Here is the result:

In this case, my first impression is the bottleneck is on the other end. Quite often, it is. No matter how fast your speed is, going through a maze of congested routers on the net will produce slow results. I would test it against other websites other than the ones you are having problems connecting to. See how fast you can load pages from Amazon, MSN, etc.

57 posted on 01/28/2021 5:41:57 AM PST by eastexsteve
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