Not quite on topic, but I will say that I have had Verizon FIOS 75/75 for years and have been mostly happy with it. But for the past few months it has been horrible, Painfully slow, dropped connections every 10 minutes. Ridiculously bad.
Can you help me get “Russian malewore” or something like that off my wife’s computer?
This is known as "marketing".
They will say in their agreement the speed may be slower due to traffic or what not.
Verizon’s speed test only tests data rates within the Verizon data network.
Other speed test apps (like speedtest.net) test to a server outside of the Verizon network, so you’re testing the Verizon connection and Verizon’s connection to the outside world.
Same reason viasat did it...
Because their real speed sucks canal water....
I just got starlink...
Awesome
Verizon has a political action committee that channels part of your monthly payments to political causes which customers have no say in.
JANUARY 11, 2021 Verizon Communications will suspend donations to lawmakers who did not back the certification of President-elect Joe Biden.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-corporate-verizon-idUSKBN29G2OY
You’re not paying for internet service.
You’re braiding the rope they’re going to hang you with.
It is your Wifi. The Verizon test is measuring from the the router, to the internet, so it is 100% wired/fiber connection.
When you are testing from your phone you are using you are first traversing your internal wifi network which is the bottleneck.
You can upgrade or reposition your wifi router (is it verizon hardware?). For computers, you can run ethernet cable to maximize speed.
Wifi is convenient, but kinda sucks.
Also, you can see on your phone screenshot you don’t have a great wifi connection (indicator is ~75% filled). Try bringing your phone right next to the wifi, and see if the speed improved. That will show you your current maximum potential. If it is still bad, you can get a better wifi router.
I have had Verizon off and on for years and years. They are crooks and practice “bait and switch”. They one thing and then purposely reduce services after they get a contract signed.
I had the same experience so I called Cincinnati Bell about the speed, which was supposed to be 25MBS but was always less than half that speed. I finally got a tech person on the line who said the speed is real...if you are in the Cincy Bell building. As you spread out from the central point and more and more nodes become active, transfer speed drops.
Is the PHONE the only thing connected to your network?
Unless your phone is the ONLY thing using your network, other things are using your bandwidth as well...
IE streaming a movie on your roku player while doing a speed test, is going to likely give you different lower results, than doing it with nothing else using your network bandwidth
How is your phone connected to your network? Different protocols have different throughput maximums:
Protocol Frequency Maximum data rate (theoretical)
802.11n 2.4 or 5 GHz 450 Mbps3
802.11g 2.4 GHz 54 Mbps
802.11a 5 GHz 54 Mbps
802.11b 2.4 GHz 11 Mbps
What server are you testing against? If you are using a server on the other side of the world, or country you are likely to get lower throughput numbers than if you are using a server close to you.
Etc...
etc. Etc...
Looks like you are testing with your cell phone at home on your home WiFi network? If so WiFi slows your top speed potential down. Best speeds are achieved with an ethernet/wired connection on a PC/Mac. “MESH” routers or newer WiFi 6e WiFi routers achieve the best speeds (but still below a wired connection). Try the speed tests with WiFi turned off or away from your house on cellular only.
Suffered through Verizon FIOS for 7 long years...
First at 75/75, then 100/100...
My wife didn’t get her favorite channels and my computer room (2-stories above the router and at the farthest corner of the house) struggled with speeds ranging from 35-60...
Also paying 270 per month TV and 150 per month for cells...
Finally, last year, went back to Comcast-Xfinity...
Got three free cell phones and unlimited data for 105 per month... With Verizon (2 cell phones) had 1GB data...
TV-wise, my wife got a zillion channels with ALL her favorite channels (I never watch TV...If I cannot see it on Prime or Paramount, the hell with it...)
With Xfinity getting 1100 into the Xfinity router and 1000 to my brand new inside router sitting coaxed next to it and, with VPN off, get 420 in my computer room and 280 with VPN on... Every thing latest WiFi 6 for router and all computers...
If you are not getting the speed you are paying for from the internet provider it could be something to do with Windows 10. I was to get over 500mbps but 99% never came close. The internet provider Spectrum said the line was good. My other pc was getting 570mbps and my cell phone was getting high speed when using the spectrum wifi.
I was getting under 200mbps and sometimes 300mbps on my Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H desktop pc from 2015 but most times in the low 200’s. It was a new install of Windows 10 pro in February. I tried the many suggestions online but the FREE program TCP Optimizer easily fixed the issue.
https://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
Screenshots - see how easy the fix was.
https://gab.com/minnesota_bound/posts/110890050107034096/media/1
Wireless speeds are no where near as fast as wired. You can’t use your phone as a benchmark; the ISPs don’t.
The true test is on a wired system connecting direct to the ISP. Most ISPs provide a speedtest endpoint for this purpose.
Also, remember there’s a difference between megaBITS per second and megaBYTES per second. Most ISPs sell on megaBITS per second, because there are 8 bits per byte, so the mbps (small b) number is larger than the mBps (large b) number.
Virtually all providers regularly “throttle down’ their speeds. When called on it by someone who uses an independent speed test, they will unthrottle it for a while and when you are satisfied with their fix, they will apply the throttle again.
My experience has been that they all seem to view 50 mbps is enough to run most apps and streaming without being terribly noticeable to the user. My solution is to pay for the lowest tier since that is what I will get anyway.