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Topic subjectRE: Internet speed
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565304, RE: Internet speed
Posted by arr2dee2, Thu May-10-18 03:05 PM
I don't have anything to add here, just commenting. DSL and cable aren't available in my area. The village has 5 meg DSL for $85 (including mandatory landline), I'm 8 miles from that (it works 7 miles from town, I'm 15). I have a regional cell carrier. I have a $400 cell signal booster with roof antenna to get a signal. I pay $50 per month for up to 4 meg service, grandfathered on an old plan with a 200GB cap (reasonable, new plans are 50GB at that price but include a free zone after midnight). I'm only about 6 miles from the tower, about 1/4 mile of trees on my property right by the house plus more groves farther out, plus the poorly penetrating signal they use cause a fairly poor signal here. It doesn't multitask well, but web browsing, typical pages load almost instantly most of the time. Here's a typical result.

:::.. Internet Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 1847 kbps or 1.8 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 5 MB or 5120 kB or 5242880 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 231 kB/s
Upload Connection Speed:: 221 kbps or 0.2 Mbps
Upload Speed Test Size:: 256 kB or 262144 bytes
Upload Binary File Transfer Speed:: 28 kB/s
Timed:: Download: 22.712 seconds | Upload: 9.504 seconds

The current "better" of the two satellite services has been full and closed most of the time since '12. Hughesnet keeps stuffing in customers. Speed is often less than 1 meg in the evenings with the current service, new will likely be better for a while. But they have an issue with the new satellite. Here's the latest and greatest satellite plans available in my area. $10 lease fee on top of this. Patiently waiting on LEO satellites, or for Verizon to offer a better home option (I can barely get their signal, but it works).