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>> paying for 30mbps but only getting on average 9.50mbps. wish we had more choices out in the wood
@mm4731:
I pay for 50 and get between 35 and 50. Are you testing through Wi-Fi because it will be less.
@BooBear: Sort of...
Unless you buy a dedicated link from a service provider (read "business class" and "thousands per month") you're always going to get stuck with an "up to" clause due to over-subscription of various links in the network path. Basically the provider brings a certain size network pipe from their central office (CO) to your neighborhood. For this discussion, we'll say that pipe is 500Mb. Then they sell you and all of your neighbors internet packages at "up to" 50Mb per house. Easy math says that 10 houses can max their link at the same time without issue. Then they sell to an 11th, 12th, 25th. They are using analytical metrics and rolling the dice that at no point will everyone be attempting to use all of their allotted bandwidth at the same time. As far as testing on wireless being slower...maybe. If you're running 802.11b with it's 11Mb half-duplex (meaning your computer can either talk or listen but not both at the same time, thus halving your speed) then you would be correct. If you're running 802.11g the max bumps up to 54Mb. Half-duplex, range from the wireless controller, interference in the way, number of other nodes on the wireless network competing for communication with the controller...all of those things still come in to play so it's still a good chance it would be slower than wire-line. If, however, you have a pretty good signal and you're running 802.11n (out since 2009) then you can potentially run up to 300Mb. Since it uses multiple wireless signals and antennas (MIMO) it acts very similar to a full-duplex wired line allowing you to send and receive packets at the same time so that number is much closer to the actual performance than b or g. Now if you're really a nerd, you might be running the latest and greatest 802.11ac. It uses both multiple channels and multiple frequencies. On the 5ghz bands you can get up to 1300Mb of speed and on the 2.4ghz (used by b,g, and n) it will run up to 450Mb.Source: senior network design engineer dealing in data networking for the past couple of decades. 4951