Electronics

[gardenman]

As a rule, providers will say "up to" whatever speed they're pushing. You may get that speed, or even something faster, but not always. Locally gigabit connections are being pushed, but when you read the fine print you'll find the average speed is more like 700 mbps. You can get up to a gig, but on average you'll get 700 mbps. That's still pretty darn fast, but to average 700 mbps if you're at one gig half the time, the other half you'd be around 400 mbps. (1,000+400=1400 which divided by two gives you the average of 700.)

[hckynut]

How nice it has to be for those that have the 100/200+mbps speeds. Mine broadband started with 1.5 and a few years later to 5mbps. A few years later it went up to 10mbps.

The last couple years a whopping 20mbps download and a .09 upload. If I checked now? I am guessing a Max of 17 download and about a .07 upload.

Guess I can't relate to those ever so slow 50mbps for those seeming slow. But hey, if you are paying extra $$$ for 100mbps you outta be getting close to that most of the time.

Just wanted to let you know all broadband is not measured in 100's.  But hey, our 1st connection when we moved here in 2000 was dialup/then dialup with satellite. So it has improved. But with our lines made of copper wires, I may have made back in the 1950's?  Most of which have a Max size of 24 gauge wires with .0001 of an inch wall thickness, I am surprised they haven't sparked out yet.

hckynut 

[gardenman]

When I first got Internet the top speed available was 14.4 kbps. Then came the revolutionary jump to 28.8 kbps. Wow! We were flying! Then you could add a second line to get 56 kbps. Blazing fast Internet! Well, at the time. Then came DSL which changed everything. We jumped from kbps to mbps. Even that topped out at around 7 mbps locally, but some people could get faster. Now fiber gives us speeds up to a gigabit plus. (As a side note, I worked for Frontier Communications a few of years ago and we had some rural customers who were paying $29.99 for service that topped out at 7 kbps. It would literally take them all day to just download their email. Fast Internet isn't available everywhere.)