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Is 175.81 mbps download speed decent or superb?

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Quite good. In my neighborhood, Cox Communications offers up to 300 megabits download, and some of my neighbors have it. You do get that performance in the real world.
 
Gene Steinberg said:
Quite good. In my neighborhood, Cox Communications offers up to 300 megabits download, and some of my neighbors have it. You do get that performance in the real world.
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Ok great. Thanks Gene. Comcast sent me a letter saying our modem/router was out of date and that they would send a new one free of charge. It showed up via UPS today and I got everything connected. I checked the speed on two different sites and it says I was getting the speed that I mentioned. I just wasn't sure where that stood in the grand scheme of things.
 
What's the rated speed of your service?

In some cities, ISPs are rolling out gigabit. We have it in Phoenix, but not in this slum where I now reside.
 
Gene Steinberg said:
What's the rated speed of your service?

In some cities, ISPs are rolling out gigabit. We have it in Phoenix, but not in this slum where I now reside.
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Oh wow. I think I heard something like that offered from Comcast here in NJ. But I believe it's $300/mo. What I have now works just fine. The best thing about my home network is the Airport Extreme router I bought. Wish I had this thing years ago.
 
GL, are you also getting that kind of speed with your wireless LAN? My provider guarantees and delivers 100 Mbps with hard wired connections. My wireless LAN reception is about 30 percent slower and its speed is more variable.

The receiving gizmo for my network adapter is connected via a 3 ft. length of usb cable and can be moved to various locations near the wLAN desktop. I was surprised to find how critical placement of the adapter can be, changing the download speed by as much as 30 mbps even when moved less than a foot in one direction or another. This is regardless of indicated signal strength on my screen. Is interference causing it to drop and resend packets in certain locations maybe? Details are above my pay grade.

I was told by my provider's technician that the main modem/wireless router is close to obsolete and he suggested I drop by one of their offices for a swap-out.
 
boomerang said:
GL, are you also getting that kind of speed with your wireless LAN? My provider guarantees and delivers 100 Mbps with hard wired connections. My wireless LAN reception is about 30 percent slower and its speed is more variable.

The receiving gizmo for my network adapter is connected via a 3 ft. length of usb cable and can be moved to various locations near the wLAN desktop. I was surprised to find how critical placement of the adapter can be, changing the download speed by as much as 30 mbps even when moved less than a foot in one direction or another. This is regardless of indicated signal strength on my screen. Is interference causing it to drop and resend packets in certain locations maybe? Details are above my pay grade.

I was told by my provider's technician that the main modem/wireless router is close to obsolete and he suggested I drop by one of their offices for a swap-out.
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I've never measured speed within my network itself. I'm too much of a novice to know how to do that. So the speed I quoted yesterday was based off me doing 3 different speed tests from my laptop. What happened in the first place is; the modem/wifi router combo that Comcast provided was aggravating me daily. You'd randomly get kicked off, speed would be horrific, signal strength poor. So I went and bought an Airport Express. I had it for a day but took it back for the Airport Extreme. I've had it about a year now and signal strength & speed have been excellent. Plus the configuring of it was ridiculously easy. We have about 10 different devices that use it regularly (5 iPads, 2 iPhones, AppleTV, MacBook, Chromebook. Never have had one problem with performance or getting kicked off the network. My Apple router sits right next to the Comcast provided router.
 
Gene Steinberg said:
Cox provides a pretty decent router for some of their services, 802.11ac and four gigabit Ethernet ports. It doesn't offer any performance sacrifice over an Airport Extreme, except for being more difficult to configure.

If anyone wants to check their Internet speeds, try this site:

Speedtest.net by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test
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That link you provided - that's what I used for my test (then I used two other sites just so I could get a good baseline).
 
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