Internet ISP Download Speed

[SpaceCow]

Hello. I have basic Optimum cable internet which is advertised as 300 mbps. I'm seeing around 175-225 mbps on online speed tests on a PC that is wired to the modem, with a couple of phones and a tv on wifi connected. Is this normal? Should it be closer to 300 ?

Am thinking of switching to Verizon. Am thinking maybe Optimum just can't deliver on their advertised bandwidth speed ?

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Make sure no one is streaming any videos while doing the test.

[SpaceCow]

Gotcha thanks, will try in the early early morning

[A&A]

Wrong forum.

Anyway, there are many things that can affect speed.

-Your ethernet adapter.
-Your ethernet cable.
-You might be using generic Ethernet port drivers which are usually slower.
-Package losses.
-QoS.

[Freqsync]

Holy cow. Do you think it's the illegal tap with a switch that was installed by the newly moved in neighbors that looks like it was bought in the grocery store showing what your watching and streaming into their home?

4 homes 8 lines... for some reason the utility pole has a 4 tap somehow with 8 lines and a next to utility pole with 8 tap zero lines no more then 50 feet away. Then theres a line blended into headingsomewhere else entirely.

The ISP will check for decibel levels check for who coax is grounded properly they will say no one can steal cable and they will no remove prior existing stuff because of saying no one steals cable. Somehow everyone is legally allowed to install their own on existing whether inside your home or outside. Gain some courage and climb up there and disconnect it all... its only .5amp and maybe 10 volts. Then see what happens.

[Ghost Robertson]

I have a similar connection, 300/100 but i don't worry about getting every last drop of it because when installing a game from the net there's also the speed of which it installs, Then there's a ping which is more determined by how far away from the server you are.

like overclocking which sort of mattered with Pentium 3 etc but now processors auto overclock and sometimes you don't need half the speed for the game you play.

[Morkonan]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από SpaceCow:

Hello. I have basic Optimum cable internet which is advertised as 300 mbps. I'm seeing around 175-225 mbps on online speed tests on a PC that is wired to the modem, with a couple of phones and a tv on wifi connected. Is this normal? Should it be closer to 300 ?

Am thinking of switching to Verizon. Am thinking maybe Optimum just can't deliver on their advertised bandwidth speed ?

Other line health considerations need to be explored and, yes, if there are other devices using that pipe, it's going to effect your measurements.

You need to test from your device to your modem, from your modem to a known IP address, then examine the signal and your route to that host. An "Internet Speed Test" can only tell you want that test thinks of that current connection to its host. You could be fine, for instance, but some jump along the route to that host could be acting up.

Tracert/Traceroute and simple Ping commands are your friends, here. Use them first to measure your connection to your modem to check your hardline to be sure it seems to be doing OK. Then, after that, use these targeted at known hosts to check your route to host and get useable data. Dropped packets are universally bad, so look for that first.

https://docs.cpanel.net/knowledge-base/general-systems-administration/how-to-run-the-traceroute-and-ping-commands/

Signal strength and stuff like that are highly dependent on your modem/connectio/ISP, so you won't need diagnostic reports from your modem's firmware until you get to the point where other common issues are accounted for. However, that modem diagnostics can tell you that you may have some bad physical connections when signal strength problems are shown. The main culprit, and one that cable techs often blame, are "splitter" connections/connectors.

Your ISP should not be using frequencies reserved for internet to broadcast TV channels on your TV in your home. (In the US) Pushing data to their hardware, like TV show listings and such, is acceptable. (Not to me, but it's apparently "a thing.")

If you can gain admin access to your modem/router, you should be able to examine the bandwidth useage fore devices connected to it. From there, as long as you actually control it and the ISP doesn't, you can easily block any current user during your tests or "permanently" if they're unauthorized. (By hardware ID/MAC address, but these can be spoofed.)

[Freqsync]

Then of course when the system is just one and there is oxidization causing inteference since installed without weather sealing instead of over the decibel limits with to many is probably the issue. Find rust find your issue.

Stay off the grid for 6 months use basic data from cell phone. Get the cheapest package deal. get a rewire from outside to inside direct connect to the box into the home without spiltters and then worry if nothing kicks in. If your home itself is not ready for a gig transfer or your own computer and it transfer at speeds like a usb 25Mb persecond ...why even deal with trying to find out so slow. CD player was to fast for cpus back in the day. Do you even run a server for family sharing?

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

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Make sure no one is streaming any videos while doing the test.

p much this for anything


make sure you have less things connected to the modem. Otherwise you're gonna have splits.

i did tests too and my download and streaming speed is around 100 which im going to downgrade b/c of the b.s. internet prices they keep hiking up (and the blackouts BY GOD THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BLACK OUTS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MAKES NO SENSE!!!!)

[Rage against the Pepsi machine]

Make sure you're testing with a reliable service/site/app. I used to work for an ISP as a residential tech and would use fast.com (which uses Netflix servers) to check a connection speed.

Your modem might also not be fast enough for that connection. You need a DOCSIS 3.0 modem with a minimum of 16 downstream channels to hit 300 mbps reliably, so if you have an older 4 or 8 channel D3.0 modem, you'll probably need to upgrade it.

[Computer]

Idk if this helps, MB/s vs Mbps these are different. Megabyte is not same as Megabit. 1 Megabyte = 8 Megabits. 1MB = 8 Mb. 1 MB/s = 8 Mbps.

When an ISP says you'll be getting 250 Mbps download speed they really mean you will be getting ~ 30 Megabytes per second download speed.

[Masque]

I get 3.2 MB/s.

First world country, baby! Amurca, F Yeah!

[Freqsync]

Simple is luv. Points to you over points to everyone else. Todays age....err.. minus the 6 add the exponent 4024-2000 ..right right 1969 which ever bios chip says it is no matter what.

gonna go with bandwidth channels, docsis and generation WiFi chip. combination of all three got yourself plenty. Wifi 2 chips have been found in docsis 3.0 and being able to have plenty of channels yet if you use the wrong ports do things and use them all is a matter entirely has been plaguing computers since forever. multi tasking ha!.

Heck just having the WiFi antennas distanced from a wall centered in the home or is centered for the entirety to reach the backyard garage plays a huge difference, You can always try and ply some trade craft secret like back in the day rabbit ears technology and leave them lose outside the box and certain angles.. course that is science and we want simple.

Buy new ethernet 14 foot max 6 -8cat depending on how your home is itself environmentally. coax depends on how far from pole after 75 feet things change at 150 things break. Home to pole then add up to 75 feet worth of coax for starters will change a lot. Say 24 foot width road? or utility pole right there 25 feet plus 25 to entrance got 25 feet left to place on another floor?

This isn't helping is it.. supposed to ask for you to sign so i can get paid if it is.

[Basho]

make sure you arent using CAT5 cables (or lower) as well.
you should be looking at CAT6 cables, and make sure any routers and switches involved are at "Gigabit" capacity.

and as mentioned, run the test when you know nothing else is running traffic on the network.
if needed, plug in only one device into the router and run the test like that.

[Freqsync]

be a boss and solder a coax cable where the rj45 jack is supposed to be.
forget those high end system phasing out usb rj45 and dvi hdmi dp ports and going pure high decibel to high for the human ear to hear yet the bones can begin to vibranium.

When you finally take the plunge of the robocop neo needle into the back of the skull just give a shoyt(shout and yell) to anyone else whose about and begin your new adventure into a digital epoch that might be your last.


Okay Oklahoma no idea what a amurka some D&D creature?

Bets are since no response from OP this is commercial for verizon?
If you go that route is like changing a gym some how just better machines yet its still you who has to use them.

Europe, Asia, Artics, U.S., Colonies, Incorporated nations all have a functioning design that others tap into legally and or illegally whether being paid to or not. How your home should operate should not be forced upon by an outside interpretation of a perception. Give yourself time and do mock ups and channel that inner wisdom that deliver yourself to the hex of copper filament and radium ground wire obstruction across the land. Environmentlism of places people can't get free WiFi might stop a few from thinking it can be theirs from time to time. Then again security cameras always do show who the trash might be until the police say musta be just your imjagination when all that changes and the screen goes washed out and staticky because who runs the show happens to be paid by you so you cannot know.

[SpaceCow]

Thanks all, very useful comments. Tried the speed test with only my PC connected and still getting the same speed (226 mbps). I suspect it's my modem. It's the older modem that Optimum used, purchased it a while ago. It's the Arris TM822g, it is DOCSIS 3.0 so not sure why it would be an issue. Optimum doesn't use it anymore according to their site.

I also use a splitter in the coax cable in the wall, not sure how much that would effect the speed, I'll test without the splitter next time I have the time, then I'll also change the splitter and see.

They now use the TM3402 DOCSIS 3.1 Unfortunately it's not in stock on their site and can only find used ones online. So I'm off to my local Optimum store after the weekend to see if I can buy one, or worse case I will have to rent one from them.

Thank you all.