380 330 370 ________________________________ From: Hardware <[email protected]> on behalf of Christopher Fisk <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2021 8:18 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] 1000Mbps down unlimited data
Connect your laptop directly to the cable modem and try fast.com On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:59 AM _ Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote: > My small city has become pretty competitive for internet and TV service. > Yesterday my Cable One account, which has now become Sparklight, offered > me a 1000Mbps down unlimited data , with 50Mbps up for 75 bucks a month and > I jumped at it in as much as I was paying 65 bucks a month for 200Mbps down > with 700GB cap and 10Mbps up. Once they made the upgrade I started speed > testing. Before the upgrade I always test 190Mbps to 230Mbps down and > 10Mbps up which is what I was paying for. However, since the upgrade I > always get 50Mbps upload test results but the fastest I have gotten on > download is 382Mbps and most of the tests result are 175 to 250Mbps. I have > tested this result directly off my Ubiquity Edge gigabit Router and even > directly off my six month old Motorola 24x8 Cable Modem, Model MB7621, > DOCSIS 3.0. Both of these will handle 1000Mbps. I have tested on multiple > PCs with Intel gigabit Nics. > > So is this low download speed a failure of Sparklight to provide 1000Mbps > or because of a limitation of my NIC ? In essence the network can now > deliver 300 down to multiple PCs simultaneously but an individual NIC > cannot achieve 1000Mbps down... is that what is going on? > >
