Insight has just left, the Apple Airport Extreme handles this fantastically, but I did have a question answered that has always bothered me. I had wondered if my download speed was 10 meg, or 20 would I really be getting the full usage for unless the site I visited had an UPLOAD speed close to my download speed then I was not going to get the benefit of the higher speed?
Today I found that was true. This weekend we took the grandchildren to the Polar Express train ride in French Lick. I took a high def. camera and videoed much of the trip, taking over 30 min. at least. I put it together in a 5.5 min. movie last night and sent to all the children. The file was 505 meg and I had to use YouSend it to send that large a file. I was noticing that the upload speed was hovering around the 1.3 that Insight offers with the 20 meg. I sent myself a copy of the video so I could download it this morning to test the 50 meg. The best I was getting was 4.3 down, even though I could take 50. I did this with the tech guy still here and my question for all these years was answered. I AM only going to get what the site I go to will upload. Makes sense. So where the 50 really helps is downloading multiple items at the same time, I would be able to get THEIR maximum output on each of the downloads until I reached the 50 max. Hmmmmm, lots of idle time for the downloads until these vendors increase their upload speeds. He also said that by next year they will offer fiber to the home, with 100 meg download speeds. Once in the home they will offer to install the fiber to the various rooms, but for a home like I have they can't for there isn't an exposed beam anywhere other than the furnace room. The NEXT thing they will offer in a couple years or so will be fiber to their router, that that uses wireless to send the very high speeds throughout the house, hope Apple is ready for this one when it gets here. He said that with my Apple TV I would notice a difference in the downloads (I guess, if Apple can push more than 1 or 2 meg download speeds) and he said the gamers love the 50, but I am not a gamer. I tested the speed with Speedtest.net and sure enough I am hitting right at 50 down and 5.2 up. At least when I am sending a large file I will notice a difference because I am the one with the faster upload speed. John
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