 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to BF69
Re: Who cares about speed Exactly. I could run a speed test once, get 20Mbps, run again and hit 30Mbps... I wouldn't notice the difference, even though one has 50% more speed, and the difference is as fast as AT&T's fastest ADSL package.
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
1 edit | said by en102:Exactly. I could run a speed test once, get 20Mbps, run again and hit 30Mbps... I wouldn't notice the difference, even though one has 50% more speed, and the difference is as fast as AT&T's fastest ADSL package. Well my point was that if you were downloading say a 2 GB movie from Itunes or Amazon then at 5 Mbps that would take about 54 minutes. At 10 Mbps that would take 27 minutes. Ok so you'll notice 27 minutes difference. With a 20 Mbps conenction it would take 13.5 minutes. With 25 Mbps it will take 11 minutes. You're not going to notice 2.5 minutes. |
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en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Exactly. Unless I'm consistantly pulling something that needs the full limit (eg. a stream that 'needs' 25Mbps and would buffer at 20Mbps), to me, anything above 10Mbps isn't noticed.
This is TWC Docsis 1.1 on the 'All the best' 10/1Mbps package (free boost somehow gives me up to 35Mbps).
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | I dunno about you, but I notice my 30 meg speed over 10... when every I'm having to download software like iTunes, real, etc. I'm loving being able to get it done in a few seconds vs minutes.. but for web surfing.. sure.. no difference.
However, I'm quite surprised you're saying this especially when everyone's pushing for more speeds so they can do more online, such as video, Netflix downloads, etc. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by fiberguy:I dunno about you, but I notice my 30 meg speed over 10... when every I'm having to download software like iTunes, real, etc. I'm loving being able to get it done in a few seconds vs minutes.. but for web surfing.. sure.. no difference. However, I'm quite surprised you're saying this especially when everyone's pushing for more speeds so they can do more online, such as video, Netflix downloads, etc. Was I comparing 30 to 10? I was comparing 5 to 10 and 20 to 25. See in each case a differnce of 5 Mbps. You can tell a difernc between 5 and 10. Not between 20 and 25. So as I said there's little point to continue to push speeds even higher while many areas don't even have broadband.
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en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | A good part of that is the relative difference. An extra 25% for basic surfing is not noticable at 20Mbps. At 5Mbps, 10Mbps is a 100% increase which may or may not be noticed for basic surfing.
In my case, work related, SSH / remote desktop hasn't seemed much different on TWC at 20-30Mbps than it was on 3Mbps/512kbps ADSL. Latency was actually lower on ADSL (fastpath) with DSL Extreme than it is on TWC and more consistent.
For large downloads, and downloading while running Skype, having sufficient bandwidth (both ways) is a good thing though. |
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