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[WiFi] What are speeds usually like on the public XFINITYWIFI hotspots?I just got Xfinity (gigabit download, ~35Mbps upload) and realized that now I can use those Xfinity wifi hotspots I see everywhere. What are the speeds on those usually like? I know it depends by area but idk if there’s a general logic to what you can expect for speeds (like whether it’s always a max of 100Mbps or if it’s the max available speed). |
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srtdodge05 Premium Member join:2011-10-16 Ypsilanti, MI
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Standard speed is 25/5 on xfinity hotspot. Best I've gotten was 30/6 but normally its around 8Mbps or so. |
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Varies by range, but 25/5 (30/6) appears to be the fastest around here. |
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grod46 join:2012-11-25 Fresno, CA
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Just did a speed test on a hotspot right now and this is the results I got, Of course YMMV |
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Got this near one of the ap's that hangs from the wires, pretty good imo |
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Sucks how the max upload speed we can get in the northeast is 10mbps while Comcast clearly has extra bandwidth to give to these hotspots on rented modems.. wish we could at least get 15mbps. |
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True speed 3mbps down and 300kbps up |
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Bink63Namedrop THIS Premium Member join:2002-10-06 Everywhere
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Good luck staying connected to one for more than 5 minutes and they tend towards 512Kbs/128Kbs |
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sd70mac Premium Member join:2015-10-18 Woodstock, IL Netgear CM1200 Linksys WRT1900ACS Ooma Telo
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sd70mac
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2018-Feb-1 5:48 am
said by Bink63:Good luck staying connected to one for more than 5 minutes and they tend towards 512Kbs/128Kbs This is why I got my Speedify hybrid vpn, so I could leverage the hotspots and cellular data at the same time to stay connected to the internet while still offloading some data onto Wi-Fi. |
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JohkalCool Cat MVM join:2002-11-13 Pennsyltucky
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Yep, it's about connectivity. I can't tell you how many times I've connected to some abysmal Xfinity hotspot which is nearly unusable & I have to turn off wifi and go to 4G. |
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Soups
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2018-Feb-1 9:53 am
I have a close neighbor, that broadcasts the xfinitywifi. The signal even on 5GHz is a tad stronger than my own home wireless. I have a TV connected sometimes for days. It does boot it off on to a more distant poor connection sometimes though. |
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whfsdude Premium Member join:2003-04-05 Washington, DC
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I believe it depends on the hotspot type too. IIRC the home hotspots are capped at 25mbit/s with a limit of 5 total users. The dedicated hotspots (usually BelAir strand-mounted) seem to have the speed of the Performance tier, and native IPv6 support. |
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jbobReach Out and Touch Someone Premium Member join:2004-04-26 Little Rock, AR
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Yeah I'm a little curious if there is a difference between the home based hotspots vs the public ones not associated with a home acct? Also seeing a wide variation of opinions as well as what some are actually seeing. |
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I believe the Xfinitywifi via the Residential Gateways is 18/2 , but maybe its 25/5 now (I have not had access to Xfinitywifi in months to test). The access points that are mounted to powerlines are allowed to go faster but do not know if it limits by your plan (I had 75 or 100 - cant recall) or what. I'm curious if the access points are secretly using Fiber (and throttled) or still using Business-Grade Comcast. |
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jm101 join:2011-07-17 Oakland, CA ARRIS BGW210-700 Ubiquiti UDM-Pro Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC-PRO
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I decided to do some work at a neighborhood cafe today. Doesn't appear that they have WiFi so am connected to xfinitywifi. That ping. Lol! This is in a neighborhood with pole-mounted APs. |
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RemixF join:2015-12-28 Branford, CT ARRIS SB6190
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I usually get 20/5 (or 30/5 I forget) for most hotspots, including the ones at businesses and homes. Today I saw a pole-mounted AP and decided to give it a shot whilst waiting for someone. Results are rather impressive at almost 100 Mbps/10 Mbps. Results
Pole mounted AP
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jm101 join:2011-07-17 Oakland, CA ARRIS BGW210-700 Ubiquiti UDM-Pro Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC-PRO
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jm101
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2018-Feb-5 6:49 pm
said by RemixF:I usually get 20/5 (or 30/5 I forget) for most hotspots, including the ones at businesses and homes. Today I saw a pole-mounted AP and decided to give it a shot whilst waiting for someone. Results are rather impressive at almost 100 Mbps/10 Mbps. Wow! Why can't we have these speeds in our area? Lol. Actually that upload is faster than our home Comcast connection. |
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Why does that look like a cat hanging by the tail? |
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whfsdude Premium Member join:2003-04-05 Washington, DC
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On the strand mounted access points here you can easily get over 100mbit/s. This is one of the many BelAir 100SNE's (8x4 CM, 802.11n) they have in the DC market. My one complaint is that it feels like they added a bunch of APs during the initial rollout, but haven't filled in the gaps or placed them in obvious high traffic areas. |
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jm101 join:2011-07-17 Oakland, CA
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Gave xfinitywifi another try today. Same issues so connected to Starbucks WiFi. Much better. |
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Zenit_IIfxThe system is the solution Premium Member join:2012-05-07 Purcellville, VA ·Comcast XFINITY
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That isn't the AP. The AP is the small grey box with rounded edges directly mounted on the line below power. The big cylinder is a POTS (telephone) load coil pot with lead sheath wire, very old. Looks like a typical Western Electric one as deployed by the Bell System. Comcast has nothing to do with that. |
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In my area I get a solid connection of about 130 Megabits per second down (Which is roughly 16 Megabytes p/s) and absolutely insane if you know much about computers or average Internet speeds across the country considering this is a public wifi network that is just supposed to provide a bit of extra convenience to Comcast customers. It's usually operating at that speed about 85% of the times that I've checked with a speed test which is probably well over 100 times in the past 3 months alone. The highest speed I've seen it reach was 190 Megabits per second (About 24 Megabytes) and it was consistent or close to it for about 3 hours in the middle of the night a few weeks back but I haven't seen it go far off of the average 130 Megabits per second since that night. It was between 1am - 3 am roughly at the time so maybe the bandwidth just happened to be available because not many people were using the xfinitywifi network in my area at that time. For upload speeds the experience fluctuates quite drastically depending on the time of day. It's never less than 5 Megabits per second (just over 0.5 Megabytes p/s) and I've never seen it go beyond 30 Megabits per second (3.5 Megabytes p/s roughly). I would honestly give it 50/50 odds at any given time. Regardless the average upload speed of most internet connections is between 1-2 Megabytes so the fact that it can reach almost double the upload speed of 95% is pretty damn impressive. Best part is I pay for the 50 Megabit per second plan for my Comcast service and get the same speed that I would have to pay 50 bucks more per month for and its just a perk of having their service to begin with. |
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NormanSI gave her time to steal my mind away MVM join:2001-02-14 San Jose, CA
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I don't see a pole-mounted AP. I do see a strand-mounted AP. |
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b10010011Whats a Posting tag? join:2004-09-07 united state
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I have found it really depends on the hotspot.
Hotspots in a low population density area are fast, hotspots in a crowded downtown area are painfully slow. |
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Arm join:2018-05-22 Bel Air, MD
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Wire mounted access points I’ve never gotten below 100 Mbps. Home / business gateways i get 30/10 usually. |
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I remember I was told by Xfinity that the speed should be whatever you are provisioned on your account if the hotspot is capable of it. But I've never found any that can do more than like 40MB down and 10MB up MAX! I thought it was BS, lol. |
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said by FifthE1ement:I remember I was told by Xfinity that the speed should be whatever you are provisioned on your account if the hotspot is capable of it. But I've never found any that can do more than like 40MB down and 10MB up MAX! I thought it was BS, lol. AFAIK, home hotspot speed is typically 16/3 or 25/5, unless it's been boosted recently. Public xfinitywifi hotspots can have faster speeds. |
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When I use the one from modem in my house max true speed I would get 3 to 3.4 mbps down and 400kbps to 600kbps up. If nobody else is using the hotspot you should get max 4.5mbps down and 1mbps up they set the down and up really low so users will not download and upload a lot of big files. |
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Went into the bathroom (lol) and connected to my neighbors xfinitywifi signal and got this... |
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