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> Customers with 60Mbps Internet download speeds are being upped to 150Mbps; 150Mbps subscribers are going to 250Mbps; and 250Mbps subscribers are getting a rai

• paleotrope 9y ago
  I upgraded from 100mb to 1g for 400 person site and no one noticed.
  • NicoJuicy 9y ago
    Try the other way in a couple of months
• dboreham 9y ago
  They might notice the corresponding upstream speed increases though.
  • Sohcahtoa82 9y ago
    Unless they're uploading videos to YouTube on a regular basis (Or some other type of large file somewhere), no they won't. They already have enough bandwidth to stream to Twitch, so I really don't think the average user (or even a gamer) will notice.
    • lotsofpulp 9y ago
      It's very easy to notice who has crappy upload when you Facetime them, I imagine this applies to many families.
      • Sohcahtoa82 9y ago
        I wonder how much of this is caused by the internet connection having crappy upload versus just having crappy WiFi.
        • lotsofpulp 9y ago
          I would always bet on crappy upload. Residential internet is so garbage, it's tough for it to even sustain low latency 3Mbps upload in most areas, especially during evening hours when everyone is trying to upload. Facetiming someone with fiber vs not is like night and day versus someone sharing a tiny cable pipe with 2,000 other people.
• lotsofpulp 9y ago
  Unless it's fiber to the home, I doubt there's any difference. I assume they just make up numbers or relax some constraints so you can get "up to" some arbitrary bandwidth, but your latency will still be garbage, you still won't have upload, and you're still sharing the same pipe with your neighborhood.
  • didibus 9y ago
    Ya, I went from 100 to 250, and saw no difference. While my old apartment had 30MB fiber, and damn that was fast, way faster. Its all about consistency, ping and packet loss.
• lstamour 9y ago
  On Rogers cable in Canada, I noticed the jump from DSL to cable, and from 25 Mbps cable to 150 Mbps, but that was accompanied by a modem change from plain old DOCSIS to DOCSIS 2. I didn’t notice the jump from 150 to 250 as much (at all) but the jump to gigabit was significant in that it increased upload speeds to 50 Mbps. The next jump was from gigabit over coax to gigabit over plastic optic from Bell Canada, with 100 Mbps up — asymmetric still, but it easily handled multiple requests at the same time with very low latencies to Bell-peered servers. I mention that because gigabit symmetric was again a jump I noticed, in that posting photos and videos became instaneous, but Bell not peering with TorIX the way Rogers does means most of my traffic to Toronto routes through New York or Chicago first as both Bell and TorIX have US peering arrangements. So not everything is perfect even with symmetric gigabit finally. I suspect my next speed increase will arrive when a third-party is finally able to use Bell’s fibre optic network at which point they might peer locally. I’ve contemplated running both Bell and Rogers for the pings, but I’d need somebody to give me BGP for the routing which is likely expensive...