time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

[John Abreau]

Internet "speed" is a conflation of two different things: bandwidth and
latency. Merely increasing your bandwidth won't do anything to address
problems with latency. If you combine both of these in your head and call
it "speed", then you're setting yourself up for expensive disappointment.


On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:28 AM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:

> I'm on Fairpoint DSL in Milford. My measured down/up speed is about
> 3Mbps/.6Mbps.
>
> I remember hearing good things about G4 from this mailing list, but they
> said:
>
>     At 12000 feet from the CO, we would normally estimate speeds in the
>     5-6Mb. However it looks like your connection goes through FairPoint
>     equipment that our connections do not go through. Sorry we couldn't
>     help you.
>
> Does anyone have more information about this? Does Milford have two
> parallel sets of equipment only one of which G4 can use? Or do they mean
> they just don't serve Milford?
>
> I've been on Fairpoint's site to try to glean anything about anything
> and there's basically no information there. They don't even say what
> speeds or prices their existing products are at, let alone what
> potential upgrades there are or anything about equipment. The bill just
> says "HSI - Standard" which I assume means "High Speed Internet".
>
> Are there any other options in Milford? Or is this equipment thing
> limiting me? There's always cable, but my vague perception is that cable
> internet sucks for several reasons. Maybe I'm behind the times.
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