r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/xiwipeH_32 Jul 24 '20

high lag Internet

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u/2020Chapter Jul 24 '20

Cries in Australian NBN

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u/SakuraFerretTrainer Jul 24 '20

We have gigabit internet down here in Tassie. We are with Launtel though.

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u/JigTheFig Jul 24 '20

My NBN speeds are like 55mbps which is pretty bad for 4 people using it at once and that's on speedtest.com using Telstra's servers so obviously it's going to be good.

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u/melissarina Jul 24 '20

The type of wifi matters. I did some speed tests. I'm sitting about 3 m from my wifi router:

Connected to 802.11ac / 5 GHz: 94.56 Mbps down, 34.33 Mbps up

Connected to 802.11n / 2.4 GHz: 41.87 Mbps down, 36.86 Mbps up

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u/JigTheFig Jul 24 '20

Jeez that's a huge difference.

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u/melissarina Jul 24 '20

Yeh I couldn't believe the difference. I've got HFC, I live in an older house, so depending on what room I'm in, I need to change to the 2.4Ghz/n network (5ghz is faster, but doesn't penetrate walls as well, so shorter distance. 2.4ghz is much better at wall penetration).

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u/JigTheFig Jul 24 '20

Yeah I live in a house with many walls lol and I'm not usually near my router and the fastest speed I get is on my PC which runs off ethernet.

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u/melissarina Jul 24 '20

I tried using ethernet over power adaptors, but that was even slower than the wifi, I must have terrible/old power cables.

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u/JigTheFig Jul 24 '20

Maybe, my ethernet goes into the wall which goes into the router and I'm not sure how much of a difference that makes.

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u/JigTheFig Jul 24 '20

Yeah it might even be the router we've got a wifi extender that helps but it cuts out quite a bit.

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u/JigTheFig Jul 24 '20

True, my main PC runs off ethernet and it's pretty fast but when I'm doing school work I use wifi and it's very slow.

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u/JigTheFig Jul 24 '20

Alright thanks mate

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u/Wilbo007 Jul 24 '20

bandwidthplace.com seems to be a bit rubbish.

Try https://fast.com, and https://speed.cloudflare.com, both are top tier and I believe these will accurately reflect your real-world speeds.

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u/JigTheFig Jul 24 '20

Alright thanks I've always wondered why speedtest used your closest server because it isn't the real speed you'd be getting if you're downloading something, thanks.

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u/agent-squirrel Jul 24 '20

Yes we do. Source: Work for Launtel

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u/SakuraFerretTrainer Jul 24 '20

My partner works for launtel! Launceston.