Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

On Viasat here
Test Results: D/L 20.09. U/L 5.09, beats the hell outta dial up, my only other option.
Plan stats: D/L 12 . U/L 3.0
No complaints here.

malawibob Loc: South Carolina

Carolina connect gives me : pint 4ms, Download 102.70 , and upload 105.31 I guess I'm satisfied

malawibob Loc: South Carolina

pint should be ping

Country Boy Loc: Beckley, WV

With schools hosting classes virtually this fall, I would suspect that at least for daytime hours many will notice a reduction.

mansfield75150 Loc: Mesquite, TX

In Mesquite, TX, I have 238dn and 11.9up every day all day.

Red6

Arizona Art is correct. The speeds need to be checked at the cable modem output using a good Cat 5 or better cable and connected directly to your computer or laptop. The router and all other devices should be out of the loop when measuring. At the cable modem output is the only place that your data rate can be checked accurately.

Most cable modems have only one output. That output is usually sent to a router which allows the bandwidth to be shared by all connected devices in your household. So if you are checking your speeds through the router and other devices are connected at the same time, they are sharing that 100 mbps throughput. That output divided among several computers, laptop, tablets, cellphones, smart TV, Google devices, and other devices throughout the house will cause your measurement at your computer to be much lower, depending on the demand from these other devices.

And hopefully your router is rated for the data rate that the cable company is delivering. If they are delivering 100 Mbps and your router is an older one rated at 25 Mbps then there could be a problem.

After you check all this and you are still below what you are paying for then give them a call!!

Good Luck.

DaleBrown

I wish we could get such great speeds. We do not even get to 1 meg down or up out here in the sticks. The only time we get good enough speeds to even watch a movie is when our 4G resets once a month and then depending what we are doing with it, it throttles down to 3G in day and half to two days. Then next 28-30 days it creeps.
Fortunately we don’t have school age children because with pandemic their virtual education would suffer.

domcomm Loc: Denver, CO

Mine shows 227 down/6.8 up on Comcast/Xfinfity, which is more than the 200 that they claim for my plan. They ahve always been good, unlike Century Link, which never comes anywhere near to their claims.

One thing to always consider, is are you direct-wired or on wireless? Wireless may be handy, but it will never come close to the speed of direct-wired.

It's too bad we don't have what they have in South Korea! Their speeds are more than 4X the highest speeds available in the U.S., and for less than 1/4 of the price. Must be nice!

kubota king Loc: NW , Pa.

Where I live I have the 400mb download speed and 25mb upload speed . And I run a VPN on my computers . I am on a cable system . No problem with slow downs . I know what it's like to be on a system that really sucks . Where I use to live , I only had 1.5mb download speed .

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Out here in the country where I live, the only thing with any speed at all is microwave. My speed is consistently 20+ down and around 5 up (only 2+ this morning). You folks with cable should feel lucky.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

I just tried Xfinity test, 474.9 down 22.5 up, Spectrum similar, I'm actually on Spectrum.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Here's mine this morning. Yesterday was a different question. CL was having some issues.
--Bob

(Download)

jerold222 Loc: Southern Minnesota

And you think you have it slow?

Bayou

Up/Download speeds are like the megapixel race. There's a point beyond which you'll see little or no improvement in overall performance.

Anything better than maybe 12 down will not improve anything except for the downloads of very large files, or if you have a house full of people all watching different video streams on multiple computers. High upload speed is important for large cloud backups, or serving busy websites or torrents, and little else. 10 up is pretty good.

Whatever you're doing online, there are often choke points somewhere in the very convoluted pathway between you and the originating server that determines true latency and overall speed. That choke point is rarely your own service or modem, though it could be your router with an outdated wifi protocol. The fastest service imaginable will do nothing to improve your true up/down speeds beyond those choke points that lie elsewhere.

It's a rather pointless race, beyond some point.

Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana