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Molly Struve (she/her)
Molly Struve (she/her)

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What's Your Internet Speed?

Time to bust out the speed tests!!! How many bytes are you sending up and pulling down right now? One great option to help you find out is speedtest.net but there are also many more.

Bonus points if you want to show off the hardware you are using to get those speeds 😉

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Nathan Tamez

screenshot of a 680Mbps speed test on fast.com

We get Virgin Media FTTH (Fiber to the Home), we only pay for 500Mbps so I am pretty happy with this speed. Also, 1Gbps+ is not available at the moment in my area.

We running two Netgear nighthawk R8000 routers, one as a primary router the other as an access point. Also, we about to install a new 16 port gigabit ethernet switch.

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Jaaki

You're definitely winning this competition!! :D

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Nathan Tamez

Yeah my download speed is impressive, I only get 40Mbps upload.
There has to be others on DEV that has faster a internet connection.

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Nathan Tamez • Edited

forgot to mention this was over AC Wi-Fi 5Ghz

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Kobe Raypole

Goodness

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Ben Halpern

Wow

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Fulton Browne

2 MB a second 😪

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Molly Struve (she/her)

Oof! This is why I wanted to do this bc I think more people struggle with internet access and speed than many of us devs think and account for when we are designing websites

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Fulton Browne

I do get my fair share of dumbly long lode times for websites, even dev takes about 3 to 5 seconds to load.

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Juho Heiskanen

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Kobe Raypole

Big oof.

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Nathan Tamez

I’m sorry it doesn’t count, as it’s not in English.
Only joking, hahaha. I can’t wait for 1Gbps up and down. Tbh

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Kushan Joshi • Edited

6gbps

Internet at my office. To be fair I tweaked the parallel connection options in fast.com to 64.

The screenshot below is the one with default fast.com options:

default

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tiff

Jeezus f*cking Christ! 😳

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/*Sharkie*/ • Edited

I have 2.5mgbs on a GOOD day. Most of the time it hangs between 1 and 2.

And yes, this is part of the reason you can see my with my laptop at the nearest Tim Hortons trying to get something downloaded/uploaded. 😂

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NDTSTN

200 Mbit/s down, 11 Mbit/s up
I'm paying for 100 Mbit/s, but since fiber to the home is being advertised in my area, my current carrier is giving me double the bandwidth for download to keep me as a customer.

My current connection uses coaxial cables. It's basically reused cable tv cables, and that's also why it works downstream much better than upstream.

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Lautaro Lobo

Well, I live here: goo.gl/maps/1j2PiUjw843qMii77
So, it's hard to get cool internet connections (and affordable, not expensive af). The higher that we can have is 8mbps/s. Here at home we have less than 1mbp. Speedtest says 0.31mbps/s. And that's when it is working good!

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Lautaro Lobo

omg it looks like I have the lowest internet speed connection of this thread 😂

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freq32 • Edited

For LA this is pretty fast, but some of these, wow. its Starry internet (recommended, love it, if you're lucky enough to be in the coverage area). if you want 2 free months, here ya go: starry.com/r/sjny7h

(meanwhile i just figured out how to embed on dev.to)

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Bak3y

Speed

Gigabit fiber is nice, fast enough that my cheap home router can't keep up.

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Molly Struve (she/her)

🔥🔥🔥 we have that at home and nothing beats wiring into it 😃

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Robert Kingston

Time to build your own Linux router!

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Nick Taylor

Here’s my current speed. For hardware, I’m using the Google Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System with 3 pucks positioned in my house for the best connection.

amazon.ca/Google-Whole-Wi-Fi-Syste...

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