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mbps is mega bits per second without using capital letters. I don't like (either) using the shift key too much while typing. Ideally I would type everything with lower case. Not when I publish an article, but when I write on a forum. There is no computing equipment with mili-bits-per-second.
When we had 25Mbps it was slow and at times Netflix did break up particularly streaming high def. Soon after that the fiber system was upgraded to 100Mbps!
Everything works fine on the wireless connection.
If you are faced with slow speeds under 50Mbps having a direct connection instead of wireless for Netflix would probably help.
When we had 25Mbps it was slow and at times Netflix did break up particularly streaming high def. Soon after that the fiber system was upgraded to 100Mbps!
If you were having streaming issues with a 25Mbps connection the problem was somewhere other than the speed.
The TV is streaming high definition as well as four computers running at the same time.
Granted the TV is at the other end of the house from the router. However, 25Mbps is slow.
1. what is going on on the 4 computers? downloading, streaming?
2. TV streaming slow? Are u using wifi or Ethernet (CAT5e) cable? Can you try with cable and let us know?
It would be a long run for the ethernet cable back to the TV. I suspect part of the problem is the distance between the router and TV and the number of walls.
The old Mac....seven years old is directly wired. Its speed is 95Mbps. My 2012 Lenovo laptop is at the other end of the house and it only manages 85Mbps on the wireless network. When we printed on the wireless network at 25Mbps we noticed a hickup.
I don't think it matters but our cable TV comes through the same fiber line. We did drop our internet phone system and just kept our cell phones.
Well, its a household. Four computers is pretty typical. Everything goes on at different times. The advantage of 100Mbps speeds is you can get sloppy and everything just works. When we had 25Mbps it was always......granted only on a infrequent basis.....why is that so slow??
Most of the problems showed up with the TV and streaming of wireless internet to it. Particular when we were streaming high def programs.
I thought long and hard about upgrading to the 1Gbps service, but it was $185/month as opposed to $39 for 100Mbps service. So we stayed with the slower speed. If I was running a "serious" business dependent on internet I would have definitely switched to the faster service.
Does this help?? Any other questions or clarifications you need??
Actually if you can stream HD movies smoothly on any of the laptops then the internet connection must be fast enough. With the WIFI: I think the problem is not the max speed, but the speed drop due to interference. So, you have 100meg and something is still slow. Before you go for a faster service, you could do some investigation on the real cause of the bottleneck. If the bottleneck is inside your house (like interference on the wifi), then no faster internet connection could make it right.
We seemed to have packet loss & I have been paying 6 months w RCN at 110 mb/s fastest tier. Tech left without testing much. I just booted up 10 wireless devices, set 8 to stream movies (including a few HD) PLUS added 2 to run upload file transfers. Then the ELEVENTH device was LAN tied to the modem while I ran ping/trace tests. While there seemed to be little packet loss over the hour I ran it..ALL movies played PERFECT & I took one device off to run speedtest.net RESULTS WERE 4.98 upload and 1.96 download. CLEARLY TOMORROW I DROP DOWN TO RCN LOWEST TIER!
We seemed to have packet loss & I have been paying 6 months w RCN at 110 mb/s fastest tier. Tech left without testing much. I just booted up 10 wireless devices, set 8 to stream movies (including a few HD) PLUS added 2 to run upload file transfers. Then the ELEVENTH device was LAN tied to the modem while I ran ping/trace tests. While there seemed to be little packet loss over the hour I ran it..ALL movies played PERFECT & I took one device off to run speedtest.net RESULTS WERE 4.98 upload and 1.96 download. CLEARLY TOMORROW I DROP DOWN TO RCN LOWEST TIER!
Are you on comcast? I just wasted 2 hours with internet access problems, but its fine now.
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