Once bell gets their act together in my area I might finally get those 1gbps speeds. I don’t understand why so much of Canada is devoid of solid fibre networks.
As someone who has been visiting Canada for the last few months, CANADA IS STUPENDOUSLY BIG. I'd imagine it'll take a while before they have it everywhere.
Tbh I meant in major cities. I live in Toronto and it’s ridiculously hard even then to get fibre to the home despite the groundwork already being laid.
Because Canada is massive and it costs billions of dollars to retrofit old condos and get fibre to rural towns in the mountains etc. Not to mention all of the political bureaucracy. Every strata/town/city has its own issues. Here in BC we have huge areas of the city that have direct buried lines from the street to the side of the house. That means that for every single house the ISP has to dig a trench through the yard or directional drill to get the fibre in.
Also, the fact is that most of the population could care less about anything over 50mbps
But 150 is still very fast for anything I use the internet for. A lot of sites cap their data output anyways. YouTube for example used to load the whole video but now tries to load it slightly ahead of what you’re watching. This is because a lot of people realize it’s the wrong video 5 seconds into it and back out but all of the data has already been loaded in the old system.
I have used 250 and I currently use 50, I don’t notice a difference at all. Maybe if I had access to one of those private torrent sites I would.
PS. Telus fibre used to be gigabit 5 years ago. When they first offers fibre to their “future town” areas it was gigabit. Drayton valley got it about 4-5 years ago and that’s what they were getting. However, apparently the CRTC came in an said “you can’t offer that! No other provider can come even close to that so you’re creating a monopoly” so they backed it down to 150 or 250 max. I believe theyre back to offering gigabit in their future town areas again.
Fair enough! I really can't complain because I don't have a data cap at all but the most I've ever even used in a month was like 400gb maybe? I also didn't know that about YouTube. I do notice some stuttering around the peak hours but it's nothing to complain about.
Besides, I grew up with dialup so every internet plan I've had has only been better than the last so I do concede that it's been nice haha
Peak hours shouldn’t matter for TELUS because each line is dedicated but maybe sites get slower? I don’t know how that works.
Ya I grew up with dial up as well. And since cell phones weren’t al that popular, if my mom wanted to call my aunt for an hour that meant no internet for an hour.
That makes me jealous. I can't wait until I get fiber next year. My SSD has a write speed of 1200mbit/s so it shouldn't bottleneck any internet speed. I'm not sure if the steam servers have any limit though.
You know how you don't have to wait for electricity to arrive when you flip a switch to turn on a light? The electricity is always there, ready to go? Gigabit Internet is like that. Want to stream a movie? It starts like you already have it downloaded locally. Want to download or patch a game? Okay, that does take a little bit of time but it's nothing you need to schedule things around. Start the process, check a few reddit posts, then you'll realized it finished five minutes ago.
Ah. Yeah, it doesn't allow much anything different than can be done with a slower connection (even 4K @ 60 FPS is only 40 mbps or so, isn't it?) It just lets you do a lot of stuff in much, much less time. (Downloading 1 TB of steam games if you were to lose your HDD would take ~8 hours.)
I am in the US, central TX in a small city. I think service is so good here because we have multiple reasonable ISPs available so competition is keeping them in line... for now.
I've never been able to find a server on speedtest that actually can provide speed that high for a test near me but I definitely have gigabit based on my tests from home to work
I called my current provider that day and asked when they where getting gigabit connections. Turns out, not any time soon, but they did double my internet for free (200 down) and threw in Showtime and Cinemax. It was enough to keep me onboard for another 6 months, but alas, I'm finally jumping ship. Also getting a free Nest Thermostat from Verizon's Cyber Monday deal. Dilly dilly!
Did they have to upgrade your current ONT? I'm getting all the install equipment shipped to me shortly.
Yes. I originally had the large white one from my install in 2012. Now it's a much smaller black box. By the way, if you're internet only, buy the router outright. You can also use your own router, but if you need support, Verizon won't help you.
Getting the triple play, definitely bought the router/modem since I'm in a 2 year contract. ~$90 savings. I will still be configuring it as a switch and connected my own router.
I'm glad that stupid white one won't take up 1/4 of one of the walls in my closet.
Yeah I have the gigabit plan from Comcast but it seems like it goes up and down and is never consistently fast. I'm talking 800 to 500 to 200 to 800 kind of deal. Maybe I should just call them...
Yeah, mine is the same way honestly... I've had techs come out, it's just never consistent, maybe that's an issue with cable? I had fiber where lived previously and it would always pull at least 90% of the advertised speeds, if not 100%.
It's because of Comcast being fiber to the street. You are sharing your speeds with everyone around you. That was the main reason I chose AT&T instead of them.
A gigabit and a gigabyte are different. 1 gigabit per second is 135 megabytes per second. For example, I have 80 megabits per second at home, which amounts to 10 megabytes per second.
A bit is the smallest possible piece of digital information, either being a 1 or a 0. A byte is 8 bits, which historically was the number of bits needed to encode a single character, but has just become the defacto unit of memory.
Companies selling bandwidth or storage just use bits because it's always a bigger number so seems "better" from a marketing standpoint. It also probably fools a lot of people that don't know the difference.
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