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Originally Posted by toeser
"Compare to Comcast, where you can get 60mbps for the same $50, "
Must be nice. I just dropped Comcast because they were charging me $97. I went to a "bonded" line from CenturyLink for $49 per month. I get a consistent 35-38 mb.
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[s]They claim that they upped me to 100mbp, which means I should be seeing averages around 70-85, give or take (100mbp is the maximum expected, not the average). But I'm averaging around 40-45, which indicates that I'm still only 'set' for 60.[/s] My modem can handle up to 250 but I'll never need that.
I just read the instructions on Xfinity to learn more about my speed. I'll have to guess that the reason it's "slow" (compared to the 100mbp I'm actually supposed to be getting) is because I have the TV on in the other room and we stream with a Roku, plus we have two cell phones both connected to wifi when we're home, plus I have a wireless printer that's on 24/7. So I'm getting ALL these devices connected through a single router and modem, with a 100mbp maximum speed. There's quite a bit of traffic going through so it bottlenecks.
If you're getting close to 40mbp consistently, you're doing fine. And as long as you aren't streaming 18 hours a day 7 days a week, you're not likely to ever go over the 1TB data cap.