The Jump From 1 to 2 Gigabits Per Second Internet.
So today I get an online/emailed autopay bill notification from Xfinity. My normal payment of 75 bucks for one gig per second had gone up to 121.00? So I get on the billing chat and am told that the 75 bucks charge was a one year promotion and had now ended. However, he said, if you go with the higher fee we are doubling your speed to 2 gigabytes per second. No modem/router change, they would just upgrade it remotely Do you want to go with it?
After a brief think I said, ok, why not. I had just got rid of a standing charge on something that cost 155.00 per month and would go up to 175.00 in February, So I said yes.
So what's that like in the real world. All my devices are wireless and all but one uses Wifi 6E. The current fastest, given that scant few devices use Wifi 7 yet and would have to buy new to get it. It should be noted that Wifi will always be a fair bit slower than plugged in directly to the modem/router
It made a fairly noticeable difference in how fast internet streaming apps came and how quickly the tv stream or video started. Also, Internet sites that always took a sec to populate if they had a lot of pictures, YouTube or msn being an example. Almost instantaneous, flicking from one site to another. It was no real problem before waiting for a site to load for a second or two but now its that much smoother and slicker.
Having said that, a couple of hundred megabytes per second is more than enough for generally smooth internet surfing and watching videos, Netflix etc, even in 4k. Having 2000 megabytes is just icing on the cake.
I think that uploading and downloading files at a faster speed will be a nice thing to have as well.
So what internet speeds do you have and how do you get on with it?
After a brief think I said, ok, why not. I had just got rid of a standing charge on something that cost 155.00 per month and would go up to 175.00 in February, So I said yes.
So what's that like in the real world. All my devices are wireless and all but one uses Wifi 6E. The current fastest, given that scant few devices use Wifi 7 yet and would have to buy new to get it. It should be noted that Wifi will always be a fair bit slower than plugged in directly to the modem/router
It made a fairly noticeable difference in how fast internet streaming apps came and how quickly the tv stream or video started. Also, Internet sites that always took a sec to populate if they had a lot of pictures, YouTube or msn being an example. Almost instantaneous, flicking from one site to another. It was no real problem before waiting for a site to load for a second or two but now its that much smoother and slicker.
Having said that, a couple of hundred megabytes per second is more than enough for generally smooth internet surfing and watching videos, Netflix etc, even in 4k. Having 2000 megabytes is just icing on the cake.
I think that uploading and downloading files at a faster speed will be a nice thing to have as well.
So what internet speeds do you have and how do you get on with it?
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