Gigabit installed but speed tests are sub 300 Mbits, Verizon says it's pfsense but can't prove it's not.
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I say "ISP's suck." I know what I'm talking about. I ran one for 15 years.
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Hehehe ;) yeah they can for sure.. But sometimes you can get good service.. You might have to go through a few level 2 or even level 3 guys to find the guy that actually cares, etc. etc.
If you can not get satisfaction from them, hope your in an area where you have choices.
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@Derelict said in Gigabit installed but speed tests are sub 300 Mbits, Verizon says it's pfsense but can't prove it's not.:
When I moved into this place in spring 2019 they had to pull a new coax from the curb to the house.
Sometimes it really is
LAYER 1.Many years ago, I had a problem which affected my Internet connection and home phone, but not my TV. I wrote a shell script that pinged my ISP's gateway every minute and recorded the failures. I have 2 feeds from the utility room and moved my cable modem to the other one. It still failed. This proved the problem was not in my home. The cable company sent a tech out to my home who tried to tell me that the problem was the cable running from where the cable comes up from the utility room to my computer room and wanted to replace the nicely installed cable (by my cable company) with cable stapled to the moulding, around doors, etc. He couldn't explain why that cable would be bad, but not the one from downstairs, which was a few years older. I refused. They then sent out another tech, after I explained the problem was with both cables from the utility room. They then started testing down there and eventually worked back to a defective cable between my building and their trunk on the street. Yep, sometimes the problem is physical. A bigger problem is "techs" who want to come up with a quick fix, when they don't understand what the problem is.
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@johnpoz said in Gigabit installed but speed tests are sub 300 Mbits, Verizon says it's pfsense but can't prove it's not.:
But I bet they have some users that don't even bring it up, and just live with service that is well below par to what they are paying for..
That is something that bothers me. I've had a couple of problems where the biggest part of getting it resolved is trying to get past the first people who work on it. If it's not a common problem, they're likely lost. I have the telecom and network experience to get past them, but most customers don't.
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@Derelict said in Gigabit installed but speed tests are sub 300 Mbits, Verizon says it's pfsense but can't prove it's not.:
And they all blame the firewall.
That was certainly the case, when I had that IPv6 problem a few months ago, even though my neighbour had the exact same problem and even when I put my modem in gateway mode it still happened.
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It sucks. I don't know how mere mortals deal with shitty internet.
honestly, if you don't know wtf is going on, your best bet is probably to hire a local tech who is carrier-neutral who can negotiate the ticket with your ISP for you.
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it is not easy to find sufficiently expert local technicians at an affordable price for a home user
an expert would probably ask you more money than what is needed to change isp
so "mere mortals deal with shitty internet."
non expert .. well .. they will probably blame the firewall too
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I think one challenge with high speed connections these days (e.g. 1Gbit+) is finding a proper testing methodology. What speed tests does one trust? The one your ISP provides? Going to major speed test provider such speedtest.net or using something like Netflix's fast.com? Plus, as more people upgrade to gigabit connections, congestion and load to those test providers or servers will go up as well.
For what it's worth, my go to method these days is to use a run a Flent (https://flent.org/) test between a client on my network and a cloud VM, preferably one hosted on a provider that I know will peer very well with the ISP (e.g. Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, etc.). The nice thing about Flent is that it does try to strain your connection and it is also full-duplex (i.e. testing both upload and download at the same time). Generally if I see around 1.7 - 1.8Gbit/s combined on a gigabit fiber connection with only slight latency increases during the test, I'm very happy and consider the connection, firewall/router, and client pretty robust.
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@kiokoman I don't understand the reluctance to pay a knowledgeable professional for something so important. I just don't.
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To some its users, they don't have any clue to what gig is.. They just got that package because it was the "hightest" Then they go about using it with some shit wifi client and router that can barely do 100mbps But they can tell their friends - we went with the gig package ;)
As to paying someone, yeah I don't get it either.. You pay the guy to fix your car.. You might bitch about the price - but hey you could rebuild the transmission on your own if you wanted to ;) hehehe
I pay the professionals to trim my back hedges.. I would be out there for 8 hours, if not the whole freaking weekend sweating my ass off and do a shitty job more than likely... When they can come and do it in an hour, and take away the leavings.. So yeah it cost a few hundred... Money well spent if you ask me ;)
Paying someone to do a job that your not skilled at doing, or want to do is well worth it.. Do you really want to be on the phone with some isp level 1 trying to get them to fix your internet for hours - now can you reach this www.domain.tld - what part did you not understand that Im not getting an IP.. So no I can not get to www.domain.tld ;)
Many a company are paying for "line management" - could be a thing maybe in the home consumer market as the connections get faster and more complex.
I might be willing even to pay X$ a month for that ;) Just like how you pay a service to cut your grass and fertilize, etc. ;)
Are you ripping into your havc when its not working - or do you get a professional to do it? What about the plumbing.
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I don't understand the reluctance to pay a knowledgeable professional for something so important. I just don't.
so important for who/what ? home users that watch youporn and netflix?
To some its users, they don't have any clue to what gig is.. They just got that package because it was the "hightest" Then they go about using it with some shit wifi client and router that can barely do 100mbps But they can tell their friends - we went with the gig package ;)
exaclty, that's why ppl, at least in my country, have different priority, they don't care about gig, 90% does not know the difference between 1 megabits and 1 megabytes, they are ignorant fools. they start to complain only when they are unable to watch a football match on sky over adsl or the like
moreover being able to talk to the technical service here is almost impossible unless you wait 4 or 5 hours on the phone before someone answers you from abroad who does not know what you are talking about / does not speak well our language and closes the phone on your face forcing you to call again and stay other 4 or 5 hours on hold.
it's less frustrating to stay with what you have or change isp until you find the one that work the best
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@Derelict said in Gigabit installed but speed tests are sub 300 Mbits, Verizon says it's pfsense but can't prove it's not.:
@kiokoman I don't understand the reluctance to pay a knowledgeable professional for something so important. I just don't.
It's all about cutting costs, forgetting that also costs in what's delivered. I believe the term is "false economy". Also, I have worked as a tech for many years. One thing I've often noticed is many others only learn as much as they need to do the job and little else. As a result, they can generally do their job, but get stuck when something unusual comes along. I have always tried to learn more.
