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I only have a 1 gigabit connection and my router is 1 gigabit. How does this happen? (alien.top)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Use a more reliable speed test site. The correct answer is you can’t, after some overhead a gigabit port caps out around 940mbps. Anything being reported over that is a bad measurement or a bug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I respectfully disagree with this. Not all ISPs are scumbags. Every service I build, I overbuild for this exact reason. For example, if I built you a 500 Mbps service today, I would “fudge” your service to 500240, in an attempt to make sure you’re getting what you pay for. I understand I’m the exception and not the rule, but the “good guys” are still out here doing what we can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

At 500mbps it’s not an issue, you get 500mbps. But lots of ISP’s are claiming gigabit and then only giving routers or ONT’s with gigabit ports, gigabit Ethernet can only do ~940mbps after overheads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

His router has a 1 gig wan interface. This has nothing to do with over-provisioning.

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