Sonic True Speeds are not gigabit?

[Edo]

I just got sonic installed and the technician did a speed test on speedtest.net which showed about 950 down. From what i read online, that is not a accurate method and the following sites do a better representation of real world speeds:

http://speedof.me/
testmy.net
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest

From the above sites I am hitting around the 250-300 down speeds. Can anyone from Sonic explain what benchmarks they use for the fiber optic speed tests?

[user33434]

Speedtest.net is by far, the best test to take for a Gigabit connection. The other tests aren't designed to test Gigabit which is why you're seeing slower speeds.

[dane]

Many speed test sites are not themselves fast enough to achieve gigabit speed. Some are only connected at gigabit but are in use by many folks at once, or there may be bottleneck points between you and them.

This is the other side of the speed testing equation, where most issues we see are with the local area network (LAN) in the home, or with client devices. Slow Ethernet, dongles or adaptors, antivirus software, and of course WiFi are all issues.

The issue of slow or busy speed test servers is also a good illustration of another issue: many sites on the internet are themselves hosted on gigabit (or even slower) connections, and will not deliver at gigabit speed.

But for as long as internet access has been provided to consumers, the "last mile" connection to the home was always the bottleneck. From dialup to cable, the LAN, WiFi and PCs, and sites online were capable of faster speeds.

By delivering a gigabit fiber connection, Sonic has finally eliminated the last mile bottleneck for the first time.

[Edo]

Many speed test sites are not themselves fast enough to achieve gigabit speed. Some are only connected at gigabit but are in use by many folks at once, or there may be bottleneck points between you and them.

This is the other side of the speed testing equation, where most issues we see are with the local area network (LAN) in the home, or with client devices. Slow Ethernet, dongles or adaptors, antivirus software, and of course WiFi are all issues.

The issue of slow or busy speed test servers is also a good illustration of another issue: many sites on the internet are themselves hosted on gigabit (or even slower) connections, and will not deliver at gigabit speed.

But for as long as internet access has been provided to consumers, the "last mile" connection to the home was always the bottleneck. From dialup to cable, the LAN, WiFi and PCs, and sites online were capable of faster speeds.

By delivering a gigabit fiber connection, Sonic has finally eliminated the last mile bottleneck for the first time.

Even with Fast.com which is run by Netflix, I am seeing a true speed of 660mbps. It would be useful to see how Sonic's speed stack in real world tests rather just relying entirely off SpeedTest for benchmarks.

[dane]

Sorry, we can't really fix the speed test services offered by others. Testing and demonstrating full gigabit throughput is challenging.

But unlike DSL or Cable, gigabit fiber only goes one speed: gigabit. So testing is really only useful for finding and resolving issues in the LAN, the clients, or testing your WiFi speed.

[rtrinh]

Even with Fast.com which is run by Netflix, I am seeing a true speed of 660mbps. It would be useful to see how Sonic's speed stack in real world tests rather just relying entirely off SpeedTest for benchmarks.

This is pretty real world.

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[dane]

That's awesome.

[user8345345534]

Many speed test sites are not themselves fast enough to achieve gigabit speed. Some are only connected at gigabit but are in use by many folks at once, or there may be bottleneck points between you and them.

This is the other side of the speed testing equation, where most issues we see are with the local area network (LAN) in the home, or with client devices. Slow Ethernet, dongles or adaptors, antivirus software, and of course WiFi are all issues.

The issue of slow or busy speed test servers is also a good illustration of another issue: many sites on the internet are themselves hosted on gigabit (or even slower) connections, and will not deliver at gigabit speed.

But for as long as internet access has been provided to consumers, the "last mile" connection to the home was always the bottleneck. From dialup to cable, the LAN, WiFi and PCs, and sites online were capable of faster speeds.

By delivering a gigabit fiber connection, Sonic has finally eliminated the last mile bottleneck for the first time.

Even with Fast.com which is run by Netflix, I am seeing a true speed of 660mbps. It would be useful to see how Sonic's speed stack in real world tests rather just relying entirely off SpeedTest for benchmarks.

No, that's not a good way to measure speed.

That's like saying let's see how fast a car is in a 25 mph zone. They will all travel at or around 25 mph even if you put a Ferrari there.

Some websites or services just aren't fast enough to utilize all of the Sonic Fiber's speed, such as those speed tests websites you used. Sonic Fiber is that Ferrari in a 25 mph zone. I found that speedtest.net has the highest capacity to test gigabit connections.

[bubba198]

@rtrinh that's the real test; 25G file download, yah! Good work on posting something substantive, finally!

Those flash apps (such as speedtest.net) that do a "speed test" are laughably incidental

Download a 25G file; look at the average over the time period; that should settle it

~B

[miken]

Is my math right in that download taking about 4 minutes or so? Oh man...