We finally got our fiber upgrade this past week and it is every bit as impressive as described. According to Speedtest (the app, not the Sonic web page which isn't as reliable for this rate of throughput) we're seeing 8100+ Mbps down and 7700+ Mbps up, which is pretty close to the theoretical max for IP-based traffic.
(This is measured directly from the ONT using a computer with a 10 Gbps Ethernet port, so no router was involved. Once that's in place we have to settle for 1 Gbps throughput because we don't have a 10G router. So for the rest of our network we're seeing a pretty consistent 940 Mbps up and down, which is still orders of magnitude better than the DSL speed.)
Despite my griping about the seemingly-endless waiting (which was frustrating primarily because of the thousand paper cuts of delays along the way), Sonic has delivered what is probably the best Internet service in the country. I wish that long three-year process had gone smoother, but there were a lot of moving parts involved.
Once we were up and running I had to figure out some way to test the difference in speed from our old DSL connection. Running at 'only' 1 Gbps (because of our router's limitation) I decided to download all of Wikipedia. (Actually, it's *most* of just the English version of Wikipedia, but let's not split hairs here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... e_download) I may have not had my torrent software optimized so perhaps it could have gone faster, but the entire transfer took a little over half an hour. (110 GB for those interested.) That was pretty impressive.
Next up: Download all of YouTube!
(This is measured directly from the ONT using a computer with a 10 Gbps Ethernet port, so no router was involved. Once that's in place we have to settle for 1 Gbps throughput because we don't have a 10G router. So for the rest of our network we're seeing a pretty consistent 940 Mbps up and down, which is still orders of magnitude better than the DSL speed.)
Despite my griping about the seemingly-endless waiting (which was frustrating primarily because of the thousand paper cuts of delays along the way), Sonic has delivered what is probably the best Internet service in the country. I wish that long three-year process had gone smoother, but there were a lot of moving parts involved.
Once we were up and running I had to figure out some way to test the difference in speed from our old DSL connection. Running at 'only' 1 Gbps (because of our router's limitation) I decided to download all of Wikipedia. (Actually, it's *most* of just the English version of Wikipedia, but let's not split hairs here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... e_download) I may have not had my torrent software optimized so perhaps it could have gone faster, but the entire transfer took a little over half an hour. (110 GB for those interested.) That was pretty impressive.
Next up: Download all of YouTube!
