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Anything Wrong With My Isp?

LessThanSatisfactory
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Im only getting 15Mb/s down and 0.9Mb/s up, I feel like this is insanely slow, because I my computers transfer at 100Mb/s directly to each other, directly through cat5. Should I upgrade my isp plan, or is this good speed? (im not using wifi). Should I be getting 100Mb/s? I feel like something fishy is going on.

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No that's actually decent for an isp, unless you were promised faster speeds.

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If your service plan is 15 down and 1 up those are fantastic speeds but that is all dependent on your isp plan. Computer to computer depends on the length/quality of the cable, the router, and the port speed. So any speed you would get from computer to computer is totally different from your internet speed as that is a local area connection (lan). 

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A LAN has the limitations of the physical cabling that you are using, but with a ISP there are many different factors. With 15mbps down you should be fine.

Ps; if you would like to get a little better transfer speeds between systems locally, buy some gigabit NIC's and use either Cat 5e or Cat 6 they are both capible of gigabit speeds.

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Just to corroborate what has already been said:

  • Check what plan you are paying for. If the advertised speed is 15Mb down and 1Mb up, then your speeds are fine
  • If the speeds are significantly slower than what you are paying for, call your ISP and see what's going on (perhaps throttling)
  • Your LAN speed is different than your Internet speed
  • While LAN is only limited by physical hardware (Cable, port, switch, router, etc...) your Internet speed is often bottlenecked only by the plan you pay for from your ISP
  • Changing the cable type in your LAN will increase speed amongst your local computers (transferring files, streaming from another computer) it will not affect your Internet speed
  • If you want to increase speeds amongst your LAN, use Cat5e/Cat6 (1000Base-T) instead of Cat5 (100Base-T), and make sure your router/switch/computers support Gigabit networking
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