Real Mbps?

[Crimsonited]

So I'm moving into a new house this Saturday as well as getting a new Internet provider. My question is, if the company advertises the connection as 100 mbps, do i really get 100 mbps upload and download per second? 
I know connecting my desktop with an ethernet cable will be much better than being on wireless but what would be the real upload / download speed on both ethernet cabled / wireless connection on my desktop?

Company : https://official.timewarnercable.com/spectrum100/lfo-8n?ca.mp=Google&ca.cr=186560493982&ca.kw=internet providers&ca.mt=p&cb.device=c&ca.target=aud-303880153131:kwd-23212460&cid=ppc:lf:[transID]&o=sem&lfokp=internet providers&cmp=pds_lfo

[Electronics Wizardy]

You don't know, it also depends on the time of day.

[tom_w141]

You understand the difference between Mb/s and MB/s right?

 

Less of an issue on a tech forum but irl this surprises a lot of people. "Why am I not downloading a movie in less than a minute??!"

 

EDIT: Also this is the download speed being advertised because it's always higher. Upload is rarely advertised.

[iRileyx]

Impossible to know, depends how many other users are on the internet in your home and on the "box" that your homes is connected to.

[Master Disaster]

6 minutes ago, Crimsonited said:

So I'm moving into a new house this Saturday as well as getting a new Internet provider. My question is, if the company advertises the connection as 100 mbps, do i really get 100 mbps upload and download per second? 
I know connecting my desktop with an ethernet cable will be much better than being on wireless but what would be the real upload / download speed on both ethernet cabled / wireless connection on my desktop?

Company : https://official.timewarnercable.com/spectrum100/lfo-8n?ca.mp=Google&ca.cr=186560493982&ca.kw=internet providers&ca.mt=p&cb.device=c&ca.target=aud-303880153131:kwd-23212460&cid=ppc:lf:[transID]&o=sem&lfokp=internet providers&cmp=pds_lfo

No, if they're selling you 100 Mbps then you'll end up with around 10MBps actual speed.

[Lurick]

Time Warner is pretty good about offering what you pay for (I've had them for years and always gotten close to what I pay for). Of course now that they've changed to Spectrum that might change going forward

 

Edit: Just to clarify, you get 100Mbps down but only 5 or 10Mbps up, I forget what you get with that package. I know there is a 300Mbps package as well and you get 20Mbps up with that one.

[knightslugger]

32 minutes ago, Crimsonited said:

So I'm moving into a new house this Saturday as well as getting a new Internet provider. My question is, if the company advertises the connection as 100 mbps, do i really get 100 mbps upload and download per second? 
I know connecting my desktop with an ethernet cable will be much better than being on wireless but what would be the real upload / download speed on both ethernet cabled / wireless connection on my desktop?

Company : https://official.timewarnercable.com/spectrum100/lfo-8n?ca.mp=Google&ca.cr=186560493982&ca.kw=internet providers&ca.mt=p&cb.device=c&ca.target=aud-303880153131:kwd-23212460&cid=ppc:lf:[transID]&o=sem&lfokp=internet providers&cmp=pds_lfo

generally you pay for UP TO XXX Mbps... very rarely are you guaranteed a speed.

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, Crimsonited said:

So I'm moving into a new house this Saturday as well as getting a new Internet provider. My question is, if the company advertises the connection as 100 mbps, do i really get 100 mbps upload and download per second? 
I know connecting my desktop with an ethernet cable will be much better than being on wireless but what would be the real upload / download speed on both ethernet cabled / wireless connection on my desktop?

Company : https://official.timewarnercable.com/spectrum100/lfo-8n?ca.mp=Google&ca.cr=186560493982&ca.kw=internet providers&ca.mt=p&cb.device=c&ca.target=aud-303880153131:kwd-23212460&cid=ppc:lf:[transID]&o=sem&lfokp=internet providers&cmp=pds_lfo

Generally on Cable Internet, Download speeds are much greater than upload. With Comcast I get 75 Mbps down but only 10 Mbps up. 

[risk]

They're a cable ISP, I'd expect something like download 100Mbps, upload 10Mbps.

 

It's very likely that's what you end up getting large majority of the time, 100Mbps isn't a lot as far as modern 802.11ac WiFi is concerned either.

 

You should still use at least gigabit wired ethernet around the house, spectrum might end up being able to deliver a little bit more than 100Mbps depending on how they provision for overhead, but if that's the case, and you're randomly dropped frames on switches, instead of picking and choosing which traffic to drop, you're going to be unhappy. Long story short, go gigabit with wired ethernet. (And no, same doesn't apply as much for 1Gbps fiber->10Gbps in home because ONTs already do 1Gbps on copper you really don't get to control that traffic drop anyway, and it's less likely that typical internet service would burst quickly enough to blow out buffers on a 1Gbps link to your machine).