Do you guys in the world ever get more Internet speed than you paid for ?

[Hayabusa1989]

I wonder if its only the case with us in the UK but with Virgin using a Euro-DOCSIS 3.0 I am currently paying for 300Mbps and 20Mbps Upload and getting 380Mbps+ and 22Mbps Upload

Do any of you guys in the US or Elsewhere get more than you pay for ? Perhaps you guys using Euro-DOCSIS or regular DOCSIS ? 

[Gamerguy207]

I wish

[Brooksie359]

Yes it happens every once in a while. I know with my isp they boost internet speed when others are using our router for a hotspot sort of service  through my isp. It is quite nice especially when you are need internet and someone has the same isp near by. I have used it a couple of times back when my parents would turn off the internet to make me go to sleep.

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

Well I do for the first time ever over here in Swizerland. Recently switched my provider from some generic cable shit (UPC) to a 500Mbps synchron line from Fiber7. Down I get about 300 Mbps max from what I have seen, but I don't download that much and I really don't care, Upload is way more important for me and that goes to a max. of 680Mbps all the time, which is pretty much interesting since the modem is "only" rated to deliver 500Mbps. But I ain't complaining :-)

 

Before that I lived some time in Germany, there it was underdelivery all the time. (100Mbps in off hours delivered a max. of about 60Mbps)

[Denis Rakhmanov]

Yes. I'm paying for 80 up/80 down, getting about 86up/87down.

[Norwegianviking]

Paying for 100/100 and that's what I'm getting.

[Colexd]

Sometimes after their maintenance, but most of the time its the other way around lol

[Angusticlavii]

i pay 20€ for 120Mbit down

usually get 130Mbit tho

[Jurrunio]

Sadly I only got what I paid for. That's in the past though.

 

One of my neighbours taught me a trick. I lived in an apartment btw. Basically the 4 of us ordered a 1Gbps plan, which is exactly 4x the price of a 100Mbps plan, to a tech guy's apartment. Then, we use a router, which is programmed to equally distribute bandwidth to all connected devices (the 4 routers in each department), to distribute all that network to each apartment. Now, I can get 250Mbps at night when everyone's surfing, and 1Gbps at times when all of them aren't using. That's freakin' nice.

[LucaMH]

We are paying for 400/10 and get 460/25 all the time

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Bananasplit_00]

I don't even get what I pay for at the router... 

[Bruno_A]

Yes, I'm paying 25€ for 200mbps download and I always get 215mbps, never less or more.

[Denis Rakhmanov]

2 minutes ago, bruny06 said:

I always get 215mbps, never less or more.

not even 214,9 or 215,1?

[Hayabusa1989]

I love that (not including specialist things such as Hyper-Optic or any Giga-bit or pure fibre offerings available to like 1% of the country) That my connections extra 80Mbps is the same amount that the leading competitor BT offer as their Maximum package. 

[Bruno_A]

13 minutes ago, Denis Rakhmanov said:

not even 214,9 or 215,1?

Well, from the 3 speed tests I did, I got 215.70mbps, 215.56mbps and 275.76mbps. Caught lying? Exposed?

[Bruno_A]

5 minutes ago, Hayabusa1989 said:

I love that (not including specialist things such as Hyper-Optic or any Giga-bit or pure fibre offerings available to like 1% of the country) That my connections extra 80Mbps is the same amount that the leading competitor BT offer as their Maximum package. 

Call your ISP and tell them you have their 80mbps and if they don't transfer £1.000.000 to your offshore account, you'll kill them.

[Hayabusa1989]

1 minute ago, bruny06 said:

Call your ISP and tell them you have their 80mbps and if they don't transfer £1.000.000 to your offshore account, you'll kill them.

I would love to because I HATE BT and Openreach(part of BT but pretend to not be). 

[The Benjamins]

It is common for ISP's to provide more during network upgrades. basically every time Comcast increases their speed tiers people see faster speeds before they are advertised.

[Hayabusa1989]

Just now, The Benjamins said:

It is common for ISP's to provide more during network upgrades. basically every time Comcast increases their speed tiers people see faster speeds before they are advertised.

But with Virgin it stays that way forever, We don't just get a temp boost as such. 

[The Benjamins]

3 minutes ago, Hayabusa1989 said:

But with Virgin it stays that way forever, We don't just get a temp boost as such. 

it depends per company, but the boost I am talking about is more of a free upgrade. then a month or so later Comcast will advertise the new speed which is what we were getting for a while. then it happens again later on.

 

I wouldn't call it temporary.

[Hayabusa1989]

Just now, The Benjamins said:

it depends per company, but the boost I am talking about is more of a free upgrade. then a month or so later Comcast will advertise the new speed which is what we were getting for a while. then it happens again later on.

 

I wouldn't call it temporary.

Ahhh yes thats what virgin are doing now because im pretty sure they are about to role out 350Mbps

 

[BSpendlove]

I am too with virgin media and only had 50mb down, now we get something like 70mbps down... Looks like on the website they don't provide 70mbps anymore and we haven't been charged more money. I think its because we phoned up once and complained... Although sucks since we still have superhub 1, need to bump up the contract to 300mbps since I've been meaning to for months... Don't really care about the superhub though since I'll be placing it in modem mode when I have time to work on my own network lol!

[Donut417]

If the Node can do it Comcast over provisions service by 20% usually. I pay for 75 Mbps and get like 90 Mbps and a little more upload, but they still have low upload speeds.

[Hayabusa1989]

On 8/14/2017 at 3:52 PM, BSpendlove said:

I am too with virgin media and only had 50mb down, now we get something like 70mbps down... Looks like on the website they don't provide 70mbps anymore and we haven't been charged more money. I think its because we phoned up once and complained... Although sucks since we still have superhub 1, need to bump up the contract to 300mbps since I've been meaning to for months... Don't really care about the superhub though since I'll be placing it in modem mode when I have time to work on my own network lol!

the stupid awful superhub 3 is awful.

[connbob]

got the same package as OP, and yes, I have in the past gotten around 350mbps at non-peak times.