What's your Internet Speed?

Cast said:

5 MB Download, Up 1 MB

It's not MB but mbps. This is worse than dialup. What site are you using for your test?

RoWin7 said:

It's not MB but mbps. This is worse than dialup. What site are you using for your test?

Actually, it's Mbps (Megabits-per-second). MB is MegaBytes. The M is always upper case. The B is upper case for bytes and lower case for bits.

Right, and I sit corrected, 5mbps is about DSL speed. Is it a rural area, @Cast?

This is on a slow day. Usually my speeds are in the ±800Mbps range, up and down. Browser speeds are much lower, in the 200's.

I just got 1Gbps fiber installed in late May, and I'm paying $69.95 a month.

First month free, $10 discount for having a sign on my front lawn for the second month. WiFi router is free, as was installation.

ISP is my municipal (city-owned) gas and electric utility company.


When I use the Speedtest.com website in Firefox, my speeds are in the 200Mbps range. That and the above separate Speedtest app are accurate because I open up Task Manager, and multiply the "bytes received per interval" (= one second) times 8 to get megabits per second.

If you consider that I was paying Verizon for DSL service of 3Mbps down and 768kbps up for $47.99 a month, it was a no-brainer to jump on this.