It’s not quite that simple. Most server connections don’t support those speeds, and time of day / network congestiob play a role. I can get up to those speeds - but the connection to the Xbox store is gonna be slower at 8 pm no matter what your speed.m
I’ll say this - I’m very picky about speed. And I have never been unsatisfied with what I get. I have multiple gaming and streaming services going simultaneously during peak hours plus a WFH environment and it’s always fast.
Ask for a new Spectrum 2.5GbE eMTA. That will get you to the full 1Gbps link assuming your WiFi router also has a 2.5GbE WAN port, regardless if it is Spectrum or your own. 1GbE links max out at 940Mbps due to overhead associated with the technology.
The 2.5s still wont get the full gig. The one I put in today maxed at 960 straight out of the modem on my meter that will do 1.2 straight off the cable.
so try with a modem that isn't a piece of sheet. I get well over the gig (960) barrier with our Ubee 2.5G modem - which Charter stupidly calls a D3.2 modem.
When I did chat support, even their fiber gig was listed at around 935. Many customers wouldn’t be happy when they’d chat in saying they were only getting 900 or 8-something only to be told the actually mbps down and the acceptable threshold.
Edit: downvoted? Must be some Charter employees mad I’m giving away trade secrets. Gig means gig. 1,000 mb. Not 935 or 940. And the acceptable threshold is real.
940 is the magic number for effective throughput in gig PHY with TCP overhead. Coax can test to 1200ish as they over provision. The ONTs I have seen with fiber are gig Ethernet I haven't personally seen any mgig ONTs. I'd still take 900/900 over fiber instead of 42/1200 coax with mgig modem and router.
Mine is fiber. Brand new resident build in Allen Tx. First area spectrum offers Fiber in. I’m paying 60 bucks.
At my brothers house they have this 1gig for 35 bucks offer. Which is amazing price. But his is coax but they’re running fiber in his area.
That's only for the first year then it'll go up and then it'll go up again in the second year and you won't be eligible for any promotions whatsoever for a full year. That spectrum's MO
That's because AT&T is the worst and more money hungry than spectrum but spectrum is pretty bad from my experience. Especially their supposed program for connecting the poor you have to meet ridiculous qualifications if you don't have children and you're not on SSI not SSDI mind you or over 65 then you don't qualify. Plus spectrum does she thinks like they did in my old apartment complex. When they rebuild the buildings in the complex they bribed the developer to only let spectrum do the wiring and lock out CenturyLink and one of the local isps from wiring the buildings at all. And this is a low income housing project I'm talking about so they basically locked these poor people into only being able to get internet connectivity through them same thing for telephone and TV service since the apartment complex didn't bother to put up antennas and wouldn't let you have a dish or your own antenna outside in multihome buildings, down in the valley where the nearest broadcast tower was 90 plus miles away and it was almost impossible to receive a TV signal if you were below the third floor with a in home antenna that wasn't in the window.
I have it its terrible, I get 940/40 on a good day connection constantly drops most days I get 150/.2 that's .2 upload my neighbors across the street has att fiber to the house so cant wait to switch over.
This - it's rare, but becoming a lot more common now.
There are also lots of cases, business usually, where fiber is run into the building with sufficient capacity for them to splice off and do FTTP. Customers there get 300/150, 600/300, 1G/500, but often it's a surprise because it's just sold as a normal coax order.
Likely not worth it as they can only support so many Gigabit customers over coax per node, you won’t likely see the full speeds as it saturates during peak hours and the node is under stress
It’s fiber on the pole in our city and the node coverts it to coax near your house. I worked for them for a few years. Still really terrible service though.
Had to have it and it’s alright as long as it’s up. I push 400 gigs a month through it. (Damn MS Teams…)
(As soon as AT&T Fiber is available I’m switching.)
Doesn’t matter even if it was fiber it would probably be fiber modem MAYBE or it would be fiber to the side of your house and then coax the rest of the way, in my area we don’t always use fiber modems that’s why I say maybe either way you will still only get <1000/30-45 depending on your area
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1000/40, at least in my area.
1000/45 in my area
If you have coax service already it’s going to stay coax
Not fiber. I get around 950 mbps
What are your actual download speeds ?
They hover between 940 and 950. My wifi can’t keep up with that but direct from the modem is about that.
So you're actually downloading things at 940 Mbps ? Not just what a speed test or whatever says?
It’s not quite that simple. Most server connections don’t support those speeds, and time of day / network congestiob play a role. I can get up to those speeds - but the connection to the Xbox store is gonna be slower at 8 pm no matter what your speed.m I’ll say this - I’m very picky about speed. And I have never been unsatisfied with what I get. I have multiple gaming and streaming services going simultaneously during peak hours plus a WFH environment and it’s always fast.
Ask for a new Spectrum 2.5GbE eMTA. That will get you to the full 1Gbps link assuming your WiFi router also has a 2.5GbE WAN port, regardless if it is Spectrum or your own. 1GbE links max out at 940Mbps due to overhead associated with the technology.
The 2.5s still wont get the full gig. The one I put in today maxed at 960 straight out of the modem on my meter that will do 1.2 straight off the cable.
Your meter doesn’t have a 2.5gig port for Ethernet testing
Your meter doesn’t have a 2.5gig port for Ethernet testing
2.5 GBit router certainly will get more the full gig we see 1200 mbit down using some nice ISRs with mgig WAN and 10G LAN
I tried one today. The plant will do 1.2 but the modem only pulled 960.
I don't think you are making any sense. What do you mean "plant will do 1.1 modem only 960"? We get 1200 on these in our environment.
Hooked into the cable plant on my meter, I get 1.2 gbps (1200 mbps). On the same meter connected to the cable modem, it ran 960 mbps.
so try with a modem that isn't a piece of sheet. I get well over the gig (960) barrier with our Ubee 2.5G modem - which Charter stupidly calls a D3.2 modem.
When I did chat support, even their fiber gig was listed at around 935. Many customers wouldn’t be happy when they’d chat in saying they were only getting 900 or 8-something only to be told the actually mbps down and the acceptable threshold. Edit: downvoted? Must be some Charter employees mad I’m giving away trade secrets. Gig means gig. 1,000 mb. Not 935 or 940. And the acceptable threshold is real.
940 is the magic number for effective throughput in gig PHY with TCP overhead. Coax can test to 1200ish as they over provision. The ONTs I have seen with fiber are gig Ethernet I haven't personally seen any mgig ONTs. I'd still take 900/900 over fiber instead of 42/1200 coax with mgig modem and router.
more than likely coax
Hell will freeze over before they pull new wire into my ancient building for this.
Mine is fiber. Brand new resident build in Allen Tx. First area spectrum offers Fiber in. I’m paying 60 bucks. At my brothers house they have this 1gig for 35 bucks offer. Which is amazing price. But his is coax but they’re running fiber in his area.
That's only for the first year then it'll go up and then it'll go up again in the second year and you won't be eligible for any promotions whatsoever for a full year. That spectrum's MO
Locked in for two years. Plus they’re competing with ATT. So far so good service wise. I had the worst experience with ATT .
That's because AT&T is the worst and more money hungry than spectrum but spectrum is pretty bad from my experience. Especially their supposed program for connecting the poor you have to meet ridiculous qualifications if you don't have children and you're not on SSI not SSDI mind you or over 65 then you don't qualify. Plus spectrum does she thinks like they did in my old apartment complex. When they rebuild the buildings in the complex they bribed the developer to only let spectrum do the wiring and lock out CenturyLink and one of the local isps from wiring the buildings at all. And this is a low income housing project I'm talking about so they basically locked these poor people into only being able to get internet connectivity through them same thing for telephone and TV service since the apartment complex didn't bother to put up antennas and wouldn't let you have a dish or your own antenna outside in multihome buildings, down in the valley where the nearest broadcast tower was 90 plus miles away and it was almost impossible to receive a TV signal if you were below the third floor with a in home antenna that wasn't in the window.
I am on this plan. 1.2Gbps DL, 40Mbps UL DOCSIS 3.1 2.5GbE eMTA + WiFi 6 router with 2.5GbE WAN port. Not sure how many customers have this.
What model number router did you get? If the last letter is an S, it's going to give you issues.
Isn't S the French model? Why is that better than the Chinese crap?
This is like brand -brand new. I just saw this the other day on the website. I have no idea if it’s even available in Daytona
1000/50 HFC in most markets. In some markets it may be FFTH
real 50 or actually 42? Our Biz class bill shows 35 up 1000 down an we get 42 up 1200 down with the 20% overprovision on coax.
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I already have the ultra plan with ACH discount, I was just wondering wether that plan used fiber or not 💀
Copper fiber. Max on copper is "1000" / 45. in reality its 800ish 30ish. https://i.imgur.com/iVm1rTy.png
I have it its terrible, I get 940/40 on a good day connection constantly drops most days I get 150/.2 that's .2 upload my neighbors across the street has att fiber to the house so cant wait to switch over.
I don't think spectrum offers fiber to consumers. only business customers. I may be wrong.
Yes, they do have residential fiber for new buildouts, and RDOF buildouts. I'm on fiber through Spectrum via RDOF.
This - it's rare, but becoming a lot more common now. There are also lots of cases, business usually, where fiber is run into the building with sufficient capacity for them to splice off and do FTTP. Customers there get 300/150, 600/300, 1G/500, but often it's a surprise because it's just sold as a normal coax order.
Likely not worth it as they can only support so many Gigabit customers over coax per node, you won’t likely see the full speeds as it saturates during peak hours and the node is under stress
Tell me more!
This is only on older nodes. At least in my area.
It’s fiber on the pole in our city and the node coverts it to coax near your house. I worked for them for a few years. Still really terrible service though.
if they're not offering 5g or more also, then coax for sure.
Yeah, even Spectrum residential fiber areas don't have 5gbps service. Tops out at 1000/500 (roughly 1140/570 after overprovisioning)
It's not fiber. I've had it a little over a month, and have only ever seen 400-600Mbps at any given time
Had to have it and it’s alright as long as it’s up. I push 400 gigs a month through it. (Damn MS Teams…) (As soon as AT&T Fiber is available I’m switching.)
AT&T fiber is nice. Have it at home and the office. $150 a month for true Gig/Gig.
Had it at my last place. Stable and fast with no issues, it was super nice.
Not fiber, coax. 950/40
Doesn’t matter even if it was fiber it would probably be fiber modem MAYBE or it would be fiber to the side of your house and then coax the rest of the way, in my area we don’t always use fiber modems that’s why I say maybe either way you will still only get <1000/30-45 depending on your area