Posted on 12/25/2020 2:23:45 AM PST by mowowie
Anybody else getting serious lag on all sites?
Having no issues.
Sounds like a local issue.
I’m in MA, it’s Baaaad here.
guess i’ll go wrap those few gifts before they wake up.
No problem here.
Are you loggedin?
Your gifts are asleep? Are they puppies?
No problems here.
Likely your provider.
Have tried rebooting or using a different device?
Just tested. 5ms ping to the backbone with symmetrical 100 megabit connection through VPN. (89 up/83 down 5ms ping - encryption impacts speed a bit) Everything is snappy as can be. Its just you or your provider.
Must be my local crappy ISP causing the problems.
Very stormy out maybe that is the cause...
Reboot your modem. Power it off. Wait ten seconds. Power it on. When the internet light (or if it doesnt have a light in 5 minutes) comes back on reboot your devices that connect to the internet.
Before that hit speedtest.net just to confirm that your speeds are bad.
It was slow six hours back, but ok now.
05:53 AM - I’m on satellite, being too rural for anything else, and it’s normal here, despite the fact that it’s snowing.
If you are on copper (dsl or cable) soil moisture can cause slowdowns/failures if the insulation around the copper or connectors are compromised in any way. I had that with both dsl and cable. If that is the case they need to run a new line to your house or come and replace the connectors. The house drop of copper lasts about 10 years in my experience for high speed internet.
Have them come out and test on a rainy day.
If fibre is an option I HIGHLY recommend it. My service has been bullet proof on fibre.
When Starlink rolls out in your area, consider it if fibre is not an option. Everything I have seen about it is spectacular and it will only get better.
You are going to LOVE.. love LOVE love Starlink. 40K mile signal roundtrip vs 680 mile roundtrip. Light takes a while to go 39.3K miles. I have seen the beta testing pings and throughput. Consistent 20 to 40ms pings which is what normal cable and DSL provides. Speed comparable to cable. Musk is going to kill the terrestrial internet providers because how he is doing it scales perfectly.
time for light to travel 40K miles: 0.2 seconds
time for light to travel 680 miles: 0.003 seconds
Starlink will kill everything but FTTP (Fiber) because it can’t match the bandwidth YET but he may take out some cellphone providers too.
The ping on satellite internet is usually around 600+ ms, compared to ping of 30 ms or less on a typical cable network.
Musk isnt competing with the satellite guys. He beats them by an order of magnitude + 50%. His satellite routing/ ground routing is vastly superior to the other sat guys. He starts out 20ms ahead, but the other 560 ms is better hardware/software both in orbit and terrestrial.
The other thing is weather outages. Sending a signal is like sniping. Much easier shot at similar sized target at 68 vs 4400 yards and wind and rain have similar effects. (22k miles is average... I was being kind) Weather outage/speed impact should be rare if happen at all.
The cable guys have massive infrastructure to maintain (Big $). Musk does not. He is going to eat current internet providers lunch. He can profitably underprice their cost with a product just as good.
Same here - so far. SE Texas.
When Starlink IPO’s I am buying everything I can. It is Microsoft in 1985.
No issues here in SE Michigan. I’ve had lots in the last several months though.
Merry Christmas
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