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Surfing the internet with 1 GBit/s
Adding 30 Cents to my monthly bills bought me Gigabit internet access. I now pay 39.99 EUR per month. Previously I had 100 MBit/s. From user's experience I do not feel any significant difference. Of course, for all my mobile devices, like smartphones, laptop, there is and will be no difference as Wi-Fi does not really offer high transmission rates, unless you are very close to the emitting antennas.
Speed measured by speedtest.unitymedia.de.
$ speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Unitymedia (84.118.51.115)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by 31173 Services AB (Frankfurt) [16.81 km]: 23.853 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 861.51 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 52.37 Mbit/s
$ speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Unitymedia (84.118.51.115)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Gemnet LLC (Frankfurt) [16.81 km]: 22.342 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 744.24 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 52.00 Mbit/s
I assume that the contacted servers itself or the routes to these servers have bandwidth restrictions. Google also provides a speedtest: google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=speedtest. Results are as below:
Measuring downstream channels as given by cable modem:
Channel Channel MHz Modul- dBmV/dBµV SNR/MER Lock
Id Type ation dB Status
0 OFDM 0~0 --- 0.0/60.0 0.0 NO
32 OFDM 775~860 256QAM 2.5/62.5 35.0 YES
1 SC-QAM 546 256QAM 7.0/67.0 39.0 YES
2 SC-QAM 554 256QAM 7.1/67.1 38.6 YES
3 SC-QAM 562 256QAM 7.2/67.2 39.0 YES
4 SC-QAM 570 256QAM 7.3/67.3 38.6 YES
5 SC-QAM 578 256QAM 7.3/67.3 38.6 YES
6 SC-QAM 586 256QAM 7.3/67.3 39.0 YES
7 SC-QAM 594 256QAM 7.2/67.2 39.0 YES
8 SC-QAM 602 256QAM 7.4/67.4 39.0 YES
9 SC-QAM 618 256QAM 7.2/67.2 38.6 YES
10 SC-QAM 626 256QAM 7.4/67.4 38.6 YES
11 SC-QAM 634 256QAM 7.4/67.4 39.0 YES
12 SC-QAM 642 256QAM 7.5/67.5 39.0 YES
13 SC-QAM 650 256QAM 7.3/67.3 39.0 YES
14 SC-QAM 658 256QAM 6.7/66.7 38.6 YES
15 SC-QAM 666 256QAM 6.3/66.3 38.6 YES
16 SC-QAM 674 256QAM 5.7/65.7 37.6 YES
17 SC-QAM 682 256QAM 5.2/65.2 37.6 YES
18 SC-QAM 690 256QAM 5.6/65.6 37.6 YES
19 SC-QAM 698 256QAM 5.6/65.6 37.6 YES
20 SC-QAM 706 256QAM 5.8/65.8 37.6 YES
21 SC-QAM 746 256QAM 6.1/66.1 37.6 YES
22 SC-QAM 754 256QAM 6.2/66.2 37.6 YES
23 SC-QAM 762 256QAM 5.9/65.9 37.6 YES
24 SC-QAM 770 256QAM 6.0/66.0 37.4 YES
Measuring upstream channels:
Ch Chan MHz Modul- dBmV/dBµV Ranging
Id Type ation Status
32 SC-QAM 37 8QAM 45.0/105.0 SUCCESS
35 SC-QAM 58 8QAM 45.3/105.3 SUCCESS
34 SC-QAM 52 8QAM 44.3/104.3 SUCCESS
33 SC-QAM 45 8QAM 43.5/103.5 SUCCESS
31 SC-QAM 31 8QAM 44.3/104.3 SUCCESS
Previously I used an Odroid as a central IP router. This is no longer a good option as the Odroid with USB-Ethernet interface can get 200 MBit/s at best. So I connect my LAN cable based PCs directly to the cable modem.
The subjective feeling that "the whole internet" is not faster than before, is exemplified by the usual pacman -Syu, i.e., the regular update. So many servers I contact do not provide the speed which I could handle.
icu-65.1-3-x86_64 10.3 MiB 12.1 MiB/s 00:01 [#######################################] 100%
libseccomp-2.4.2-1-x86_64 99.5 KiB 24.3 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
man-db-2.9.1-1-x86_64 1018.1 KiB 11.6 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
pciutils-3.6.4-1-x86_64 97.4 KiB 23.8 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
freetype2-2.10.1-2-x86_64 490.3 KiB 8.55 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
xcb-proto-1.14-1-any 108.9 KiB 26.6 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
libxcb-1.14-1-x86_64 999.8 KiB 8.14 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
imagemagick-7.0.9.27-1-x86_64 2.5 MiB 8.55 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
cups-filters-1.27.2-1-x86_64 865.9 KiB 9.00 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
gtk-doc-1.32+37+gefc3644-1-any 294.9 KiB 12.5 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
wayland-protocols-1.20-1-any 61.9 KiB 20.2 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
libnotify-0.7.9-1-x86_64 50.1 KiB 0.00 B/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
libgdata-0.17.12-1-x86_64 853.2 KiB 9.26 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
libgphoto2-2.5.24-1-x86_64 1297.3 KiB 8.86 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%
libreoffice-fresh-6.4.1-1-x86_64 127.5 MiB 4.27 MiB/s 00:30 [#######################################] 100%
libreoffice-fresh-de-6.4.1-1-any 3.2 MiB 3.05 MiB/s 00:01 [#######################################] 100%
meson-0.53.2-1-any 976.7 KiB 2.45 MiB/s 00:00 [#######################################] 100%