New Router

WetGeek

After an ISP upgrade and a bit of fuss installig a new Wi-Fi 6 router, these are my results:

I may need to install a seatbelt on my recliner.

WetGeek

Before this upgrade, I had 32 Mbps down and 18 Mbps up (for years).

Axios

WetGeek Rub it in !!! everybody getting fiber..lol I got use slow cell service yuck!!!

WetGeek

Axios Rub it in

Sorry, that wasn't my intention. There are plenty of areas here in the US where the population is not dense enough to support fast cable connections, but my locaiton is pretty much ideal in that sense.

I'm close enough to a big city (Seattle) to have good access to utilities, doctors, hospitals, stores, entertainment, and so on, but far enough away that I don't need to deal with the city's horrible traffic, high prices, and its crime.

Since I'm retired, I've thought many times of moving to a rural location, but we'd need to give up too much of what we've become accustomed to. High-speed Internet would be one of those things.

Harvey

Having a symmetrical 1gbps connection would be nice considering how much I pay for this ($99.99 AUD / $74.94 USD)... But straya. 🇦🇺

I was already on this plan but I too got a router upgrade recently. Old one could not exceed 840mps obviously the new one has no such problems.

This is my oldest speedtest saved to my account, from back in 2012. Came a long way...

FanboyStudios

Harvey That latter result is painful, but that's pretty much how my Centurylink is today.

Centurylink's Rural DSL is a huge pain in the ass, especially when it rains (my internet slows down even more or drops out).

My experience with distros like Ubuntu, Pop! OS, etc. is when the connection drops when updating or installing software... often it has to start over or even breaks my OS.

SolusOS has so far been the most graceful. When the connection drops, it pauses. If I just type the command again, it resumes perfectly.

I really only have two major gripes with Solus:

Solus does not have the ability to just easily switch from the shitty integrated Intel graphics or hybrid graphics mode to just my dedicated NVIDIA GPU like I could in Pop! OS.
Software compatibility is not as numerous (more applications support Debian/Ubuntu out of the box without having to compile anything).

Welcome to 2022, Centurylink! This is NOT what I would call acceptable internet in 2022.

Axios

WetGeek I was just giving you a hard time... no worries

Staudey

Not amazing, but more than enough for my purposes. I should finally quit my TV service, because I pay 10 €/month more for it, even though I never watch TV 😃

edit: Oh yeah, and this old garbage router only has a 100 Mbit Ethernet connection anyway ^^

codewizard1975

My ISP offers 1Gb max but wife says this is all I'm allowed to have as I might cause too much trouble with more.