![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the results were incredibly inaccurate. Upgrading devices has become somewhat normal as much as we don't like it, if you want good internet that performs well it has just as much to do with your equipment inside the home as it does with your ISP's equipment outside the home.To analyze the Verizon Fios speed test, we used a connection that typically delivers speeds around 250 Mbps, and we tested our connection on other competing speed tests to see how well Verizon matched up. Every device has its own WIFI processor, and older processors or faulty ones just can't keep up with the new technologies that are arriving everyday. Now if your device is the suspect it gets a little bit trickier, but is much easier if you have a few devices to verify it on, most homes have multiple cell phones in them, so downloading the app on each device will help with figuring out the problematic device. This speed test can help you in pinpointing problem devices by simply using it to find the best possible connection location and running your suspect device there as well. The one thing that no client wants to hear, is that it is their device that is acting up and it has nothing to do with the ISP. ![]() Most people wouldn't realize the difference between 25 or 100 Mbps running to their device as both are more than enough to perform a lot of bandwidth heavy tasks.īeing in the internet industry as long as we have has improved our speed and efficiency when diagnosing poor internet for our clients (even with new systems like Starlink). So don't get to caught up in these numbers, but rather on the overall experience you're having with the system. On top of this if you happen to change satellites between or during tests you're going to get a lot of variances. Unfortunately you're unable to see the graph for the blue circle. So it is possible to have faster speeds to your device if you're looking at just glimpses of speed recordings, the same could be said for the router if we just took the best possible result instead of the average overall. if you were to average out your speed on the green circle over the graph you would be well below the 240 that it ended with. Your connection was slower to the router than to the device.this can be explained by understanding that the green circle "device speed" was a single moment at the end of the test where the speed ended on 240mbps, where as the blue circle router speed is an average over multiple pings, when you look at the graph you see that the green line crept up very slowly at first and then seemed to hold closer to the halfway point throughout the test. With this test our device speeds ended with a phenomenal 240 Mbps! Very fast but our blue circle only ended up at 136 Mbps speeds. ![]() The AI in the Starlink I would say is pretty darn accurate in its decisions, thank you Mr Musk. A special note here is that you can manually set up the 2.4 and 5 networks in the Starlink system but I wouldn't recommend this unless you have some knowledge of networking as you can do more damage than good. Most likely it will assign you to the 5 GHZ when you're close to the router or have very little interference between the router and your device, and in turn will assign the 2.4 GHZ to devices that have some distance between the router and device, and or a lot of interference. So depending on your location and need for bandwidth the Starlink router will assign you to either network. The 2.4 GHZ band has much slower speed limits (actually 1/3rd the speed of 5 GHZ) but it has really long roads, making it better for long trips far from your home. So although you can travel at the fastest speed, you're very limited to how far you can travel on that road. Think of the 5 GHZ band as having the fastest road speed signs, but the roads are very short. I'm not going to break down the difference between upload and download speeds and what they mean here, but all I will say is that the majority of users are using download on any given device, so the number is often going to be 10 fold that of the upload.ĭriving analogy. Inside the green circle is the download speed result, and just below where it says upload, is the upload speed for that device, as you see here our result was 7 Mbps. Most speed tests will start off gradually and then peak quickly and taper off as you see in this graph. Just below the dials is a graph chart in which you can follow the speed over the testing period, looks like we peaked at just over a 100 Mbps. So as you see in our green circle we had a 90 Mbps result. The final number that shows up is what speed the internet was coming in at once the test finished. The Green circle shows you how fast the internet speed is to that device, (so essentially how fast your device is driving around the house - using our analogy). Looking at the screen you have a green circle and blue circle that are most prominent. ![]()
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