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Message 1960272 - Posted: 14 Oct 2018, 12:28:15 UTC - in response to Message 1960268.  

And how on God's green earth btw, can you get 65 Meg download speed from ADSL, when the max from the latest
ADSL2+M, is 24.0 Mbit/s, but only if the Distance (from DSLAM) is max 0.6 km (approx 0.37 miles) You must have VDSL with that speed.....
I think Bernie lives in an urban area with closely-spaced telephone exchanges.

I'm in a semi-rural area, and I'm getting

Downstream: 54.93 Mbps
Upstream: 9.999 Mbps

I'm probably ~3 miles from the exchange, but the UK has a technology called 'Fibre to the Cabinet' (that being optical fibre). That effectively moves the DSLAM out of the exchange and into the roadside connection point - in my case, about 0.3 miles away. That final leg is still some form of ADSL (using the same in-house filters as I've used since 2001), but the ISP-provided router isn't showing me the technical specification - those have gone out of fashion and been replaced by vague platitudes like 'Superfast' and 'Ultrafast'. Bah humbug.
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Message 1960275 - Posted: 14 Oct 2018, 12:47:06 UTC - in response to Message 1960274.  

I've just checked with my own ISP, and their line checker says that the fastest I can get is 38-40 Mbps. I'd best keep quiet about the almost-55 Mb, or they'll put my price up!
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Message 1960276 - Posted: 14 Oct 2018, 12:51:57 UTC

I too am limited to a 5Mb/612k connection due to the 6km cable limit to the downtown exchange (just barely make that limit). It's ironic since the same companies Trans Canada fibre connection (T off main) to the city and Canadian Forces Base is located about 400 feet from where I'm sitting. And their cell tower for the area is on the opposite corner of our home quarter section of land.

That 100Gb connection is so close I can smell it, but just out of reach. Well that is without paying for the fiber run ourselves ...
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Message 1960277 - Posted: 14 Oct 2018, 12:53:53 UTC - in response to Message 1960274.  
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I'm on real "old-time", copper telephone line ADSL all the way, with my exchange/DSLAM several kilometers away.
What a lot of people forget and most ISPs don't tell you, is that fibre is nice and all, but the lines inside the house are mostly all copper. If not the Ethernet cables from the modem to the computer, then the telephone wires from the exchange box in the street to your house. Only if you have a laser modulator/demodulator in your computer, do you have fibre all the way.

And then the numbers they don't want you to know:
Copper can reach 10GBit speeds.
Fibre can reach 255Tbit speeds.
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Message 1960278 - Posted: 14 Oct 2018, 13:05:43 UTC - in response to Message 1960277.  

I haven't kept up to date with the copper standards since 100 MBit 'fast ethernet', but the rules then were:

No cable run longer than 100 metres
No more than two hubs/switches between endpoint users
No more than 5 metres between hubs/switches

Fortunately, my house is less than 205 metres in any dimension except the fourth, where it's about 160 years.
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Message 1960360 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 5:55:58 UTC - in response to Message 1960266.  

Reading the internet, the image problem with Internet Explorer is widely known and discussed, but Microsoft are showing no sign of curing it.

They're pushing people to use Edge.
Unfortunately, while it is very quick to load & display pages & their contents, everything else about it leaves a lot to be desired.
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Message 1960362 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 6:26:54 UTC - in response to Message 1960277.  
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What a lot of people forget and most ISPs don't tell you, is that fibre is nice and all, but the lines inside the house are mostly all copper. If not the Ethernet cables from the modem to the computer, then the telephone wires from the exchange box in the street to your house.

I'm lucky enough that my NBN (National Broadband Network) connection is FTTP- Fibre to the Premises, the connection from the exchange to the NBN modem in my house is fibre, the connection from the modem to my router is Cat5E and 1GbE (Gigabit Ethernet).
Unfortunately for various political reasons what was meant to have been FTTP for 95% or so of the population became rather corrupted. Now you're lucky if you will end up with what Richard has- FTTN (Fibre to the Node) where the fibre is run to mini roadside exchanges, and they connect to your house using ADSL or VDSL technology (the data rate Richard has makes me think they're using VDSL). Not much good if you've got crappy phone lines all the way to your house.
The really unfortunate people get HFC- Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial which makes use of existing pay TV Coax cable runs. Fibre from the exchange to a roadside box that then connects to the Coax cable runs and those go the houses. Unfortunately HFC has something like a 15% + failure rate at present- it's reliability is exceptionally poor. It's rollout was suspended for a while, although it appears they think they've sorted it's issues out as they have re-commenced it's rollout.
The other method for connecting people is wireless- Fibre to the wireless tower & then a 4G connection for the users.
And the final method is Satellite (The less said the better).


And then the numbers they don't want you to know:
Copper can reach 10GBit speeds.

And of course those are data cables, not phone lines. The fact that phone lines are capable of 24Mb speeds over short distances is still pretty impressive given their original intended purpose (although with VDSL / VDSL2 / VDSL2+ apparently 100/ 200/ 300Mb/s is possible).
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Message 1960366 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 7:29:51 UTC

While my desktop is wraping things nicely on my phone some posts just run on and on......
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Message 1960370 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 8:35:17 UTC - in response to Message 1960366.  

While my desktop is wraping things nicely on my phone some posts just run on and on......
Could you give details, please, ideally with a screenshot? One of us needs to tell David about that.
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Message 1960378 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 10:12:05 UTC

I'll try....
Phone is a Samsung Galaxy A3.
The wrapping issue is there in both "portrait" and "landscape modes - even the short line I posted earlier extends beyond the screen in landscape mode (portrait was always an issue, but is far worse now). Longer lines in the "test" thread can be two or three screens wide, and that is a real pain as I have to continuously swipe to read almost every message.

Now using my laptop, which is wrapping "correctly", even when I reduce the window to "stupidly narrow".
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Message 1960386 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 10:54:45 UTC - in response to Message 1960378.  

We'll probably need to report the name of the browser / display app your Samsung uses.
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Message 1960392 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 12:44:27 UTC - in response to Message 1960362.  

And then the numbers they don't want you to know:
Copper can reach 10GBit speeds.

And of course those are data cables, not phone lines.
No, those numbers are for phone lines. And that already in 2014!

My ISP uses cable and I've had 200/20Mbit for a while now. Even had 250/25 for a bit, but adjusted my subscription and went back a bit in speed. Not that we notice that. Their fastest speed is 500Mbit, but later in the year they expect that to go further up to 800.
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Message 1960401 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 14:10:19 UTC - in response to Message 1960386.  

Browser describes itself as "Samsung browser", and I'm using whatever the defaults are for that, including font size.
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Message 1960407 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 15:34:12 UTC - in response to Message 1960401.  
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I posted a screengrab from my Sony Xperia M2 (960 x 540) in https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/2743#issuecomment-429895536

My Sony says:
Screen Size 4.8 inches
Resolution 540 x 960 pixels, 16:9 ratio (~229 ppi density)

Rob's A3 seems to be
Size (Main Display) 4.7" (120.4mm)
Resolution (Main Display) 720 x 1280 (HD) (~ 312 ppi)
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Message 1960425 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 16:35:39 UTC

These posts about connection speeds from International users other than U.S. just reinforces the articles and studies that show the U.S to have the worst connection speeds in the world. I have a 18Mbs download/1 Mbs upload ADSL+ connection (15.5M/768K in actual tests) and that is the fastest available. My entire city is just copper pairs. Same for dozens of cities in any direction for 100 miles. Only the large metropolitan cities like San Francisco or Sacramento are beginning to get fiber to the home in new constructions. I am so envious.
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Message 1960428 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 16:41:22 UTC - in response to Message 1960407.  

Richard - the picture you posted is very similar to the sort of thing I see on my Samsung -- apart from mine (in landscape mode) not having the extra buttons....
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Message 1960429 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 16:48:41 UTC - in response to Message 1960425.  

fiber to the home

I've seen the Google people laying fiber in the streets here in Louisville, but I am curious how they get it to the home. I guess they trench the yards and run it up to the house? Then, I guess they use the home's existing copper, or maybe they will continue the run with fiber to your computer if you want?
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Message 1960434 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 17:28:39 UTC - in response to Message 1960425.  

These posts about connection speeds from International users other than U.S. just reinforces the articles and studies that show the U.S to have the worst connection speeds in the world. I have a 18Mbs download/1 Mbs upload ADSL+ connection (15.5M/768K in actual tests) and that is the fastest available. My entire city is just copper pairs. Same for dozens of cities in any direction for 100 miles. Only the large metropolitan cities like San Francisco or Sacramento are beginning to get fiber to the home in new constructions. I am so envious.


it's branching out, no longer solely restricted to huge tech cities. I live in a normal suburban part of Baltimore County (not city). Both myself and my parents have fiber connections. I pay for a full 1Gbit up and down connection (~980 Mbit max up, like 880 down or so, I've tested this and actually seen these speeds in real life use). I think my parents pay for a 150-200 connection, but they have TV service bundled in and i do not. my bill is only $80/month.

I was previously on a 150Mbps service from Comcast, but they are stuck in the past and refuse to offer fast UPLOAD speeds, which is something i need since i host a Plex server and i want the ability to stream 1080p and 4k content over the internet to friends and family. in my area, I could get up to 2Gbit downloads, but there is absolutely no option for anything faster than 35 Mbit no matter what i pay, so i dumped them for Fios, saved money, and got the speeds i want.
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Message 1960435 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 17:32:39 UTC - in response to Message 1960429.  

fiber to the home

I've seen the Google people laying fiber in the streets here in Louisville, but I am curious how they get it to the home. I guess they trench the yards and run it up to the house? Then, I guess they use the home's existing copper, or maybe they will continue the run with fiber to your computer if you want?


in my case, they had a hub installed on the telephone pole just a few hundred feet from my home. the installer just ran a long fiber connection from that, along the telephone pole wiring, and then down to my house. I'm not sure what the limit is, but i wasnt charged extra for it. ideally it wont hit copper until it gets to the ethernet port. or maybe your home coax if you install that way.
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Message 1960437 - Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 18:03:53 UTC - in response to Message 1960435.  

From the construction details I gather from reading the posts on DSLReports.com fiber deployment, the fiber comes off the street to a ONT (Optical Network Terminal) located on the side of the house or inside the dwelling. That is where the fiber transitions to typically CAT5e cable to get to the ISP gateway device.
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