Upgrade from ISP

Very interesting! I certainly hope your results are different from mine. I have a wireless ISP (sounds like what you are describing) but the prices are ~$50/mo for 3 MB down, ~$100/mo for 5 MB down..... I have the 5 MB plan, but seldom get even 3 MB measured. The only alternatives are satellite (I had HughesNet since before it was called that) and it was sometimes slower than dialup; or 4G cellular which is very expensive if you use > 10 GB/month.

Right now the ISP "says" they're moving some users off the device I connect to on the tower so my service should improve. (I'm about a mile away from the tower, heavily wooded.) There's no way we could get a signal 10 miles away. Probably not even 4G cellular. The service my ISP recommends for speed checks is

As a follow-up to my post, I ran a speed test right after sending that post. Here's the result:

Download Speed: 884 kbps (110.5 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 1682 kbps (210.3 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 109 ms

And for this crappy service I'm paying just over $100 / month!

I'm seriously considering 4G cellular as an alternative which will raise my cost to about $160/month.

Just for the heck of it I tried your link. Measures me at 38 Gbps down and 10 Gbps up. My (cable) ISP account is rated at 'up to' 50 Gbps but I've never gotten close to that. Still, I feel for you guys. I'd hate to ever have to go back to the slow (dial up, then DSL for me) old days.

We don't have many trees in this area, so there are some people who have antennas pointed at towers 18 miles away. Maybe your ISP will be bought out. ERF used to tell me they were taking some people off the tower so mine would be faster. Hopefully, you can get a better ISP soon.

I've thought about getting Virgin Mobile Broadband to go, for when I drive. It's no contract.

Hughes SUX. I didn't always feel that way. Back in the 90's, I had one way Hughes, before they got duplex. Everything went good for a few years, then, the LNB went out.

It's a long story, if I told you everything that happened over three months. Long story short, the technicians refused to let me speak to a supervisor, until I had to threaten to drive to Germantown, Penn. and start beating the crap out of everyone who works for Hughes. Finally, I was able to. He said (Hell, they sent me the wrong LNB, and I should have stayed on the original satellite).

I told them where they could stick it, and quit Hughes for good. I don't know if you can tell, but I'm still pissed. When a company goes to that much trouble to piss me off, I don't get over it.

Right now my download speed is almost the same as yours Download Speed: 792 kbps (99 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 640 kbps (80 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 176 ms 2/21/2015, 4:24:15 PM

I used to have ERF wireless.

Now my ISP is Rhino Communications Rhino Communications charges $43.26 for 5 meg, then additional $10.00 for each increase, 10, 15, 20 meg. They don't list prices on the web.

we have a 4g ISP called Fuego Wireless

There's a new wireless company in town

I sent that last post from the big computer with another handle. It was from me.

Must be terrible. I'm trying to watch a PBS video, it keeps buffering, and buffering, and buffering. Then it restarted. Maybe after the upgrade I can watch it without interruption.

Gbps is Gigabits per second. You don't have that. ;-) You almost certainly meant Mbps (Megabits per second).

Yup. Perhaps just a little excessive bragging there. I'm lucky I got the bps part right though (didn't I?) ...

The rest was perfect. :-)