If the info in the pic is accurate. Then why should anyone pay for higher speeds than what your devices can affectively use?
I was doing some stuff on the Xfinity website and came across this info is on the Comcast/Xfinity speed check page.
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Always a good point to know what devices you are running and what they max out at wireless and wired.
But that also depends on hardware built in yi the device.
Some can handle 500+ or fiber optics alot can’t.
A big thing people don’t realize is gigabytes ethernet adapters vs 10/100 and 10/1000 10/2000. People assume everything can handle fiber and wifi should be 1g down. You need the equipment to produce that properly.
So thanks for the pic. I have a gaming rig I built from ground up with 1g at my house. But it’s been sitting unused.
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To many users focus on quantity and not quality. You can have amazing speeds and yet suffer from noise, jitter, packet loss and just plain garbage internet. Having excess speed does mitigate this somewhat. On here we have seen many many complaints regarding buffering and as we all know this is a difficult aspect of our hobby that is nearly impossible to pin point a solution for. Same goes for the quality of your internet. Many claim to have fiber optic that has amazing speeds, and yes this can be true, but is it TRUE fiber end to end? Rarely. Almost every provider eventually uses wire somewhere along the line. Sun spots and sun storms also interfere let alone natural disasters here on Earth.
I’ll stop there before I end up with a giant post. To summarize, it’s nearly impossible for any of us to know precisely why one day we have perfect streaming, and the next we’re frustrated by our problems. If anyone has a definitive answer they will become instant Trillionares.
HAVE FUN AND STREAM ON.
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My little phone company still uses copper wire but is upgrading to fiber over the next year. I use to pay for 50 mps but actually downgraded to 25 because it really did not make a difference, Saved money over all. I could pull in 4K with a faster speed but to be honest I can’t see the difference. It might just be my LG .
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There is indeed a significant difference. Rather than waste space here trying to explain the difference I’ll link to a great article to read at your leisure.
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My point is, if Comcast stands by these numbers. Then why would they push any higher speed packages than what THEY BELIEVE is the highest capable speed of a 2022, fully loaded, state of the art, over the top specked out, and top featured, $3K monster machine can handle.
Bottom line, why sell a 900Mbps internet package to someone who is using a 2019 laptop. That according to their numbers can ONLY be able to effectively use a max of 500Mbps?
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My best guess would be…$$$
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Oh I agree PF. There is no need for those sorts of speeds unless you are serving an apartment building or have one heck of a big family all using devices at the same time. On the other hand as far as my experience goes, the claim of being able to stream 4K effectively with 25 MBs down is nonesense. With the poor quality of infrastructure that most IPs have, it’s more like 50, and even more if others, like your kids, are using the same network.
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They are not there to help you understand. They sell you service…
I worked for a major telecoms company in Canada. Trust me, it’s about dollars. What can be done cs what you get are widely different.
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I worked for AT&T broadband when Comcast bought them & got into the telecom, & later on into the media conglomerate business. Prices went ballistic for the customers & down for the technicians…all about the money.
My suggestion for the average cord cutter is to go into their modems & look at their signal numbers…if any of them are out of accepted parameters…that can also seriously affect your streaming/internet quality. I wonder if that would be a good “public service announcement” for this site…?
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