Just installed Ripple Fiber, formaly Hyper Fiber. Signed up for the 1 gig plan. Not even close to 1 gig. Just did a speed test with Analiti. 540 mbps down and 648 up with Surfshark on. 490 down and 517 up with Surfshark off connected to my pcwrt CF-XR10 router with an eithernet cat 5 cable. I have been looking for a post on how to set it up to get the best performance using fiber. The supplied fiber router is a NOKIA Model G-2426G-8. The only thing I could find was years old and not specific to my set up. Also the tech guy that came to the house to troubleshoot told me that it is up to 1 gig speed and I should be happy with 500 mbps. I’m thinking about going back to Comcast. Dread the thought. All the hype says fiber is the way to go, with blazing speeds. Bull!
I have 2.5G fiber. Testing right at my router, I get roughly 2.2G U/D. It’s limited by the equipment. If I had a 5G WAN on my router, I would expect 2.5G there. Everything beyond that point of entry from the ONT to my WAN, speeds are dependent on your equipment.
I also have had fiber installed from gonetspeed at the 1 gig level and did not achieve 1 gig speed untill I swapped out My cat 6 to cat 7 or 8. speed went up by 250mbs just from cable swop out. Also … I measure my speed from a desktop not a box. unless your box has a 1 gig port and its working perfectly
You will never get the download speeds matching what your internet provider promised you and it’s not a lot of BULL. I’ve been streaming for over 12 years and my internet service is currently plan is 1.5G and I’m lucky if I get half of that and it’s a cable connection, not fibre (fibre is in the house but too expensive). There are several issues that can hinder your streaming services. Internet, traffic, vpn, cleaning the cache every day in the apps you use, etc. Your internet modum also can be an issue and you need to power it down once or twice a week for at least 5 minutes, then reboot it to reset the modum perameters. Nothing is perfect with streaming but it’s a far cry better than cable!
I guess I just don’t understand. I haven’t turned off Comcast/ Xfinity yet because I am waiting to see if Ripple Fiber will live up to their word at 1 gig speed. I am only switching if it works out. It will cut my internet cost from $130 a month to $45 for the same speed plan of 1 gig. I consistently get between 900mbps to 1300mbps with Comcast. It’s a money thing for me. Why waste money if I can get the same for less?
Yeah, and your devices. I also recently dumped Comcast and went with fiber (USi specific to Minneapolis) and am paying for 500mbps. On tech’s advice I bought a fairly inexpensive DECO router. But the discrepancies really come at the device level. My W11 laptop (over wifi), Analyti detected 480 mbps without VPN and 470 with VPN (amazing). If I go to my ONN pro (over wifi) speeds are about 200 without VPN and 55 with VPN…good enough but not what I was hoping.
So my fiber is much faster at the laptop than was Comcast (same speed) but very similar at the ONN Pro level. Big advantage for me is that this fiber simply does not drop out like Xfinity would do. Much more stable – and think about it, the tech is much better than trying to carry all that information over a wire cable.
