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Old 01-30-2016, 10:54 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by BroadHopper View Post
I'm assuming they are one and the same. Metrocast in Laconia with high speed internet subscription averages around 20ms. They claim after the last upgrade I should see 35 mbps. The latest mbps is 20, the same as it has been since I upgraded the router to DOCSIS 3.0.

My neighbor has Fairpoint DSL, which average around 10 mbps with average ping around 5 ms. His browsing speed appears faster than mine. Is it because of the ping?

Both testing is done over a year time span with speedtest.net.

Comments wifi?
Not one an the same as ground based ping time.. As wifi stated it has to do with radio wave propagation time. The satellite is about 22,200 miles up. Click on a link and the request goes up & down, then up and down again with the reply. Over 88K miles overall. Here the latency time would be about 477ms added to whatever the ping time would be from the satellite ground station to the web site server and back.

The speed of light is finite.
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