Have you complained?
If it’s always bad it’s probably time to find a new ISP 
true, but i still live in my parents house lol.
At my grandparents house, and they have Xfinity so. Me being me I decided to speed test their internet.
Well then that’s better than mine back at home.
and my grandparents live in a “ghetto” neighbor hood (no joke).
I moved this topic to this thread.
My grandparents have 1.25mbps and pay about $100/mo for it, because of rural monopolies.
For years I had only dial-up.
It got to be more painful as time passed, and eventually I couldn’t download upgrades because they were too heavy and took too long.
Dial-up was very inexpensive compared to cable or satellite so I waited for DSL to become available.
AT&T often sent me advertisements for DSL but when I called they said “sorry, not available in your location yet”
Then one time they reassured me it was available. 
Took care of the paperwork, they sent me the hardware.
- BUT - NO !
I called and they said they were sorry, but “not available in my location yet”
So I dug deep and got xfinity. Don’t believe their advertised billing rates, in reality it costs twice as much by the time “other” are added in,
But the connection sure does beat dial-up
8.25 Mb/s downloads. Lucky you. Much better than I’m able to get!
Wow! I just ran a speedtest on my Comcast cable connection…
DL: 5.63 Mbps
UL: 4.55 Mbps
And realizing that these are megabits, not megabytes, is distressing considering the price.
That 8.25 is almost double the connection speed I get but then Australia does have internet that is slower than many third world countries.
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I do not like to gloat but I am on about 71Mb download and 18Mb upload but am at work now so I can not check.
It was around 12Mb at one time and I had an engineer out all day. He tried re splicing the fibres and lots of other things and gave up as he could not find the problem. Just as he was closing the cabinet he noticed my fibre was being bent in half! Re routed the fibre and problem solved.
It does not seem spectacularly fast and I wonder if it is throttled down some where else on the network.
There is still a lot of slow internet in the UK; mostly in rural areas. I was surprised when I read an article about how expensive and slow it is in the USA but I suppose distance is a problem and the same in Australia?
At home: DL 1.94 Mb/s. UL 0.89 Mb/s.
The joy of rural broadband.
At work I’m in town on fibre, with a pipe so the UL is equal to DL, that’s fast.
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This isn’t a fair comparison.
XFINITY, which is Comcast (I think) is over a cable based broadband connection, and AT&T U-Verse is over ADSL (a form of DSL). The speeds you can get via ADSL will never come close in comparison to the potential of cable based broadband speeds.
You really can’t even compare your Grandparent’s connection to yours unless you decide to which to a cable based broadband provider yourself. And if you do that, be prepared to pay a bit more per month.
I probably qualify as even more rural than you, but my download speed (ADSL) is much better. (Upload is rubbish, but you can’t have everything. )
I tested it again on a different site, just to check.
My home is around 87mb/s upload, 83mb/s download (weird how the upload is faster, but I tested it a few days ago). FiOS is amazing.
^ we are fairly rural!
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Well that’s a bit of a disappointment. We moved last autumn to another house about 1/2 mile from our old house in the same village and I have not carried out a speed check as I assumed it would be the same; but it is not 
It is about half as good download as it was in the old house although upload is about the same:
True But, My Home Network Cuts Out Everyday. And We Had To Get A New Modem. After we got the new modem. I couldn’t get access in the modem because the access code was wrong on the sticker. So now I can’t port forward.
I took 2 different tests just now and came up with…
PING 48 ms DOWNLOAD 1.52 Mbps UPLOAD 0.47 Mbps
PING 63 ms DOWNLOAD 1.50 Mbsp UPLOAD 0.49 Mbps
Some day I’ll switch to cable, probably after I get a new computer, but for now I’ll deal with what I have…