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meganoth said:
Speed isn't the only metric for a good internet connection. If a connection has huge delays or even worse drops (aka looses) a lot of packets or has huge delays that can also make it perform really bad.
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If packets are being lost, the provider needs to be hit. Preferably with kicks and preferably on the head. This type of equipment operation is rude.
 
Suxar said:
If packets are being lost, the provider needs to be hit. Preferably with kicks and preferably on the head. This type of equipment operation is rude.
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Blocking, throttling and paid prioritization, despite claims to the contrary, has been standard practice off and on in the US since around 2015 when large telecommunications companies took on a FCC ruling that classified Internet service as a ...service... which would have required more regulatory oversight of their operations. Net neutrality and open Internet has been viciously fought over ever since. Meanwhile, if your bandwidth is not so great, guaranteed there will be no interruptions if you're, say, streaming a show from Amazon Prime as opposed to accessing your medical records. Your Internet connection, no matter how supposedly good, is probably sluggish, the sluggishness most often blamed on traffic congestion by your ISP. The ISPs also have essentially striated the Internet according to economic class with their "tiered" services. Aren't they great? Given the power is concentrated in fewer and fewer behemoth claws, I don't expect it's a condition that will change any time soon.
 
meganoth said:
Speed isn't the only metric for a good internet connection. If a connection has huge delays or even worse drops (aka looses) a lot of packets or has huge delays that can also make it perform really bad.
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Along with the quality of the equipment you're using, modems/routers and their firmware upgrades.
 
InfiniteWarrior said:
Blocking, throttling and paid prioritization, despite claims to the contrary, has been standard practice off and on in the US since around 2015 when large telecommunications companies took on a FCC ruling that classified Internet service as a ...service... which would have required more regulatory oversight of their operations. Net neutrality and open Internet has been viciously fought over ever since. Meanwhile, if your bandwidth is not so great, guaranteed there will be no interruptions if you're, say, streaming a show from Amazon Prime as opposed to accessing your medical records. Your Internet connection, no matter how supposedly good, is probably sluggish, the sluggishness most often blamed on traffic congestion by your ISP. The ISPs also have essentially striated the Internet according to economic class with their "tiered" services. Aren't they great? Given the power is concentrated in fewer and fewer behemoth claws, I don't expect it's a condition that will change any time soon.
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Thank you for the Net Neutrality piece. Not enough people know about this or are talking about it, though there are plenty of other problems in the US that we definitely need to talk about anyway. I am glad to see that someone else is paying attention.
 
SabinSnake PS5#1 said:
Uh, actually from my experience it does. When I had 70MB internet, my character would lag like crazy and would fall through the map a lot with friends in it. Now, after upgrading to 1GB internet, the game plays flawlessly with very little lag in the city area.
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I'm curious what your PSN speedtest gives as result. I see a lot of variation here on that (50~150Mbps down, 5~75Mbps up) on our hardwired symetric glasfiber. If I wire my laptop to the router the speedtest gives always better and symetrical results, so the bottleneck is PSN and/or the PS5. So I just wonder if upgrading is worth it but 1GB (=8Gb) sounds like rediculus to me. Also given the fact that games on my PS4 on old internet (50/25 down/up) perform just as good (or bad) on the new network.

Note that the old network simultaniously served Netflix as well, 4k where possible.
 
InfiniteWarrior said:
Blocking, throttling and paid prioritization, despite claims to the contrary, has been standard practice off and on in the US since around 2015 when large telecommunications companies took on a FCC ruling that classified Internet service as a ...service... which would have required more regulatory oversight of their operations. Net neutrality and open Internet has been viciously fought over ever since. Meanwhile, if your bandwidth is not so great, guaranteed there will be no interruptions if you're, say, streaming a show from Amazon Prime as opposed to accessing your medical records. Your Internet connection, no matter how supposedly good, is probably sluggish, the sluggishness most often blamed on traffic congestion by your ISP. The ISPs also have essentially striated the Internet according to economic class with their "tiered" services. Aren't they great? Given the power is concentrated in fewer and fewer behemoth claws, I don't expect it's a condition that will change any time soon.
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I'm not familiar with the situation in the USA, but in Russia there is a slightly different problem - greed. Very often, a provider, having a 10 gigabit channel, connects several thousand subscribers at a speed of 100 megabits. As a result, the provider's channel is simply not enough during periods of high load. For this reason, I changed my provider 7 years ago to a less popular one.
 
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