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Scottsdale AZ speed bumped yet?
I'm a Preferred plan subscriber. Was never getting the promised 25Mbps, but then again the modem was a seven-year old Motorola SurfBoard.
Bought a Netgear N900 WiFi modem from my local Cox store a couple weeks ago to be DOCSIS 3 compliant. Clerk recommended it highly.
Sometimes see speeds in the low 30Mbps, a lot in the mid-20Mbps, and right now the low 20Mbps. The connection test on the Cox site always gives me a higher reading than the one at speedtest.net even though they're both Ookla.
Same if I'm connected to 2.4 or 5.
Just wondering if I'm getting over the original 25Mbps and Scottsdale hasn't been doubled yet, or if it HAS been doubled and I'm getting well below the new 50Mbps. I had read that the target date was today (Aug 1), I think.
Macbook Pro mid-09 and Sony VAIO
Cheers!
Edited to add that it's also the same whether I go wireless or wired right into the WiFi modem.
muttonhead
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11 years ago
Hi TiffanyR!
Hey, thanks for getting back to me!
Confusing.....
When I run tests from cox.com (Oookla) and Ookla's own site, I get anywhere from 53 Mbps to 60 Mbps!! Yay!
But then I ran various other speed tests around the internet and I was getting between Less than 1 (yikes!) and 8 Mbps. These were the tests over at dslreports.com , testmyspeed.com, dslextreme.com, etc.
I appreciate whatever was done for the speed bump; just wondering why other sites would register it soooooo low still...?
Cheers!
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muttonhead
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11 years ago
Hi Tiffany,
dslreports.com speedtest used one in Los Angeles. Getting really bad results from that one (6.3 Mbps just now)
I'm in Phoenix, so not that far. And the Cox/Ookla tests are mostly using Mexicali, not far from L.A.
dslextreme.com, L.A. as well. (9.4 Mbps, but they appear to be using a rebadged version of the dslreports test)
testmyspeed.com appears to be using a UK server. (5.87 from that one, understandably low, but *that* low?))
Usaspeedtest used a server in Phoenix and returned 26Mbps
bandwidthplace.com first used “fastest ping” then after I selected one in San Jose, CA. Low 20’s both times.
And just now the Cox test returned a whopping 63Mbps!!!!
I'm just all bamboozled by the numbers! I surely trust the numbers I'm getting from Cox/Ookla, just wondering why similar locations deliver *such* lower and different reports. I could understand being somewhat different, but when I was getting in the single digits, it was certainly a shock, haha!
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muttonhead
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11 years ago
Hi Tiffany,
Yeah, that all makes sense. It makes me question the value of speed tests, though. I mean, if I'm using one test that uses a server in L.A. that gives me results of 6 to 9Mbps over and over, and at the same time a different test using a server in Phoenix gives me a consistent 26 Mbps, and also at the same time the Cox test gives me a consistent 40 to 50 Mbps how do I really know what my speed is?
Cheers!
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