I could throw a bucket of bits and bites into my Jeep and drive them to where they needed to go and it would be faster than my internet service is this morning.
Ping (Packet Internet or Inter-Network Groper) measures the time to query and respond between two IP addresses. The test above was to and from HughesNet. A ping speed under 20ms is true goodness, acceptable is between 50 and 100. Ping above 150ms is bad. Measured from one speed test provider (above) showed that I’m double ungood very bad at 1045 ms. A test from another test provider (below) verified this suckedness.
My ‘jitter’ also sucks: Jitter is a measure of the time delay in the sending of data packets over a network. Essentially, the longer data packets take the more jitter can negatively impact video and audio quality. 150 ms (I guess) is considered the maximum tolerable jitter.
I’ll not go into my upload/download speeds. Numbers this bad remind me of the dark ages of computing and my Commodore 64 with a dial up modem.
The fiber optic install guy is scheduled for 10 this morning. He will be bringing a new ‘whole home’ modem that I assume is WiFi 6 enabled. I’ve ordered two Amazon Firestick 4K plus (WiFi 6) for my older TVs. They will arrive this afternoon. I’ve shopped around and found a TP-Link’s ‘ WiFi internet adapter for the computer that is rated at speeds greater than my planned fiber speed ( 2.4 GHz at 400 Mbps and 5 GHz at 867 Mbps). 250 Mbps is what I’m slated to have installed. Frankly, they could install a 20 year old mule and I’d have faster action than I currently ‘enjoy’. More to follow.