Author Topic: 1 GB FIBER Coming Soon to Wrightwood (Read 1416336 times)

Ultimate Internet Access · « **Reply #800 on:** Dec 22, 17, 03:38:17 AM »

As in all the sections we schedule lightly at first to make sure everything is working as expected.. so the first week we are light.. but then we go for it and start scheduling much more aggressively.

--Wes

Ultimate Internet Access · « **Reply #801 on:** Dec 22, 17, 10:18:19 PM »

All of our installs today went very well for section 5!

We will be in touch to schedule installs next week.

Regards,

--Wes

momlori · « **Reply #802 on:** Dec 23, 17, 01:39:27 AM »

Bring it on

lwt42 · « **Reply #803 on:** Dec 27, 17, 02:33:19 AM »

Today my long wait finally ended.

I won't report speed because there are too many bottlenecks on my network at the moment to measure speed, but I can measure latency.

A quick check says it's more than 500 times better.

It feels fast, even on my laptop with the 54 megabit WiFi.

Ultimate Internet Access · « **Reply #804 on:** Dec 27, 17, 03:18:14 AM »

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I won't report speed because there are too many bottlenecks on my network at the moment to measure speed, but I can measure latency.

Be sure to connect to the 5.8 Ghz frequency of your WiFi if you can. Some older devices will only connect to 2.4 GHZ.. nothing you can do about that. Sounds like your laptop might fall into this category. But still should be much faster.. the key feature is the consistency.. everything just seems to work.
Device updates while normally painful are suddenly very easy and barely noticeable. You will notice that other people in your house will be doing things with their device but it doesn't effect you at all.

Also you have a perfectly good excuse to update your device

Regards,

--Wes

lwt42 · « **Reply #805 on:** Dec 27, 17, 03:29:56 AM »

Quote from: Ultimate Internet Access on Dec 27, 17, 03:18:14 AM

Some older devices will only connect to 2.4 GHZ.. nothing you can do about that.

Can you say 802.11g? Not only am I stuck on 2.4, it's not even particularly fast 2.4.

At the moment, some things are on the new fiber, and some things will be on Frontier until I have time to move them gracefully.

The laptop does have a gigabit ethernet port, and will be wired.

Also had my first encounter with UIA support, and I'm favorably impressed.

Ultimate Internet Access · « **Reply #806 on:** Dec 27, 17, 03:53:23 AM »

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At the moment, some things are on the new fiber, and some things will be on Frontier until I have time to move them gracefully.

I would not recommend leaving the Frontier router turned on.. You will get interference and it will slow things down.. there is no "may interfere", it will interfere. If things are working then great, but it will get steadily worse until you move everything and shut down Frontier.

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The laptop does have a gigabit ethernet port, and will be wired.

This is the very best connection.

Regards,

--Wes

lynnc · « **Reply #807 on:** Dec 30, 17, 12:23:59 AM »

Got mine hooked up yesterday and had it tweaked some today. Here are my numbers - ping 11, download 1.64mbps, and upload 3.60 mbps. I assume that is awesome??!! At least it is to me. (I have no idea what those numbers mean!) Thank you Wes!

Bob C · « **Reply #808 on:** Dec 30, 17, 12:42:06 AM »

Quote from: lynnc on Dec 30, 17, 12:23:59 AM

download 1.64mbps, and upload 3.60 mbps.

That's horrible... you sure about those numbers?

lynnc · « **Reply #809 on:** Dec 30, 17, 01:46:08 AM »

did it on speediest.net

just did it again - ping 23, 8.81 mbps, upload 7.67 mbps. That looks better!

Joe Schmoe · « **Reply #810 on:** Dec 30, 17, 01:53:33 AM »

lynnc · « **Reply #811 on:** Dec 30, 17, 01:55:13 AM »

It is and I am too far away from the router to get the higher speed. But it is SOOO much faster than verizon!

Babe · « **Reply #812 on:** Dec 30, 17, 03:10:12 AM »

Lynn C

I am at ping 7, download 242.15 and upload 237.90

This is not on wireless. The UIA installed said it was one of fastest he had seen at that time. I am in section 4.

Joy

lwt42 · « **Reply #813 on:** Dec 30, 17, 04:25:12 AM »

Quote from: lynnc on Dec 30, 17, 01:55:13 AM

It is and I am too far away from the router to get the higher speed. But it is SOOO much faster than verizon!

Yes, but it is still slower than you should be getting.

On my laptop, with an okay WiFi access point, on a computer that does not support 5 GHz, I'm getting 16 Mbps down, 18 Mbps up.

The bottleneck is the laptop internal WiFi. I'm no where near done rearranging things to get real speed, which is why I didn't report my speeds on Tuesday.

Joe Schmoe · « **Reply #814 on:** Dec 30, 17, 04:33:26 AM »

Quote from: lynnc on Dec 30, 17, 01:55:13 AM

It is and I am too far away from the router to get the higher speed. But it is SOOO much faster than verizon!

In case you aren't aware, there are different wireless standards available. As mentioned a couple posts earlier they are referred to as 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n. Sometimes referred to as 802.11b/g/n. B is slower than g, and g is slower than n. The catch is that if you have one device like an old laptop that only does the slower standard (b), all of your devices will operate on b, therefore all devices will be slowed. Preferably everything should try to be on 802.11n for the fastest wi-fi speeds. Other things like cordless phones and microwave ovens will interfere with the signal. We've actually had problems with each of those items before.

And if you have something that is running on 802.11a donate it to a museum.

lwt42 · « **Reply #815 on:** Dec 30, 17, 04:43:14 AM »

Quote from: Joe Schmoe on Dec 30, 17, 04:33:26 AM

In case you aren't aware, there are different wireless standards available. As mentioned a couple posts earlier they are referred to as 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n. Sometimes referred to as 802.11b/g/n. B is slower than g, and g is slower than n. The catch is that if you have one device like an old laptop that only does the slower standard (b), all of your devices will operate on b, therefore all devices will be slowed. Preferably everything should try to be on 802.11n for the fastest wi-fi speeds. Other things like cordless phones and microwave ovens will interfere with the signal. We've actually had problems with each of those items before.

And if you have something that is running on 802.11a donate it to a museum.

802.11ac is faster than 802.11n.

Of course, as you point out, WiFi is no faster than the slowest device, so if you have a computer that is at best 802.11b, getting a faster router won't help.

802.11a was at least on the less-crowded 5 GHz spectrum. It was doing 54 megabits when 802.11b was 11 megabits max.

WiFi is never as fast as wired.

AvocadoFlyer · « **Reply #816 on:** Dec 30, 17, 12:21:06 PM »

I'm averaging about 350 down and 275 up with the ping average of 7. This is from my iPad Pro. My laptop is also around these speeds. I just don't know what to do with all the extra time I have now that I have super fast internet (section 4)!!! I need another hobby

Ultimate Internet Access · « **Reply #817 on:** Dec 30, 17, 05:44:46 PM »

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I am at ping 7, download 242.15 and upload 237.90

We are bringing another 5 Gig of backhaul up here in Wrightwood. It will be about 2 months.. once that is in place you will see your wired speeds jump back up to 800 or 900 Mbps. Google WiFi Mesh around 600 to 700 Mbps.
Ping times will be the same.. 7 is extremely good on Wifi.. wired is around 6 ms. Great for gaming.

Regards,

--Wes

lwt42 · « **Reply #818 on:** Dec 30, 17, 05:49:50 PM »

Quote from: AvocadoFlyer on Dec 30, 17, 12:21:06 PM

I'm averaging about 350 down and 275 up with the ping average of 7. This is from my iPad Pro. My laptop is also around these speeds. I just don't know what to do with all the extra time I have now that I have super fast internet (section 4)!!! I need another hobby

That's part of my philosophy as well -- now that Frontier isn't a bottleneck, I can go totally nuts and put together and optimize things like crazy, or I can say "perfect is the enemy of good enough" and stop there.

If I was going for maximum performance, I'd start wiring up more rooms. I have a crawl space and a spool of CAT6 wire and I know how to use a crimping tool. I'd probably get a couple of commercial access points and run a fancy controller to make it all seamless, but I've got the training and experience. It'd be wicked fast, and I'd never max it out.

For LynnC, I think she'd do great with one of the mesh wireless routers. Wes said nice things about the one from Google <https://www.amazon.com/Google-Wifi-system-set-replacement/dp/B01MAW2294/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1514655431&sr=1-3&keywords=google+wifi+mesh> as being easy for anyone to set up.

A mesh is slower because the stations in the rest of the house use WiFi to get back to the base, but we've still got speed to burn. That'd be way faster than what Lynn has now.

Ultimate Internet Access · « **Reply #819 on:** Dec 30, 17, 05:51:22 PM »

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just did it again - ping 23, 8.81 mbps, upload 7.67 mbps. That looks better!

We need to relocate this router.. just God Awful. You did have a extreme that was powered up that we turned off.. that should have really helped with the Interference.
Terrible.. unacceptable. It is across the house for your Mac in the other room. We need to get it closer, or you can get a Google WiFi Mesh which will fix it for sure.

Regards,

--Wes