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Sunday, 27 August 2017

Home internet speed update

My home internet speed has increased again, so it's time to update the historical record. My current speed is 50,000 times faster than my oldest speed, so the chart uses a logarithmic scale to ensure all values are visible.
date download
(kb/s)
upload
(kb/s)
technology notes
1993 2.4 2.4 V.22bis First home internet. Netcomm Automodem
~1996 28.8 28.8 V.34 Interlink Hotlink 5i
~1999 56 33.6 V.90 NetComm Roadster II 56 USB AM5050B
23 Oct 2004 256 256 ADSL 1 First home broadband, using modem Billion 741GE
15 Nov 2004 320 320 ADSL 1 ISP turned ADSL interleaving on and increased the data rate to counteract the ATM overheads
2 Feb 2005 5,408 928 ADSL 1 ISP increased my speed for free
15 May 2005 5,984 928 ADSL 1 ISP modified their DSLAM settings
30 July 2008 8,232 1,021 ADSL 2+ Bought an ADSL2+ modem, Billion 7401VGPM. Also has wifi and VoIP
8 Aug 2015 15,859 1,253 ADSL 2+ Moved house. New modem: Technicolor TG582n. For comparison of line speed compared to actual transfer speed Speedtest.net reports 13,090 down 1,060 up
6 Sep 2015 54,130 3,100 DOCSIS 3 Moved house. Hybrid fibre/coax (HFC), optical fibre to a node, then coaxial to my house. This speed is from Speedtest.net, and is significantly slower in the evenings when more people on my street are using the internet.
21 Nov 2015 70,030 5,160 DOCSIS 3 ISP increased speed to nominal 70Mb/s down
24 Aug 2017 107,730 6,150 DOCSIS 3 ISP increased speed to nominal 100Mb/s down