From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 1/11/2026 7:03 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > On 2026/1/11 4:23:39, Paul wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 1/10/2026 9:59 PM, VanguardLH wrote:   
   >>> After a supposed upgrade from 1 Gpbs to 2 Gpbs for Internet speed, I am   
   >>> still getting downstream and upstream speeds that I had before.  No   
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   >>> Then I pondered if there was a bottleneck in my setup.  Maybe the fault   
   >>> is on my end.  The NIC I'm using in the desktop PC is integral to the   
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   >> They are NOT all one lane cards.   
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   >>    Paul   
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   > Just out of curiosity - what are you actually _doing_ that _needs_ that   
   > speed - or, are you just trying to achieve it anyway, since you've been   
   > told you've been given the (free) upgrade? (It's not that you're talking   
   > of a multi-user household, as you're talking about one PC here.)   
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   When you pay a premium for a certain tier of service, it is   
   common practice to check the service the day it is "turned up".   
      
   It's also a test of your technical chops, installing equipment   
   which can verify the promise the ISP is making. Over on DSLreports,   
   in the early days of "weird fibre offerings", there would be tales   
   of people trying to find this-and-that, so they could test their   
   new "weird 3Gbit/sec service". At the time, 10GbE was a little less   
   common as a card in a PC.   
      
   And we do this, because in the early days, we were cheated,   
   we were treated badly. The maxim  "an elephant never forgets"   
   comes to mind. "THIS is why we test" :-) It's that   
   elephant thing and being treated like crap by an ISP.   
      
   It would be a mighty server, that would agree to deliver   
   at 2Gbit/sec. Speedtest.net (which runs cached in the ISP   
   facility), is an example of a server that doesn't burn up   
   transit fees, but still allows buzzing out the local loop.   
      
      Paul   
      
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