OT Internet speed increase

Yesterday I received an offer from Shaw cable to upgrade my Shaw
internet plan to their 150 mbs plan for an additional $4.90 cdn per month.
I know I really don't need the extra speed but for that price, What the
heck.
Today I did a speedtest on Ookla Speedtest.net and here are the results.

on a 30 mbs plan before

Download 36.62 mbs.
upload 5.67 mbs.
Ping 11

Afer on the 150 mbs plan

Download 178.52 mbs.
Upload 16.67 mbs.
Ping 8

This is using a Cisco DPC3848V Docsis 3 high speed WIFI Modem/Router.

I realize this won't do much difference on general browsing but which
will certainly help with the huge windows updates when required or any
other large Program downloads, I don't do any music or video D/ls or
streaming but I'm sure it would help there also.

Just for information

Rene

On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:24:07 -0600, Rene Lamontagne
wrote:

Yesterday I received an offer from Shaw cable to upgrade my Shaw
internet plan to their 150 mbs plan for an additional $4.90 cdn per month.
I know I really don't need the extra speed but for that price, What the
heck.

The relatively low additional cost is a good indicator that speed
increases now offer more benefit to the ISP than they do to the
consumer. Most of my professional experience is with wireless (cellular)
networks, but the same holds true for wired networks. The quicker you
can get someone off of the network, the quicker you can free up
bandwidth for someone else. That's important because of the massive
oversubscription model that ISPs follow.