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Re: How to get full 12/2 speed.....?? It makes no difference as there is only so fast that 99% of websites are designed to handle anyway. Just because you can get a "boost" of bandwidth on your end doesn't mean that the server on the other end can supply it.
I've used plenty of cable connections with "PowerBoost" and there is no difference in page loading whatsoever. Far from "night and day" if you have CONSISTENT decent speeds. Hell for just web page browsing/email even 6Mbps is overkill. Any "night and day" that you are noticing is pure placebo. Anything smaller than 20MB it's not like you'll see the difference between 0.01 seconds and 0.001 seconds. |
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 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
kudos:1 | said by WhyMe420:It makes no difference as there is only so fast that 99% of websites are designed to handle anyway. Just because you can get a "boost" of bandwidth on your end doesn't mean that the server on the other end can supply it.
I've used plenty of cable connections with "PowerBoost" and there is no difference in page loading whatsoever. Far from "night and day" if you have CONSISTENT decent speeds. Hell for just web page browsing/email even 6Mbps is overkill. Any "night and day" that you are noticing is pure placebo. Anything smaller than 20MB it's not like you'll see the difference between 0.01 seconds and 0.001 seconds.
The only thing Powerboost really works good for is buffering up video streams when they start. It really isn't effective for HTTP type requests. As a matter of fact, with your generic website such as CNN.com or something, you probably aren't going to SEE ANY difference between a 10 Mbps connection and a 100 Mbps connection as the biggest lag is the thousands of HTTP requests done by the browser, not the throughput. Okay, you might notice it a bit when you download photo galleries as the data for certain HTTP requests are larger, but for most websites.... it really doesn't matter much if you have 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps or 50 Mbps with PowerBoost.
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| said by maartena:said by WhyMe420:It makes no difference as there is only so fast that 99% of websites are designed to handle anyway. Just because you can get a "boost" of bandwidth on your end doesn't mean that the server on the other end can supply it.
I've used plenty of cable connections with "PowerBoost" and there is no difference in page loading whatsoever. Far from "night and day" if you have CONSISTENT decent speeds. Hell for just web page browsing/email even 6Mbps is overkill. Any "night and day" that you are noticing is pure placebo. Anything smaller than 20MB it's not like you'll see the difference between 0.01 seconds and 0.001 seconds.
The only thing Powerboost really works good for is buffering up video streams when they start. It really isn't effective for HTTP type requests. As a matter of fact, with your generic website such as CNN.com or something, you probably aren't going to SEE ANY difference between a 10 Mbps connection and a 100 Mbps connection as the biggest lag is the thousands of HTTP requests done by the browser, not the throughput. Okay, you might notice it a bit when you download photo galleries as the data for certain HTTP requests are larger, but for most websites.... it really doesn't matter much if you have 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps or 50 Mbps with PowerBoost. That's the thing about it though. Stuff like YouTube (and even good quality streaming such as Sling) gets along fine with 6Mbps. The boost doesn't make the streaming any better. YouTube videos (even "1080p" HD) are usually sub-1Mbps. When Slinging my Dish Network TV over the interwebs, the 3Mbps upload with the 24/3 is plenty for HD (granted, on the LAN it can consume 8-12 with better PQ.)
I agree though. Latency matters a lot more for web browsing than throughput for the most part. Streaming services usually operate just fine on 6Mbps (even at HD) so again that PowerBoost isn't doing much. Perhaps it would help with multiple users, but then you can get 12Mbps or 24Mbps CONSISTENT Internet (and no caps  .) |
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