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[busterboy]

Its amazing how many I see on forums complaining that they can't download at Gigabit, or only download slightly under.

I would be happy to get 2mbps instead of the measly 1mbps I get now.

[Weaver]

[busterboy]

[Weaver]

[busterboy]

Very informative and thank you but after struggling with this for the last 10 years I'll hang on another few weeks.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Its also worth noting that if you don't need the combined upload, you don't need to bond to get the combined download, just basic load balancing works just fine as most downloads can be multi-threaded and loading web pages naturally is.

Bonding is better as it fully combines everything, but its WAY more expensive.

[Ixel]

Well unfortunately it looks like I may not be experiencing gigabit FTTP just yet (with a much higher upstream speed, which is what interests me the most). My regrade to 900/110 may have sadly hit a further delay. It was supposed to be processed yesterday as my minimum contract term for FTTPoD realistically ended yesterday (although I was told it was actually the 10th when I called the ISP today, but given the weekend and easter holidays nobody would be around to process the regrade order). I called Cerberus and the person who's managing my order isn't currently responding when I was tried to be put through to them, so I'm hoping they'll call me back later today with some good news. Obviously with COVID-19 delays are to be expected.

EDIT: Got a response, sadly bad news. There's a system issue at BT's end and is currently being raised with the product manager. Well at least I've had an update on the matter haha.

[Weaver]

[psychopomp1]

Speedtest.net hosts that can handle a gigabit in my experience don't exist.

I find the Xilo server on speedtest.net handles 1 Gigabit quite well - I'm seeing 800+Mbps consistently on this server. No doubt speeds on this will plummet now, as everyone on Gigabit overloads this server 

[niemand]

Actually seemed to be browser issue.

The app is better as is the CLI tool.

Have managed 1.4 Gbit/s from a couple of servers though they were just defaults.

[Chrysalis]

The cli tool as you said is great as it has no browser overheads or manipulation to mess with it.

Carl like you I have a 10gbit pfSense VM on a server, and behind that is another VM connected on a virtual switch hosting some game mod files which can push over 1gbit of second traffic fed by spindles.

[thesmileyone]

I have the following for you:

Speedtest.net hosts that can handle a gigabit in my experience don't exist.
The Think Broadband speedtest doesn't come close to handling a gigabit. Presumably all the other BT customers with a gigabit have overwhelmed it.
Fast.com is about the only thing that comes close.

The main cool thing about having a gigabit is that you basically can't max it out downstream.

It's not transformative. I'm not even touching the sides of the capacity. It's a good to have but really no difference noticed from 300 Mbit apart from running speed tests just now.

BT Wholesale and Openreach have nailed it in Wakefield: hasn't skipped a beat.

Probably an example of residential peering rather than speed throughput. I'm sure you can get the full 110MB/s that gigabit provides with the right protocol such as bit torrent or Plex.

Try streaming a 4K plex movie whilst downloading your favorite Linux ISO via bit torrent for example.

There's many times gigabit would be handy for me such as the above or downloading via sFTP whilst browsing even. Currently I have to limit sFTP to 3.5MB/s so I still have enough pipe left to browse web pages.

As for speedtest, Google have their own or for download speed tests you can use EU datacentre test files like this one http://mirror.mia11.us.leaseweb.net/speedtest/10000mb.bin