MultiFi: I chose the 1 Gbps plan from my local ISP.

You can ask @Sushubh to open a thread for your ISP and move this thread there

jtnrao7 said:

I live in Narnaul, Haryana.

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In proper Narnaul city ? Didn't know broadband services got advanced so much there that isp's are providing 1 gbps connection.

@jtnrao7 you can check speed on international servers too if lco is providing proper speeds or just peering speeds only. Nowdays most of the isps bank on just peering .

Even if its peering. Giving 1gbps at price pt is commendable.

If you visit Our Plan link and select Mumbai region, you will see that this ISP has clearly mentioned its peering speed as well.

The plan names are quite out of the bottle

Its like you are drunk in the night and hungover in the morning be like I am opening a broadband business

^ Funny liquor names!

@shashankb you could correct it to "Quite out of the bottle.." 😛

Aakash Malhotra said:

To get 1000Mbps on 1 computer, you will need hardware that supports speed greater than 1gig so for example you will be needing :
1. Ont with 2gig port
2. Router with 2gig ports
3. Nic with 2.5gig
Now this is not possible because of lack of onts and routers with such specs in home consumer market

It's the same like when you get 100Mbps. To get speeds over 100Mbps , you need gigabit hardware everywhere otherwise the speed will just top at 90-95Mbps. So to get speeds over 1 gigabit, you need hardware that supports speed greater than 1 gig.

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That's not really true.

There are multiple reasons why you may get slightly lower speeds than 100mbps with a 100mbps NIC and slightly lower speeds than 1gbps on a 1gbps NIC.

1. The processor is just weak and can't push data at those speeds. This is waay more common with routers that have 1gbps NIC. Archer C7 for example, Even with all the advanced features disabled can only push upto about 900mbps.
2. Most ISPs here use 1500(or less) MTU. In this case, The metadata in each packet accounts for atleast 2.67%(40 bytes minimum in IPv4 TCP Packet, Significantly more in case of IPv6 or IPV4 with some options set) or more. So, This means, On a 100mbps NIC, you'll only ever see 95-96mbps at best and about 970-975mbps on a 1gbit NIC.

Some ISPs try to account for this and give 1035mbps(for example) to someone with a 1gbit connection, In that case, If the user has a 2gbit NIC in their router, They'll get exact 1gbps speed, Otherwise it'll be lower since there is a hard limit because of the 1gbps NIC.

3. There might just be network issues at the ISP, So that's one reason why you may see less speeds but that's sort of obvious.


Either way, They don't need everything to have 2.5gbe NICs to get the improvement over their current speeds.. I'll suggest upgrading the router to something more powerful.

AAK said:

@jtnrao7 you can check speed on international servers too if lco is providing proper speeds or just peering speeds only. Nowdays most of the isps bank on just peering .

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I get speed near 350-400 Mbps on international servers.