{"id":6478,"date":"2015-09-21T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2018-07-13T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T11:22:10","slug":"bern-takes-down-the-internet-speed-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=6478","title":{"rendered":"Bern takes down the web speed limit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EWBLogo_white\"Ever been annoyed of a very slow internet? Yeah, me too!
\nOkay, a 250 Mbit\/s line for downstream isn’t slow at all but…
\nif there wasn’t the notorious break on the upstream.\u00a0And that’s where ewb enters the game with Fiber Internet.<\/p>\n

\"EWBLogo_white\"<\/a>Two years ago I was a bit dazzled to see that my local energy Provider ewb<\/a> considered bringing symmetric internet to the customer at fair prices. While 100 Mbit\/s was already announced and (for me) a serious option to the asynchroneous 150\/15 line from cablecom<\/a>, I was visited end of August from a representative of ewb telling me that Fiber internet was finally available at my location. Luckily I am already customer of their power services so why not giving it a try then, I thought.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly when the representative has shown me the newly set up portfolio where a synchroneous Gigabit (yeah, you have read right! 1000 Mbit\/s!<\/strong>) is available for 129 CHF\/month, well, the choice of mine was obvious. So with a signup time of roughly 10 Minutes, all was set for high speed internet then.<\/p>\n

September 13th, Time for the servicemen to lay Fiber to my flat – in Switzerland, you’ll need a permission of your landlord to have such things installed. So another waiting time when on September 21st, all was set up – finally.<\/p>\n

When the modem arrived just one day later, you’ll bet what my first thing was to do: Check the speed, we want numbers!!!<\/p>\n

Okay, time to hook my good ol’ fella, namely my MacBook Pro via the Lightning to GBEthernet port and this ensemble to the freshly delivered Fiber Internet modem w\/ WLAN.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Speedtest fired:<\/p>\n

\"ewbSpeed3\"<\/a>Yikes… look at these upload rates! Nearly 1Gbit up is a really good result!<\/p>\n

\"ewbSpeed2\"<\/a>Yikes… even 800Mbit\/s downstream which is also quite good!
\n5ms ping is also nice for those who play FPS online such as CS:GO<\/p>\n

\"ewbSpeed1\"<\/a>If you find the sweet spot server… then the combined speed is also unbelievable!<\/p>\n

So you can say the new internet era has just begun and fast, affordable synchroneous speeds ARE possible!<\/p>\n

For those who mock around now: Hey, where’s the four-digit number? First of all: You will need 10GbE to be on the safe side and second: There’s always overhead data that deducts from the 1000\/1024(Mbit\/s), typically around 5 to 10%!<\/p>\n

So the results I got there are very good already. You get what you pay for and believe me if a high-speed gaming notebook with SSD cannot even handle faster downloads than 80 MB\/s because the disk cries “STOOOOP you’re flooding me!”<\/p>\n

Just a small word about the hardware though:<\/strong> The ewb modem is fast, sure, but only the ethernet ports can deliver the full Gbit Internet speed. The WLAN part only supports 802.11a\/b\/g\/n 2.4GHz at maximum 300 Mbit\/s, so your WLAN will<\/span> be the bottleneck!<\/p>\n

And that’s where you should shell out another 150-200CHF and install a 802.11ac-capable WLAN router to one of the modems ethernet ports. The Netgear R7000 delivers fine performance paired with a good range. Even in 7m distance, no direct view to the antennas, the speed still passes 600 Mbit\/s in both directions.<\/p>\n

Oh: one more thing…<\/h3>\n

While I was waiting for my internet being installed, I took part at the ewwwb sweepstake where a shiny new Apple Watch Sport was the prize.<\/p>\n

Unbelievable but true: I got a call from ewb where the representant told me that I was the lucky one! This is like having all the correct numbers in lottery!<\/p>\n

\"EWB<\/a>One happy customer just made much more happy!<\/p>\n

Thank you very much, ewb!<\/h2>\n

P.S.: The Apple watch is my daily companion from that day!<\/p>\n

Greetings go to Lukas Zellweger<\/strong> who made the pictures and gve me the prize!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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