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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (477091)	7/29/2021 8:13:44 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542147

I'm curious - this is a free test (you don't have to be an Xfinity customer). I'd be curious what speed you get and your guess of distance to the cell tower. speedtest.xfinity.com I get about 40 Mb/s and 5MB upload when I'm on my phone 4G hotspot - I'm about 1/2 mile from the tower. I realized I was connected to the low bandwidth channel when I made my other measure - on 5 Ghz - I get 350 Mb symmetrically, not 90Mb - so about 18 times that of a modern cruise ship at sea. To EJ's point the FCC is way out of date with their definition of "high speed". 25 Mbps down/3 Mbps up