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Tyler936
Freshman
8 years ago

FAP speeds for gen 5?

Has anyone hit the FAP speeds yet? I currently am wondering what they will be like and am assuming at this point someone has had to hit it by now.
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C0RR0SIVE
Associate Professor
8 years ago

Well... I am one of the first installs in my area, and I just stopped having my daily resets yesterday... I will know with in the next 8 days what FAP speeds are like on this bird. :)

For right now all we know is that we are throttled down to, as low as 1Mbps and possible under, congestion pending.  So not a hard throttle, and it's based on network congestion, but nothing horrible.  I have seen one test from someone on DSLR that I have little faith in that showed a 3Mbps test, but not much more.

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    Tyler936
    Freshman
    8 years ago

    I've heard similar, but I'm looking forward to in depth testing. Since I was a existing customer they did not provide me a 20-day reset, and they also did not reset my billing dates to match the install date, so I've been contemplating just using it all up since I wont have to deal with FAP just for a few days. Assuming you dont beat me and no one else reaches it first I am going to have it automatically schedule a speed test every hour and post the results when it's done.

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      C0RR0SIVE
      Associate Professor
      8 years ago

      Don't waste your bandwidth, I am nearing exhausting my day-time allowance, just downloaded a 12GB ISO file, and have tons of things that need downloaded.  Once I have exhausted it, I will run some automated tests to see what speeds are like when in FAP over a 24 hour period. :)