>>>>Is it possible to get broadband from the 4 computers in my house without having a telephone line?
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>>>>If so which is the best and most cost effective solution
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>>>>Thanks
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>>>>Colin
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>>>Check with your local internet providers. I get 250 MBit per second via my TV cable.
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>>On paper I should get about the same speed from my TV cable provider (200 mbps). But since it all goes through a wireless router I only see the internet speed of 50 mbps (when I run speed test in my browser).
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>>UPDATE. Before, I was simply entering "Internet speed test" in the Google. And I was getting pretty low speed results. I just tried the www.speedteset.net and see much higher speed (up to 90+ mbps download). I wonder which one is more or less accurate.
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>Speedtest tests against a selected server on the internet. If you're on Comcast it will check for a Comcast server and use that by default.
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>For a while, some ISPs were gaming the system - if they detected a speedtest, they would temporarily boost your connection so you'd see an artificially high number. To avoid that, you should select a server on another provider before running the test.
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>Another thing about your environment: you might want to check your router model and the speed of its wired ports and WiFi. For example, some models more than a couple of years old only have so-called "Fast Ethernet" wired ports, which are 100Mbps. If that's the case, that will include the WAN uplink port to your modem. So, your service may be 200Mbps, but be getting bottlenecked by the WAN port speed on your router if it's only "Fast" Ethernet.
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>If you're not sure, you could post the make/model of your router and your new Comcast modem here.

Thank you for explaining how to make speedtest work more independently of Comcast server. I just ran it against a couple of different servers. And the results are very varied. From 21 mbps to 85 mbps. Does it matter if the server is far away, geographically, from where I am?

As far as my, router. It is Linksys AC1900. I bought it in November of 2015.

In the end, the speed is acceptable. As long as I can do my work and the wife stream Turkish series :) on Netflix, I am happy.