This past Thursday I went to my parents’ new house and installed Internet and Wi-Fi for them. The $650/month HOA fees include lots of amenities but do not include electricity or Internet. Since my parents are online all the time, they chose the fastest service available at Laguna Woods, which is 100 Mbps for $50/month. After getting everything hooked up and working, I tested their Internet speed using Speedtest by Ookla and got about 85 Mbps down and 20 Mhps up. Not bad.
At home, I have the 150 Mpbs service from Cox Communications and it costs $84/month. I am also capped at 1280 GB per month and have only gone over once in the past eleven years. My home Internet is number one, four, and five results above.
The outlier is definitely number two, and you can see from the icon that it is a 5G mobile result. I was in some random parking lot near Laguna Woods and got the 290 Mbps test result. At first I thought the result is either an error, or there is some “gaming the system” going on. Just to double check, I tethered my MacBook Pro to my iPhone 12 (that is getting the 290 Mbps connection), and got around 160 Mbps.
So, the latency and upload speed is not good, but I was able to watch Netflix on my computer without any problems.
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Speaking of Internet via cable modem, Laguna Woods also includes basic cable with the HOA fees. I brought over one of the TVs my parents wanted and verified the cable channels are there. If you look at the channel list, there are a few missing channels. The biggest omission is KTLA 5, which is a popular OTA station in Los Angeles. Weird that the channel is not on the cable list of channels. Perhaps there are licensing issues? Some personal vendettas between Laguna Woods, the cable provider, and the TV station?
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