Beijing's 50M broadband has shrunk five times

Premier Li Keqiang urged to increase Internet speed and reduce Internet fees at the first quarter economic situation symposium, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology responded quickly. People seemed to see the hope of increasing speed and reducing fees. Beijing News reporters visited and experienced many places and interviewed operators to try to uncover how far this step is.

Slow Internet speed

Speed ​​test: 50M bandwidth reduced to 10M

At around 8 o'clock last night, a Beijing News reporter used professional software to test the speed of his home broadband and found that the actual speed of the 50M bandwidth only matched the speed of the 10M bandwidth.

The reporter applied for a 50M broadband service from Beijing Broadband Communication Technology Co., Ltd. in December last year. The Internet fee was 1,479 yuan for two years and four months.

Yesterday, the reporter used a professional speed test website to test three times, and the maximum access speeds were 1.52MB, 1.37MB, and 1.42MB respectively. The reporter used the speed test software included with the Thunder software to test, and the maximum access speeds were 1.69MB, 1.75MB, and 1.79MB per second respectively.

"According to the software test results, your home network bandwidth is equivalent to about 10M bandwidth." Network engineer Ding Zhen introduced that the conversion multiple of the network operator's promised bandwidth and actual download speed is 8 times, which means that the maximum access speed of 50M bandwidth is about 6MB.

Ding Zhen revealed that there are five factors that affect users' Internet experience. The first is that the server accessed by the user has slow resolution. To put it bluntly, the server is not good, which usually only occurs when visiting some small websites.

Secondly, the bandwidth promised by the operators is not enough. Ding Zhen said that there are currently some secondary operators in the country that contract bandwidth from larger domestic operators, and then share the bandwidth when it enters users. When most of the shared users use the network at the same time, the network speed will be reduced.

Secondly, if there are multiple users in the local area network where the user is located, sharing the bandwidth at the same time, it will also reduce the Internet speed. If multiple software are running on the same software at the same time, it will also affect the Internet experience. In addition, if the routing device used by the user fails, it will also affect the Internet speed.

"Generally speaking, a bandwidth reduction of about 20% is within the normal range. However, a 50M bandwidth Internet experience equivalent to 10M is a bit outrageous." Ding Zhen said that serious bandwidth reduction rarely occurs abroad, and in China it has only appeared on a large scale in recent years. The reason is that the secondary network operators change the exclusive bandwidth of one user into shared bandwidth by multiple users.

Yesterday, staff from Beijing Broadband Communications Technology Co., Ltd. promised to send engineers to conduct on-site inspections.

Expensive Internet

Great Wall Broadband's Beijing rates are "expensive"

How is the charging situation of broadband in Beijing? The reporter took Great Wall Broadband, which is widely used in Beijing communities, as an example for comparison and found that the annual expenses of users in Beijing are at a relatively high level in the country.

The Great Wall Broadband official website shows that newly installed broadband is divided into multiple levels. The reporter selected 50M as the standard to ensure that citizens can watch ultra-clear videos smoothly. It was found that the annual price of 50M broadband in Beijing is 1,080 yuan. Among the 10 cities randomly selected by the reporter, Beijing's fee level ranks third, the lowest is Chongqing, with an annual fee of only 720 yuan. The highest is Shenzhen, with an annual fee of 1,188 yuan.

Among the two major operators, China Unicom and China Telecom, Beijing's broadband charges are the highest among Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Taking 20M broadband as an example for comparison, the annual charge for Beijing Unicom users is 1,480 yuan, 1,380 yuan in Guangdong, and the fee in Shanghai is lower, at 1,080 yuan.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.