The home's internet connection is a Frontier Fiber connection rated 5 Gbps (5 gigabits per second) in both directions. This page grades the connection against that rating — upload weighted equal to download. It updates once a day.
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Two tests measure this connection every day: a computer testing the connection, and the router testing itself.
The wired test is the verdict. A computer inside the house — connected by cable, with every link between it and the internet able to carry more than the plan's 5 Gbps — runs Ookla Speedtest, the same test as speedtest.net, once a day against a nearby test server. Nothing in that path is slower than the plan, so the number that comes back is what the connection actually delivered.
The gateway self-test is the router testing itself. The router — the box that carries all of the home's traffic to the internet — runs its own built-in speed test each morning. Run minutes apart on the same morning (August 10, 2026), the router's test read 4,585 Mbps download where the wired test read 5,145, and 1,301 Mbps upload where the wired test read 2,113.
Part of that gap is measured. The router inspects traffic for threats (intrusion prevention) while it tests itself; in a paired test that morning, switching inspection to observe-only raised the self-test's download from 4,391 to 5,013 Mbps. The wired test pays no such cost — its 5,145 Mbps was measured with inspection fully on. Why the self-test's upload reads low has not been settled, and the two tests aim at different targets: the wired test runs against the internet provider's own test server, while the router's test picks a node from a volunteer-hosted test network — ours ran against a hosting company's box. The router's upload reading sits locked near 1,400 Mbps in every run, the shape of a node that cannot receive any faster; the router's own sending path has not been ruled out. Either way the self-test reads low, so this page reads it as a floor: a self-test of 900 Mbps means the connection delivered at least 900 Mbps that morning, not that it tops out there. Its numbers are a floor, not the connection's capability.
Upload is graded the same as download on this page because the plan is symmetric: upload is rated the same 5 Gbps. A speed page that grades only download hides half the product.
The two directions do not perform the same. Download reaches the plan's 5,000 Mbps; upload has never measured above 2,658 Mbps — not at installation in May 2025, not after the modem reboot that fixed download in August 2026. Other owners of this router model on the same ISP tier report the same pattern, and one measured the ISP's own router delivering rated upload on the same feed — evidence that points at the router, not the ISP or the plan. The deciding test — a computer plugged directly into the fiber modem — has not been run yet.
Every recorded test, both directions, against the plan line. The pink and purple lines are wired measurements — the verdict series. The blue lines are the gateway self-test — the floor series. The chart opens on the newest days; drag it left to see older ones.
Two events are visible in the record. On June 19, 2026 the router was replaced; the blue series before and after that date comes from two different routers testing themselves, which is why its character changes. And from before the record begins until the morning of August 10, 2026, download ran near 2,200 Mbps — 44% of the plan. Rebooting the ISP's fiber modem restored full download within minutes; the step up in the record that morning is that repair.