News : iVinton’s First Speed Test a Big Success!

Screenshots of the internet speed before iVinton on the left and after iVinton on the right

A speed test was the first order of business when Matt Baker, the FARR Technologies staff member who has been working in Vinton since early in the project, connected the iVinton office to the new fiber network on Wednesday, February 12th. The connection with the company iVinton was using tested at 6.09 megabits for download speed and .58 for upload. The iVinton connection tested at 933.4 for the download speed and 941.65 for upload.

"A number of things can have an impact on the speed of the connection in addition to the delivery method," explained Baker. "Loss of speed from antivirus software is pretty common, for example, so I'm not surprised we were slightly under 1,000 megabits (1 gig) or that there was variation between upload and download speeds. What really matters is 933 to 6 on the same computer running the same software."

According to Tom Richstmeier, Vinton utilities general manager, crews are set to restart construction early in the spring. "There's no reason to wait for proof that iVinton will deliver the speeds you want," said Richstmeier, "we ran the test, and it performs just as we expected it to."

Richstmeier also shared that iVinton is asking customers to sign up for services as soon as possible to assure people can be connected quickly. "I'm worried that people won't sign up now because they don't think there's any hurry, and then we will get a large number of sign-ups as more and more people have service. If we have a lot of sign-ups late in the process people may be very disappointed because they'll be waiting while we work through the backlog. We already have nearly 500 installations to do, and that's going to take a while. By acting now, you'll be on the list sooner and the entire construction process will be faster."

To sign up for services, visit www.ivinton.com/new-service .