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Midband speedtest Megaathread
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I had my quickest speeds with standard 4G over the past few days.
Fast Three uplink with Speedtest on the left (Ballybofey) and fast Meteor downlink with TestMy on the right (Donegal town).
The Three speed test was done with a Huawei B593s-22 router on the Three network in Ballybofey (no antenna attached). For curiosity, I went a bit further and did an FTP test (host in Ireland) to check that uplink...
FTP download test was nothing special.
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Up until I tested the Three network in Donegal town a few months ago, I was lucky get a double digit test result.
The fastest downlink results I've had to date with either Speedtest or TestMy were just below 70Mbps on the Meteor network, until this afternoon.
I was travelling with someone at the time, so didn't get a chance to retest with the Speedtest.net App before losing line of sight with the cell tower. Then again, I didn't expect to ever hit 100Mbps on the Three network.0 -
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Three's performance has gone downhill in my area in the evenings over the past few weeks. Daytime performance remains about the same with speeds up to 40Mbps until about 4pm. I don't know of anyone with a proper Three broadband SIM to check for evening time comparison.
The following gives an idea compared to my DSL connection - YouTube 'Stats for Nerds' - Speedtest.net (Dublin server) - TestMy.net (UK server)
Three (4G with AYCE SIM):
Digiweb (5120kbps DSL link):
Notice the speed difference between what YouTube is reporting and what Ookla Speedtest measured. I tried various videos on YouTube over the Three connection and they all played similarly, switching between 240p and 360p, so Three seems to have YouTube traffic heavily throttled when compared to what's already a poor Speedtest.net result over 4G.0 -
I forgot about Meteor yesterday evening, so reran the tests with it over 3G. The Three network is much the same as above at the moment from my end.
There seems to be less contention this evening on Meteor here as normally it dips to around 6Mbps here in the evenings. Either way, it's 10 times better than what Three is giving me.0 -
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Interesting traffic shaping this evening on the Three network ~9:40pm - Compare these images to my above post:
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It seems to detect some sort of pattern when a YouTube video starts to know whether it releases the bandwidth.
For example, the screenshot on the left is after I started a video and manually selected 1080p @ 60. When I break the TCP connection so YouTube has to reconnect, it then streams at ~500Kbps, even after leaving it a minutes.
Once I refresh the page to give it a fresh start again, the bandwidth is unleashed again.0 -
As Google photos shows uploaded video clips in a YouTube style interface, the same traffic prioritisation seems to apply also when playing or downloading a video in Google Photos.
The following graph from the Windows Task manager shows the 10-fold speed difference between running a speedtest on Ookla using Three's own server (test result on the right) and downloading a video from Google photos, which ramped up to about 40Mbps (tests about 9pm):
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