Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

cscook · 18-04-2011 9:41pm

Yippee - I'm getting rated at C instead of D today.

-=al=- · 19-04-2011 11:32pm

ronkmonster wrote: »

Upgraded yesterday

Sweet Jesus

ronkmonster · 20-04-2011 12:19am

-=al=- wrote: »

Sweet Jesus

You should see my bandwidth usage for the weekend

Alonso77 · 20-04-2011 12:45pm

8Mg NGB Eircom.

cscook · 20-04-2011 6:55pm

22-04-2011 2:27am

cscook · 22-04-2011 9:51am

Jeepers it's bad this morning - and it's still early!

cscook · 23-04-2011 10:27am

What do you know - I was having trouble accessing a site yesterday - it had a DDoS attack earlier in the week and maybe the same thing was hitting it again. Anyhow I f re-set the router, and whether it's coincidence or not my speeds are now good. As good as they ever were, that is to say.

Bummer1234 · 23-04-2011 10:56am

1 MB in the sticks of cavan!!!! :mad::mad:

cc · 23-04-2011 11:38pm

UPC 10 MB in Cork

Auscast · 01-05-2011 11:13pm

How bad is this? Three Mifi in Brittas Bay. it's been getting steadily worse for weeks. :mad:

Ben D Bus · 02-05-2011 12:58pm

UPC 25Mb on my wireless connection

SpannerMonkey · 02-05-2011 10:05pm

god three is gone brutal sick or this it doesnt work most of the time lately and when its working at its fastest this is all i get

game4it70 · 03-05-2011 10:19pm

Congestion riddled 30mb Upc :mad:

silverwood · 04-05-2011 9:43pm

Tweaky · 06-05-2011 9:03pm

This is 500m from the exchange was hoping to get better. Syncing at 18.

cscook · 07-05-2011 9:06pm

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It's been around this for the last couple of weeks - an improvement on most of April!

silverwood · 10-05-2011 2:04pm

8Mb Eircom in Carrigaline, Co. Cork

DonJose · 10-05-2011 2:47pm

Eircom 3mb in Mullingar.

The most depressing thing is that UPC are 400 meters away but are not connected in my estate. Pretty hard to run a home business selling software online on a 3mb internet connection but its the fastest connection I can get. Takes me over 4 hours to update my website.

10-05-2011 11:45pm

Ballinteer/Dundrum.

johnwoods · 11-05-2011 6:14pm

Just got upgraded from NGB 8MB to 24MB with Eircom,

Used to sync with 8156K or whatever now I sync at 15234K and pull in consitent figures as below with multiple speedtests and 2gig file download.

happy with that!

TheRedDevil10 · 11-05-2011 9:17pm

UPC 20Mb

cscook · 12-05-2011 9:11pm

Good grief, Rickenbacker - it hasn't been this bad for a while.

Treehouse72 · 12-05-2011 9:21pm

> UPC
> 10Mb Broadband Express
> Dublin, Ranelagh

................

I have no idea what either of of those means, but the second one looks seriously bad and my BB has been absolutely pants - cutting on and off - for weeks. Not sure if it's related.

MonkstownHoop · 12-05-2011 11:48pm

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UPC 20MG

Dun Laoghaire

jleavy046 · 14-05-2011 12:11am

Not on NGB yet so only 3mb, but it's a solid connection.

Vunderground · 14-05-2011 8:00am

UPC 50MB fixed connection Dublin:

johnjoe96 · 15-05-2011 8:12pm

isp: o2 mobile broadband

happy with that:D

Ponster · 19-05-2011 5:43pm

Paris, France

At last I've taken the plunge and got FTTH :

Reg'stoy · 20-05-2011 10:14pm

supposed to be 25MB

LaVail · 20-05-2011 10:46pm

Ponster wrote: »

Paris, France

At last I've taken the plunge and got FTTH :

OH mon dieu!! :eek:

Ponster · 20-05-2011 11:01pm

For those who are interested...

I moved to Paris in 1998 having just come for the weekend of the World Cup final.

In 1999 I had a 512Kb ADSL line

In 2002 I got a 2mb line

In 2005 I got a 20Mb line

Now I have a 100Mb fiber. The router has a built-in 250Gb NAS server, support for up to 8 DECT phones, 4 1Gb Ethernet ports. 802.11n wifi with a touchscreen router so when the PC is dead you can still configure the modem if needed. 270+ TV channels (most are ****e) and free phone calls to all French landlines + mobiles and free calls to over 100 countries worldwide (landline) and USA mobiles.

Each offer has only ever cost €35.

I really can't say why things are 'slower' to come about in Ireland but here it's all down to competition and a healthy, free telecoms market. The only reason that I can get this deal at this price is that Free.fr needs to keep ahead of SFR (vodophone) and Orange ( Francetelecom) who both have almost the same offers available.

Ranicand · 21-05-2011 11:00am

UPC 25 Meg

mickob16 · 21-05-2011 2:15pm

Eircom 8mb NGB
Im in Tramore,anyone know why my upload speed is so slow?

jay93 · 21-05-2011 11:32pm

mickob16 wrote: »

Eircom 8mb NGB
Im in Tramore,anyone know why my upload speed is so slow?

Your upload is typical of what you can expect from a DSL line generally uploads on DSL don't go over 0.80Mb/s and even the people who get that are lucky

brian ireland · 21-05-2011 11:38pm

UTV next generation 8 meg Rush Co Dublin.

BTY don't use UTV

Ranicand · 24-05-2011 12:09am

brian ireland wrote: »

UTV next generation 8 meg Rush Co Dublin.

BTY don't use UTV

I feel your pain.

Are you stuck with DSL?

Webmechanic · 26-05-2011 1:05pm

Vodafone service, Clogherhead exchange. Pretty appalling speeds I'm sure you'll agree. Does anyone have any advice for how best to get Vodafone to improve the quality of my service? Is there a better way to get them to actually do something?

I've had an engineer (Eircom) out recently because of the phones going dead on 3 separate occasions (no signal on the engineers line in either which suggested an outside fault) who disconnected a couple of wires from behind the main phone line result of which is all the upstairs phone connections are dead. Great! And now this!

Eircom were poor, Vodafone are certainly getting there, anyone better?

Cheers,
David

Ferris_Bueller · 26-05-2011 2:21pm

I know very little about computers, but this result is fairly good isn't it? Yet my actual internet is pretty slow in comparison to most people I know, especially while gaming online, does anyone know why this would be?

Webmechanic · 26-05-2011 2:47pm

Phoned Vodafone and spoke to an (admittedly irritable sounding but efficient) support guy. He checked the line and said all tests suggested everything was fine their end so it had something to do with my internal wiring.

Intended to do a check of all cables, phone and ethernet, but before I did I re-checked the speed and lo and behold it was as above.

Not sure what happened. Must have been the broadband fairies! :rolleyes:

I'll probably get some new cables anyway in case it's a kink in one of them causing interference. Or maybe I'll just wait until next time it happens and check them all then.

Ranicand · 27-05-2011 10:29am

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

I know very little about computers, but this result is fairly good isn't it? Yet my actual internet is pretty slow in comparison to most people I know, especially while gaming online, does anyone know why this would be?

The reason you are unable to test packet loss is because you need to install Java on your computer.http://www.java.com/en/

Your ping is better the lower it is.

On speedtest yours is 141ms compare this to my wired connection yours is almost 7 times slower that is why your gaming is full of lag.

capadoNNa- · 28-05-2011 1:10pm

eircom up to 8mb

clare

gaming sucks with this package. i heard magnet.ie offer a great package for gamers up to 12mb and you dont have to share your line with anyone else