Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

Ageyev · 22-10-2014 3:24am

UPC

I don't know if the PS3's test is of any use but it said my Download speed is 8.4mbps and the Upload is 1.7mbps.

degsie · 22-10-2014 8:43am

That's terrible for UPC. What package are you on?

hallo dare · 22-10-2014 9:30am

Ageyev wrote: »

UPC

I don't know if the PS3's test is of any use but it said my Download speed is 8.4mbps and the Upload is 1.7mbps.

I'd never go with a PS3/Ps4 speedtest mate. It even says it on the console itself when you're doing the test that the results are only estimated.

hallo dare · 22-10-2014 9:32am

degsie wrote: »

That's terrible for UPC. What package are you on?

It's terrible for sure, but he also seems to have torrents and stuff running when doing the test. You can see Utorrent and Ttorrent in the status bar, so that has to be killing things.

ED E · 22-10-2014 10:06am

hallo dare wrote: »

It's terrible for sure, but he also seems to have torrents and stuff running when doing the test. You can see Utorrent and Ttorrent in the status bar, so that has to be killing things.

+1, an overlaoded phone is no way to test it.

Ageyev · 22-10-2014 1:34pm

hallo dare wrote: »

It's terrible for sure, but he also seems to have torrents and stuff running when doing the test. You can see Utorrent and Ttorrent in the status bar, so that has to be killing things.

The torrents weren't active when I did the Speedtest.

It's not as slow now as it was but still pretty crap. I killed all apps and got this:

I'm on whatever the standard UPC broadband is. South Dublin.

red_bairn · 22-10-2014 6:51pm

ED E wrote:

+1, an overlaoded phone is no way to test it.

A phone is no way to test it

Its Only Ray Parlour · 07-11-2014 3:37pm

Setting up my iPhone I brought recently and every time I run a speedtest from it, it resets my router. Anyone else get this issue with the Vodafone Fibre router?

Capt'n Midnight · 08-11-2014 4:23pm

red_bairn wrote: »

A phone is no way to test it

supposed to be getting 120 but I'm only getting this :mad:

24.83 / 10.17 on the phone. Both using WiFi

You can't test broadband speed unless your WiFi connection is faster.

kleefarr · 10-11-2014 11:24am

Dimebag16 wrote: »

I can't post images but these are my speedtest results:

Ping: 8ms
Download Speed: 61.92Mbps
Upload Speed: 15.93

For some reason tough when I try to watch streams off Twitch and websites like that, I have to watch on low quality because it won't load or it keeps freezing at any higher quality. Anyone have any idea what the problem is?

That'll probably be low SNR down.

6dB or below is bad and will experience no synch or intermittent synch problems
7dB-10dB is fair but does not leave much room for variances in conditions
11dB-20dB is good with little or no synch problems* (but see note below)
20dB-28dB is excellent
29dB or above is outstanding

http://www.naschenweng.info/2008/10/16/adsl-significance-of-snr-and-attenuation/

moonboy52 · 10-11-2014 6:51pm

Dimebag16 wrote: »

I can't post images but these are my speedtest results:

Ping: 8ms
Download Speed: 61.92Mbps
Upload Speed: 15.93

For some reason tough when I try to watch streams off Twitch and websites like that, I have to watch on low quality because it won't load or it keeps freezing at any higher quality. Anyone have any idea what the problem is?

What spec machine are you watching Twitch on Dimebag?

Flash is very CPU intensive.

You could try livestreamer if that is the issue (apologies if this is not the issue)

Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzyY3DBMHQw

Its Only Ray Parlour · 10-11-2014 6:57pm

kleefarr wrote: »

That'll probably be low SNR down.

6dB or below is bad and will experience no synch or intermittent synch problems
7dB-10dB is fair but does not leave much room for variances in conditions
11dB-20dB is good with little or no synch problems* (but see note below)
20dB-28dB is excellent
29dB or above is outstanding

http://www.naschenweng.info/2008/10/16/adsl-significance-of-snr-and-attenuation/

That only applies for xDSL. He's on cable broadband.

degsie · 10-11-2014 7:04pm

Its Only Ray Parlour wrote: »

That only applies for xDSL. He's on cable broadband.

The poster indicated earlier he/she has e-fibre.

Its Only Ray Parlour · 10-11-2014 7:06pm

degsie wrote: »

The poster indicated earlier he/she has e-fibre.

Shít. I thought they quoted Capt'n Midnight. Silly me.

efb · 12-11-2014 12:06am

Damn that 9% :P

ED E · 12-11-2014 12:19am

UPC. We are the 9%!

jamo2oo9 · 13-11-2014 12:11pm

What does it mean when it can't test packet loss?

degsie · 13-11-2014 12:22pm

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

What does it mean when it can't test packet loss?

From speedtest.net faq

The packet loss test requires that a Java Runtime Environment be installed on your computer. Also your firewall must allow the test to communicate to the Pingtest.net servers (specifically outbound port 5060 for both TCP and UDP though that is being changed to 8080 before the end of the beta - some servers have been changed already). If our test is unable to communicate with Java or the packets are getting blocked by a firewall then the packet loss test will be skipped.

red_bairn · 13-11-2014 7:46pm

jamo2oo9 wrote:

What does it mean when it can't test packet loss?

It looks like it got blocked by the firewall at your institution.

jamo2oo9 · 13-11-2014 7:53pm

Well I don't have a firewall anyway as I've turned those off. Don't have any anti-virus programs like McAfee or Norton installed. I'll install Java Runtime Environment and see if that does the job

dublinercheese · 15-11-2014 4:10pm

Can't post images inline because I'm a new user.

Speedtest.net:

speedtest.net/result/3911572474.png

198.21 Mb/s down
19.73 Mb/s up
8s Ping
Grade: A+

Pingtest.net:

pingtest.net/result/110675476.png

Line Quality: A (MOS 4.38)
34ms Ping
4ms Jitter
0% Packet Loss

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UPC Fibre Power 200MB
Ranelagh Village Dublin 6
Directly plugged into Technicolor TC2700.U Router

flexcon · 18-11-2014 1:39pm

Moved to a new Apartment in Cork where it is not serviced by and Broadband except eFibre.

Eircom came and could only get 1mb!

So along comes DigiWeb Metro, and alongside my reservations going wireless, I am more than impressed!

On the 30MB package 1mb upload. 100GB per month allowance.

In the past three days my results are steady and constant

speedtest.net/
28.44 Mb/s down
0.97 Mb/s up
16ms Ping
Grade: A+

Look at that low ping time!!!!!!

RED L4 0TH · 18-11-2014 7:03pm

Some oddly varying results. On Eircom's efibre. PC has wired connection to modem

First is from the local server in Dundalk. Next is UPC Ireland, then Digiweb in Dublin and finally Vodafone UK in London. Puzzled by the first two, especially the UPC one, which I did a number of tests on. Wonder why its so low on the download speed?

dalta5billion · 18-11-2014 7:16pm

RED L4 0TH wrote: »

Some oddly varying results. On Eircom's efibre. PC has wired connection to modem

First is from the local server in Dundalk. Next is UPC Ireland, then Digiweb in Dublin and finally Vodafone UK in London. Puzzled by the first two, especially the UPC one, which I did a number of tests on. Wonder why its so low on the download speed?

Same. Eircom's been having problems with international capacity of late, now it appears to be affecting anything through INEX as well.

Join us in kicking up as much stink as possible over here

RED L4 0TH · 18-11-2014 7:30pm

dalta5billion wrote: »

Same. Eircom's been having problems with international capacity of late, now it appears to be affecting anything through INEX as well.

Join us in kicking up as much stink as possible over here

Thanks for the heads up. Was going to post last last night. The London server I used dropped to about 20-25 Mb/s download speed yesterday evening around 10. However everything was back to normal by around 1am. (around 77 download speed off all servers used.).

degsie · 19-11-2014 12:04am

Interesting stats from speedtest.net data:

http://www.netindex.com/download/2,49/Ireland/

Ren2k7 · 19-11-2014 11:54pm

Finally fibred. Shove your Midband Three.

jca · 20-11-2014 12:10am

Ren2k7 wrote: »

Finally fibred. Shove your Midband Three.

It's some transformation isn't it?

Sam Mac · 27-11-2014 12:55pm

Just connected my PC via Ethernet to my UPC router for the first time.

what do people think of my results?

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3941823850

frozenfrozen · 13-12-2014 11:09am

Downstream Upstream
SNR Margin (dB): 6.5 22.9
Attenuation (dB): 33.0 15.2
Power (dBm): 18.5 12.4
Attainable Rate (Kbps): 17996 1208
Rate (Kbps): 12283 670

I'd love some fibre :{

doubie · 04-01-2015 3:55pm

i tried that... but it didnt work... Well i think i did the right thing. When i turn it off do i need to reboot the router ?

Legwinski · 04-01-2015 4:37pm

Pretty bad, eh?

BrookieD · 05-01-2015 8:39pm

Made a change to my upc Cisco 3925 and now getting this on my HTC M8 - Well over double what i was getting before. ;-)

hallo dare · 06-01-2015 12:10am

??? Must be some change m8! What did you do?

pm. · 06-01-2015 12:23am

BrookieD wrote: »

Made a change to my upc Cisco 3925 and now getting this on my HTC M8 - Well over double what i was getting before. ;-)

wow i have the one m8 and i can only get about 40meg what did you do ?

BrookieD · 06-01-2015 9:36am

pm. wrote: »

wow i have the one m8 and i can only get about 40meg what did you do ?

On the 3925 modem from UPC I changed from a 2.4ghz wireless setting to 5ghz. Channel 6 - as the M8 / M7 and Ipad Air all use 5ghz the speed increase was unreal.

I tried before but my desktop only has a 2.4ghz card and the only device at the time that worked was a Galaxy note 2. so rewired the desktop to be a wire connection and now touching 200mbs on download.

Bonus on this change is that by using a wifi scanner all wireless traffic in my aera is on the 2.4ghz spectrum. I am the only one on 5ghz and as such nothing but clean air for me to use..... :-)

3wayswitch · 06-01-2015 5:43pm

UPC 240/20:

BrookieD · 06-01-2015 10:18pm

3wayswitch wrote: »

UPC 240/20:

Hi Mate, what modem and settings are you using for the download speed? i am getting 180 to 200mb approx with the 3925 Cisco unit wired?

Cheers

3wayswitch · 06-01-2015 11:40pm

BrookieD wrote: »

Hi Mate, what modem and settings are you using for the download speed? i am getting 180 to 200mb approx with the 3925 Cisco unit wired?

Cheers

I'm using the Cisco EPC3925 wired aswell.

MarkY91 · 11-01-2015 7:33pm

horizon box i can get 40mb at best wireless. connect netgear wndr3400 and i get 30mb at best wireless. pathetic!

Zombienosh · 13-01-2015 8:21pm

..............on eircom

Kintarō Hattori · 14-01-2015 1:40am

Hilarious really. How on earth are my upload speeds pretty much consistently faster than my download? UPC 240MB broadband in the house (dual band adapter on the way).

MarkY91 · 14-01-2015 10:51am

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Hilarious really. How on earth are my upload speeds pretty much consistently faster than my download? UPC 240MB broadband in the house (dual band adapter on the way).

literally in the same boat as you. got a netgear connected and that has knocked off a good 8mb or so but made it more of a stable experience. ive no idea what to do!