Midband speedtest Megaathread

warlikedave · 27-02-2015 4:31am

Cork981 wrote: »

Very impressed with Vodafone 4G this in indoors

That is the highest ive seen yet - very nice mate. Whats your setup?

mayo.mick · 28-02-2015 6:49pm

Today's speeds. Half hour to upload a 22mb file, not too bad :mad:

jay93 · 09-03-2015 2:35am

mayo.mick wrote: »

Today's speeds. Half hour to upload a 22mb file, not too bad :mad:

That's really bad for Vodafone I can get 20Mb/s on 3G and close to 40Mb/s on 4G where i live on my iPhone with Vodafone.

What's the signal like on the modem?

mayo.mick · 10-03-2015 1:05am

jay93 wrote: »

That's really bad for Vodafone I can get 20Mb/s on 3G and close to 40Mb/s on 4G where i live on my iPhone with Vodafone.

What's the signal like on the modem?

Full signal, I'm only about 100/120 metres from the mast, direct line of sight too (modem in a router). Can't understand it. They did a supposed upgrade on the network recently, no coverage for a day or 2. Seems to be worse now, very inconsistent. One test I did I think it peaked at 15Mb down 7/8Mb up, then back to 1990's speeds :mad: I'm beginning to think its being throttled to get people to change to 4G!

mayo.mick · 10-03-2015 5:06pm

mayo.mick · 12-03-2015 1:30pm

Somethings up today? :eek:

Cork981 · 14-03-2015 1:11am

Constantly impressed by both Vodafone 4G and 3G data rates
These tests were performed indoors in Cork City area
3G

4G

VS

UPC wifi

godskitchen · 14-03-2015 9:20am

Cork981 wrote: »

Constantly impressed by both Vodafone 4G and 3G data rates
These tests were performed indoors in Cork City area
3G

4G

VS

UPC wifi

Very impressive vodafone results.

I wouldn't be to hard on upc, that's a wifi limitation rather than bad isp

jay93 · 15-03-2015 11:15pm

mayo.mick wrote: »

Somethings up today? :eek:

Good too see its finally came up a bit, I've never had slow results on vodafone 3G or 4G on my phone but it could be down to the area I live in. Hopefully the fast speeds stick

jay93 · 28-03-2015 12:24am

4G on Vodafone tonight tested from my iPhone 5s hotspot on 3 bars of 4G signal.

Cork981 · 28-03-2015 3:20am

jay93 wrote: »

4G on Vodafone tonight tested from my iPhone 5s hotspot on 3 bars of 4G signal.

I really find Vodafones 4G offering impressive.

-=al=- · 28-03-2015 4:54am

That is fancy. Vodafone sucks where I'm at!

Funny enough I live 3km from a Microsoft and google data centre yet can't get broadband or a fixed service over 1Mb

Awesome.

warlikedave · 28-03-2015 3:57pm

Cork981 wrote: »

I really find Vodafones 4G offering impressive.

Wish they would increase data caps though lol

. To be honest all providers are going to have to look at data caps for their 4g products. They are simply too small at present

Router 4g

jay93 · 31-03-2015 1:23am

Cork981 wrote: »

I really find Vodafones 4G offering impressive.

Me too it's always been good for me most widespread 4G signal too compared to when i was with Meteor and 3 .

jay93 · 31-03-2015 1:32am

-=al=- wrote: »

That is fancy. Vodafone sucks where I'm at!

Funny enough I live 3km from a Microsoft and google data centre yet can't get broadband or a fixed service over 1Mb

Awesome.

Crazy!! i have DSL maxes out at around 14.2Mb/s every other estate can get eFibre except the main street in my town and some other estates as our lines go direct to an exchange rather than a VDSL cab.

Vodafone are the only ones with 4G around here we only have one mast serving the area a few a couple of miles away too but the main one is around 1-2 km from my house all the networks are on it Meteor are quite decent too 3 are really slow , hoping others bring 4G to the area soon.

Cork981 · 31-03-2015 1:59am

jay93 wrote: »

Me too it's always been good for me most widespread 4G signal too compared to when i was with Meteor and 3 .

Vodafone use 800mhz in the majority of places though the have started to deploy 1800mhz in cork city centre.

800mhz is very good at penetrating through buildings and reaching longer distances.

jay93 · 31-03-2015 3:24am

Same as before 2 bars of 4G .

jay93 · 31-03-2015 3:28am

Cork981 wrote: »

Vodafone use 800mhz in the majority of places though the have started to deploy 1800mhz in cork city centre.

800mhz is very good at penetrating through buildings and reaching longer distances.

Yeah true I haven't come across any 1800mhz myself yet when checking what freq band indicator that my iPhone is using it will say band 20 (800Mhz) . My area is fairly rural so they are using that around here since the upgrades last summer

. Signal might not be great if it was on the higher frequency where my house is.

jay93 · 31-03-2015 3:54am

It's not allowing me to share a 3G test result from my phone only 4G and WiFi odd... Here's a screenshot on 3G 4bars same place as the 4G test was done . Attached image to post :P

jay93 · 31-03-2015 3:57am

warlikedave wrote: »

Wish they would increase data caps though lol . To be honest all providers are going to have to look at data caps for their 4g products. They are simply too small at present

Router 4g

True they all need to put their caps up way higher I think at least 100GB should be the minimum on a 4G plan !

Nice speeds on Three couldn't get over 10Mb/s in the areas I went to when I was with them uploads were high though around 20-23 , wish they brought 4G to my area i don't like caps on my internet :P

jay93 · 31-03-2015 4:38pm

Test done close to the mast less than 500m away .

Power Gear · 03-04-2015 9:57pm

Tesco mobile 3g.

Hopefully this happens in the next few months.

Setanta Sports, Carphone Warehouse and UPC all planning to become mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) by piggybacking on Three’s network.

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/o2-becomes-three-as-rebrand-gets-underway-1.2126057

jay93 · 04-04-2015 9:38pm

4G test in Drogheda .

-=al=- · 10-04-2015 5:07am

Still knocking about the 12/12 down/upload mark :pac:

Pretty consistent and it's almost always like that so can't complain

3/5 bars of signal on the router too and I think there's a mast 4-5 km away

Nonoperational · 11-04-2015 12:08pm

jay93 wrote: »

Yeah true I haven't come across any 1800mhz myself yet when checking what freq band indicator that my iPhone is using it will say band 20 (800Mhz) . My area is fairly rural so they are using that around here since the upgrades last summer . Signal might not be great if it was on the higher frequency where my house is.

Pretty much all of Cork city is 1800Mz now. Speeds are outstanding, but data caps low. Which is a lesson in mobile broadband in itself.

jay93 · 20-04-2015 1:53am

Is the 1800Mhz band 3 LTE/4G any faster in terms of download speeds compared to band 20 4G?

Nonoperational · 20-04-2015 11:58pm

Generally if there is a good signal Band 3 will be faster as it has greater capacity.

warlikedave · 21-04-2015 3:49am

Power Gear wrote: »

Tesco mobile 3g.

Hopefully this happens in the next few months.

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/o2-becomes-three-as-rebrand-gets-underway-1.2126057

Dear god - contention heaven so :mad::mad: Lets hope it leads to a price war and a competitive data cap war.

yuloni · 21-04-2015 11:53am

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jay93 · 23-04-2015 3:17pm

Nonoperational wrote: »

Generally if there is a good signal Band 3 will be faster as it has greater capacity.

Cool hopefully they get it rolled out around the country a bit faster

mayo.mick · 26-04-2015 4:19pm

Well, my K4505 dongle finally gave up and is gone to electronics heaven! I've got a wi-fi R209-z on trial for a week (with 7.5Gb free).

First impressions is the wi-fi coverage around the house is not as good as my Dovodo router. Download speeds seem to be middling OK, but uploads are gone to ****e. Two and a half hours to upload a 4 minute 110MB video! I'll need to do more testing but I'm thinking that it is connecting to a different voda 3g network? (or is there such?)

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4313272367

mayo.mick · 26-04-2015 4:33pm

Todays speeds,

mayo.mick · 26-04-2015 6:06pm

mayo.mick wrote: »

Todays speeds,

jay93 · 28-04-2015 1:21pm

Nice downloads

shame about the upload speed though

mayo.mick · 01-05-2015 8:44pm

Uploading a 5 minute video here, this could take a while. Might head to Spain for the week and wait there for it to finish uploading. Haven't the heart to try and figure out how many days and hours this will take at this rate

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TheQuietBeatle · 02-05-2015 12:55am

@yuloni, which modem do you use?

yuloni · 02-05-2015 11:27pm

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mayo.mick · 27-05-2015 12:32am

jay93 wrote: »

Nice downloads shame about the upload speed though

Downloads seem to be consistantly pretty good. Uploads another matter!

This package I upgraded to seems to be on a different network/APN ? Performance plus its called. If I'm uploading anything there's no download access until the upload is finished. Anyone else have this problem?

jay93 · 02-06-2015 6:17pm

Which APN is the new modem / plan using ? I'm not too sure about the upload problem I remember when I had Vodafone DSL that exact issue happened when anything uploaded nothing would download don't seem to have that issue with eircom DSL . I don't think I had that issue when I had a Vodafone R215 4G modem but I always had 4G access so I can't speak for the 3G performance.

Have you tried asking Vodafone themselves what the issue could be ?

Scruff · 03-06-2015 9:12am

yuloni wrote: »

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must give this a go. have a WDR3600 sitting idle since moving to 4g but would really like to get it back in action as its a much more feature rich router than the TL-MR3420 i'm using.

yuloni · 03-06-2015 3:37pm

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Scruff · 04-06-2015 2:31pm

was thinking on only trying it on the WDR3600 as the MR3420 is what i use at the moment as it supports my 4g usb modem with the stock firmware. So wouldnt go messing with that.
Using a Huawei e3272 4g modem but dont see it on the supported list...

jay93 · 05-06-2015 10:27am

yuloni wrote: »

Both the WDR3600 and the MR3420 have support with the OpenWRT Rooter firmware. The 3600 supports more features of the Rooter firmware as it has more on-board memory than the 3420 but the newest release of Rooter (Ext-Rooter) allows you to use a USB memory stick to expand the storage to allow additional features on smaller routers

If you're familiar with OpenWRT or DD-WRT flashing, work away but if not, do read the instructions and compatibility notes on the site thoroughly. It can take time to initially get it all up and running but you can have good fun tweaking and adding services to an OpenWRT router

What dongle are you using?

I have a WDR-3600 currently using it with my eircom connection . I can put DD-WRT on it no problem just wondering though is 3G modem supported in DD-WRT on the router ? It doesn't seem to be on the stock firmware .

Scruff · 09-06-2015 9:28am

jay93 wrote: »

I have a WDR-3600 currently using it with my eircom connection . I can put DD-WRT on it no problem just wondering though is 3G modem supported in DD-WRT on the router ? It doesn't seem to be on the stock firmware .

from my reading of it you need you need to put on this variant of OpenWRT
http://ofmodemsandmen.com/supported.html

yuloni · 09-06-2015 10:17am

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theluke79 · 27-06-2015 2:20pm

From Muckalee Lower, 3 sim. 4g. B593s with external antenna outdoor. 12/12mb

Scruff · 29-06-2015 1:03pm

theluke79 wrote: »

From Muckalee Lower, 3 sim. 4g. B593s with external antenna outdoor. 12/12mb

what kind of external aerial antenna are ye using?

theluke79 · 29-06-2015 1:17pm

Scruff wrote: »

what kind of external aerial antenna are ye using?

Ebay ponyting 4g 2mimo omni antenna

jay93 · 05-07-2015 1:50am

In the states til September did a test on 3G as my phone doesn't have the supported LTE/4G band . It displays as 4G beside the signal bars they call HSPA 4G here .

Test screenshot attatched to post I'm on T-Mobile .

mayo.mick · 13-07-2015 11:59am

Vodafone finally seems to be improving here! Still on 3g

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