Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

PeadarB · 31-03-2014 9:56pm

Blade wrote: »

Will everyone on Eircom automatically get whatever the line can handle when vectoring becomes enabled, or how does that work?

@PeadarB what Eircom package are you actually paying for? 50/15, 70/20 or what?

Hi Blade,
I'm currently paying for efibre unlimited - up to 70/20. With help from the eircom techies I was put on to 85/20 last week. I'm on a fixed 85/20 profile for the moment and hope to have this moved to 100/20 on a rate adaptive profile shortly. As far as I am aware eircom will offer no more than 85/5-20 fixed (for evision stability) or 100/20 rate adaptive. In my opinion, if you are currently on a 70/20 profile there should be no increased cost. For those on the 50/10-15-20 profiles there would be an additional cost to move to 70/20. Bk posted the various profiles recently and these should be accurate, given the usual parameters for SNR, Attenuation etc. I'm tempted to post a snapshot of stats since I was first connected covering my experience with the various profiles but it would take up too much space.

sentient_6 · 04-04-2014 9:48pm

Can't get over some of the speeds i'm seeing posted here. Here's me delighted to be just connected as of yesterday in rural Co. Galway:

jantheman91 · 05-04-2014 2:21pm

The phone checker on Eircom's website says I can expect up to 50 meg when eFibre becomes available.

Surely I'll get the full 70 meg, as I'm only ~140m from the cabinet?

Kur4mA · 07-04-2014 9:21pm

This is my new 120mb connection, but for some reason both web and usenet download are slow in comparison. Up to 15mb for web downloads and about 6mb for usenet.

dazdrog · 08-04-2014 12:04pm

kyub wrote: »

This is my new 120mb connection, but for some reason both web and usenet download are slow in comparison. Up to 15mb for web downloads and about 6mb for usenet.

15MB = 120mbps so thats about right on web downloads

AlanS181824 · 09-04-2014 8:38pm

Ringing Vodafone on Monday to switch to Fibre. Can't wait. Bye Bye Sky.
Ping is only good because the server is down the road from me.

Nonoperational · 11-04-2014 11:02am

Vodafone eFibre after Vectoring. Didn't get a seed boost but the ping is halved.

bloodyhawk · 11-04-2014 12:15pm

Nonoperational wrote: »

Vodafone eFibre after Vectoring. Didn't get a seed boost but the ping is halved.

As far as i'm aware of Vectoring is not the cause here. Your ping lowered cause your INP was set to zero. you're not the only one with the improvement, ping times have also lowered for everyone else. Same thing happened 2 months ago.

siblers · 12-04-2014 5:08pm

After around 3 years of being stuck with 3, I finally found a ISP that can give me proper broadband. I'm on a 10meg package but the speeds have skyrocketed recently. Company is Iveragh Broadband

AlanS181824 · 12-04-2014 8:51pm

siblers wrote: »

After around 3 years of being stuck with 3, I finally found a ISP that can give me proper broadband. I'm on a 10meg package but the speeds have skyrocketed recently. Company is Iveragh Broadband

Those speeds are great considering the package you're on and from looking on their website the price isn't too bad too unlike most local ISPs.

siblers · 13-04-2014 2:05pm

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Those speeds are great considering the package you're on and from looking on their website the price isn't too bad too unlike most local ISPs.

It's only been the last couple of days that the speeds have been this fast, I was getting around 7-8 offpeak and during peak it would range from 3-5. I think they upgraded their backhaul to a fibre backhaul which is probably why the speeds are so good. Service is really good though and a 160gb data allowance so I can't complain.
Speeds are ridiculous

adox · 13-04-2014 10:36pm

Anyone else having problems with speedtest.net today? It won't complete for me.
Either the download gets to near the end of the test and just hangs as the speed drops eventually to nothing or it happens on the upload test.

pajor · 15-04-2014 3:35pm

60mb fibre power. Sure. :pac:

Scruff · 15-04-2014 4:39pm

siblers wrote: »

After around 3 years of being stuck with 3, I finally found a ISP that can give me proper broadband. I'm on a 10meg package but the speeds have skyrocketed recently. Company is Iveragh Broadband

what technology are they using do ye know? I presume its wireless line of sight of some sort. Put speed, ping and price of the crowd i'm with in Co.Galway (and their competition) to shame...:mad:

AntiRip · 15-04-2014 10:54pm

siblers wrote: »

It's only been the last couple of days that the speeds have been this fast, I was getting around 7-8 offpeak and during peak it would range from 3-5. I think they upgraded their backhaul to a fibre backhaul which is probably why the speeds are so good. Service is really good though and a 160gb data allowance so I can't complain.
Speeds are ridiculous

Man that's some great speeds for wireless. North Kerry could do with some of those speeds! Nice cap too, an actually realistic cap. ISPs that think that caps of 20 or 30GBs is enough this day and age with online streaming are crazy.

hare05 · 15-04-2014 11:15pm

On the 120mb line. In Lucan. Speaks for itself.

ugglasdav · 18-04-2014 7:05pm

my internet speed the last few days

AlanS181824 · 18-04-2014 8:07pm

hare05 wrote: »

On the 120mb line. In Lucan. Speaks for itself.

ugglasdav wrote: »

my internet speed the last few days

Both of you on UPC, both connecting to the Dublin server.

Perhaps its an issue with the server itself rather than UPC.

hare05 · 18-04-2014 9:15pm

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Both of you on UPC, both connecting to the Dublin server.

Perhaps its an issue with the server itself rather than UPC.

Tested on several irish servers, some english servers, some dutch. Also tested on UPC's own speedtest site. All as crap as the above.

bloodyhawk · 19-04-2014 11:30am

Loving the ping i tell you, the advantage you get in fps games is just mind blowing. It makes you become an instant pro

really makes you think why i didn't have this sooner :P

pajor · 22-04-2014 5:19pm

UPC Nederland

AlanS181824 · 23-04-2014 2:11pm

pajor wrote: »

UPC Nederland

Is KPN not in your area? My friend has it and has 500/500! Crazy speeds.

AlanS181824 · 25-04-2014 3:56pm

Before...

After...

Only the slightest bit of an increase...

So delighted.

honeytrader · 25-04-2014 11:36pm

I m living in Castlemaine and I m seriously contemplating switching to Iveragh broadband, does anybody close to me subscribe to them? is their service reliable?

siblers · 26-04-2014 10:37pm

AntiRip wrote: »

Man that's some great speeds for wireless. North Kerry could do with some of those speeds! Nice cap too, an actually realistic cap. ISPs that think that caps of 20 or 30GBs is enough this day and age with online streaming are crazy.

Unfortunatley only lasted for a few days, they must have upgraded the network but never updated customer profiles so I was put on the wrong profile or something. Getting a solider 7-9 mbit now though, even during peak times so can't complain too much. :P

jay93 · 03-05-2014 4:30am

Vodafone DSL getting upgraded to fibre soon

. No problems ever with the service speed is always 14 Mb/s .

AlanS181824 · 05-05-2014 12:01am

Kerryfisher · 05-05-2014 11:00am

honeytrader wrote: »

I m living in Castlemaine and I m seriously contemplating switching to Iveragh broadband, does anybody close to me subscribe to them? is their service reliable?

Did you go ahead with switching? I'm wondering the same with KBB at the moment, they are good during the day but evening is very hit & miss.
It doesn't mention the install on there website, wonder is there a charge there, good specs though.

siblers · 05-05-2014 8:20pm

Kerryfisher wrote: »

Did you go ahead with switching? I'm wondering the same with KBB at the moment, they are good during the day but evening is very hit & miss.
It doesn't mention the install on there website, wonder is there a charge there, good specs though.

No charge for the installation!

jca · 06-05-2014 2:22am

AlanS181824 wrote: »

You're like a Cafe racer in the 50's trying to reach the magic Ton:D Great speeds.:)

bluemachaveli · 06-05-2014 11:33am

Got mine in today. Delighted with the speeds. Should hit 100 when the vectoring is enabled.

jantheman91 · 06-05-2014 5:04pm

bluemachaveli wrote: »

Got mine in today. Delighted with the speeds. Should hit 100 when the vectoring is enabled.

Distance from the cabinet?

bluemachaveli · 06-05-2014 6:12pm

jantheman91 wrote: »

Distance from the cabinet?

About 35-40 metres I would say. No more than that anyway.

jantheman91 · 06-05-2014 6:28pm

bluemachaveli wrote: »

About 35-40 metres I would say. No more than that anyway.

That's crazy. Some people 400m away are getting better speeds?

bluemachaveli · 06-05-2014 7:57pm

jantheman91 wrote: »

That's crazy. Some people 400m away are getting better speeds?

It's only a new cab. Vectoring hasn't been enabled yet. I'm on a 70/20 profile at the minute. Will get 100/20 when its switched on.

bluemachaveli · 07-05-2014 6:39pm

jantheman91 wrote: »

That's crazy. Some people 400m away are getting better speeds?

Got the vectoring sorted today. On 100/20 now.

jantheman91 · 08-05-2014 1:45am

bluemachaveli wrote: »

Got the vectoring sorted today. On 100/20 now.

Cheers for the update!

Wildlife Actor · 13-05-2014 10:22pm

From the sublime to the ridiculous...

FourFourRED · 14-05-2014 11:52am

bluemachaveli wrote: »

Got the vectoring sorted today. On 100/20 now.

How do you go about getting vectoring done?

crawler · 15-05-2014 10:43am

Aodhagan wrote: »

How do you go about getting vectoring done?

Happens automatically in the vast majority of cases witihn a few weeks of vectoring going live.

FourFourRED · 15-05-2014 3:40pm

crawler wrote: »

Happens automatically in the vast majority of cases witihn a few weeks of vectoring going live.

How do you know what cabinets have it?

bluemachaveli · 16-05-2014 12:36pm

Aodhagan wrote: »

How do you go about getting vectoring done?

You should get it automatically if it's an existing cab. Mine was new so after 24 hours tech support could push it up.

Aodhagan wrote: »

How do you know what cabinets have it?

AFAIK all cabs are now live.

Calebmcd · 16-05-2014 1:31pm

Thats with 70/20 and eVision

crawler · 16-05-2014 2:57pm

Aodhagan wrote: »

How do you know what cabinets have it?

All cabinets with fewer than 192 ports have vectoring.

BionicRasher · 16-05-2014 3:00pm

crawler wrote: »

All cabinets with fewer than 192 ports have vectoring.

is there any way to tell if my cabinet has less than 192 ports?

BionicRasher · 16-05-2014 9:43pm

How do I get vectoring enabled on Vodafone? Or how can I tell if it is enabled?

Calebmcd · 17-05-2014 1:11pm

Just added HD to my eVision and got a speed bump, sync at 80/20 now.

ShodenMcClane · 20-05-2014 6:01pm

Wasn't sure where to post this so I'll go for both here and the VDSL test thread.

ShodenMcClane wrote: »

This is with Eircom E fibre: The speed has dropped by 20 megs in the last few weeks to this:

============================================================================
VDSL Training Status: Showtime
Mode: VDSL2 Annex B
VDSL Profile: Profile 17a
Traffic Type: PTM Mode
Link Uptime: 3 days: 19 hours: 57 minutes
============================================================================
VDSL Port Details Upstream Downstream
Line Rate: 16.382 Mbps 34.813 Mbps
Actual Net Data Rate: 16.383 Mbps 34.814 Mbps
Trellis Coding: ON ON
SNR Margin: 12.3 dB 13.6 dB
Actual Delay: 0 ms 0 ms
Transmit Power: 2.8 dBm 12.4 dBm
Receive Power: -15.4 dBm -7.2 dBm
Actual INP: 29.0 symbols 30.0 symbols
Total Attenuation: 18.2 dB 19.7 dB
Attainable Net Data Rate: 22.873 Mbps 49.828 Mbps
============================================================================
VDSL Band Status U0 U1 U2 U3 D1 D2 D3
Line Attenuation(dB): 3.3 28.3 33.5 N/A 12.3 30.7 45.4
Signal Attenuation(dB): 3.3 27.5 32.8 N/A 15.6 30.7 45.4
SNR Margin(dB): 12.2 12.3 12.3 N/A 13.6 13.6 13.6
Transmit Power(dBm):-12.4 - 2.7 1.2 N/A 8.2 7.8 7.0
============================================================================

VDSL Counters

Downstream Upstream
Since Link time = 57 min 5 sec
FEC: 3240 1697
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Latest 15 minutes time = 12 min 37 sec
FEC: 0 6
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
FEC: 0 0
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Latest 1 day time = 19 hours 57 min 37 sec
FEC: 358 183
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Previous 1 day time = 24 hours 0 sec
FEC: 661 381
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Total time = 1 days 19 hours 57 min 37 sec
FEC: 3240 1697
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 30 30
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
===========================================================================

These were my speeds a while back after getting VDSL installed:

Can anyone suggest why my speed has dropped to this? Both test's were done wired with nothing else on the network. Cheers.

Terry · 27-05-2014 10:22am

Free upgrade this morning:

jca · 27-05-2014 6:20pm

Terry wrote: »

Free upgrade this morning:

Very nice indeed. No sign of vectoring on my cabinet at all.

Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

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