Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

Weird i've been trying to get UTV to send me my user name and password, to no avail!

Then i think lets do auto on the modem and but in your old(was with them prior to eircom) BT ones. Now seen as i've gone BT, Eircom to UTV i thought no but they worked no problem!

3 ireland mobile broadband meath test taken at peak times hence the slower speeds during the day and after peak i get the whole mast to myself whooo

well your not really....NAT protects you from most attacks. NAT closes all ports from the outside inbound unless you have specifically added a rule to allow the traffic through.

Ranicand wrote: »

Turn off the firewall on your router and you will not have packet loss.

Thanks... just did this now and what a difference in the result. I did a ping test last night and 84% of the packets were lost. I was getting huge lag while online gaming but always had a great result from speedtest.net. Hope this cuts down on the lag.

UPC 10meg
Mullingar

Turning the firewall off isnt making your connection any better or faster, its just allowing the test to work. So leave the firewall on.

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Can you buy boosters for 3 dongles?? i got a 160g

So I got the 30Mb connection yesterday, came with the EPC2425 wireless router/cable modem that a lot of people have been having trouble with and I've been doing some tests. So far I haven't had any of the major problems (connections dropped, router needing to be reset, etc) that other people have.

Here's the speedtest results with my laptop connected to the router via ethernet:


And connected wirelessly sitting next to the router:


Connected wirelessly from my upstairs desk, where I use it mostly:


I accept that you'll never get as good performance as ethernet over wireless, but the main problem I have is with my desktop computer, which also connects wirelessly (A Linksys a/b/g PCI card). The connection it gets varies wildly literally depending on what direction the computer's facing. If I leave it under my desk I get this:


whereas if I pull it out a bit I get this (and it's usually ~10Mbits, this is the best I've managed to get)


The ping test results for the desktop are also pretty dire:


I'm pretty sure the major problem is that the wireless card I have is useless, as it never worked as well as the laptop with my old connection either.

I have a Linksys WRT54GL (DD-WRT) that worked great when bridged with the old netopia eircom router/modem, but from reading the EPC2425 thread in this forum I gather you can't bridge connections with ethernet cables.

So, does anyone have any solutions/advice/suggestions (other than buying a new wireless card, which I'm looking into )? If I brought the wrt54gl upstairs, connected it via ethernet to my desktop and bridged it wirelessly to the epc2425 would I get better performance? TIA ..

edit: and sorry for the swathe of speedtest images

further edit:

Turning off the firewall did wonders for the ping, now getting:

kennethk wrote: »

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Can you buy boosters for 3 dongles?? i got a 160g

wow that is very bad ??im not sure i suppose you may need to ask 3 about that is your e160g dongle showing a green or blue light when coonected and if so how is the signal in mobile partner connection window??as i see you done the test after midnight which should not be this bad that is extemely bad no other providers in your area no??:mad: