Broadband Speed Test Megathread

OldCustomer

I was switched from Eircom's 2Mb package to BT's 24Mb offering last Friday. A Voyager 2110 router arrived this morning (I had been told by BT sales that it would arrive before the service was switched over).

I live in Navan, probably 500 metres or so from the exchange. My statistics are as follows. I do not understand most of these so comments are welcome. I am running the router from a secondary socket. BT Tech Support say that the service might be faster from the main socket. They do not want to change their settings so as to avoid the risk of disconnections. Overall I am happy with the service apart from the glitch over delivery of the router.

I had Eircom's service here for years and I could not fault the support provided. I have changed only because I feel that BT's current 24Mb offering is better value for money than Eircom's 7.6 Mb package.


OldCustomer.

Line Mode ADSL2+ Line State Show Time
Line Power State L0 Line Up Time 00:00:23:13
Line Coding Trellis On Line Up Count 6

Statistics

Downstream - Upstream
Line Rate 16382 Kbps - 1019 Kbps
Noise Margin 19.3 dB - 13.9 dB
Line Attenuation 12.0 dB - 4.2 dB
Output Power 11.7 dBm - 0.0 dBm

MSGC (number in overhead channel data) 63 - 12
B (number of bytes in Mux Frame) 238 - 127
M (number of Mux Frames in FEC Frame) 1 - 1
T (Mux Frames over sync bytes) 2 - 1
R (number of check bytes in FEC Frame) 16 - 6
S (ratio of FEC over PMD Frame length) 0.4659 - 3.9851
L (number of bits in PMD Frame) 4379 - 269
D (interleaver depth) 64 - 8
Delay 7 msec - 7 msec
Super Frames 86681 - 81950
Super Frame Errors 0 - 0
RS Words 11962044 - 1397334
RS Correctable Errors 231 - 0
RS Uncorrectable Errors 0 - 0
HEC Errors 0 - 0
OCD Errors 0 - 0
LCD Errors 0 - 0
ES Errors 0 - 0

foggy_lad

new broadband with eircom 3mb, goodbye and good riddance to mobile broadband

i am about 2kilometers from the exchange so does anyone know is this speed (which is the lowest i have got) about normal?

here are some statistics for my connection
Line State Up
Modulation DMT
Data Path Interleave


Downstream Upstream
Max Allowed Speed (kbps) 3072 384
SN Margin (dB) 1.50 16.00
Line Attenuation (dB) 44.00 25.50
CRC Errors 0 1

saeen

My AFAQ Shamel 4MBPS plan unlimited



DSL Status: Connected
DSL Modulation Mode: MultiMode
DSL Path Mode: Fast
Downstream Rate: 4700 kbps
Upstream Rate: 437 kbps
Downstream Margin: 5 db
Upstream Margin: 9 db
Downstream Line Attenuation: 56 db
Upstream Line Attenuation: 19.5 db
Downstream Transmit Power: 0 db
Upstream Transmit Power: 21 db

aspasp1

http://www.speedtest.net/result/450288799.png

3 ireland-broad band in castletroy limerick

hellboy99

7.6MB with BT

Blazer

No idea why but my 7 meg from Eircom only shows up at 2-5meg on speedtest.
Yet when I run a rapidshare download I consistently get apprxo 730kb/sec downloaded which is over 7 meg.
I'm beginning to think most of these speedtests are a load of rubbish.

hellboy99

Same here Mat, this is what I get now from speedtest on my 7.6MB with BT:



just went to download a file there now and it's downloading at 740kb/s

foggy_lad

cant believe this is supposed to be 3mb broadband

seraphimvc

O2 3G BB,this is the old model one,borrow from my friend:P

will get a UPS 20mb soon

i am in D4,Donnybrook close to UCD area

Ranicand

pauly3

UTV Internet, Newbridge, Co. Kildare

Zynks

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BT 3Mb, Blackrock Co. Dublin

Purple Gorilla

Wow..my amazing 20mb package

Pokes

Three midband in Rosenallis Co.Laois

TheDoc

Eircom 7mb Swords

Gone beyond a joke, snailing itself along today, not impressed at all.

And its a pity there is no clear winning alternative, with every ISP seemingly as bad as the other.

Magnet: Rory

TheDoc wrote: »

Eircom 7mb Swords

Gone beyond a joke, snailing itself along today, not impressed at all.

And its a pity there is no clear winning alternative, with every ISP seemingly as bad as the other.

Little bit rash?

TheDoc

Dad switching us over to 20mb upc next day or so.

Any feedback from swords users would be great, eircom speeds beyond a joke at this stage.

Charlie-Bravo

I'm on a 7.6Mb connection with UTV internet and have been monitoring the performance for a while...contention I think has something to do with the results..

I get good speed in the mornings and very late at night - Peak times 5pm-10pm seem to be awful.

Also the DSL connection goes down from time to time (at least twice a day when I'm using it - I can't mention those other times when I'm not!)


I'm 1.5mile from Greystones exchange

Simply Red

hellboy99

I'm 7.6MB with BT and mine has been up and down this past few days, between 1 - 4MB

mattman

IF i change to eircom DSL 7.2 meg package..will i loose my nice pings?

Im on 3meg.

m.

Shiny

Smart Telecom 7 Meg. Quite happy with my 2Mb upgrade.

hellboy99

BT 7.6MB, back to normal for now.

Feidhlim

€ircon 3mb - this is actually a lot better then the last few days

IgsTer

UTV 3 Meg, always like this. Only problem I get is connection dropouts.

Thats the worst ping ive seen ever mate. Hope it gets better for ya, or you should switch

5uspect

Since the Smart upgrade from 4 to 5Mb

mattman

mattman wrote: »

IF i change to eircom DSL 7.2 meg package..will i loose my nice pings?

Im on 3meg.

m.

i looked thru the pings on theses pages. eircom are the best, as far as DSL goes..
Was with bt...slightly worse...

26ms! COD4 average ping 40-55ms...

m.

ChumpStain

I'm delighted I switched to NTL BB, Eircom made me a bad person to be around.

hellboy99

A lot of differences going on here:

BT 7.6MB

dasilverfox

this slow since march 16. just got downgraded from 7mb to 3mb cos the guy at eircom reckoned that would help. getting 2 months free to shut me up for a while. i just want my old speeds back please eircon