Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

muffler

RUSTEDCORE wrote: »

Your Eircom line seems to be going to a BT exchange now as it says ESAT Telecommunications is your ISP

Thats some trick. Please enlighten me

Oh, and it wasnt me that posted the speed results btw,

RUSTEDCORE

muffler wrote: »

Thats some trick. Please enlighten me

Oh, and it wasnt me that posted the speed results btw,

lines sub links can be switched over to a BT exchange if in specific areas...not exactly a trick

who_me

Tried the UPC speed test last night, 126Mbps down, 8Mbps up; far faster than I've seen previously. Immediately tried some downloads from fast sites (such as heanet.ie) and it maxed at 16Mbps. I really wonder if there's any point to these speed tests.

amdaley28

who_me wrote: »

Tried the UPC speed test last night, 126Mbps down, 8Mbps up; far faster than I've seen previously. Immediately tried some downloads from fast sites (such as heanet.ie) and it maxed at 16Mbps. I really wonder if there's any point to these speed tests.

Its fine to have 126Mb download speed but if the server from which you are downloading can only give you 16Mb then surely that's all you will get no matter how fast your line is.

who_me

amdaley28 wrote: »

Its fine to have 126Mb download speed but if the server from which you are downloading can only give you 16Mb then surely that's all you will get no matter how fast your line is.

Sure, I understand that. But I'm not getting better than 16Mbps (it's strangely consistently limited to that figure) from ANY site, bar speed tests. For instance the site I tested on above was heanet.ie, so an Irish based site with very few hops and a LOT of bandwidth (they seem to have 4 10Gbps lines with low utilisation). Also tried Apple's download sites which used to be a lot faster with my previous ISP.

RUSTEDCORE

they also say you require a multi threaded download program to reach over 100

Macspower

paying for 8mb

Blitz17

Speed over Wifi , Cisco EPC3925 downstairs in the kitchen.

Nolars

UPC 50mb in waterford over wifi. i have 3mb at home in wexford .

Lumi

Speed test over wifi

Terrible performance on UPC tonight:

Pinging loadbalancer.boards.ie [89.234.66.108] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=58
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=58
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=58
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 89.234.66.108:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 101ms, Maximum = 103ms, Average = 102ms

25 meg in Fairview on 5 GHz wireless N.

kleefarr

vodafone at home rubbish for the last 3 hours...



On 8MB package.

mikeireland

I'd take your "Rubbish" gladly Kleefarr... 3 Hutchison 3G National Broadband Scheme

Glencarraig

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2495441023.png

This is a total rip off by Vodafone. I was with Bt when Voda took over and it has always been crap. I am having an ongoing battle with them over my broadband speed. I have had new cables installed all ove rthe house and from the Eircom pole. The computer is the on the first connection into the house. Recently they rang me and told me "great news, we are boosting your speed to 8mbps, it never happened. They now tell me that my broadband is capped at 1 mbps and they dont know why !!!. I am considering taking them to court to recover all payments made to them because they are in breach of the sale of goods and services act.



Leopardstown Dublin

Chorcai

Eircom, Next Gen me hole, for me its all about ping, since 3pm today ping of 100+ can't play a single game and the DSL keeps cutting off.


BTW I'm 150meters away from the exchange box, new build house in 2005... eircom :rolleyes:

Sarz91

Got a new modem from Eircom the other day. It's the ZyXel one. Since plugging it in and setting it up I've gone from 0-10ms of ping to 80-130ms of ping. I've a wired connection so it shouldn't be this bad.

Kristopherus

Got Sky last Wednesday. Before that I had Vodafone on a up to 8meg tarriff, and was getting 6meg solid.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2500373254.png

Sarz91

I feel sorry for the 7% I'm faster than. I mean c'mon dial up was far faster than this. I'm surprised my browser even opened. All for the low low price of €20.65 a month.


That's a wired connection.

adox

Quick question. Im based in Dublin but Limerick comes up all the time as my nearest server?

Sarz91

adox wrote: »

Quick question. Im based in Dublin but Limerick comes up all the time as my nearest server?

You can select your ISP. Instead of just beginning the the test select Dublin and then your isp.

AlanS181824

On Vodafone @ Home 8Mb on a 11.7Mb line. Happy enough

Resi12

Oh, Eircom........

Capri

Any light on the horizion for those in 'da shticks'

I'm on Eircom and 'not doin too bad' , gave up o2 mobile b/b and might do the same with my phone - they seem to be more interested in 'priority moments - special tickets to BoneyM' than just providing a proper phone service :mad:

UPC 50Mb on the wire Clondalkin

IrishStuff09

Yep,this sure is 8mb broadband in Galway City...1km from the exchange.
90KB/s Down
15-20KB/s Up

dazdrog

who_me wrote: »

Tried the UPC speed test last night, 126Mbps down, 8Mbps up; far faster than I've seen previously. Immediately tried some downloads from fast sites (such as heanet.ie) and it maxed at 16Mbps. I really wonder if there's any point to these speed tests.

126Mb (megabit) = 15.75MB (megabyte) download speed, thats the speed you should see when getting a 126Mb connection, so whats the problem? as that is right

djskip316i

Vodafone at home 7meg line , an absolute joke .

phoenix999

NoDrama wrote: »

UPC 50Mb on the wire Clondalkin

I'm so jealous!

phoenix999

Sarz91 wrote: »

Got a new modem from Eircom the other day. It's the ZyXel one. Since plugging it in and setting it up I've gone from 0-10ms of ping to 80-130ms of ping. I've a wired connection so it shouldn't be this bad.

ZyXel router is a pile of crap. I binned mine. Reverted to using my reliable Netopia router.

Sarz91

phoenix999 wrote: »

ZyXel router is a pile of crap. I binned mine. Reverted to using my reliable Netopia router.

Oh really? Did you have the same issue? Might just bin it too and get a half decent modem.