Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

plouto

sky dont have sky fibre yet they wont have till later on in the year

red_bairn

plouto wrote: »

sky dont have sky fibre yet they wont have till later on in the year

That's why Eircom are delaying the Exchange VDSL.

amdaley28

plouto wrote: »

hi can any one tell me if BT broadband can you get this still in ireland

Long since gone.
Vodafone took over their customers.

jca

red_bairn wrote: »

That's why Eircom are delaying the Exchange VDSL.

Any proof of that? Sky are waiting until everyone is finished their initial 12/18 month contracts so they won't have to pay for the install.

AlanS181824

jca wrote: »

Any proof of that? Sky are waiting until everyone is finished their initial 12/18 month contracts so they won't have to pay for the install.

I'm sure it's to do with their Sky Hub, the FTTC in England is only 76/20 and I'm not sure if it's a requirment to have their equipment Vectoring enabled or not.

So maybe their Sky Hub SR102 can't handle the Irish FTTC speeds or up to 100/20?

Also, I highly doubt Sky would bring out a Sky Hub especially for us!

ED E

AlanS181824 wrote: »

I'm sure it's to do with their Sky Hub, the FTTC in England is only 76/20 and I'm not sure if it's a requirment to have their equipment Vectoring enabled or not.

So maybe their Sky Hub SR102 can't handle the Irish FTTC speeds or up to 100/20?

Also, I highly doubt Sky would bring out a Sky Hub especially for us!

They already have to provide firmware tweaks for the irish market. UK DSL network uses PPPoA and eircom use PPPoE. I know the sky hub 3/4 support VDSL but not sure about vectoring.


Sky have opted to not go for vdsl here yet, as JCA posted what I suggested a few months back, its a method of cost saving by getting the other line ops to pay. Install fees will be similar for exchange VDSL though as it still requires a site visit, so Im now not sure them holding it up would match that approach. We'll probably never know the real details anyways.

red_bairn

jca wrote: »

Any proof of that? Sky are waiting until everyone is finished their initial 12/18 month contracts so they won't have to pay for the install.

Told by somebody in the know.

vibe666

Really enjoying the FTTH. Even though it's *only* 100Mbps, I get much better speeds torrenting than I ever did with UPC on 150Mbps.

My best bet is that I get prioritised by other peers and seeds on downloads because of the really low ping.

I don't trust speedtest.net for pings (they've been all over the place recently) but a pingtest from dublin to galway in 8ms is pretty good!

OneEightSeven

vibe666 wrote: »

Really enjoying the FTTH. Even though it's *only* 100Mbps, I get much better speeds torrenting than I ever did with UPC on 150Mbps.

My best bet is that I get prioritised by other peers and seeds on downloads because of the really low ping.

I don't trust speedtest.net for pings (they've been all over the place recently) but a pingtest from dublin to galway in 8ms is pretty good!

Do you have a download cap with Magnet for FTTH?

vibe666

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Do you have a download cap with Magnet for FTTH?

not so far and i've been using over 1tb per month for the last few months.

Also, I think the ping might have been correct after all! :eek:

just did a pingtest from my router to www.heanet.ie and this was the result.

OneEightSeven

vibe666 wrote: »

not so far and i've been using over 1tb per month for the last few months.

Also, I think the ping might have been correct after all! :eek:

just did a pingtest from my router to www.heanet.ie and this was the result.

How much does it cost and is it just broadband-only, or do you have to get Voice over IP with it?

bloodyhawk

vibe666 wrote: »

Really enjoying the FTTH. Even though it's *only* 100Mbps, I get much better speeds torrenting than I ever did with UPC on 150Mbps.

My best bet is that I get prioritised by other peers and seeds on downloads because of the really low ping.

I don't trust speedtest.net for pings (they've been all over the place recently) but a pingtest from dublin to galway in 8ms is pretty good!

Where are you located? You can only get magnet FTTH in certain areas. i am on a fat pipe 100mb with magnet and would love FTTH!

vibe666

OneEightSeven wrote: »

How much does it cost and is it just broadband-only, or do you have to get Voice over IP with it?

it's €50 per month, although you don't need to have any other services with it they do offer an IPTV and phone service if you want it.

You have to be in an estate that is cabled up for it though, with a fibre optic cable (proper fibre to the home, not the fibre to the cabinet like eircom or UPC) running into your house.

I got the TV in with it, but got shot of it after a week, it was terrible compared to sky.

http://www.magnet.ie/ftth/

bloodyhawk

vibe666 wrote: »

it's €50 per month, although you don't need to have any other services with it they do offer an IPTV and phone service if you want it.

You have to be in an estate that is cabled up for it though, with a fibre optic cable (proper fibre to the home, not the fibre to the cabinet like eircom or UPC) running into your house.

I got the TV in with it, but got shot of it after a week, it was terrible compared to sky.

http://www.magnet.ie/ftth/

I have 1 request can you please ping (Manchester, Uk) (Frankfurt, Germany) and (Paris France). on speed test and on ping test. and post the results just for the curiosity. would really appreciate that. cheers

vibe666

bloodyhawk wrote: »

I have 1 request can you please ping (Manchester, Uk) (Frankfurt, Germany) and (Paris France). on speed test and on ping test. and post the results just for the curiosity. would really appreciate that. cheers

speeds not great as I'm stuck on wifi at the minute due to a power cut which left the only wired PC I have powered off and it's a going to be a PITA powering it on again and logging in as it's connected to the TV and the wife is currently watching something on it.

here's what I have anyway.



very limited options on pingtest.net compared to speedtest, but this is what i've got:

bloodyhawk

vibe666 wrote: »

speeds not great as I'm stuck on wifi at the minute due to a power cut which left the only wired PC I have powered off and it's a going to be a PITA powering it on again and logging in as it's connected to the TV and the wife is currently watching something on it.

here's what I have anyway.



very limited options on pingtest.net compared to speedtest, but this is what i've got:

Lovely thanks a bunch

smelly sock

Here a UPC test for me when it was first installed, I'll post what I am getting now later on

AlanS181824

smelly sock wrote: »

Here a UPC test for me when it was first installed, I'll post what I am getting now later on

Not a great upload but the download is great.

vibe666

bloodyhawk wrote: »

I have 1 request can you please ping (Manchester, Uk) (Frankfurt, Germany) and (Paris France). on speed test and on ping test. and post the results just for the curiosity. would really appreciate that. cheers

I had another go with the wired connection again. seems better aside from Utrecht for some reason.

bloodyhawk

Let me ask you how is the gaming on your connection? must be brill haha..

ED E

vibe666 wrote: »

I had another go with the wired connection again. seems better aside from Utrecht for some reason.

Comparison with UPC, just for ****s and giggles:
(Nb cant be sure which servers you used in some cities)

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EDIT: Too many images for one post, splitting

No real difference, predictably. Fact is they all use the same transit so performance is near identical.

ED E

Pings

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bloodyhawk

Interesting, makes you think you'd get a faster response time from magnet since its FTTH!

ED E

bloodyhawk wrote: »

Interesting, makes you think you'd get a faster response time from magnet since its FTTH!

Not always, some is VDSL.

In any case, I have say 50m to the DOCSIS3 node, then its fibre all the way onwards, so the difference is maybe 1 ms. The CPE and big iron routers matter much more.

vibe666

ED E wrote: »

Not always, some is VDSL.

In any case, I have say 50m to the DOCSIS3 node, then its fibre all the way onwards, so the difference is maybe 1 ms. The CPE and big iron routers matter much more.

mine is actually ftth though, there's a fibre switch under my stairs. It's a bit dodgy actually, if I connect directly to the switch, I can sees all my neighbours, some of which don't appear know that they should probably have a router/firewall between them and the big dirty internet.

ED E, what do you get from a ping to heanet.ie?

ED E

vibe666 wrote: »

ED E, what do you get from a ping to heanet.ie?

Pinging heanet.ie [193.1.201.145] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=57

Thats with an old dell box with a 7yo mobo, might shave a millisecond with a better NIC

smelly sock

In more practical terms lads heres my average speed while torrenting

Not my personal connection but this from where I work...

C:\Windows\system32>ping www.heanet.ie

Pinging heanet.ie.webhosting.heanet.ie [193.1.201.145] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=54
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=54
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=54
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 193.1.201.145:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 4ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 4ms

AlanS181824

Karsini wrote: »

Not my personal connection but this from where I work...

C:\Windows\system32>ping www.heanet.ie

Pinging heanet.ie.webhosting.heanet.ie [193.1.201.145] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=54
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=54
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=54
Reply from 193.1.201.145: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 193.1.201.145:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 4ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 4ms

Oh. My. God!

That's an amazing connection!

Is it Sky or Vodafone? Or do BT actual provide business connection themselves?

ED E

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Oh. My. God!

That's an amazing connection!

Is it Sky or Vodafone? Or do BT actual provide business connection themselves?

Not really anything special, plenty of larger business have access like that.