Mobile "so called broadband" speed test week.

Sponge Bob

Time for everybody to do a speedtest on their mobile service and post up the results between Sunday the 30th and Saturday the 5th of June.

One weekend test and one weekday at 8pm-9pm test each please.

1. Go to http://www.speedtest.net/
2. Hover the mouse over the gold star on top of Ireland on the map.
3. Click on DUBLIN NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE.
4. Click "copy forum link" when the test finishes
5. Go to boards, new post in this thread, paste in the forum link job done. Appears like this graphic.



( Note , if you are with three then say whether you are a NORMAL 3 customer or an NBS three customer)

I will look over this thread next week and will summarise the results for everybody. It may be an idea to do this every 6 months and see what the reality is.

The carriers are

1. Vodafone
2. Three NBS
3. Three Normal
4. O2
5. Meteor

If everybody does their two tests ( weekend and weekday everning at 8-9pm) we will get a good idea of whose network is best configured and least congested.

not_xanthor

5 mintues ago.... Will try again when more busy.

jd007

3 normal customer

Sponge Bob

Another test worth doing is the one at http://www.pingtest.net/ latency and jitter test , again select Dublin as the test server .

Let the test finish , click "copy forum link" and paste it in here. See if you can beat this one in Africa

Cryos

From Kilcoole, Co.Wicklow
On 3 MiFi Device



Pingtest just gives a firewall error on any server, will need to look at the firewall on Mifi.

Speed is faster than my DSL line (3mb).

Jarren

Vodafone -Dublin

vodafone dublin

Paulyh

Meteor - Dublin

watty

I'm not sure what value of a self selected test known only to users of this forum is?

Sponge Bob

The speed test week announcement is cross posted in the Mobile forum. All of the operators are allegedly upgrading to 14,4 this year and we will run the same tests again around christmas.

lord lucan

Normal 3 service. My 3g signal is all over the place lately.

2twelve

o2 in bundoran co. donegal. switched from three last week, seems to be a lot better so far

drunkmonkey

watty wrote: »

I'm not sure what value of a self selected test known only to users of this forum is?

I don't see the value in either, I could drive into NBS areas's and give 5mb + results on a daily basis it proves nothing. There would be some use in a location based test as it would give people a good indication of what to expect.

Speaking as someone who suffered through vodafone's fixed line service all this thread is doing is proving that any midband is better than vodafone fixed line. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055738410

watty

Sponge Bob wrote: »

The speed test week announcement is cross posted in the Mobile forum. All of the operators are allegedly upgrading to 14,4 this year and we will run the same tests again around christmas.

Ah. That makes more sense.

watty

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Speaking as someone who suffered through vodafone's fixed line service all this thread is doing is proving that any midband is better than vodafone fixed line.

If your line actually works (which is nothing to do with Vodafone), it will not degrade like 3G/HSPA.

For a decent line < 4km from exchange there is no comparison.

guil

jay93

o2 meath will test at busier times

guil

think u have the wrong thread, do eircom even do mobile broadband

spartan1

apologies , doop

god's toy

Nokia N900.


Three normal

Our man in Havana

Cryos

Dublin 4 lunchtime:

Sponge Bob

UK Grouptest from early May. Thanks to all who are partaking.

http://www.reghardware.com/2010/05/11/grouptest_uk_mobile_broadband/

drunkmonkey

Sponge Bob wrote: »

UK Grouptest from early May. Thanks to all who are partaking.

http://www.reghardware.com/2010/05/11/grouptest_uk_mobile_broadband/

:eek: 3 got the editors choice award, quote "The best download speeds and decent value tariffs make 3 the clear winner and a viable home broadband replacement"

Nice to see you giving them some good press Sponge Bob.

/runs to grab a hard hat before Watty see's the quote

Max Power 2010

jay93

guil wrote: »

think u have the wrong thread, do eircom even do mobile broadband

yehh eircom do mobile broadband.just its meteor that they distribute it through as they own them..the meteor speed tests here seem to come up good i wouldnt have taught it would have been any good to be honest :) ill post my o2 midbands speeds at half 8 this evening as it will show how bad/good it is at peak times im sure it will be bad anyways it usually is

jor el

Vodafone, Limerick, about 1km from the mast with good LOS.



Wow, that's pretty piss-poor. I only use this during working hours, and it's normally around 3Mbps.

Limerick server is a bit better.


Pingtest is giving me nothing but packet loss errors, on all servers.

Our man in Havana

mickos

Vodafone Carlow

downwithpeace

Three normal



Sorry i forgot about the weekend check.

drunkmonkey

Tethering on iphone over bluetooth - 3 Normal



High

Low

Ping


My 7mb Eircom Home

Stokolan

Vodafone Waterford



Same test 5 min later

Leeg17

yay for normal 3 broadband! -.-

ToadVine

On the NBS in rural Kildare.

Tests were 5 mins apart ... this is typical speed ... I've been getting similar all day.

Edit - thought this latest speed test was worth including (run 15 minutes after first test) ... both upload and download speeds have more than doubled in last 15 mins!!!!!

drunkmonkey

Just a dongle Toad or are you using satellite or a repeater?

Our man in Havana

Rural Laois

Helium

West Wicklow 3 NBS

jay93

as expected the service has gone to sh1te at peak times:rolleyes::rolleyes:




Last Result:
Download Speed: 346 kbps (43.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 144 kbps (18 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 131 ms
31 May 2010 20:46:04


mast is less than 10mins walk from this estate im in and can also see it when i step outside so signal is not a prob getting 4/5 HSPA but it just congested its never usually this bad tough

Dr. Nick

Three (non-NBS) is just like a box of chocolates.....

busman

3 normal .. mallow

guil

guil

jay93 wrote: »

yehh eircom do mobile broadband.just its meteor that they distribute it through as they own them..the meteor speed tests here seem to come up good i wouldnt have taught it would have been any good to be honest :) ill post my o2 midbands speeds at half 8 this evening as it will show how bad/good it is at peak times im sure it will be bad anyways it usually is

well thats hardly eircom then, eircom own meteor but its meteor broadband
i work for AES and bord na mona own them, does that mean i work for bord na mona

ToadVine

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Just a dongle Toad or are you using satellite or a repeater?

External antenna and the Huwaei mi-fi dongle.

jay93

guil wrote: »

well thats hardly eircom then, eircom own meteor but its meteor broadband
i work for AES and bord na mona own them, does that mean i work for bord na mona

well on eircoms home page a while ago there mobile BB dongle had eircom wrote on it just uses metoers mast so no differance really

DWCommuter

UPC 10MB NAAS.

Sponge Bob

Thats cable not mobile DW

not_xanthor

More than twice the download speed Eircom are capable of offering me. Hillarious.

jd007

I'm back in the shticks...:(

ToadVine

3 NBS :eek:

Dean820

not_xanthor wrote: »

More than twice the download speed Eircom are capable of offering me. Hillarious.

How do you manage to get it that high? Have you extra equipment like a signal booster?

jay93

not 2 great at all for this time never usually so slow maybe its from everyone that has their summer hols from school are up later and jamming the network im getting a few drop outs of service from msn where i just get signed out:(

have to say tough that them pings are ok for midband!!best ive ever got with any mobile bb