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Magnet slow in the Galway area

  • 14-09-2015 7:36pm
    #1
    GekkePrutser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 673 ✭✭✭


    Hi Everyone,

    I just would like to compare experiences. I signed up with Magnet last week on the contractless 100 mbit plan (100 down, 20 up) and since it's been installed I've been trying it out.

    I'm currently on the UPC 30/3 plan as well, but I needed something faster for working from home. UPC want me to sign a new 12-month contract for every minor upgrade and I'm thinking of moving house so I thought I'd go with magnet because they have a monthly contract option (at a higher price)

    The modem is running well, it's connecting at over 90 mbps. So my local loop is pretty fine. But the speeds I'm seeing through the network are worse than the UPC modem. With the UPC I get 30 mbps consistently (in fact when I'm downloading the speed graph is completely flat), with the magnet one it's on average below 30 and the actual speed is jumping around a lot. I've tried with speedtest.net and also with one of my own servers which is on a 1 gigabit connection in a datacenter. I've tried both HTTP downloads and SFTP (port 22). I got only 10 mbit from that one, it really should be much faster.

    Also, movie trailers on IMDB are chopping and pausing and they work fine when I play them through the UPC connection. I did have a download going in the background of about 6mbit (typical scenario when running a throttled backup) on both providers.

    I think I'll cancel it and just go for the full UPC package, I'll just lose out on the connection fee and the first month. I see they now only charge 200 euro when breaking contract (instead of the full remaining amount like they used to) which is a lot less, I thought I'd still have to pay the full contract remainder in that case.

    I'm just wondering if others in Galway are also getting significantly lower speeds than advertised?

    I know the speeds are 'up to' speeds but this is due to the local loop differences, and in this case I'm seeing 90 mbit on the modem so my local loop is good. And it should be, the DSLAM I'm on is only 200m down the street and the cable is fully underground and fairly new. I'll try it out during the night as well but my main broadband needs are during the day and evening.

    Edit: I just wanted to add I'm using a wired connection for all this testing, not wireless! Of course.


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