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I have Eircom Broadband - how do you check speed

  • 28-03-2005 2:39pm
    #1
    paddyman10000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    With all the talk of 512kbps going up to 1mb, I'm just wondering how you check to see what your connection is now. I don't see anything in the control panel. I'm sure someone can help anyway. I'd like to check it soon and then again after April 1st or 8th, whenever they upgrade.


Comments

  • #2
    snappieT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    For true speed check: http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ is the best one out there.


  • #3
    Willymuncher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭Willymuncher


    Just download something off a fast server belong to microsoft or something and see what speeds you get...


  • #4
    deckie27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭deckie27


    try a performance test

    test site the test is on the top right
    If ur on 512k u should bet about 380 - -420 k
    if you are on 1 mb I would expect tot get closer to 1000k


    Dec


  • #5
    deckie27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭deckie27


    Well Paddyman how did you fair out on either test.

    Dec


  • #6
    Tech Pete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭Tech Pete


    Also .. www.irishisptest.com


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  • #7
    paddyman10000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭paddyman10000


    deckie27 wrote:
    try a performance test

    test site the test is on the top right
    If ur on 512k u should bet about 380 - -420 k
    if you are on 1 mb I would expect tot get closer to 1000k


    Dec

    I did the test and got 388k, so that's right on the mark for 512k, cool I look forward to checking that again in a week or so.
    Thanks everyone for replying so fast.


  • #8
    paddyman10000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭paddyman10000


    Tech Pete wrote:
    Also .. www.irishisptest.com

    For this test my speed was, 436.6kb.


  • #9
    paddyman10000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭paddyman10000


    snapscan1212p wrote:
    For true speed check: http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ is the best one out there.

    The result I got was 287kbps.


  • #10
    deckie27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭deckie27


    On the irishisptest site
    Try pressing back and it reads the test from ur cache and rates ur speed on that
    my result..... 74472.7 kbps YOU Reliable result as the site says

    Dec


  • #11
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,070 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    i got 428kbs from that test, not too bad.


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  • #12
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,070 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    got 432bps from the irish speed test


  • #13
    paddyman10000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭paddyman10000


    deckie27 wrote:
    On the irishisptest site
    Try pressing back and it reads the test from ur cache and rates ur speed on that
    my result..... 74472.7 kbps YOU Reliable result as the site says

    Dec

    Ya I pressed back and it gave me 83626.7 kbps
    which means you can download at 10 megabytes a second.
    Wouldn't that be nice ....


  • #14
    Tech Pete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭Tech Pete


    paddyman10000 wrote:
    Ya I pressed back and it gave me 83626.7 kbps
    which means you can download at 10 megabytes a second.
    Wouldn't that be nice ....


    The "74472.7 kbps" is the size of the packet the php script sends to urself...
    The time it takes is then converted by another script into your speed..
    tut tut


  • #15
    ro2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭ro2


    The Irish ISP test is quite good - tried it on two connections at it got them both right. This one was fairly impressive :)

    http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=82747.5&downloadtime=0.297&KB=3000&recorded=1

    Another good test is to click on this link, wait for a few seconds and see how fast your connection goes up to:

    http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-disc1.iso


  • #16
    humaxf1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭humaxf1


    Hello all,

    I'm connected to IBB 1Mb Breeze beaming to Killiney.

    According to bandwidthplace, my connection is 850-900 kbps average

    According to irishisptest, my connection is 890-915 kbps average

    So from the figures above, the two sites are fairly accurate.

    When I download a file from the net, average download speed is 80-120 KBytes/sec.

    Of course itdepends which server you are downloading from & how many people are connected along with yourself etc etc. My contention ratio is 20:1.

    Happy downloading...


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