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Irishiptest.com/myspeed/ still accurate?

Dcully · 2005-04-22 13:30:19

Anyone still use this test? http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/ I used to use it and my results were pretty much what others were getting on eircoms 2 meg connection. Ive checked it just now for first time in ages and the results are just slighty better than 1meg line. My administration page for netopia modem says as…

22-04-2005 1:30pm

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Dcully

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Anyone still use this test?
http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/
I used to use it and my results were pretty much what others were getting on eircoms 2 meg connection.
Ive checked it just now for first time in ages and the results are just slighty better than 1meg line.
My administration page for netopia modem says as normal im on 2048/128.
Any ideas how accurate this test is?Has it changed recently?

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#2 22-04-2005 1:37pm

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It says my download speed is 780kbps down and upload is 826kbps.

However when i download from sites i get 120kb/s down and 118kb/s up.

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#3 22-04-2005 1:40pm

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Cheers,what connection you got?

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#4 22-04-2005 1:43pm

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1mb up/down IBB.

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#5 22-04-2005 1:52pm

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858 down & 106 up on Eircom Home Starter

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#6 22-04-2005 4:57pm

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Esat BT Plus 1.71MB Download 72.3Kb Upload the upload is slow it ruins games!

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#7 22-04-2005 6:10pm

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Reported 726/125 on ntl 750/128
all units: kbps

It does seems fairly accurate.
And yes, the test has changed recently - about a couple of weeks ago the new test came in. iirc BlackNight posted about the new test

causal

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#8 22-04-2005 6:12pm

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857 down 108 up. UTV

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#9 22-04-2005 7:16pm

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Just to remind ye the new speed test only functions properly on IE at the moment

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#10 22-04-2005 7:21pm

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^whitey^ wrote:

Just to remind ye the new speed test only functions properly on IE at the moment

Works grand on Firefox for me.

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#11 22-04-2005 7:56pm

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Arabel wrote:

Works grand on Firefox for me.

Yep it's fine in Firefox for me too...
Firefox: 726/125 (as I reported earlier)
IE: 715/125 (just tested now)

causal

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#12 22-04-2005 10:01pm

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mozilla: down 818/up 47 (-> kinda slow?)
EsatBT 1Mb

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#13 22-04-2005 10:13pm

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129/49 - Fcukin Ripwave!! :mad:

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#14 22-04-2005 10:49pm

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I did a test just now on irishisptest:

915 kbps UP

911 kbps DOWN

Thats on a IBB Breeze 1Mb up/down. Hopefully to be upgraded ro 2Mb up/down :-)

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#15 23-04-2005 9:29am

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Im on IOL BB Plus
1.75mbps down
102kbps up

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#16 23-04-2005 5:50pm

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causal wrote:

Yep it's fine in Firefox for me too...
Firefox: 726/125 (as I reported earlier)
IE: 715/125 (just tested now)

causal

Ah just re-read the info on the new java test, its just Opera it acts funny with:

We have also seen issues with Opera, as it does not download content in the same way as other browsers.

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#17 23-04-2005 11:12pm

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Dcully wrote:

Anyone still use this test?
http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/
I used to use it and my results were pretty much what others were getting on eircoms 2 meg connection.
Ive checked it just now for first time in ages and the results are just slighty better than 1meg line.
My administration page for netopia modem says as normal im on 2048/128.
Any ideas how accurate this test is?Has it changed recently?

Yes! the same thing happened to you as to me, download Cool Beans system info, it has a bandwidth monitor, you see how slowly your speeds pick up, and how much it jumps

your ping has probably got worse too

Irishsptest, is just fine, they didn't change anything, it's eircom who screwed up, cause when irishspeedtest first updates, I was doing just fine maxing out 215kb/s but since last week eircom did something and now the max I get is 150kb/s

try this test
http://home.eircom.net/speedtest/default.asp?id=1
1.5mb file

I bet you won't go higher then 185kb/s

and for smaller files you will do much worse, because now speeds pick up very slowly

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#18 23-04-2005 11:13pm

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causal wrote:

And yes, the test has changed recently - about a couple of weeks ago the new test came in. iirc BlackNight posted about the new test
causal

yea and it sucks tbh, the old one was just great, you could copy and paste the result which made it awesome! I don't know there was a test like that on the web, but now they switched to the damn java

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#19 23-04-2005 11:18pm

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Seems when i posted this thread my bb was on a go slow.
It has been motoring along @230 kbps since
Test is running fine for me .

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#20 23-04-2005 11:31pm

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can you please

start -> cmd -> ping jolt.co.uk

?

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#21 24-04-2005 12:47am

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1.78Mbps - Down
102kbps - Up

Eircom 2Mb.

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#22 24-04-2005 8:47am

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Esat BT Plus

1.72 Mbps Download
103 kbps

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#23 24-04-2005 9:47am

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Here ya go CyberGhost.

Pinging jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=59
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Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=59

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#24 24-04-2005 9:49am

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1.72mbps
104kbps

eircom 2meg

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#25 24-04-2005 2:36pm

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Thank You Dcully!

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#26 28-04-2005 5:06pm

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CyberGhost wrote:

yea and it sucks tbh, the old one was just great, you could copy and paste the result which made it awesome! I don't know there was a test like that on the web, but now they switched to the damn java

We changed it because people were complaining about the test's accuracy.
The java based test may not be copy and paste "friendly" but its results are very accurate.
I added an explanation of what some of the test results mean etc.,:
http://www.irishisptest.com/about.php

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#27 28-04-2005 5:07pm

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^whitey^ wrote:

Just to remind ye the new speed test only functions properly on IE at the moment

The test is browser agnostic as it relies on a java applet.

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#28 28-04-2005 5:14pm

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1.45 Mbps down
103 kbps up

eircom 2meg too

1.45 aint great....

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#29 28-04-2005 6:15pm

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down 4.08 megs
up 1.8 megs

thanks you DCU wireless!!

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#30 28-04-2005 9:59pm

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744 & 82.4 - IOL 1024/128

How crap is that!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=249733

I think I just answered that one!

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#31 28-04-2005 11:22pm

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SwampThing wrote:

744 & 82.4 - IOL 1024/128

How crap is that!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=249733

I think I just answered that one!

give them a ring ask them if they have maybe accidently turned your interleaving on.

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#32 28-04-2005 11:31pm

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