Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

was it sorted for you ?

this has been my experience with vodafone for the last 2 days

during the day everything seems fine

early in the night my download speeds go down to 1 mbps

2 days in a row now

Have had Eir Gigabit for just over 1 week and havent yet had a test go over 500Mbps, averaging between 350 and 450 testing at various times of the day and night, uploads happily hit 100Mbps everytime. Lines are relatively new maybe 1-2 months so dont think its a congestion issue as I wfh and haven't seen the KN vans around much since they did the actual wiring upgrades.

Yeah I'm on 500mb, get 450-480 on WiFi for the most part.

Given that before FTTH I was getting 3mb I'm more than happy lol.

Is anyone on here with Airwire? I've been with them for years with no issue until recently when I started to get major packet loss.

Connecting to a GoMo hotspot I get not packet loss on the same PC.

This is my result over a wired Ethernet connection.

Just moved from 500mb BB with Virgin

using these test

https://fast.com/#

and

I average 250 to 400 mbps on two different laptop relatively new, using three tests

Virgin tell, me they router takes time to build up speed ?? I installed it an hour ago (the new BB router they supplied ) is a Sagemcom Fast3896

Virgin tell me to test using https://samknows.com/realspeed/ I suspect this test gives me a false positive , test comes in approx 850mb

Just visiting my dads house in Clontarf and he has Eir 100 I believe. I have randomly tested his connection on and off over the day and night for a couple of days now and I am not getting a download speed over 3.5. And an upload of 11. Which is pretty awful. He said he called them at some point and the only thing they said to him was that he should pay for the 500 package. But he was loath to do so - so is just waiting at this point for the contract to expire so he can switch provider.

Is Eir particularly known to be bad in Clontarf?

In the process of switching from eir VDSL to Virgin cable, it’s nice (although not really needed) getting 1Gbps wired, but pity the latency is consistently 2x worse (although still acceptable to the gamers in the house)!

VM Coax. I actually got a really good retention offer from eir, so I’m going to stick with them. Eir latency a quarter of VMs when both wired:

That's a great connection. When I had fttc I was getting 65/15 all day everyday in reality anything around those speeds is more than good enough for a house.

Hi

seems most people are comparing unloaded latency results from speedtest.net/ookla. Don't be surprised if the latency creeps up in the evening. For latency to be realistic it should be done under load. That represents two things - heavy upstream (US) traffic with a mix of packet flows/applications and the router hw/sw performance (at least in the US).

The router is likely to be one of the biggest sources of trouble in terms of latency increasing under load based on how its SW operates and how it manages packet flows. Its probably wise to consider either enabling smart queue management (SQM) features (if available) in your router, or replace your router with a router supporting such features.

For example I had a 1G/100M service with a Fritzbox. Used to get great unloaded latency values - like ~30ms (not stellar but good enough). Then when tested under load (see https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat ) this turned pretty ugly - was getting ~142ms of latency

https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=b2721da5-ea0d-44d2-a9a8-19f3f786bddf

When looking at these results, the download active or upload active latency figures are in addition to the unloaded latency. so for upload latency in total its 31ms + 111ms = 142ms.

I replaced my fritzbox with a ubiquity Cloud Gateway Ultra and a separate 2x2/4x4 AP. It comes with an SQM feature and IDS/IPS at 1Gbps. ( https://eu.store.ui.com/eu/en/collections/cloud-gateway-ultra and https://eu.store.ui.com/eu/en/collections/unifi-wifi-flagship-high-capacity/products/u6-pro - total is about €300 - but ALL wi-fi and latency issues disappear. It also means I don't change anything if I move to different suppliers).

here are some tests with that solution.

No SQM - roughly same latency as FritzBox - better unloaded latency.

https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=23e23777-2a0e-45a0-977a-bbdb2bb22923

SQM enabled - enormous difference (loaded US Latency reduced from 142ms down to 13ms)

https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=8829d739-71fb-423a-bd1b-423ce2074971

The loaded latency is a better representation of latency for when the box is in use. I don't actually care about the service speeds as long as they are reasonbly high (in my case Fritzbox was limited to ~533Mbps, while Ubiquity enabled 700+ Mbps)

Overall, latency under load is by far a better number to look at rather than this unloaded latency.

Eir FTTH 1GB Wired

What hardware was installed after the fiber was pulled in?