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Broadband Speed Test Megathread
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I'm on the 7.5 meg package.
It never topped out over 6.1 but I was fine with that, however its been really unreliable and earlier was down to less than 1 meg. My previous 3 meg package was solid as a rock, so they are getting an ear bashing tomorrow.0 -
The first is a test I done a while back and the second one just there. Normally I get around 65 down and 40 up. But its a bit erratic as you can see. LAst night it went to 0.5 down and 57 up :eek::eek: Should be back to normal tomorrow. I think my Uni are upgrading some **** and services are disrupted!! Living in Germany and also I don't have to pay for it so who cares ha!0 -
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VaccinalBowl wrote: »
The reason, why it might be erratic to some sites, is that they also need as big a pipe of unused bandwidth, as you are trying to pull. The minimum speedtest.net required for public speedtest servers used to be 45 mbit or so. Nowadays, they ask, that you at least have 100 mbit/s available, but they wouldn't necessarily have required older hosters to have that or checked up on it.
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*You're getting some pretty serious slow down in a lot of your hops*
Sorry I am a newbie at this does that just mean that my router and cables are ****e (from eircom), or not set up right, or is it on the eircom side.
The guy from eircom I talked to was one of the most dismissive blokes I ever talked too, granted his english wasnt great, which is neither here nor there but no matter what I said he just told me "No it looks fine".
Its very hard to come away from a conversation like that and think yeah everything is ok and I am paying for bradband thats billed as fast and what I am getting is slow...
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*You're getting some pretty serious slow down in a lot of your hops*
Sorry I am a newbie at this does that just mean that my router and cables are ****e (from eircom), or not set up right, or is it on the eircom side.
The guy from eircom I talked to was one of the most dismissive blokes I ever talked too, granted his english wasnt great, which is neither here nor there but no matter what I said he just told me "No it looks fine".
Its very hard to come away from a conversation like that and think yeah everything is ok and I am paying for bradband thats billed as fast and what I am getting is slow...
Sorry I should explain better.
Trace route is kinda like tracking a phone number in the movies.
It records how long each server your request takes to respond before you get to the web site you request and the path taken.
When you type a web address into your browser you go through your router, then your ISP redirects the request through its network and onto the website which takes the request through its router etc. Each redirect takes time. The more redirects the longer it takes. Also if one "hop" or redirect takes too long your internet will feel slow. In your case a lot of your hops are slow.
The hops are taking on average 100ms when they should really be faster.
Have you tried it at different times of the day. Perhaps try it late at night or early in the morning. You may have a contention issue as your neighbours may be doing some heavy downloading.
Here is a detailed explanation which is much clearer than mine.
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Using-Tracert.html0 -
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I been syncing at 5meg for last year on the 7.6meg package with terrible pings as well, compained about my speeds and now I got this:) much happier
ping www.boards.ie
Pinging www.boards.ie [89.234.66.107] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=60
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=60
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=60
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=60
Ping statistics for 89.234.66.107:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 7ms, Maximum = 8ms, Average = 7ms
ping www.jolt.co.uk
Pinging www.jolt.co.uk [84.234.17.86] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=122
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=122
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=122
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=122
Ping statistics for 84.234.17.86:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 19ms, Maximum = 19ms, Average = 19ms0 -
as of about 8pm this evening, it became impossible to play on XBox Live. couldnt understand whats happening. after i couldnt connect to a host anymore, i checked how well my 10mb UPC internet is doing.
Pinging www.boards.ie [89.234.66.107] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=1205ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=1482ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=1290ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=1016ms TTL=59
Ping statistics for 89.234.66.107:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1016ms, Maximum = 1482ms, Average = 1248ms
Pinging www.l.google.com [209.85.229.104] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 209.85.229.104: bytes=32 time=1019ms TTL=241
Reply from 209.85.229.104: bytes=32 time=1105ms TTL=241
Reply from 209.85.229.104: bytes=32 time=1236ms TTL=241
Reply from 209.85.229.104: bytes=32 time=1182ms TTL=241
Ping statistics for 209.85.229.104:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1019ms, Maximum = 1236ms, Average = 1135ms
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any cure advice? this is rediculous..0 -
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Just got connected to Eircom's 1Mb bundle today after Digiweb decided they didn't want to me have their Metro Lite package no more :mad:
Anywho;
C:\>ping google.ie
Pinging google.ie [64.233.161.104] with 32 bytes of data
Reply from 64.233.161.104: bytes=32 time=199ms TTL=243
Reply from 64.233.161.104: bytes=32 time=222ms TTL=243
Reply from 64.233.161.104: bytes=32 time=143ms TTL=243
Reply from 64.233.161.104: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=243
Ping statistics for 64.233.161.104:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 143ms, Maximum = 222ms, Average = 182ms
C:\>
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Are www.speednet.net speed tests more accurate than eircoms speed test here :http://home.eircom.net/speedtest/ ?
On Eircoms speed test I get 3715kbps
On speednet I get :
I'm on a 7mb package btw.0 -
thanks for the reply. sorry i wasnt back earlyier to respond.Contact UPC.
will call them in future, cause its happened before. and the tv channels all say that im not prescribed in the info stuff, even though i can watch them, which is more annoying than it sounds. anyway, just been away for 3 days and now im back everything seems fine..
Pinging www.boards.ie [89.234.66.107] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=59
Ping statistics for 89.234.66.107:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 31ms, Average = 20msThough the zero packet loss goes against my diagnoses.
i did the ping test several times, and most of the time it had at 50-75% packet loss. the stats i posted up were after i accidently closed cmd when going to click on "mark" to copy paste here. repeated and got better results...
nothing has changed where the modem and router are though to expect the frequency to get messed up?0 -
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