Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

Ranicand wrote: »

Happy days.

Wow, that is impressive.

UPC really makes my smart telecom connection look crap.

And your smart telecom makes my 3mb eircom line look totally rubbish!

bloodyhawk wrote: »

stan 117 wrote: »

off a friends server...
needless to say i beat him to death with his keyboard:)

Jesus christ how is this even possible??? :eek:

Surely an internal speed test or on the same network ?

here is my eircom 12 mb package *tested wireless*
cant wait to move over to upc and get that 150
although i gotta say my ping is faster than the most upc fiber optic users here. for some odd reason. :pac:

Cannot get over 45 Mbps wirelessly on the laptop?

Using Speedtest.net & UPC speedtest and both producing 44 - 46 Mbps

Any ideas??

Deleted User wrote: »

Upgraded from UPC's 25mb to 100mb today. New router installed, upload speed is increased but the download speed has not changed at all :mad:

your ping is also horrible, are you perhaps testing this wireless?

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes it's over a wireless connection, slight improvement now, but still nowhere near 100mb.

Again and again we say it, you wont get full speed over wifi with high speed packages. You wont even get it wired with cat5 when over 100Mbps, you have to use a gigabit cable(cat6) and a gigabit network card.

collier wrote: »

Of course you will get it with a CAT5e cable. If the cable is longer then 100m you wont however.

Not all 5 cables are 5e.

Upgraded to UPC 100Mb from 60Mb today. It's very difficult to get accurate speedtest.net results at speeds of 100Mb or more so I posted a few. However, the UPC speed test is spot-on and my HTTP download and upload rates are spot-on.

bloodyhawk wrote: »

is this wireless?
and can you post your results from upc speedtest?
and if its not too much of a hassle can you also ping google for me?

Haha, sure, no problem.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
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C:\Users\David>ping google.com

Pinging google.com [74.125.24.139] with 32 bytes of data
Reply from 74.125.24.139: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.24.139: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.24.139: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.24.139: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 74.125.24.139:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 13ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 14ms

C:\Users\David>ping google.ie

Pinging google.ie [74.125.24.94] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.24.94: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.24.94: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.24.94: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=51
Reply from 74.125.24.94: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 74.125.24.94:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 13ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 13ms

It's not wireless but I did hook up one of my housemates' dongles yesterday to see how it'd work and I was able to get the full speed without any hassles at close range at least (5GHz band on a Netgear WNDR3700v1 using a WNDA3100v2 dongle with ~240Mb/s WLAN link speed at the time). I'm wired into the Netgear now, which is truly bridged with a Cisco EPC3925.

Here's the UPC speed test:



I assume you're asking all of this because you're with UPC and are having issues? If so, I thought I'd also post this for you to compare with:
I read back a few pages to see what everyone else is getting on UPC and I noticed you're still on Eircom but are looking to make the switch. I might as well leave this up in case you'd like to compare your levels anyhow, regardless of your new UPC connection's performance, and in case anyone else wants to compare:


My upload power level is a little bit high, but it has some headroom before things start to f*ck up (max ~55dBmV), so it's still well within tolerance. The rest of the stats are very much in line.

jamescd wrote: »

Is it normal to go down to less than 20mb at this time of day ? Should I contact UPC about it ?

Also 55mb is nowhere near 100mb. Or is that pretty much all I can expect on a wireless connection ? The router is too far from my PC so wired is not really an option

You cant compare tests when on wifi really, there are two many factors. And wifi will limit you yes. Check out homeplugs if you wanna go faster(get 300Mbps+ ones).