Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

nuttlys · 08-06-2013 11:03AM

Eircom eFibre free upgrade from 24MB package, Dublin 5.

08-06-2013 08:00PM

Got a text yesterday by UPC to say that I have being upgraded from 50Mb. Happy out.

omerin · 08-06-2013 08:31PM

NoDrama wrote: »

Got a text yesterday by UPC to say that I have being upgraded from 50Mb. Happy out.

I got that text too, but wireless on a 100mb I only get

ctlsleh · 09-06-2013 06:48PM

Whats the relationship between line attenuation and noise margin and what would be considered good?
Im about 700metres from the cabinet and get 9.5dB of attenuation and 13.3dB of noise margin on my linen......both downstream.....im upgrading to fibre, so based on these rates and distance, im assuming there is no additional value in signing up for the 70Mb package and that ill get exactly the same throughput if on the 50Mb package.....?
Appreciate comments and advice......

allen175 · 10-06-2013 09:38AM

ctlsleh wrote: »

Whats the relationship between line attenuation and noise margin and what would be considered good?
Im about 700metres from the cabinet and get 9.5dB of attenuation and 13.3dB of noise margin on my linen......both downstream.....im upgrading to fibre, so based on these rates and distance, im assuming there is no additional value in signing up for the 70Mb package and that ill get exactly the same throughput if on the 50Mb package.....?
Appreciate comments and advice......

Your current ADSL stats will be out the window, they don't come into account since they are measured from you to the exchange not to the cab.

Any further questions would be better asked in the fibre rollout thread.

ctlsleh · 10-06-2013 11:10AM

allen175 wrote: »

Your current ADSL stats will be out the window, they don't come into account since they are measured from you to the exchange not to the cab.

Any further questions would be better asked in the fibre rollout thread.

Thabks, but my local cabinet is an exchange, it is my nearest point, there isnt a cabinet any closer unfortunately.......

CuppaCocoa · 10-06-2013 06:26PM

UPC promised me an upgrade to 50mg today and told me to switch the modem off for a minute and turn it on again and I should be upgraded. Here's the result of the speed test. Were they lying?

http://speedtest.net/result/2764704150.png

Pingtest.net tells me I have 36ms?

AlanS181824 · 10-06-2013 06:42PM

omerin wrote: »

I got that text too, but wireless on a 100mb I only get

NoDrama wrote: »

Got a text yesterday by UPC to say that I have being upgraded from 50Mb. Happy out.

Sorry to hijack ur quotes

But, why does one of ur tests say UPC Ireland and the other one says UPC Broadband gmbh. Don't both of you have the same ISP? Great speeds btw

10-06-2013 06:51PM

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Sorry to hijack ur quotes
But, why does one of ur tests say UPC Ireland and the other one says UPC Broadband gmbh. Don't both of you have the same ISP? Great speeds btw

I suspect it is because My IP has conflicting information as from entering my details in yougetsignal it comes back with saying that I am based in Oslo, Norway, though I am here in West Dublin, hence the reason it is GMBH.

AlanS181824 · 10-06-2013 06:59PM

NoDrama wrote: »

I suspect it is because My IP has conflicting information as from entering my details in yougetsignal it comes back with saying that I am based in Oslo, Norway, though I am here in West Dublin, hence the reason it is GMBH.

Oh alright. GMBH is to do with German businesses though, I think it's something to do with liability but I'm not sure. Yeah that website says I'm based in Kildare when I'm really in Carlow lol

CuppaCocoa · 11-06-2013 09:50AM

lilybarlean wrote: »

UPC promised me an upgrade to 50mg today and told me to switch the modem off for a minute and turn it on again and I should be upgraded. Here's the result of the speed test. Were they lying?

http://speedtest.net/result/2764704150.png

Pingtest.net tells me I have 36ms?

Anyone? No idea what I should be looking at. Don't want to ring UPC and make a tit of myself if I'm already getting 50mb

. Youtube links are a bit juddery which makes me suspicious.

ChrisMcCauley · 11-06-2013 10:07AM

lilybarlean wrote: »

Anyone? No idea what I should be looking at. Don't want to ring UPC and make a tit of myself if I'm already getting 50mb . Youtube links are a bit juddery which makes me suspicious.

You're getting less than half of the 50Mb/s that you are expecting. Your ping is fine so latency is good but your upload rate is pretty poor. I would check again at different times of the day and see if it improves. If not, complain.

Calling all UPC folks - am I correct in saying that UPC has a contention rate of 8:1? If so then the OP may just be out of luck.

By contrast, my uncontested Eircom eFibre connection is pretty constant at all times of the day at ~46Mb/s

Chris

johndoe99 · 11-06-2013 01:30PM

lilybarlean wrote: »

UPC promised me an upgrade to 50mg today and told me to switch the modem off for a minute and turn it on again and I should be upgraded. Here's the result of the speed test. Were they lying?

http://speedtest.net/result/2764704150.png

Pingtest.net tells me I have 36ms?

what modem/router do you have?

Gumbi · 11-06-2013 01:50PM

ChrisMcCauley wrote: »

You're getting less than half of the 50Mb/s that you are expecting. Your ping is fine so latency is good but your upload rate is pretty poor. I would check again at different times of the day and see if it improves. If not, complain.

Calling all UPC folks - am I correct in saying that UPC has a contention rate of 8:1? If so then the OP may just be out of luck.

By contrast, my uncontested Eircom eFibre connection is pretty constant at all times of the day at ~46Mb/s

Chris

Are you on wifi or is that via Ethernet?

Gumbi · 11-06-2013 01:51PM

lilybarlean wrote: »

UPC promised me an upgrade to 50mg today and told me to switch the modem off for a minute and turn it on again and I should be upgraded. Here's the result of the speed test. Were they lying?

http://speedtest.net/result/2764704150.png

Pingtest.net tells me I have 36ms?

Is that via Ethernet or wifi?

CuppaCocoa · 11-06-2013 03:12PM

Gumbi wrote: »

Is that via Ethernet or wifi?

Wifi

CuppaCocoa · 11-06-2013 03:13PM

johndoe99 wrote: »

what modem/router do you have?

Don't know

, whatever UPC gave us 12 months ago!

Gumbi · 11-06-2013 03:45PM

lilybarlean wrote: »

Wifi

Wifi degrades easily enough. Especially through walls and stuff. I had my desktop in the extension which meant the signal had to come through a concrete wall. It would drop randomly while gaming. I fixed if by sticking my wifi USB around the corner.

The only time you'll get a lerfect wifi signal is if you're right on top of the router. Use an Ethernet cable to get a better idea of your connection. And do it at on/off peak hours for a fairer estimate. Although wifi def seems to be the cause here.

ElNino · 11-06-2013 03:57PM

lilybarlean wrote: »

Wifi

Unless you have wireless n on your laptop and router you are not going to get 50mb on wifi. That is why you need to do any speedtests over ethernet.

CuppaCocoa · 11-06-2013 03:58PM

I'm sitting about 5ft away from the modem, it's directly in front of me! Rang UPC again and they checked and said I hadn't been upgraded and they would do it for me this afternoon. Fingers crossed, will do another speed test tonight!

CuppaCocoa · 11-06-2013 04:01PM

Gumbi wrote: »

Wifi degrades easily enough. Especially through walls and stuff. I had my desktop in the extension which meant the signal had to come through a concrete wall. It would drop randomly while gaming. I fixed if by sticking my wifi USB around the corner.

The only time you'll get a lerfect wifi signal is if you're right on top of the router. Use an Ethernet cable to get a better idea of your connection. And do it at on/off peak hours for a fairer estimate. Although wifi def seems to be the cause here.

It seems to have slowed up over time. I used to get a great wifi connection in the house next door, now I can barely pick up a signal there!

johndoe99 · 11-06-2013 05:00PM

lilybarlean wrote: »

Don't know , whatever UPC gave us 12 months ago!

there will be a name and model on the modem. When i upgraded to 50mb, they sent me a new modem as my old UPC one wasn't for docsis 3.

CuppaCocoa · 11-06-2013 06:22PM

It's a Cisco 2.4ghz EPC3925

johndoe99 · 11-06-2013 06:55PM

lilybarlean wrote: »

It's a Cisco 2.4ghz EPC3925

that's mine, thats for docsis3.

kop77 · 11-06-2013 10:33PM

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2767470959.png

Hi... I'm with 3 and the reception over the last few weeks has been rubbish, it's the same through WiFi (TP Link 3G router) or with the dongle plugged directly into my laptop,

I'm in the Roscrea, Tipp area..... anyone else having the same problems,

or any tips/advice, thanks.

CuppaCocoa · 12-06-2013 09:50AM

johndoe99 wrote: »

that's mine, thats for docsis3.

Don't know what docsis3 is

but when I ran the speedtest last night it had improved significantly, very similar speeds to yours!

DeSelby83 · 13-06-2013 03:45PM

Sorry if this has been asked before but is there anyway of improving my ping level with eircom? I just did a test on pingtest and it was up around the 200 mark. i was playing an online game recently and it rocketed up to 300 and was unplayable. is there anything i can do to fix this?

red_bairn · 13-06-2013 04:18PM

DeSelby83 wrote: »

Sorry if this has been asked before but is there anyway of improving my ping level with eircom? I just did a test on pingtest and it was up around the 200 mark. i was playing an online game recently and it rocketed up to 300 and was unplayable. is there anything i can do to fix this?

If it rockets it could be down to a number of things like people streaming in your household, content being uploaded (photographs) or apps being downloaded for a smartphone. If it isn't the case for these types of situations you may need to take screenshots of your ping tests and send them to Eircom (technical support). Ring them up and tell them that you have issues with your fluctuating ping and that you can send them on examples of you pinging servers like Eircom:

ping eircom.net
ping google.com
ping boards.ie

DeSelby83 · 13-06-2013 04:19PM

red_bairn wrote: »

If it rockets it could be down to a number of things like people streaming in your household, content being uploaded (photographs) or apps being downloaded for a smartphone.

this isnt the case at the moment so its still very high. ill look into what you suggested but im presuming that its way too high anyway

ugglasdav · 14-06-2013 12:03PM

50mb UPC With the new Technicolor TC7200

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