Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

Celticfire · 10-02-2010 6:43pm

Ranicand wrote: »

Turn off the firewall on your router and you will not have packet loss.

Thanks... just did this now and what a difference in the result. I did a ping test last night and 84% of the packets were lost. I was getting huge lag while online gaming but always had a great result from speedtest.net. Hope this cuts down on the lag.

UPC 10meg
Mullingar

Ranicand · 10-02-2010 10:09pm

mattman wrote: »

DONT TURN YOUR FIREWALL OFF!

i tried that. with it on or off , i got slightly better results with firewall on!

you are at risk if u leave it off.

Wrong wrong wrong your PC should have a firewall you don't need one on your router too.

Many poster of here have gone from an F result to an A result by turning off the firewall on the router.

Also you are on Eircom I was talking about UPC routers.

EricM · 11-02-2010 1:12am

Turning the firewall off isnt making your connection any better or faster, its just allowing the test to work. So leave the firewall on.

mattman · 11-02-2010 6:43pm

EricM wrote: »

Turning the firewall off isnt making your connection any better or faster, its just allowing the test to work. So leave the firewall on.

QUOTE.....
"Wrong wrong wrong your PC should have a firewall you don't need one on your router too.

Many poster of here have gone from an F result to an A result by turning off the firewall on the router.

Also you are on Eircom I was talking about UPC routers. "

>

so its only for UPC only...your on about..fair nuff..

I have firewall on pc's and router..better safe than sorry!

m.

Ranicand · 11-02-2010 7:33pm

mattman wrote: »

QUOTE.....
"Wrong wrong wrong your PC should have a firewall you don't need one on your router too.

Many poster of here have gone from an F result to an A result by turning off the firewall on the router.

Also you are on Eircom I was talking about UPC routers. "
>

so its only for UPC only...your on about..fair nuff..

I have firewall on pc's and router..better safe than sorry!

m.

A firewall has many settings and the router supplied by UPC has the Firewall set in such a way that it gives a terrible connection for gaming and an F result on ping test.

Unless people know how to configure a firewall the best setting is off.

deceit · 14-02-2010 1:27am

Worst connection i've had so far

Jerichoholic · 15-02-2010 2:53pm

Vodafone has been wretched for the last 2 weeks, why pay for a 7 meg connection when all you get is 1.5? By that rational I'll be paying them about €4 for the next bill that comes in the door, and take 7 months to pay it.

blocparty · 15-02-2010 10:45pm

id advise people to change servers that they test from, here in cork i usuaully used limerick which gave me barely a meg download and half a meg upload and a ping of 182. i tired irishisptest.com and got 6.92 mb down, 687kb up so i decided to see what if i changed to dublin server on speedtest.net and got

obsydion · 16-02-2010 10:30am

NTL 15MBit

I was experiencing >60% packet loss before I turned off the firewall in my CISCO router.

Can anyone tell me how I should ping manually from Mac OS X? I've bought up the Network Utility and the Ping tab but need a recommended site and ping number.
Cheers

PerrinV2 · 19-02-2010 11:36pm

Just got connected today.....so what does it all mean?

kennethk · 26-02-2010 1:33am

:mad:
Can you buy boosters for 3 dongles?? i got a 160g

Joeface · 26-02-2010 11:09am

@PerrinV2 : you can surf but slowly , and skype and the like will prob be crap , you can't game on line.

what was the speed suppose to be

@kennethk , in away yes.
Get one of the 3G wireless routers like the EDimax 6200n , find the best signal in your house/place of living and set the router up there. Have done this for my sister and GF sister . after some testing to find the sweet spot , have a constant 1.5mb down and 400kbs up , ping between 78-120 not bad for a 3G. and they are miles from the nearest mast. many many many miles

Nichololas · 26-02-2010 2:33pm

So I got the 30Mb connection yesterday, came with the EPC2425 wireless router/cable modem that a lot of people have been having trouble with and I've been doing some tests. So far I haven't had any of the major problems (connections dropped, router needing to be reset, etc) that other people have.

Here's the speedtest results with my laptop connected to the router via ethernet:

And connected wirelessly sitting next to the router:

Connected wirelessly from my upstairs desk, where I use it mostly:

I accept that you'll never get as good performance as ethernet over wireless, but the main problem I have is with my desktop computer, which also connects wirelessly (A Linksys a/b/g PCI card). The connection it gets varies wildly literally depending on what direction the computer's facing. If I leave it under my desk I get this:

whereas if I pull it out a bit I get this (and it's usually ~10Mbits, this is the best I've managed to get)

The ping test results for the desktop are also pretty dire:

I'm pretty sure the major problem is that the wireless card I have is useless, as it never worked as well as the laptop with my old connection either.

I have a Linksys WRT54GL (DD-WRT) that worked great when bridged with the old netopia eircom router/modem, but from reading the EPC2425 thread in this forum I gather you can't bridge connections with ethernet cables.

So, does anyone have any solutions/advice/suggestions (other than buying a new wireless card, which I'm looking into

)? If I brought the wrt54gl upstairs, connected it via ethernet to my desktop and bridged it wirelessly to the epc2425 would I get better performance? TIA ..

edit: and sorry for the swathe of speedtest images

further edit:

Turning off the firewall did wonders for the ping, now getting:

neilthefunkeone · 26-02-2010 6:57pm

Thats myself at 5.50pm today.. I check it every few days and ive never seen it below 8mb..

PerrinV2 · 26-02-2010 9:10pm

Joeface wrote: »

@PerrinV2 : you can surf but slowly , and skype and the like will prob be crap , you can't game on line.

Thats what I assumed too but lately I've been able to play the xbox online

jay93 · 27-02-2010 1:40am

kennethk wrote: »

:mad:
Can you buy boosters for 3 dongles?? i got a 160g

wow that is very bad ??im not sure i suppose you may need to ask 3 about that is your e160g dongle showing a green or blue light when coonected and if so how is the signal in mobile partner connection window??as i see you done the test after midnight which should not be this bad that is extemely bad no other providers in your area no??:mad:

jay93 · 27-02-2010 1:40am

kennethk wrote: »

:mad:
Can you buy boosters for 3 dongles?? i got a 160g

wow that is very bad ??im not sure i suppose you may need to ask 3 about that is your e160g dongle showing a green or blue light when coonected and if so how is the signal in mobile partner connection window??as i see you done the test after midnight which should not be this bad that is extemely bad no other providers in your area no??:mad:

patrickc · 27-02-2010 3:14pm

n0brain3r · 01-03-2010 1:21am

jay93 · 02-03-2010 8:23pm

3 mobile broadband ...Meath 3.6MB connection speed

:D

The.Q · 02-03-2010 10:47pm

Just upgraded from Perlico 1MB to Vodafone 7MB, first time test. Not too shabby for this time of the evening!:D

jay93 · 03-03-2010 5:19pm

o2 mobile broadband meath same area as my 3 broadband test
also my 3mb eircom test

speeds are good all round just cant depend on the o2 modem as much as my fixed line but as the current speeds of o2 are faster than 3mb eircom but at peak times this can go way down

gilbert · 08-03-2010 11:00am

UPC(NTL) 30 MB, Dublin 2,

Just got it installed this morning. it is not that impressive, is it?:mad:

Board Senseless · 08-03-2010 6:33pm

My first A.

Got upgraded to eircom's "Up to 24" today. I was told I'd only get fifteen and my modem says I do, but reality disagrees.

My pings have actually halved since yesterday, which was a nice suprise.

Joeface · 08-03-2010 6:54pm

JUST BEFORE 6PM , 3mb line

I WILL ADD AFTER 8PM

sombaht · 08-03-2010 7:03pm

UPC/Chorus 15mb fibre:

[URL="[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/741536377.png[/IMG][/URL]"][/url]

[URL="[URL=http://www.pingtest.net][IMG]http://www.pingtest.net/result/12095092.png[/IMG][/URL]"][/url]

Hell of an improvement from the service I was supposed to be getting from Vodafone

Cheers,
sombaht

John2009 · 08-03-2010 7:32pm

UPC Fibre Power 30Mb

Happy out so far hope it holds up

DULLAHAN2 · 09-03-2010 9:40am

VODAFONE

20goto10 · 09-03-2010 9:53am

Hi guys,

I have a strange problem where I cannot get an accurate speed test rating. I recently switched to Magnet Force 10 (10Mb Down 512K up) and speed tests are showing 50Mb/Sec - 110Mb/Sec on both their own speed test and on speedtest.net. I'm in work now so cannot post the results but having a quick scan through this thread I can see other Magnet customers have posted 50Mb/Sec speeds (e.g Page 1 and 3).

I have spoken to Magnet and they cannot explain it. Does anyone have an idea as to why I get these crazy results or can anyone suggest anywhere that gives accurate speed results?

The only consistency I can see is that I'm getting 250Kb/Sec when downloading files from various sources, clearly not 10Mb speeds but obviously not a reliable speed test as it relies on the servers you are downloading from.

Honsou · 09-03-2010 10:14am

This thread is brilliant. I know NTL fiber 20mb (which will open up in Dunboyne at the end of March) will be the best package to get for streaming gaming from desktop.

There customer support has been very good sorting out my ntl tv package, hopefully it will be the same experience with the broadband.

Honsou.

emmetcummins · 13-03-2010 6:26pm

1MB Broadband Eircom. Very ghey

RoryW · 14-03-2010 11:38am

dublin 9

thomasoreilly · 15-03-2010 12:05pm

Magnet 10Mb ADSL2+
Priory Exchange, Stillorgan, Dublin
About 1KM from exchange.

Late night tests, will update with Peak times tests when I can.

harryohh · 15-03-2010 8:12pm

Eircom 7mb

TiNcAn · 16-03-2010 12:03am

IBB 3mb line. Dublin 5.

Broadband Kid · 19-03-2010 3:52pm

Eircom 3MB Co. Cork

Already starting to slow down just after 5.

Have a look at it now. This is an absolute disgrace. It's more like dial up now.

Joeface · 20-03-2010 11:57pm

Crap as usual
WinMTR statistics

Host % Sent Recv Best Avrg Wrst Last
192.168.1.1 0 23 23 0 0 16 0
89.19.64.129 10 23 20 15 20 31 16
89.19.64.181 10 22 20 15 33 156 31
193.95.147.65 14 22 19 31 64 234 46
vlan71.rt001.cwt.esat.net 14 22 19 31 108 1188 47
ge3-0.br002.cwt.esat.net 19 22 18 31 42 125 31
google-gw.br002.cwt.esat.net 14 22 19 31 34 63 31
209.85.252.162 14 22 19 31 33 47 47
72.14.232.235 19 22 18 31 33 47 31
64.233.174.18 19 22 18 31 36 47 47
66.102.9.106 14 22 19 31 33 47 31

Shiny · 21-03-2010 1:24pm

Normally my speeds are fairly consistent at 10Mb/1Mb but
for some reason today they are totally gone to compete
****!!

Did everyone get the default UPC upgrade today or something??

sombaht · 21-03-2010 5:41pm

Seems fine right now . . .

[URL="[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/756262734.png[/IMG][/URL]"][/url]

Cheers,
sombaht

Delaine · 22-03-2010 12:45am

And this is the best packet loss rating I've been able to get lately.

John2009 · 22-03-2010 12:49am

Delaine wrote: »

And this is the best packet loss rating I've been able to get lately.

Turn off the firewall on your modem and do a re-test.

Delaine · 22-03-2010 12:56am

John2009 wrote: »

Turn off the firewall on your modem and do a re-test.

Cheers!

labratd22 · 22-03-2010 12:58am

BT 8mb line in Clondalkin Dublin, will see what its like at the end of the week, switch to vodafone on Wednesday

WIZE · 22-03-2010 1:00am

John2009 · 22-03-2010 1:09am

Its great to have high speed broadband

Broadband Kid · 23-03-2010 6:30pm

Eircom 3MB Co. Cork

http://i.imagehost.org/view/0593/speedtest

aerocell · 25-03-2010 10:47am

Vodafone 20Mb still have a slight problem with the noise margin which is way too low between 4-5db, causing some minor sync issues nothing to bad, will need to get the profile dropped slightly to bring this up.
(I kept getting very low results on the Dublin server so I used Limerick, looks alot better)

Killed · 25-03-2010 10:57am

Eircom1MB Kilkerrin Co. Galway. This is what's known as broadband in the sticks. :mad:

Mister Gooey · 25-03-2010 11:39am

Using pigeons would be quicker!!!!!!!!

Shane732 · 25-03-2010 11:47am

Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

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