Irish isp test

bminish

One other question,

Why does this speed test also give such a poor result for a 5Mb netsource line?

.Brendan

ntlbell

bminish wrote:

NTL peer in London (as well as the INEX?). What do your NTL pings to heanet.ie look like?
.Brendan

If you asking do NTL peer with INEX yes they do.

much the same

Pinging ftp.heanet.ie [193.1.193.64] with 32 bytes of d

Reply from 193.1.193.64: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=56
Reply from 193.1.193.64: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=56
Reply from 193.1.193.64: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=56
Reply from 193.1.193.64: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=56


And IBB ping's to heanet below

Pinging ftp.heanet.ie [193.1.193.64] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 193.1.193.64: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=56
Reply from 193.1.193.64: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=56
Reply from 193.1.193.64: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=56
Reply from 193.1.193.64: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=56
Reply from 193.1.193.64: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=56
Reply from 193.1.193.64: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=56

flamegrill

Hi Brendan,

That traceroute will drastically change soon

I can see the problem though, smart's ISP pick up global crossing in the <edit> US </edit> and not in Ireland. Glbx' transatlantic pop is on the same DC floor we host in, hence why we are so quick into anyone using glbx out of dublin. It is a less optimal route I have to admit, but it will change in the not too distant future.

On the netsource line, it should report very well. e.g we have a 4mb line in the office in carlow and it reports the speed exactly as the same as what I can pull stuff off heanet.

Can you provide a trace from there too? ta.

Paul

Boomer23

bminish wrote:

The problems begin when people start whining on about how bad their ISP is based on the results of this test.
.Brendan

i totally agree with you, but then again that would mean that this Board would be practically empty........

ntlbell

bminish wrote:

The problems begin when people start whining on about how bad their ISP is based on the results of this test.
.Brendan

They should always be testing from multiple sites anyway.

ntlbell

Boomer23 wrote:

obviously he is trying to show that with ping results like that you cannot get accurate readings

traffic on a site directly affects your connection to the site, therefore if a load of people are doing tests at the same time it will show slower then if there is low traffic

this is basics ntlbell

They are HIS ping results tho, mine on 3/4 ISP's are all fine to blacknight, so showing just HIS pings is not proving much, except a problem with HIS ISP's peering, which is what he was trying to disprove.

I should really learn the basics after all these years, I've obviosuly hidden it well from my employer :rolleyes:

bminish

flamegrill wrote:

Hi Brendan,

That traceroute will drastically change soon

Good, We all could do with a fair an accurate speed tester

Can you provide a trace from there too? ta.
Paul

today I get 3.10 Mb up 225 Kbs down. This is a 5M 512K netsource line with no other users.

Here's this route

# tracepath www.irishisptest.com
 1?: [LOCALHOST]     pmtu 1492
 1:  adsl (212.17.55.97)                                  asymm 101   0.772ms
 2:  rt004dub.netsource.ie (213.79.63.254)                 74.891ms
 3:  rt001kil.netsource.ie (212.17.32.101)                asymm  2  83.104ms
 4:  64.215.182.205 (64.215.182.205)                       76.579ms
 5:  Data-Electronics-Group-LTD.so-4-1-0.ar1.dub1.gblx.net (64.215.184.194) asymm  4  77.659ms
 6:  217.114.160.43 (217.114.160.43)                      asymm  5  77.450ms
 7:  217.114.172.149 (217.114.172.149)                    asymm  6  84.237ms
 8:  morgana.blacknight.ie (87.252.192.15)                asymm  7  79.784ms reached
     Resume: pmtu 1492 hops 8 back 7

and a curl
# curl -o /dev/null ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/centos/4.2/isos/i386/CentOS-4.2.ServerCD-i386.iso
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed          Time             Curr.
                                 Dload  Upload Total    Current  Left    Speed
  4  558M    4 24.9M    0     0   505k      0  0:18:51  0:00:50  0:18:01  515k

definitely better peering on this path

.brendan

Freddie59

oscarBravo wrote:

It's only really a problem if you're an ISP and it dramatically misrepresents your customers' connection speeds.

I think it's a brilliant site. I used to have 3 Meg NTL (now 1 Meg). Religiously use it to test it - never a bother. Interesting one - friend of mine had a desktop PC running on w98SE - NTL showing 1.25M on a 2 meg. XP laptop connected to same line consisitently clocking 1.95M. So don't necessarily go blaming the www.irishisptest.com;)

AdMMM

Also I'm guessing it may deter random people hammering the application if they see they have to register?

Sparky

digiweb seem to go to london and back

Target Name: irishisptest.com
IP: 87.252.192.15
Date/Time: 26/02/2006 13:36:43

1 11 ms 15 ms 13 ms 11 ms 14 ms 26 ms 13 ms 10 ms 12 ms 11 ms 9 ms 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms 11 ms 13 ms 12 ms 10 ms 11 ms [83.147.173.1]
2 39 ms 15 ms 16 ms 16 ms 21 ms 20 ms 18 ms 13 ms 13 ms 329 ms 27 ms 14 ms 20 ms 21 ms 37 ms 109 ms 26 ms 228 ms 88 ms 26 ms gi-0-0-61.dub-deg-br2.net.digiweb.ie [83.147.163.161]
3 25 ms 18 ms 15 ms 17 ms 19 ms 14 ms 16 ms 17 ms 16 ms 15 ms 124 ms 234 ms 314 ms 19 ms 21 ms 28 ms 16 ms 41 ms 30 ms 23 ms gi-0-2-45.dub-deg-br1.net.digiweb.ie [83.147.163.38]
4 35 ms 29 ms 31 ms 31 ms 29 ms 37 ms 33 ms 32 ms 39 ms 27 ms 32 ms 30 ms 41 ms 31 ms 28 ms 26 ms 26 ms 39 ms 45 ms 26 ms 816.ge5-0.mpr1.lhr1.uk.above.net [213.161.79.65]
5 29 ms 23 ms 30 ms 27 ms 32 ms 38 ms 50 ms 30 ms 29 ms 33 ms 31 ms 32 ms 31 ms 29 ms 29 ms 26 ms 34 ms 28 ms 37 ms 30 ms pos4-0.mpr2.lhr1.uk.above.net [208.185.156.14]
6 28 ms 24 ms 29 ms 29 ms 55 ms 29 ms 40 ms 34 ms 23 ms 31 ms 34 ms 47 ms 26 ms 33 ms 25 ms 31 ms 32 ms 30 ms 38 ms 47 ms globalcrossing-mfn.mfnx.net [208.185.188.66]
7 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [-]
8 48 ms 41 ms 33 ms 33 ms 40 ms 47 ms 39 ms 41 ms 36 ms 37 ms 41 ms 39 ms 48 ms 61 ms 43 ms 39 ms 56 ms 36 ms 47 ms 58 ms Data-Electronics-Group-LTD.so-4-1-0.ar1.dub1.gblx.net [64.215.184.194]
9 59 ms 37 ms 32 ms 42 ms 40 ms 36 ms 47 ms 41 ms 44 ms 40 ms 37 ms 34 ms 49 ms 43 ms 43 ms 36 ms 52 ms 38 ms 53 ms 57 ms [217.114.160.11]
10 50 ms 49 ms 31 ms 51 ms 37 ms 49 ms 36 ms 37 ms 49 ms 38 ms 37 ms 41 ms 47 ms 45 ms 34 ms 34 ms 46 ms 36 ms 57 ms 55 ms [217.114.172.149]
11 43 ms 43 ms 40 ms 49 ms 35 ms 43 ms 35 ms 34 ms 39 ms 36 ms 36 ms 48 ms 52 ms 44 ms 37 ms 54 ms 72 ms 36 ms 59 ms 45 ms morgana.blacknight.ie [87.252.192.15]

flamegrill

Again this will change when we peer with digiweb at inex ..

Paul