Testing BB Speed

pm.

hi, is there a site i can go to to test my bb speed ?????

kippy

http://www.irishisptest.com/


Google is also a good place to start.....
kippy

tvbrat

pm. wrote:

hi, is there a site i can go to to test my bb speed ?????

http://www.irishisptest.com/

You have to sign up, but it's free
They also have a results area where you can view your speed over time

greglo23

http://www.numion.com/ try this too

DemonOfTheFall

Just gave numion a few runs and it gives me crap results, nothing like the actual speeds I get...

Anarchist

tvbrat wrote:

http://www.irishisptest.com/

You have to sign up, but it's free
They also have a results area where you can view your speed over time

I find very accurate.

tvbrat

Anarchist wrote:

I find very accurate.

Yea its probably the best for Ireland.
Their summary at present only lists the last 10 Results,
so its a good idea to save them and over time it should give a good
idea about your stats.

Maybe Blacknight will up-grade it, and keep longer stats, so when contacting your ISP you can give them an independent status of your broadband speed

keyran

Trying a test download from a reliable site as well is probably one of the most accurate readings you will get.

Remember to disable anything that might be using a lot of your bandwidth for really accurate readings (limewire, Skype, MSN etc.)

Xennon

try downlaoding from here
http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian-cd/3.0_r4/alpha/
they have a high bandwidth connection.

Those website speed indicators are never right imho

Dave_W

event

tvbrat wrote:

Yea its probably the best for Ireland.
Their summary at present only lists the last 10 Results,
so its a good idea to save them and over time it should give a good
idea about your stats.

Maybe Blacknight will up-grade it, and keep longer stats, so when contacting your ISP you can give them an independent status of your broadband speed

its not that accurate of a website

you should try downloading a heanet file from their site

pm.

tvbrat wrote:

http://www.irishisptest.com/

You have to sign up, but it's free
They also have a results area where you can view your speed over time

what a great site i got my results 463 kbps download and 131 kbp up load.
its a hell of a lot better than my old connection speed of 14.4 kbps :eek: thanks all for the info. whats the highest speed you can get here ??

DemonOfTheFall

here, as in Ireland ?

I think Magnet offer 24 meg DSL.

Tenshot

DemonOfTheFall wrote:

I think Magnet offer 24 meg DSL.

Has anyone actually got this? And if so, are you getting anywhere close to 24 mb/s?

philologos

its 250 euro I think, not many people would really

zuma

The only people able to afford that connection would be a businesss.

24Mbit/s is the absolute maximum....15-20Mbit/s is far more likely.

I have access to eircoms 5Mbit/s connection for €160excl.VAT a month....but Im currently located in Limerick and Magnet have no short term prospects of moving here!

flamegrill

Just a note on irishisptest. We actually keep all your test results

We only display the last 10... I think perhaps this could be extended. Since we started the new site and upto right now we're recorded 26928 test results

Pretty damned impressive IMO

I'll talk to the developer about maybe allowing a csv dump of the results.

Paul

steve-hosting36

http://speedtest.ie also offers a quick and handy check.

Boomer23

flamegrill wrote:

Just a note on irishisptest. We actually keep all your test results

that would be handy if it was accurate, which it is not!

flamegrill

It is accurate. Many 1000's of users results are accurate. Some providers who are unable to connect to us at INEX (NTL being the only one ..) may have issues for the moment. But mostly all of our users get good accurate results.

Paul

mneylon

tvbrat wrote:

Maybe Blacknight will up-grade it, and keep longer stats, so when contacting your ISP you can give them an independent status of your broadband speed

How many results would be useful to see?