Other ISP tests

steve-hosting36

Not wanting to hi-jack, but there is also a simple ad-free one at http://speedtest.ie

mneylon

steve-hosting36 wrote:

Not wanting to hi-jack

Really?

Rollo Tamasi

how is that not hijacking?

dahamsta

How is anyone not surprised?

Serbian

Does anyone else get considerably different results between SpeedTest.ie and IrishISPTest.ie? I get a much more stable (and faster) result from Irish ISP Test whereas my connection is all over the place on SpeedTest.ie.

steve-hosting36

Hi Serbian,

Can you post a tracert?

Serbian

steve-hosting36 wrote:

Can you post a tracert?

Sure thing. Here is a trace to both of them:

Speedtest.ie

Tracing route to www.speedtest.ie [82.195.130.250] over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  *
  2    23 ms    22 ms    21 ms  *.mysmart.ie [*]
  3    25 ms    23 ms    23 ms  ge1-3-0-107.core1.tcy.dub.stisp.net [84.203.130.
*]
  4    24 ms   142 ms    24 ms  ge1-3-0-100.edge1.tcy.dub.stisp.net [84.203.130.
90]
  5    26 ms    23 ms    25 ms  84.203.138.118
  6    26 ms    25 ms    25 ms  bashful.hosting365.ie [82.195.128.11]
  7    26 ms    26 ms    27 ms  redirect.hosting365.ie [82.195.130.250]

Trace complete.

IrishISPTest.ie

Tracing route to www.irishisptest.ie [81.17.240.197] over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  *
  2    24 ms    21 ms    22 ms  *.mysmart.ie [*]
  3    25 ms    23 ms    23 ms  ge1-3-0-107.core1.tcy.dub.stisp.net [84.203.130.
*]
  4    25 ms    23 ms    23 ms  ge1-3-0-101.edge1.hba.dub.stisp.net [84.203.130.
30]
  5    27 ms    25 ms    24 ms  84.203.208.158
  6    26 ms    24 ms    25 ms  ge-1-dr1-dub01.blacknight.ie [81.17.240.74]
  7    26 ms    25 ms    25 ms  fe-0-fw1-dub01.blacknight.ie [81.17.240.132]
  8    27 ms    25 ms    25 ms  fe-0-ar1-dub01.blacknight.ie [81.17.240.148]
  9    25 ms    25 ms    25 ms  palermo.mneylon.com [81.17.240.197]

Trace complete.

Can't seem to attach any images to my post at the moment so here are some links to screenshots of the result on the speedtests (My connection speed is 6 Megs down / 512k up):

Irish ISP Test Result | SpeedTest Result

DOLEMAN

steve-hosting36 wrote:

...ad-free...

http://www.badongo.com/pic/185077

Good site though! Looks like my broadband connection is only slightly faster than my old modem today...

CuLT

tbh, I instantly switched to speedtest.ie as soon as I heard about it.

The registration stuff on irishisptest was rather irritating, I'm not interested in my speed history.

Plus, trying to get people to register for it over the phone, then perform the speedtests proved to be too much hassle.

rsynnott

Well, people's definitions of "ads" seem to differ a bit