Broadband Speed Test thread

quad_red

Phlann wrote: »

I'm also living in the broadband backwater that is Charlo. I'm starting to wonder if the Adelaide Rd. exchange will ever be upgraded.

Don't be fooled by the phone number test on Smart's website btw, it claims we're serviced by the Ship St. exchange but it's incorrect. Smart can't provide broadband to our area. I know this because I tried getting it about a week ago, went through the order phase and everything, then they rang me a few days later to tell me it's a mistake on their website. Pretty annoying.

As far as I know the max we can get with any provider at present is 3mb.

Yeah, tried ordering SMART a year and a half ago and only after a few weeks of to-ing and fro-ing did Smart admit/realise that they provide us with broadband.

So we're on the Adelaide Road exchange? You'd think with Mercer next door etc. that the lines would be decent spec

Who are you with Phlann?

RoyalMarine

DingDong wrote: »

Try download this from heanet to see what speed you get sometimes speed tests can be off. http://ftp.heanet.ie/disk1/TheOpenCD/07.02/OpenCD%20v07.02.iso

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1080/speedxt5.jpg

CRAIG07

i have just done a speed test and got 10989kb/s download and 102kb/s upload. im on eircom home starter. is this good havent got a clue but i think its getting slower the last few months

done it again and got

mental07

mental07

And a few minutes later:

Marlow

bit sad with the upstream there.

/M

sticker

BT 3meg line in Clonee... It's been bad all week.

Jumpin'Jesus - how slow is that - I think it's to NTL for me...

kowloon

Just posted this in a new thread without seeing this one:

Live in Naul, couldn't get Ice before due to line of sight issues but Digiweb mobile broadband was good, supposed to be over 5 meg connectin
For the first month I get D/L speeds of about 150kb/s, a damn sight better than dial up.
Recently, however, it has become unstable and can stop me from using the net for a few hours at a time.
I just ran the speed test on www.irishisptest.com and got these results:

39.2ms avg. Jitter
49.5% avg. packet loss
99.8kbps D/L
31.9kbps U/L
Round trip time 130ms
Max delay 322ms

Can someone Interpret these results for me?

Would getting an aerial to attach to the card in the router help?

Walker34

Walker34

WellyJ,
What Eircom package is giving 49megs down and 10megs up as your post implies, or is this a bit of creative editing?

RoyalMarine

Walker34 wrote: »

WellyJ,
What Eircom package is giving 49megs down and 10megs up as your post implies, or is this a bit of creative editing?

maybe he's at work and they have a fiberoptic line.

sticker

Walker34 wrote: »

Walker,

I'm about to jump ship from BT to NTL - they say i'm in the 12meg area, Do you have torrent throttling issues? (if you use torrents obviously!)

Walker34

Not that Im aware of....anyways.

Phlann

quad_red wrote: »

Yeah, tried ordering SMART a year and a half ago and only after a few weeks of to-ing and fro-ing did Smart admit/realise that they provide us with broadband.

So we're on the Adelaide Road exchange? You'd think with Mercer next door etc. that the lines would be decent spec

Who are you with Phlann?

My thoughts exactly. Although I'd imagine they've got something rigged to give them good speeds. Ridiculous that 5-10 minutes from the centre of the capital city we can't get more than 3mb/s... can't get a straight answer out of anybody re: upgrading the exchange, seems like it might not happen any time soon.

I'm with esat currently but about to head over to Magnet who can give me the same speeds with no download cap and no contention ratio for roughly the same price. Or so they claim.

lmimmfn

For my 3mb, 66Euro per month connection on www.irishisptest.com i get:
Download: 1.07Mbps
Upload: 49.8 kbps
QOS: 66%
Jitter: 67.2
Packet loss: 0

Walker34

I have NTL Ultra, 12meg down 1meg up costs €46/month as far as I can tell. Im thinking of changing to the MAX Pack
for €89/month. It has local/national phone calls,digital TV,and 12 meg BB. Anyone else got this and how good is it?
Every time I ring sales in NTL I get a slightly different story.

Adriatic

Net1 is on fire recently and I'm paying for 3mb up/down

lmimmfn

Im on fire, 3mb connection

RoyalMarine

Adriatic wrote: »

Net1 is on fire recently and I'm paying for 3mb up/down

ntl are currently in the middle of a huge upgrade to their network. on occasion, your speed will be double to what you currently are paying for.

in the coming months, your speed will double permantly on the condition you sign up to a new contract for 12 months with them.

3mb is becomming 6mb.
6mb is becomming 12mb.

prices will not increase at all.

download limits are also being raised. 120gb per month limit for 12mb.

so over the next few weeks/months your speed will be normal and sometimes double.

enjoy.

RoyalMarine

here's my beautiful 6mb with ntl.



shame its 3am and i dont get that all the time

Loveless

just realised I've 'upgraded' from 3MB to 6MB NTL, woo hoo

ChessHacker

eircom Home Professional 3072/384

Router: Netgear DG834GT



ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3072 kbps 384 kbps
Line Attenuation 43.0 db 26.0 db
Noise Margin 12.3 db 15.0 db

Irish ISP test

Speed test statistics

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Download speed: 2671840 bps
Upload speed: 328536 bps
Quality of service: 90 %
Download test type: socket
Upload test type: socket
Maximum download pause: 75 ms
Average download pause: 6 ms
Minimum round trip time to server: 13 ms
Average round trip time to server: 260 ms

prod_igy

Eircom Home Starter 1mb



:(:confused:

Nehaxak

IBB Breeze fixed wireless - 3Mb/3Mb - Yes I know my upload is faster than my download, sometimes it jumps/bursts close to 6Mb for some reason.

sticker

Well after BT throttled me last week - I'm with NTL now...



...quite happy with that - thank you very much!:D

gpjordanf1

UTV Quicksilver 1MB

JoeB-

Poxy Vodafone

Bros123

Nehaxak wrote: »

IBB Breeze fixed wireless - 3Mb/3Mb - Yes I know my upload is faster than my download, sometimes it jumps/bursts close to 6Mb for some reason.

And on another thread when I asked are IBB capable of faster speeds on their fixed wireless I was told the system wasn't capable.


Heres mine!IBB 3Mb

Praetorian

Well lets just say that UPC are owning the speed tests in Ireland

Brianb8802

:D:D



Got this a few weeks back.

Not sure if this is the highest so far.

Im using the IT Sligo connection