Broadband Speed Test Megathread

pirelli

:mad:

NTMK

Anyone experiencing poor service on upc im on the 10mb package

Tea_Bag

NTMK, not me:)

NTMK

Damn we wouldnt have reset all settings on the cisco would we?

bijou

Just thought you lot would love to see what you're missing:mad::mad:



bijou

tech_guy

Magnet (Rory) wrote: »

Where are you living.

Hi Rory,

Why BB latency is very bad in south dublin? My colleague struggles to get good connection with 7.6mb 12:1 Imagine Business Broadband. Do you have any 1:1 service in this area with good result? Or something wrong in their exchange or location? He was on 3mb bb but then upgraded it to 7.6mb just last week with 12 months contract which was using as per a Tech support. Is there any way to cancel it and get Magnet 1:1 without any disruption of service. Please advise. I need to sort it out.

Thanks in advance.

Magnet: Rory

tech_guy wrote: »

Hi Rory,

Why BB latency is very bad in south dublin? My colleague struggles to get good connection with 7.6mb 12:1 Imagine Business Broadband. Do you have any 1:1 service in this area with good result? Or something wrong in their exchange or location? He was on 3mb bb but then upgraded it to 7.6mb just last week with 12 months contract which was using as per a Tech support. Is there any way to cancel it and get Magnet 1:1 without any disruption of service. Please advise. I need to sort it out.

Thanks in advance.

Hmm, tis very far south, dont think we have any equipment down there. Send me a PM with the phone number and ill check.

Sorry for going off topic.

Shredd

Eircom 3mb at 10am. Quality service :P

Redbull47

hey
does anybody know of any wireless providers in Tipperary Town area?
have checked all the major one and only Ice provide in the area. Line unsuitable for dsl
cheers

CRAIG07

im on eircom 3mb but not getting 3mb ?

why is this ?

mobby

CRAIG07 wrote: »

im on eircom 3mb but not getting 3mb ?

why is this ?

You will find they say up to 3mb.

This be mine speed http://www.speedtest.net/result/592309344.png
Not the 7mb Eircom state but overall Happy enough

mattman

got new VOIP modem/router from eircom...

things got better! and cheap calls!



will ping boards.ie is average 15ms ! was about 23ms !

Last Result: magnet speed test...

ping 14ms
Download Speed: 6136 kbps (767 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 326 kbps (40.8 KB/sec transfer rate)





oOo

Johnboy1951

mattman, is that router locked to Eircom or can you enter any VOIP supplier's information into it?

What make/model is it? Thanks.

nice speeds but i would really like to see what speeds the WiMax system brings to the table - heres mine - not too bad for three since i switched back to them and it seems to be costant for the most part (2mb to 4 mb speeds usually)



Magnet File download results

Download Speed: 4143 kbps (517.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1140 kbps (142.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

bryaner

ewj1978

it will be interesting to see what the WiMax Network speeds will be like when they go live.

-Trek-

:mad:

Venom

FullHouse

This is what I'm getting with Eircom. Roughly a mile from the server. Small bit worried about the pings but this speed generally holds even through peak times. Might occasionly drop to 5.5 for half an hour or so but I can live with that.

Owwmykneecap

Item            Downstream           Upstream          Unit

SNR Margin               4                 20            dB

Line Attenuation        18                 13            dB

Data Rate             7168	          384        	kbps

Anyone have the number for eircom to ring and complain about this?
7 meg package and its always like this now.

Used to hit 6.1 on average...

Owwmykneecap

At 2:38.

Will see how it is at 8pm

kenyard

on a 1Mb/s line, downloading while testing.. saw posts here and was concerned i was getting ripped off.. actual download speed is usually about 120kb/s

dont know why the ping is so high.. did it to a dublin test from tipperary, im guessing its because i had other stuff running at the time...

anyone have price comparisons of broadbands in ireland at different speeds?

GKN18

GKN18

GKN18 wrote: »

who provides your internet? and how come its local ethernet instead of a registered ISP?

bronn

Now, if only I could figure out why I've got p*ss poor download speeds on Azureus... Never happy, huh?

kenyard

warlikedave wrote: »

who provides your internet? and how come its local ethernet instead of a registered ISP?

probably his host is where he did the speedtest to - was it digiweb or something i did it to in dublin..? cant remember... :P

that would make it local i would figure..? no?

LFC5Times

It says on the Eircom Bill, we have Broadband Business Starter @ €40.00 per month ( includes a download speed of up to 7.6mb and an unlimited download allowance)

Anybody know if we are getting what we are paying for? Works out at €48.60 (incl. VAT)

My Dad's company pay for it, as he needs to use it for work purposes himself when home.

dhidra

3mb with UPC.....usuallt fine during the day but between 8-11pm every evening it's a disaster.

kenyard

kenyard wrote: »

probably his host is where he did the speedtest to - was it digiweb or something i did it to in dublin..? cant remember... :P

that would make it local i would figure..? no?

isp would still show up since he was connceting to his host through a external ip address - didnt realise that digiweb does internet solutions for consumers. Thought they only did it for Businesses?

kleefarr

Wow. (As in - I'm on an 8Mb BT connection which at best has been giving 6Mb.)

I'll see what it's like in 20 mins or so.

kleefarr

I knew it was a freak reading...

google searh magnet speed test and that will give you more accurate readings. speedtest.net can be inaccurate to say the least.

Ricky91t

warlikedave wrote: »

isp would still show up since he was connceting to his host through a external ip address - didnt realise that digiweb does internet solutions for consumers. Thought they only did it for Businesses?

Chances are it's campus broadband..

2/1 service,I do get the speeds sometimes!

kleefarr

warlikedave wrote: »

google searh magnet speed test and that will give you more accurate readings. speedtest.net can be inaccurate to say the least.

Although pings and upload don't look too bad.

Shredd

Standard.

kleefarr

kleefarr wrote: »

Although pings and upload don't look too bad.

Sweet jesus thats some difference to the other test you did - did you run aload of tests or just the one with magnet?

kleefarr

Just did the one test.

Here are three I did just now..

Last Result:
Download Speed: 2048 kbps (256 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 433 kbps (54.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Last Result:
Download Speed: 772 kbps (96.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 420 kbps (52.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

Last Result:
Download Speed: 956 kbps (119.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 433 kbps (54.1 KB/sec transfer rate)




TEST LINK

Marlow

warlikedave wrote: »

google searh magnet speed test and that will give you more accurate readings. speedtest.net can be inaccurate to say the least.

That's nonsense. The Magnet speedtest is THE SAME as speedtest.net. It's the same people developing it. Stop spreading such nonsense !!

Differences come from, where the servers are placed. And you should always check more than one.

/M

Marlow

Marlow wrote: »

That's nonsense. The Magnet speedtest is THE SAME as speedtest.net. It's the same people developing it. Stop spreading such nonsense !!

Differences come from, where the servers are placed. And you should always check more than one.

/M

speedtest.net is less accurate due to more flucuation - the proof - i got 8mb persecond with speedtest on a three modem stick! while i was getting 2-3mb constantly on the magnet test - so ligically after doing alot of tests using both i determined that magnet was more accurate. Either way at the end of the day - it matters not too much - the best way is to manually download a file from microsoft.com or apple.com and see what your file download speeds are like. I feel that would give the most accurate readings into your conncetion as well as manually pinging eircom.net from the command prompt in your OS.

Marlow

warlikedave wrote: »

speedtest.net is less accurate due to more flucuation - the proof - i got 8mb persecond with speedtest on a three modem stick! while i was getting 2-3mb constantly on the magnet test - so ligically after doing alot of tests using both i determined that magnet was more accurate. Either way at the end of the day - it matters not too much - the best way is to manually download a file from microsoft.com or apple.com and see what your file download speeds are like. I feel that would give the most accurate readings into your conncetion as well as manually pinging eircom.net from the command prompt in your OS.

First of all, you didn't specify WHICH of the speedtest.net servers you were doing your test against. There's 4 of'em in Ireland, hosted by 4 different Internet Providers.

If you read on the Magnet speedtest page, you see, it's been developed by Ookla. Now check who owns speedtest and pingtest.net and you'll see, that's Ookla, too. Magnet just bought a copy of them, with a design especially for them.

That you get better results to Magnet just means, that your provider has a better connection to Magnet than to the other test-server that you used. It doesn't mean that speedtest.net is inaccurate.

Finally, just because the Magnet page works best for you with the specific internet provider that you are using, that does not apply to everybody.

You can not just go around and state, that speedtest.net doesn't work properly.

Please do a bit of research before making inaccurate statements.

/M

please read my post a bit more. I said that the most accurate way to test your connection is to do manual dowloads and manual ping tests using different sites. That is the most accurate i find - magnet has being more accurate for me with the o2 modem i had and the three modem as well as using a friends 7mb eircom conncetion in comaprison to speedtest (thats my experience - i could be wrong and so could you for that matter) - but still as i said at the end of my last post and this one:

Manual testing is far more reliable than any online speedtests by using command prompt and dowloading files off apple.com or microsoft.com or any other which you want to use.

Marlow

warlikedave wrote: »

please read my post a bit more. I said that the most accurate way to test your connection is to do manual dowloads and manual ping tests using different sites. That is the most accurate i find

Correct, but that doesn't change, that you stated:

warlikedave wrote:

speedtest.net can be inaccurate to say the least.

And that's just wrong !!!

You still haven't specified, what server on speedtest.net you were using. In Ireland, there are servers in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Sligo. Any of those servers will give you a different result at times, depending on how they are connected to your specific provider. And for anybody on a connection by somebody else, they might get a different experience again.

And just to enlighten you, if you ever tried to download the speedtest.net mini test and check that out, it does nothing else than download a large file and upload a large file for the testing. Those are the files that the speedtest.net servers use.

/M

Marlow

Airwire 2meg business connection, Co. Roscommon:

Galway:


Dublin:


Cork:


Sligo:


Limerick:


Magnet: 18ms ping, 2090 kbps download, 2080 kbps upload.

Which just shows, it's not a difference between Magnet and speedtest.net, but the difference is in where the different speedtest servers are located.

/M

Marlow

Marlow wrote: »

Correct, but that doesn't change, that you stated:



And that's just wrong !!!

You still haven't specified, what server on speedtest.net you were using. In Ireland, there are servers in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Sligo. Any of those servers will give you a different result at times, depending on how they are connected to your specific provider. And for anybody on a connection by somebody else, they might get a different experience again.

And just to enlighten you, if you ever tried to download the speedtest.net mini test and check that out, it does nothing else than download a large file and upload a large file for the testing. Those are the files that the speedtest.net servers use.

/M

ive used limerick, galway, dublin and sligo. Speedtest is a decent test but is less accurate over numerous tests in comparison to magnet and even though there is only one magnet server it still gave more accurate results i feel. Either way if the experience is so different between everyone else then how accurate can any of these test be? Anyways we could argue this until the cows come home and head back out - at least we can say one thing. The quality of broadband and its penetration in this country is sadly lacking no matter what way you look at it.

Marlow

warlikedave wrote: »

Either way if the experience is so different between everyone else then how accurate can any of these test be?

The tests can not be accurate no matter what, because it's not one company, that owns the networks you travel across. If you want an accurate test, then your own provider would need to provide you with a server, that allows you to test your speed.

That's exactly, why Airwire has one of the speedtest.net servers, so that Airwire customers can get a pretty accurate result.

That's why Magnet has a speedtest server, so that Magnet customer can get a pretty accurate result.

And even then, the result won't be accurate, because if you were downloading while doing the speedtest, it would not be able to account for that.

Speedtest.net (and Magnets version of the speedtest.net server) are a guideline, that gives you an idea, if your connection is way off what it should be. Nothing else.

And you've still not checked the bottom right on the magnet speedtest and then checked on speedtest.net, otherwise you'd realised, it's the same software.

/M

Marlow

Marlow wrote: »

The tests can not be accurate no matter what, because it's not one company, that owns the networks you travel across. If you want an accurate test, then your own provider would need to provide you with a server, that allows you to test your speed.

That's exactly, why Airwire has one of the speedtest.net servers, so that Airwire customers can get a pretty accurate result.

That's why Magnet has a speedtest server, so that Magnet customer can get a pretty accurate result.

And even then, the result won't be accurate, because if you were downloading while doing the speedtest, it would not be able to account for that.

Speedtest.net (and Magnets version of the speedtest.net server) are a guideline, that gives you an idea, if your connection is way off what it should be. Nothing else.

And you've still not checked the bottom right on the magnet speedtest and then checked on speedtest.net, otherwise you'd realised, it's the same software.

/M

i am aware of its guideline properties and indeed i have see the same symbol on both sites - still i am only stating my observations as are you.

John mac

I got a nice surprise when i saw this.

didnt last though

John mac

John mac wrote: »

I got a nice surprise when i saw this.

didnt last though

i like the ping rate

imeddyhobbs