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Which Broadband

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  • 07-03-2009 3:31am
    #1
    koura
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭


    Currently I am with Perlico, but I find that the service has degraded over
    the past 3/4 months especially since XMAS.
    Logged several calls with Perlico no help,they suggested it was my Laptop
    but we have several PC's all are slow. Did a clean install on a spare PC just
    XP and AV, direct connection to the modem, still slow
    They had the line was checked by Eircom all ok.
    Speedtest.net says its ok, but my downloads are slow.
    Examples:
    Download from firefox 65-80 kb/s.
    Download from ubantu 70-80 kb/s
    Download from Hp 75-85 kb/s
    Download from IBM 70-80 kb/s

    Any advice appreciated.

    Also note pings to speedtest, it dosent add up.

    C:\ping www.speedtest.net
    Pinging www.speedtest.net [69.17.117.207] with 32 bytes of data:

    Request timed out.
    Reply from 69.17.117.207: bytes=32 time=254ms TTL=52
    Reply from 69.17.117.207: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=52
    Reply from 69.17.117.207: bytes=32 time=235ms TTL=52

    Ping statistics for 69.17.117.207:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 232ms, Maximum = 254ms, Average = 240ms

    C:\ping www.speedtest.net

    Pinging www.speedtest.net [69.17.117.207] with 32 bytes of data:

    Reply from 69.17.117.207: bytes=32 time=240ms TTL=52
    Reply from 69.17.117.207: bytes=32 time=295ms TTL=52
    Reply from 69.17.117.207: bytes=32 time=233ms TTL=52
    Request timed out.

    Ping statistics for 69.17.117.207:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 233ms, Maximum = 295ms, Average = 256ms

    C:\ping www.speedtest.net

    Pinging www.speedtest.net [69.17.117.207] with 32 bytes of data:

    Reply from 69.17.117.207: bytes=32 time=234ms TTL=52
    Reply from 69.17.117.207: bytes=32 time=237ms TTL=52
    Request timed out.
    Reply from 69.17.117.207: bytes=32 time=239ms TTL=52

    Ping statistics for 69.17.117.207:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 234ms, Maximum = 239ms, Average = 236ms


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    #2
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Some servers to avoid "ping of death" DDOS ignore or de-prioritise ping response. ping www.heanet.ie

    Speed tests measure bits per second
    Browser and ftp clients measure bytes per second. 8 bits per byte. But there are other overheads too in file download such as handshake, time to write to disk and packets resent to cover errors. So the filedownload x10 can be closer to Speedtest. The DSL has overheads so the speedtest ought to be a a few percent less than line speed.


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