Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

muffler

Sky 15mb package on DSL

Stranorlar, Donegal

mapmcnulty

Vodafone 8mb Package
Blackrock, Co. Louth

aindriu80

Sky Unlimited broadband
0.5km from exchange
Line sold as 20Mb speed
Monaghan, Co. Monaghan

red_bairn

aindriu80 wrote: »

Sky Unlimited broadband
0.5km from exchange
Line sold as 20Mb speed
Monaghan, Co. Monaghan

Whereabouts? Beech Groove and Pound hill have cabinets laid out and two other locations in Monaghan. There may be more not mapped.

gavmcg92

Just putting this up here. Got my TPLink TL-PA251KIT powerline adaptor. Here are the results I got after using the device with a plug socket about 10mtrs away from the other. Have yet to try it where there dead spot is.



I'm on 60 down and 6 up plugged directly into the router.

In the blank spot:


Now have coverage in the place where I want to stick my new PC. Great product if anyone is interested.

RUSTEDCORE

gavmcg92 wrote: »

Just putting this up here. Got my TPLink TL-PA251KIT powerline adaptor.

52 euro...LMAO

are you in any way affiliated with this dabs.ie site?


£24.57 on Amazon

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24.57 British Pound Sterling equals
28.75 Euro

gavmcg92

RUSTEDCORE wrote: »

52 euro...LMAO

are you in any way affiliated with this dabs.ie site?


£24.57 on Amazon

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24.57 British Pound Sterling equals
28.75 Euro

Ehh? Check again... it's £45.69 on Amazon which is €53.54.

[Steve]

Campus Accomodation internet. Getting 22.7Mb/s downloads over steam.

IrishStuff09

Fastest speed in Ireland much? That's fast..

red_bairn

[Steve] wrote: »

Campus Accomodation internet. Getting 22.7Mb/s downloads over steam.

Photo or it never happened. Get us two pics: one from SpeedTest.net and one of the Steam download.

Edit: Your pic wasn't showing up but i just opened it via another window. I realise now why you are getting 22.7Mbps. I had 12 when I was living in Korea.

gavmcg92

IrishStuff09 wrote: »

Fastest speed in Ireland much? That's fast..

Took this screen cap during the year when I decided to test the university network



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AlanS181824

Sky on a "12MB" connection.

Happy days!

RUSTEDCORE

gavmcg92 wrote: »

Took this screen cap during the year when I decided to test the university network



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what country are you in USA or somewhere in Asia?

gavmcg92

RUSTEDCORE wrote: »

what country are you in USA or somewhere in Asia?

Nope. That's Trinity College.

RUSTEDCORE

gavmcg92 wrote: »

Nope. That's Trinity College.

No its not lol

show the full pic with ISP name then

I know the national telecommunications research centre is headquartered at Trinity so they do tests with UPC from time to time and UPC reach 1.4GB but thats not a college broadband and UPC cannot hit that Upload.

gavmcg92

RUSTEDCORE wrote: »

No its not lol

show the full pic with ISP name then

Honestly it is. We're off for three weeks before the exams so I can't do it now. Some of my mates didn't believe it so I gave them a screen cap.
If I remember when I go back for the exams I can post the full info.

RoyalMarine

Just moved and got this installed today.

RUSTEDCORE

RoyalMarine wrote: »

Just moved and got this installed today.

Interesting I get 157 down but only 9 up

Palytoxin

Middle of nowhere..

Skidfingers

RoyalMarine wrote: »

Just moved and got this installed today.

Where are you?? :eek:

Who's that with?


I'm jealous

Skidfingers

Lumi

petersburg2002

Skidfingers wrote: »

Where are you?? :eek:

Who's that with?


I'm jealous

He's with UPC. In Cork.

Skidfingers

petersburg2002 wrote: »

He's with UPC. In Cork.

Urban I persume?

Is it good? speeds drop at any times?

RoyalMarine

Living in Blackrock. No drop outs as of yet, speed still running perfectly.

Praetorian

The university speeds are not looking very impressive these days. I was in houses in South korea with faster connections!

red_bairn

Praetorian wrote: »

The university speeds are not looking very impressive these days. I was in houses in South korea with faster connections!

You wouldn't get the connection like Trinity.

Praetorian

red_bairn wrote: »

You wouldn't get the connection like Trinity.

I was in a house in Seoul trialing 1gbit each way a few years ago. I was in trinity recently and was disappointed by my speedtests ,) Could be due to it being lunch time and thousands of people online at the same time! But relatively speaking, considering one can around the world get huge bandwidth in homes, the universities are not light years ahead like they used to be.

red_bairn

Praetorian wrote: »

I was in a house in Seoul trialing 1gbit each way a few years ago. I was in trinity recently and was disappointed by my speedtests ,) Could be due to it being lunch time and thousands of people online at the same time! But relatively speaking, considering one can around the world get huge bandwidth in homes, the universities are not light years ahead like they used to be.

Yeah. They are only smelling the coffee now for residents in Ireland. But you are right. HeaNET in college is 100/(<100). You'd get 100/100 in Nonsan, Chungcheongnam-Do (a country-side Municipal city). When was it that you were on the trial?

scout353

Poor speeds in Tramore last night!

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With UTV!

baaah

8Mb eircom line. NGB

Lumi

Sky, 12mb line, wireless connection

seamus1980

This is my results for net1 broadband,bloody terrible

flyguy

screenshot from my iPhone 5 speedtest app (wifi and cellular tests) UPC up to 50Mb, so looks like I get around 40, happy with that. More interesting is the vodafone 3G connection, around 21Mb (have seen up to 27) not bad for 3G, more than some get on their "broadband" (have a 4GB limit on that though).

senordingdong

Lads I have a question....
I got this speed today from my upc 50mb package.


Sky offered a bundle with 6mb/s and told me that is a grand speed and anything more is unnecessary.

Is that the case? Are UPC customers forking out for more that they don't even need?

red_bairn

senordingdong wrote: »

Lads I have a question....
I got this speed today from my upc 50mb package.


Sky offered a bundle with 6mb/s and told me that is a grand speed and anything more is unnecessary.

Is that the case? Are UPC customers forking out for more that they don't even need?

It depends on the person tbh. Some people might want to watch tv via UPC and will definitely need more than 6Mbps. Some people might need to work from home and continuously work with downloaded files off some server elsewhere with a lot of content.

Sky will be upgrading this year when Eircom allows the wholesalers to operate their fibre on May 20th. Eircom and Vodafone are offering their customers free upgrades. This is possibly the same case for Sky customers. In some cases you don't even need to be on the wholesalers connection atm. See the picture attached.

AlanS181824

red_bairn wrote: »

It depends on the person tbh. Some people might want to watch tv via UPC and will definitely need more than 6Mbps. Some people might need to work from home and continuously work with downloaded files off some server elsewhere with a lot of content.

Sky will be upgrading this year when Eircom allows the wholesalers to operate their fibre on May 20th. Eircom and Vodafone are offering their customers free upgrades. This is possibly the same case for Sky customers. In some cases you don't even need to be on the wholesalers connection atm. See the picture attached.

Good to know. Im on a contract with Sky atm if I signed up for fibre with Sky whenever that comes out would that be marked as cancelling the contract? Just curious. Im in Carlow on an LLU exchange so do ye think ill be able to avail of fibre

Israeli Superiority

senordingdong wrote: »

Lads I have a question....
I got this speed today from my upc 50mb package.


Sky offered a bundle with 6mb/s and told me that is a grand speed and anything more is unnecessary.

Is that the case? Are UPC customers forking out for more that they don't even need?

Yeah, it all depends on what you do on the web. If you're streaming high definition videos, you'll encounter problems. If you're like my mother who just check her emails and pays bills online, 6mb is good. If I lived in the countryside, I'd be happy with 6mb.

Uploading is a big problem if you do upload large files, I can imagine the upload speed for a 6mb connection is between 30kb/s - 50kb/s. My upload speed is 70kb/s and it takes me 4 hours to upload 1GB.

red_bairn

AlanS181824 wrote: »

Good to know. Im on a contract with Sky atm if I signed up for fibre with Sky whenever that comes out would that be marked as cancelling the contract? Just curious. Im in Carlow on an LLU exchange so do ye think ill be able to avail of fibre

You'd be best to contact Sky about it but I don't believe you'll be cancelling the contract, you'd have an amended/new one.

who_me

senordingdong wrote: »

Lads I have a question....
I got this speed today from my upc 50mb package.


Sky offered a bundle with 6mb/s and told me that is a grand speed and anything more is unnecessary.

Is that the case? Are UPC customers forking out for more that they don't even need?

Lots of variables. How many devices do you have connected to the internet, how often are they used, how many people in your home using them, how much do you upload, how many big downloads etc.. etc..

For instance, if you want to watch a 1080p Netflix stream, it's 7Mbps. If you try that with a 6Mbps connection you'll either end up with a lower quality video, or else have to wait 30 minutes+ for the video to start playing. With a faster connection, you'd only have to wait a few seconds.

I download a lot of big developer kits, which can be 1GB+, so the difference between waiting 15-20 minutes or 1-2 minutes can be a huge saving. Upload times are crucial too, while some are complaining about UPC's I don't know another mainstream service in Ireland that offers anything like 10Mbps.

I have a PS3, Xbox, AppleTV, TV, iPhone, iPad and 2 Macs all connected to the broadband, all downloading updates at regular intervals, so the quicker they get out of the way, the better.

senordingdong

who_me wrote: »

Lots of variables. How many devices do you have connected to the internet, how often are they used, how many people in your home using them, how much do you upload, how many big downloads etc.. etc..

For instance, if you want to watch a 1080p Netflix stream, it's 7Mbps. If you try that with a 6Mbps connection you'll either end up with a lower quality video, or else have to wait 30 minutes+ for the video to start playing. With a faster connection, you'd only have to wait a few seconds.

I download a lot of big developer kits, which can be 1GB+, so the difference between waiting 15-20 minutes or 1-2 minutes can be a huge saving. Upload times are crucial too, while some are complaining about UPC's I don't know another mainstream service in Ireland that offers anything like 10Mbps.

I have a PS3, Xbox, AppleTV, TV, iPhone, iPad and 2 Macs all connected to the broadband, all downloading updates at regular intervals, so the quicker they get out of the way, the better.

I get ya, thanks very much.

We currently have two laptops (third on the way), one smart phone (second on the way) and an xbox with netflix so when you put it like that, it's much clearer.

red_bairn

senordingdong wrote: »

I get ya, thanks very much.

We currently have two laptops (third on the way), one smart phone (second on the way) and an xbox with netflix so when you put it like that, it's much clearer.

It will be a matter of time that most devices in the home will be requiring bandwidth. It'll be like electricity. Even the automated pet feeder.

boccy23

http://www.speedtest.net/iphone/534153943.png

From my 24MB line.

Should this not be better?

Gosub

Just to make you Irish internetters feel better... and for this I pay €57 a month! Fircken Telefonica España. :mad:

red_bairn

boccy23 wrote: »

http://www.speedtest.net/iphone/534153943.png

From my 24MB line.

Should this not be better?

It could possibly be better but nobody would be too sure. It depends where the equipment is or what is blocking it.

Israeli Superiority

boccy23 wrote: »

http://www.speedtest.net/iphone/534153943.png

From my 24MB line.

Should this not be better?

You'll need to post your line stats from your router.

red_bairn

Israeli Superiority wrote: »

You'll need to post your line stats from your router.

Hmm, I thought he had a wireless isp like Digiweb, but forgot it said Eircom. He's also using a mobile device for the speedtest, which is also a bad indicator for the actual speed.

flyguy

Gosub wrote: »

Just to make you Irish internetters feel better... and for this I pay €57 a month! Fircken Telefonica España. :mad:

Dunno if that makes the Irish internetters feel better; Ireland ranks #56 (11.10Mbps) on the avg speed net index, where Spain is at #41 (14.70Mbps) maybe you should change provider?
http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/

Israeli Superiority

flyguy wrote: »

Dunno if that makes the Irish internetters feel better; Ireland ranks #56 (11.10Mbps) on the avg speed net index, where Spain is at #41 (14.70Mbps) maybe you should change provider?
http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/

We're one place ahead of Monaco by .08 Mpbs. Surprising considering the class of people that live there.

flyguy

I find the countries that are ahead of Ireland more interesting and sometimes surprising...