Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

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jca

Sky finally behaving itself tonight(after 3-4 months of torture)

raymix

raymix wrote: »

Upgrading to Vodafone VDSL in few weeks, this is Smart Broadband (owned by Digiweb) in Dundalk centre.
I'm behind 2 routers with a 500Mb/s AC ethernet adapter (Homeplug) in between them:

Upgrade:
Homeplug, old cat5 cables and second modem/router running as switch now. Gotta order proper gigabit switch and cables in preparation for vectoring.

IrishStuff09

UPC Horizon 150Mbps - Wired


http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3131723246

agentcrow

UPC I'm on 120 Mgs..


http://www.speedtest.net/result/3131850876.png

The Real B-man

IrishStuff09 wrote: »

UPC Horizon 150Mbps - Wired


http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3131723246[/QUOTE]

PING :eek:

chris2007

IrishStuff09

The Real B-man wrote: »

IrishStuff09 wrote: »

UPC Horizon 150Mbps - Wired


http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3131723246[/QUOTE]

PING :eek:

It could be better :P

jca

Got fibre yesterday. I'm with Eircom about 550m from the cabinet. Very happy with it.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/708042731
I'm on the iPad at the moment so can't do a ping test.
I'm on the 50/20 profile.

DomKasper

Hi everyone, I used to use boards a lot , but havent had the time so I forgot my password and I no longer have the e-mail I used to register, I want to share with you my speed results and ask a quick question too! first off a quick brief!
I got efibre installed around a month ago, and whilst generally good i have noticed a weird phenomenon. The day it got installed i was getting 66mb out of 70 which is fine, but the following day i noticed that the speed has gone down to 9mb with upload staying at 15mb. I then rebooted the modem and speeds were back up to 66mb. I soon realized that the 66mb speed goes down to 9mb after few hours, and rebooting brings it back up. I tried to call eircom but all I got is "your efibre has not yet been ativated" from their agents, which is a lot of Donkeys B*lls. I have a background in IT and whilst networking isn't my forte, I am fully aware how it works, so the only thing I can think off why this is happening is that eircom themselves are throttling the network or the modem is faulty and is defaulting to 10mb.
Here are my speeds :


and thats my speed graph

So my question is, should I try eircom again, or are other people experiencing these fluctuations?

P.S. I wasn't sure about creating a new thread for this, so if I should have I am very sorry!

photofinish

jay93

eircom efibre speedtest Drogheda

Isco

So I live in Castleblayney in Monaghan but out in the countryside, I get like 1.7 mb download speed and 0.2 upload speed with eircom, is there anything at all I can do to increase these poverty speeds? I just got a ps4 and really don't want to be left behind when game streaming and downloading becomes more prominant over the next few years.

Eircom says I can get speeds of up to 24 mbs but is it because I live up a hill in the countryside that my telephone wire will not support 24mbs? I'm pretty clueless when it comes to broadband so any help would be greatly appreciated

dxhound2005

I notice that Anyalla is getting Fibre next March and 'Blayney in April. Bit odd that Anyalla is getting it and places like Newbliss have to wait for the next rollout. Do you happen to live anywhere near to Anyalla?

http://www.eircom.net/efibreinfo/map/

Broomfield is the only other rural place around 'Blayney that is in the second rollout.

http://pressroom.eircom.net/press_releases/article/eircom_announces_plans_to_extend_its_fibre_broadband_footprint_to_1.4_milli/

What Eircom said is probably right and there isn't much you can do unless Fibre becomes available to your address. This isn't the right thread for this discussion, it is for speedtest results.

victorcarrera

DomKasper wrote: »

The day it got installed i was getting 66mb out of 70 which is fine, but the following day i noticed that the speed has gone down to 9mb with upload staying at 15mb. I then rebooted the modem and speeds were back up to 66mb. I soon realized that the 66mb speed goes down to 9mb after few hours, and rebooting brings it back up.

You must be living very close to the fibre cabinet to synch at those speeds. I wonder if those are max possible speeds rather than actual recordings. That appears to be the effect of rate adaptive DSL where the speed of the connection is reduced to match the quality of the line. You should ask for a Megger test which is a comprehensive DC and stress test of your line.

joolsveer

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3178056677

Uriel.

It seems I haven't been so lucky with Eircom E-Fibre.

I'm in Swords and I got E-Fibre installed last Friday:

Download: 22.93mb
Upload: 15.43mb
Ping: 29

Sure, it's better than the 8mb down and 5mb up I was getting, but I had hoped for better.

:-(

Blade

Uriel. wrote: »

It seems I haven't been so lucky with Eircom E-Fibre.

Via Wifi or Ethernet?

Uriel.

Blade wrote: »

Via Wifi or Ethernet?

That's wifi.

I can't get ethernet to work on my laptop for some reason. I have Vista, any ideas? it keeps asking me for username and password for the connection..
Works fine with wireless and my ps3 and receiver work fine via ethernet.

Blade

Uriel. wrote: »

That's wifi.

I can't get ethernet to work on my laptop for some reason. I have Vista, any ideas? it keeps asking me for username and password for the connection..
Works fine with wireless and my ps3 and receiver work fine via ethernet.

Don't have Vista so no idea why it would be asking you for a password for ethernet. I'm sure you'll find an answer if you Google it.

I'm sure your e-fibre connection is fine, you can't go by speeds over wifi. I get similar speeds to you over wifi, about half the actual speed that you can only check properly over ethernet.

Baked.noodle

UPC Ireland Speed Test:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 17521 kbps (2190.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3087 kbps (385.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 13 ms
Jitter: 1 ms
23 December 2013 18:48:42

Westside, Galway city.

dazdrog

Magnet 70mb fatpipe, drogheda area, altho ive only 2 weeks left with them and im off to vodafone, not risking it with magnet and the history they have had the last few months

Line Rate (Down / Up)50174 Kbps / 20479 Kbps
Attenuation (Down / Up)14.1 dB / 5.1 dB
Noise Margin (Down / Up)8.9 dB / 8.3 dB

F9Devil

100mb/s broadband from UPC. Ethernet cable directly connecting to their Horizon box. Incredible stuff, how is this not illegal? Can't wait for strict laws to come in

Euripides_

F9Devil wrote: »

100mb/s broadband from UPC. Ethernet cable directly connecting to their Horizon box. Incredible stuff, how is this not illegal? Can't wait for strict laws to come in

What do you mean "illegal"?? I hope you are being sarcastic.

jca

F9Devil wrote: »

100mb/s broadband from UPC. Ethernet cable directly connecting to their Horizon box. Incredible stuff, how is this not illegal? Can't wait for strict laws to come in

Jesus that's shocking something similar to my speeds with sky before I went to Eircom.

Euripides_

jay_k wrote: »

What do you mean "illegal"?? I hope you are being sarcastic.

AH. nevermind, you were talking about your results. DERP!

Yeah those results are bad.
Keep calling them, and keep logging faults, that's how I got them to get off their ass as well as credit my account for a few months.

Clover

F9Devil wrote: »

100mb/s broadband from UPC. Ethernet cable directly connecting to their Horizon box. Incredible stuff, how is this not illegal? Can't wait for strict laws to come in

Got rid of UPC a few months ago over speeds like that, had constant ongoing problems with them that never got fixed.

Have a 50meg Vodafone connection now that is more reliable and out performs my old 150 meg UPC connection :rolleyes:

AlanS181824

F9Devil wrote: »

100mb/s broadband from UPC. Ethernet cable directly connecting to their Horizon box. Incredible stuff, how is this not illegal? Can't wait for strict laws to come in

I was looking at this from Mobile and could only view the text and I thought you were being sarcastic that the speeds were that good. Then I remembered just how bad Horizon is and came on to have a look, can't say I was surprised :P

AlanS181824

Vodafone 3G indoors in really windy, rainy weather.
On Moto G.

AlanS181824

http://i.imgur.com/4wkLSct.png
Vodafone 3G indoors in really windy, rainy weather.
On Moto G.

Edit: It appears I have accidentally doubled posted, my apologies.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

UPC 250MB Broadband, over wifi with a Netgear WNDR4300

jca

Liam Neesons Ballbag wrote: »

UPC 250MB Broadband, over wifi with a Netgear WNDR4300

Only slightly over half the supposed speed, upload isn't great. I'm getting 44-47 on a 50meg connection. 16-17 upload on the 20 meg.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

jca wrote: »

Only slightly over half the supposed speed, upload isn't great. I'm getting 44-47 on a 50meg connection. 16-17 upload on the 20 meg.

Its over wifi though

I get 240 down with wired

I can't work out how to get the Netgear to give higher than 150 on the wireless !

jca

Liam Neesons Ballbag wrote: »

Its over wifi though

I get 240 down with wired

I can't work out how to get the Netgear to give higher than 150 on the wireless !

240:cool: Maybe your wireless card is maxed out at 140? It might not be the router's fault.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

jca wrote: »

240:cool: Maybe your wireless card is maxed out at 140? It might not be the router's fault.

Netgear Genie on my HTC One shows the network with 100% signal strength but 150Mbps mode

The settings for the 5g network in the router is set to up to 450mbps

ED E

Liam Neesons Ballbag wrote: »

Netgear Genie on my HTC One shows the network with 100% signal strength but 150Mbps mode

The settings for the 5g network in the router is set to up to 450mbps

Getting 150 wirelessly is very good. AC with the correct client can in very good conditions go higher, but you need a very good NIC to do it along with a suitable router.

If you need max throughput go wired.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

ED E wrote: »

Getting 150 wirelessly is very good. AC with the correct client can in very good conditions go higher, but you need a very good NIC to do it along with a suitable router.

If you need max throughput go wired.

Cheers, getting 180 down over wireless N now so looking better this morning.

I have an ac Netgear too (testing for work) but alas apple have not added ac to the macbook air yet !

_MadRa_

24mb Tralee

3rdDegree

Just got in Eircom eFiber in Lucan. I think it's supposed to be a 70 mbps package. Not impressed. Sometimes I can get a speed of up to 46mbps. But most of the time, it's like above. What is odd is that the upload speed is so much better than the download speed.

Capt'n Midnight

3rdDegree wrote: »

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/57498/288281.png

Just got in Eircom eFiber in Lucan. I think it's supposed to be a 70 mbps package. Not impressed. Sometimes I can get a speed of up to 46mbps. But most of the time, it's like above. What is odd is that the upload speed is so much better than the download speed.

Could be congestion, try again late at night.

Unfortunately it's "up to"

If the line is bad then it might fall back to 50Mb or similar

also do the tests wired and make sure no one else is on the network


re WiFi
my old 802.11g (54Mb/s according to connection) router maxed out at 11Mb because I had it underclocked, clocking at normal speed got me to 13Mb and using it as a switch instead of a router got me 24Mb - not to mention competition from video senders and neighbours wifi

kingbob387

Liam Neesons Ballbag wrote: »

UPC 250MB Broadband, over wifi with a Netgear WNDR4300

How did you manage to get that god like speed with wifi?:eek:

Tom Cruises Left Nut

kingbob387 wrote: »

How did you manage to get that god like speed with wifi?:eek:

Getting even better now !

Use a decent netgear router and the UPC modem bridged to it. The netgear has gig ports and you have the use the 5ghz wireless network to get it

kingbob387

Liam Neesons Ballbag wrote: »

Getting even better now !

Use a decent netgear router and the UPC modem bridged to it. The netgear has gig ports and you have the use the 5ghz wireless network to get it

Can I ask which Wifi adapter are you using for the 5Ghz network? I would like to get one for that speed too :pac:

Tom Cruises Left Nut

kingbob387 wrote: »

Can I ask which Wifi adapter are you using for the 5Ghz network? I would like to get one for that speed too :pac:

Adapter on my laptop ?

Its the standard one apple put in the macbook air !

kingbob387

Liam Neesons Ballbag wrote: »

Adapter on my laptop ?

Its the standard one apple put in the macbook air !

Well ****:pac:

Any recommendation for Windows PCs?:rolleyes:

csallmighty

Is this a fair result for Eircom 24mb broadband in west Donegal?

Chris The Hacker

csallmighty wrote: »

Is this a fair result for Eircom 24mb broadband in west Donegal?

It's "up to 24mb". It all depends on how far away from the exchange you are. You should access your router's configuration page and see what your line attenuation is.

1. Go here to access your router's configuration page: http://192.168.1.254/
2. Password: broadband1 (default password for eircom Zyxel routers)
3. Look for line attenuation. It's should look something like this: "29 dB /13 dB"
4. Paste the first number(s) (in my case it's "29") into this webpage: http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/max_speed_calc.php

This is what mine looks like:

csallmighty

@Chris The Hacker. Thanks for the reply.

Yes it is up to 24mb.

This my my results:

Chris The Hacker

csallmighty wrote: »

@Chris The Hacker. Thanks for the reply.

Yes it is up to 24mb.

This my my results:

Ah, I see you're one of the lucky ones who lives right beside a telephone exchange. In that case, your speed is bad. You should be getting about 9mb more and your upload should be closer to 1.00mb.

Could you post a screenshot of your stats like I have done below?


Make sure your exclude your IP address because that's sensitive information.

Another thing: did you take your speed test from a wired or wireless connection?

csallmighty

Chris The Hacker wrote: »

Ah, I see you're one of the lucky ones who lives right beside a telephone exchange. In that case, your speed is bad. You should be getting about 9mb more and your upload should be closer to 1.00mb.

Could you post a screenshot of your stats like I have done below?


Make sure your exclude your IP address because that's sensitive information.

Another thing: did you take your speed test from a wired or wireless connection?

Yes the building is just down the road from me, I thought it was only for tv because there's a big tower.



Sorry, forgot to state in my first post it's a wireless connection. I'm in the same room as the router though, laptops never further than 20 feet away from it.