Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

kleefarr

Irish Steve

Latest speeds now it's been in a while, the router has settled down, and the (25 year old) line has been checked out as well, and it's working better than I was expecting, given the distance to the cabinet, it's close on 500 Mtrs allowing for the twists and turns, we are the last on the line on our estate, so I wasn't too optimistic about the likely results, so this has come as a bonus.

At last, it's possible to do some serious work on these things.

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hallo dare

Jaysus, I'd love some speeds like that. 8MB max here in the sticks. Aw well.

Clandestine

Apparently E-Fibre is supposed to be in my area by the end of May (today) but Eircom have been building here for the last 2/3 weeks and it looks like they aren't even finished half-way.

jay93

Clandestine wrote: »

Apparently E-Fibre is supposed to be in my area by the end of May (today) but Eircom have been building here for the last 2/3 weeks and it looks like they aren't even finished half-way.

Wouldn't bet on even been able to get it my exchange went live last week , eircom says we still can't get it bit of a joke really ..

Stevecw

Upgraded to UPC recently & very happy with these speeds



pingtest is:


No idea why 1 is Dublin & other is Galway tho!

Mightydrumming

Banagher, Co.Offaly - It's a complete joke!

kleefarr

DaveSuarez wrote: »

I have an issue with Eircom fibre where the connection just drops for 30 or 40 seconds. It could happen up to 3 or 4 times an hour some days. Anyone have any idea what could be causing it?

No idea, but I have a similar thing on Vodafone.

Hoggy102

My nearest Internet exchange is Killeagh and, according to Eircom Wholesale, is going live July 8th. How much of the green area shown will get a benefit in speeds or will there only be 1 exchange. I live 5km from village.

degsie

Mightydrumming wrote: »

Banagher, Co.Offaly - It's a complete joke!

Holey crap! Dialup speeds Batman.

Mightydrumming

degsie wrote: »

Holey crap! Dialup speeds Batman.

No **** haha! It's ridiculous. Eircom keep adding more customers to their lines (Sky & Vodafone included) and don't bother upgrading the lines. Judging by the map, we are 'scheduled' to have fibre this month. Whether it happens or not is another thing :rolleyes: If they don't do something, I won't have anything left :mad:

godskitchen

jca wrote: »

Surely piggy backing someone else's network is in breach of the terms and conditions signed by the person who's name is on the bill.

Oh cop on would ya!

Bazideluxe

got a e-fibre today, finally!!! What a surprise it is only VDSL and not VDSL2!

godskitchen

Bazideluxe wrote: »

got a e-fibre today, finally!!! What a surprise it is only VDSL and not VDSL2!

They don't do vdsl, it'sall vdsl2.

If your not happy cancel it and go back to adsl.

Bazideluxe

godskitchen wrote: »

They don't do vdsl, it'sall vdsl2.

So are they using VDSL2 without vectoring??

Because the maximum speed can be got from my exchange is 70Mbit, not 100Mbit.

From router manual:
The eircom F2000 comes with Broadcom's latest chipset solution with the vectoring
function that effectively solves the VDSL2 crosstalk issue. The vectoring function
keeps the transmission rate at 100 Mbit/s when the user is within a range of 300 meters.
Without vectoring, the transmission rate decreases to 70 Mbit/s

And I live about 120 meters from exchange (cable length)

ED E

Problem with great threads like this: nobody bloods reads them.

Vectoring is only enabled on a very small number of the eVDSL exchanges. Like with the cabs they'll come back to it once the guts of the deployment is done I'm guessing.

Eircom have never deployed VDSL1(though the Huawei MSANs probably could fall back to it if you connected a VDSL1 only modem).

jay93

AT&T VDSL in the USA .

http://www.speedtest.net/iphone/1297933822.png

Safari keeps crashing if I try insert the image into the post so I had to post the link instead .

SCOOP 64

With permanet,co wexford, on wireless laptop, what does it mean speed wish ?
haven't a clue.

jay93

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

With permanet,co wexford, on wireless laptop, what does it mean speed wish ?
haven't a clue.

What package are you on ? It's not bad if your not a heavy internet user .

SCOOP 64

jay93 wrote: »

What package are you on ? It's not bad if your not a heavy internet user .

Suppose to be there higher internet package at €50 a month.
So the speeds are not bad ?

MiskyBoyy

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

Suppose to be there higher internet package at €50 a month.
So the speeds are not bad ?

Speeds are grand if you're just browsing the web, more than enough.

If you were to be downloading large file, you'd be waiting.

It's also fine enough for Netflix SD.

What part of Wexford?

ED E

Not bad for that type of connection, but nothing compared to a decent fixed line connection (may not be available to you).

SCOOP 64

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Speeds are grand if you're just browsing the web, more than enough.

If you were to be downloading large file, you'd be waiting.

It's also fine enough for Netflix SD.

What part of Wexford?

Enniscorthy

MiskyBoyy

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

Enniscorthy

Town or out the country?

If town, you could probably get 100mb fibre connection with Eircom or vodafone etc.

Vodafone would be €38 a month.

I believe Enniscorthy is also listed for 1GB speed FTTH. I'll be jealous when they get that :P

SCOOP 64

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Town or out the country?

If town, you could probably get 100mb fibre connection with Eircom or vodafone etc.

Vodafone would be €38 a month.

I believe Enniscorthy is also listed for 1GB speed FTTH. I'll be jealous when they get that :P

No ,country , so wont be getting that unfortunately.

Barry Kelliher

I am getting upgraded to efibre within the next week. I am 500m from the exchange following the road, because i am connected directly to the exchange my line wont be vectored so i will only be able to get speeds of up to 70mb/s. Currently i am recieving 17mb/s on ADSL2+ could anybody give me rough estimate of what speeds i might get when i finally get upgraded to efibre.

MiskyBoyy

Barry Kelliher wrote: »

I am getting upgraded to efibre within the next week. I am 500m from the exchange following the road, because i am connected directly to the exchange my line wont be vectored so i will only be able to get speeds of up to 70mb/s. Currently i am recieving 17mb/s on ADSL2+ could anybody give me rough estimate of what speeds i might get when i finally get upgraded to efibre.

Sounds about the same as me. Currently getting 17mb, getting upgraded to fibre at the end of the month. About 600m away from the exchange with only a handful of houses between the exchange and my house.

I'd also like to know the answer to this if anyone has a rough idea.

Or let me know how you get on when you do get yours in.

Barry Kelliher

On the eircom website when i went to the business section and put in my phone number it says i am able to get up to 50mb/s download and 15mb/s upload, i also just learned that my friend down the road just upgraded to efibre today and in the same case as you he is also 600m from the exchange and he is receiving a 45 download 12 upload and 10 ping so this sounds like good news for me and you. Also in the future exchanges will be vectored so customers will be able to get speeds of up to 100mb/s instead of 70mb/s so we could see speeds of around 60mb/s downlaod and 20mb/s upload

MiskyBoyy

Barry Kelliher wrote: »

On the eircom website when i went to the business section and put in my phone number it says i am able to get up to 50mb/s download and 15mb/s upload, i also just learned that my friend down the road just upgraded to efibre today and in the same case as you he is also 600m from the exchange and he is receiving a 45 download 12 upload and 10 ping so this sounds like good news for me and you. Also in the future exchanges will be vectored so customers will be able to get speeds of up to 100mb/s instead of 70mb/s so we could see speeds of around 60mb/s downlaod and 20mb/s upload

Oh ye good call on the business site. Just tried it myself.

Tells me: Your line is capable of getting Fibre Broadband to give you a maximum download speed of 40Mb and an upload speed of 10Mb.

I'll find out for sure at the end of the month. Was hoping for more than that but at this stage I'd take hand and all!

Barry Kelliher

but once vectoring is brought out for exchanges next year you will definitely get 60mb/s

Portlawslim

Just had the fibre enabled, It's FTTE and hopefull soon to be upgraded to FTTC

MiskyBoyy

FTTE also.

ItHurtsWhenIP

Portlawslim wrote: »

Just had the fibre enabled, It's FTTE and hopefull soon to be upgraded to FTTC

Sorry to be pedantic :rolleyes:, but their ain't no such thing as FTTE. What I presume you are referring to is eVDSL (exchange launched VDSL).

If you are getting eFibre from the exchange, then I don't expect they will move your line over to a cabinet. So you will always likely get it from the exchange.

MiskyBoyy

MMFITWGDV wrote: »

If you are getting eFibre from the exchange, then I don't expect they will move your line over to a cabinet. So you will always likely get it from the exchange.

Vodafone/KN connected my mother to the exchange last week, she was connected to the ADSL cab, they have a VDSL cab planned but isn't in place yet but the local exchange is already gone VDSL live so they have said once the cab is in place she will be switched over to that which is practically right beside her so she should get the full whack. At the moment she's getting pretty much what she was getting from ADSL but with a better ping.

jd

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Vodafone/KN connected my mother to the exchange last week, she was connected to the ADSL cab,.

There is no such thing as an "adsl cab", there are passive copper junction cabs, and she is still connected to it (and thence on to the exchange)

MiskyBoyy

jd wrote: »

There is no such thing as an "adsl cab"

The main thing is, you knew what I was referring to.

ED E

jd wrote: »

There is no such thing as an "adsl cab", there are passive copper junction cabs, and she is still connected to it (and thence on to the exchange)

Technically there is, an RSU can be considered such, but thats now what he meant, and they arent super common.

Portlawslim

Portlawslim wrote: »

Just thought I'd throw this up here and then do a comparison when I get fibre(hopefully this summer)

To this

Mightydrumming

''Your line can currently hold up to 15MB'' - My bo!!ox.

TwoShedsJackson

Just changed to Digiweb Fibre from the ADSL, getting about 11.5 Mb/s, which is about twice as fast as it was but was expecting more, given the 'up to 100Mb/s' claim - is there anything I can do to improve things or do I just start asking them?

iMrApex

Recently switched to UPC from Eircom [Shannon]:

UPC:


Eircom:

MiskyBoyy

iMrApex wrote: »

Recently switched to UPC from Eircom [Shannon]:

UPC:


Eircom:

Wow I thought you switched from UPC to Eircom there for a min. :eek:

Got to love UPC :cool:

Mightydrumming

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Wow I thought you switched from UPC to Eircom there for a min. :eek:

Got to love UPC :cool:

Thought the exact same

ItHurtsWhenIP

iMrApex wrote: »

Recently switched to UPC from Eircom [Shannon]:

UPC:


Eircom:

<Mutter>

96/19 to 240/24

<Grumble>

Betcha didn't notice it.

<Harumph>

Wish that I could have that choice - supposed to be 3/1::eek:


It's that until:
(a) we win the Eircom competition.:pac:
or
(b) NBP comes knocking on my door in 5 years time.:(

<sob>

Mightydrumming

Yeeow

gunners111

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4626101525
31/8/15 22.30
not well up on this stuff, but is this a very bad result

ItHurtsWhenIP

gunners111 wrote: »

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4626101525
31/8/15 22.30
not well up on this stuff, but is this a very bad result

It's pretty brutal. I don't know why it chose a German server to test off, as this would make the Ping worse.

jca

gunners111 wrote: »

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4626101525
31/8/15 22.30
not well up on this stuff, but is this a very bad result

Be careful or the midband warrior will get you for posting in the wrong thread.

[Steve]

Always nice to be getting more than paying for..

jca

[Steve] wrote: »

Always nice to be getting more than paying for..

Shouldn't be a problem at 1:38am....