UPC offering 30Mbps broadband and problems with upgrade

clacks

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I have reached news depths of ****tiness. 30mg connection connected directly to the modem. :eek:

IrishTonyO

clacks wrote: »

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I have reached news depths of ****tiness. 30mg connection connected directly to the modem. :eek:

Jesus they are the worst ping and jitter I have seen these days. :eek:

roryq

clacks wrote: »

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I have reached news depths of ****tiness. 30mg connection connected directly to the modem. :eek:

I've never seen anything that bad

Ranicand

roryq wrote: »

I've never seen anything that bad

Where are you?

Also have you turned of the firewall in your router?

clacks

Dublin 1. I might as well be on Mars for all the difference it makes. Trying to watch Barcelona at the moment of Veetle. It's a ****in disaster.

rolion

Thanks UPC ! ! !

dodzy

rolion wrote: »

Thanks UPC Photoshop! ! !

Corrected:D

vibe666

dodzy wrote: »

Corrected:D

nope, check the link, it goes direct to speedtest.net, it's not doctored.

also, i had the same thing happen this morning, gave me a bit of a shock, but it appears to be a glitch, the rest of the time i get normal results.



still not happy with my upload though, the main reason for upgrading was the increase upload and i haven't seen anything above 1.5mbps yet at all.

i'd rather have 20/3 than 30/1.5 if i had the choice.

Snake Plisken

rolion wrote: »

Thanks UPC ! ! !

Speedtest test is not to be trusted you need to run Magnet's one to get an accurate read of your broadband speed, even UPC engineers trust that try http://speedtest.magnet.ie/ and bet you won't be getting the speed listed above

Yggr of Asgard

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Speedtest test is not to be trusted you need to run Magnet's one to get an accurate read of your broadband speed, even UPC engineers trust that try http://speedtest.magnet.ie/ and bet you won't be getting the speed listed above

This is how it looks for me this morning (which is unsual because Sunday Mornings is usualy the worst time with UPC since my "upgrade"):



Now given that these speedtests are just simply measuring the throughput of a single large TCP data transfer they are not really the best.

I found that a program calls Parthload2 shows me the best results as it shows the maximum available bandwith, you can find more info here.

Since the "upgrade" I notice very different results in pathload depending on the daytime. It's great during the morning/lunch but after 1500 h it becomes fraudband.

Currently I get:

Upstream Measurement (towards the Internet)
Available bandwidth is at most 3.44 (Mbps)
Measurement duration : 20.96 sec

Downstream Measurement (from the Internet)
Available bandwidth is at most 31.29 (Mbps)
Measurement duration : 22.20 sec

Which is great.

IrishTonyO

Might be too soon to say this, but think my problems have been sorted, well to a major extent anyway. For the past few days on my 15Mbps kine, have been getting 14Mbps off peak and 10-12Mbps peak for download. Uploads have been worse though average off peak is about .8 Mbps and peak .45 Mbps. Still at least I haven't been getting speed of 1.2-4Mbps like I was previously. But if it has been sorted UPC hasn't informed me of anything yet.

cbr900

30Mb connection


Had my latest visit from UPC engineer yesterday,and he done the same as the last guy,checked my speed via Speedtest.Net and UPC.NL,only confirmed what I have been telling them since this sham of an upgrade,I will be "downgrading" to 15Mb,as I will not pay 42 Euro pm for this!:mad:

IrishTonyO

Serves me right for saying anything, looks like I spoke too soon :mad:

IrishTonyO

cbr900 wrote: »

30Mb connection


Had my latest visit from UPC engineer yesterday,and he done the same as the last guy,checked my speed via Speedtest.Net and UPC.NL,only confirmed what I have been telling them since this sham of an upgrade,I will be "downgrading" to 15Mb,as I will not pay 42 Euro pm for this!:mad:

Your upload is crap, but your download isn't bad for Sunday this time, you're getting 77.5% what you should, on my 15 mb I am only getting 38% of what I should.

Nehaxak

Yes because Magnets speedtest is not bugged either



Only way is to do an FTP download from HeaNet and post the screenshot.

the_law

I've found Ookla (what runs speedtest.net and Magnet speedtest) tests to be skewed up in this way due to action of some anti virus software, which I suspect buffers the downloaded data, scans it, then passes it in one instantaneous chunk to the receiving application, hence the gread DL speed.

Try disabling ALL your antivirus/resident shields/web guards, then try again.

IrishTonyO

speeds still down :mad:

F1ngers

30meg in Tallaght, wireless...

IrishTonyO

F1ngers wrote: »

30meg in Tallaght, wireless...

that's not UPC, it's Clearwire

thefishone

Wireless on the Netbook....on the 30meg.



Getting much the same speed on the laptop,which is wired.

padair

thefishone wrote: »

Wireless on the Netbook....on the 30meg.



Getting much the same speed on the laptop,which is wired.

With UPC 20 meg. Got to love the speeds :-(

Last Result:
Download Speed: 3463 kbps (432.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 347 kbps (43.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

F1ngers

F1ngers wrote: »

30Mb/s, Tallaght at 1am...

:rolleyes:

F1ngers wrote: »

30meg in Tallaght, wireless...

IrishTonyO wrote: »

that's not UPC, it's Clearwire

Only noticed it after you said it...WTF??????...I'm with UPC.

Nehaxak

the_law wrote: »

I've found Ookla (what runs speedtest.net and Magnet speedtest) tests to be skewed up in this way due to action of some anti virus software, which I suspect buffers the downloaded data, scans it, then passes it in one instantaneous chunk to the receiving application, hence the gread DL speed.

Try disabling ALL your antivirus/resident shields/web guards, then try again.

Good man, I'd forgotten I had the Avira webguard active.



Speed test just now with the webguard disabled (I'm playing a game atm also, might skew it a little).

F1ngers

IrishTonyO wrote: »

that's not UPC, it's Clearwire

UPDATE: My sons friend had connected my laptop to my neighbours unsecured network.
I only noticed this morning.
Glad I didn't phone UPC to get it corrected......:o

30Mb/s in Tallaght, wireless. (Much better than my neighbours Clearwire...:p)

clacks

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There was a dream that was UPC. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

Give it a few hours and no doubt it'll be back to a crawl. Even at this ungodly hour, the upload is poxy.

deano_rich

clacks wrote: »

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There was a dream that was UPC. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

Give it a few hours and no doubt it'll be back to a crawl. Even at this ungodly hour, the upload is poxy.

Hey guys,

I am trying to Disable my firewall on the Cisco but when I go to http://192.168.1.1 It's asking me for UPC username a password? does anybody know where I'd get this?

padair

deano_rich wrote: »

Hey guys,

I am trying to Disable my firewall on the Cisco but when I go to http://192.168.1.1 It's asking me for UPC username a password? does anybody know where I'd get this?

THe user name will be admin. Not too sure about the password. If you check the manufactures guide online you will probable find it.

BostonB

Its often written on the bottom on the router. Default is password on Netgear.

deano_rich

Thanks Padair,

I have looked around and can't seem to find it. I just seen some guys on this post earlier on have said they have successfully disabled the firewall and thought the might know.

I have another look at the manufactures online guide.

mickger844posts

Getting these speeds wired to my desktop pc through my router. 30meg