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Midband speedtest Megaathread
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No improvement yet with Three in our area (south west Co. Donegal) apart from their YouTube prioritisation, based on giving it a quick test yesterday evening.
It's great early in the day (left), but like a tortoise at night (~10pm yesterday), both tests with the same router/antenna setup:
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Test earlier through my mobile bb sim in a Heuwei B593 on 3G H+ 4 bars signal
And thetered to my phone, 3G H+ 5 bars signal, next to router,
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Has been a while since I did a speedtest.net. I see they have changed the site slightly, I can't now seem to be able to embed a speedtest result in forums like this. Anyone else notice this?
And just as I clicked post, there I found the embed link
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Shortly after I'd installed a pair of cheap UHF TV antennas, pointed at my nearest 4G cell, 15km away over fields and trees. The antennas are at the top of a 40ft pole.
This was a quiet time of the day, though. More normally it's around 20Mbps.
Вашему собственному бычьему дерьму нельзя верить - V Putin
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Vodafone has slowed down to a trickle in recent months in Donegal town. The following test was Saturday afternoon in the town centre, very different to the 40-60Mbps results I typically got two years ago. Although I haven't tested peak time hours, I've a friend just outside Donegal who said the Vodafone network has been barely usable for data in the evenings, especially over the Christmas period.
While in Dungloe earlier today, one of the few towns Vodafone provides 4G+:
Killybegs, about 2:45pm:
I spoke to Vodafone about the poor speed in Donegal and Killybegs (especially peak time), but they came back saying there is no issue with their network in these areas. For what was once a lightning fast network in 4G areas, their larger phone and mobile broadband packages seem to be crippling certain areas, at least around here in Co. Donegal. It reminds me of Three's single digit speeds around here before their recent network upgrades.0 -
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People love to complain about Three but if you're not in the sticks its quite functional.
30Mhz of Band 3 (20+10)
Out in the sticks, Three is ok for me with this setup, but over the winter with bare trees I was slightly disappointed it only rose to 55Mbs max.Вашему собственному бычьему дерьму нельзя верить - V Putin
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I ported back to Three from Vodafone to take advantage of the monthly €10 free credit offer and give Three another try. I figured if I got the dismal performance I had previously, I would try getting on Vodafone's data user port-in plan.
On Vodafone, my peak speed test was 90Mbps from what I recall in Co. Donegal and 140Mbps at 7am near Dublin airport, both in 4G+ areas.
While leaving Letterkenny on Sunday, I got the result below after 6pm with the Ookla app. When I last tested Three a year ago, it was barely usable with low single digit download results after 6pm throughout most of Co. Donegal.
While in Donegal town I ran a speed test with the Vodafone speed tester app. I've a habit of using it as Vodafone does not meter its data usage and figured I'll see what it achieves on Three. Normally I would expect to see around 10-20Mbps in Donegal town on Vodafone, so seeing this was quite an eye opener on Three 4G+ there, especially in the afternoon...
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The above was my fastest to date. I thought it was amusing to get it with the rival network's speed tester. If you ever drop by Co. Donegal or for anyone else interested, I ran the test outside Supervalu in Donegal town. It has clear line of sight with the Three mast on The Abbey Hotel.
The other location was on the climbing lane stretch outside Letterkenny heading for Stranorlar. I ran another test on Three there while travelling with someone to a wake earlier today. Not as high as above, but my fastest to date for Letterkenny:
I suspect the other Three 4G+ sites around us are microwave fed as most peak around 80Mbps during the day. For example, when I arrive at my workplace in Ballybofey I get around 70-80Mbps on Three at 9am and drops to 40-60Mbps when I leave around 5pm:
Then again, this is still a 10x improvement over the testing I did on Three last year. The fastest mobile network test I've seen posted here was this 211Mbps result on Vodafone Nonoperational got on the 16th April 2017, surprisingly at 9:23pm. With the much larger Vodafone data bundles and student X plans since then, I don't think we'll be seeing the 200Mbps barrier being broken again for a while, let alone in the evening!0 -
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