UPC Fibre powered broadband -Sept 2011

obi604

Hello

I just got UPC fibre powered broadband, the 50 MB pack, have been running speedtests and am gettin crap results.......nowhere near 50 mb. Am testing with a physical wired cable also and gettin download speeds of between 0.76 mb and 14 mb !!!! sure thats just crap


Does this fibre powered broadband have any contention ratio ? as far as I know it dosent

mark17j

obi604 wrote: »

Does this fibre powered broadband have any contention ratio ? as far as I know it dosent

Yes it does, it can slow down allot @ peak times 8 - 12ish.. some days are great, not much congestion at all, other days ****e.
Morning Speeds are always the best for me.

obi604

mark17j wrote: »

Yes it does, it can slow down allot @ peak times 8 - 12ish.. some days are great, not much congestion at all, other days ****e.
Morning Speeds are always the best for me.

What speed is your broadband package ?

zt-OctaviaN

actually I know someone in Dublin I reccomended UPC when their 8Mb Eircom runs out :O

If your getting this performance where in Dublin or what exchange are you on?

Regards,
Nick.

jimmycrackcorm

obi604 wrote: »

Hello

I just got UPC fibre powered broadband, the 50 MB pack, have been running speedtests and am gettin crap results.......nowhere near 50 mb. Am testing with a physical wired cable also and gettin download speeds of between 0.76 mb and 14 mb !!!! sure thats just crap


Does this fibre powered broadband have any contention ratio ? as far as I know it dosent

What speed test and server are you using?

obi604

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

What speed test and server are you using?

Hello, I used the one on the upc website and speedtest.net and not over wireless either but via the cable with wirelss turned off on my pc

obi604

When one is on wireless and near to the wireless modem, what kind of speeds should one expect from a 50Mb UPC connection over wireless ? and when being the only one on wireless at the time


Also, anyone know what UPC say about their contention ratio on their 50mb fibre powered broadband ?

mark17j

What speeds are you getting now?... u should pick up about 45mb down on wireless, but this time of night may not be possible.
I'm on the 25 mbs and right now achieving about 19mb down now 2.5 up - also using wireless.

obi604

mark17j wrote: »

What speeds are you getting now?... u should pick up about 45mb down on wireless, but this time of night may not be possible.
I'm on the 25 mbs and right now achieving about 19mb down now 2.5 up - also using wireless.

im gettin 20mb download and 4.8 upload


do you know is there contention ratio on these upc fibre powered broadband lines ?? i.e if plugged directly to modem with a cable , should I be getting near to 50mbb

mark17j

obi604 wrote: »

im gettin 20mb download and 4.8 upload


do you know is there contention ratio on these upc fibre powered broadband lines ?? i.e if plugged directly to modem with a cable , should I be getting near to 50mbb

you should get the full speed via an ethernet cable, but as I said, UPC lines can slow down in the late evenings due to yes high contention, UPC say there is none, but that's not true. Many are accessing the service at these times slowing down ur bandwidth.. do you check your speeds at different times of the day, morning in particular, what do you achieve then?
Your upload is spot on.