6 Mb download yet broadband still slow

antiskeptic

Hi there,

Just tested my (Vodafone) broadband speed (which can be quite varied). It's currently reading a healthy 6Mb download.

But sites don't seem to load all that quickly.

boards.ie - 7 secs
Irish Times -5 secs.
Bing maps - 8 secs
YouTube - 5 secs
Yahoo - 6 secs
Done Deal - 6 secs

Sometimes when I've loaded the sites home page, further pages load more quickly - take boards for example: subsequent pages are loading within 2-3 second. Whereas the Irish Times just took 8 seconds to load a story clicked into from its home page.

I remember when I first got broadband, pageloads took 2-3 seconds and this with a 2Mb package. I've got decent equipment with freshly enough loaded OS's for it not to be slowed down computers.

Any idea what's going on?

Cheers.

RangeR

6MB won't make pages load faster. It just means you can download larger files faster or multiple large files simultaneously.

Latency will have a large part to play, too.

Calebmcd

Ask to be put on low interleaving [aka fastpath]
Your 2mb was probably still on this. But they put you on the High interleaving when they give you faster speeds.

This makes your latency higher.

I'm on Vodafone 6144/512. Its the 8mb package.

I'm on fastpath

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antiskeptic

Calebmcd wrote: »

Ask to be put on low interleaving [aka fastpath]
Your 2mb was probably still on this. But they put you on the High interleaving when they give you faster speeds.

This makes your latency higher.

I'm on Vodafone 6144/512. Its the 8mb package.

I'm on fastpath

I just ran a few ping tests (which I gather is a measure of latency) which gives a result of 33ms (which I gather is pretty good). Speed is still around the 6Mb mark.

Performance is variable tonight. Some of yesterdays 6-8 secs sites load in a couple of seconds or less. Others still take 6-8 secs. Is there some reason for this variance (the slow sites are 'reputable' ones; Rotten Tomatos or BingMaps or the New York Times (which took 15 secs to load)?

Thanks for any education..

PogMoThoin

antiskeptic wrote: »

I just ran a few ping tests (which I gather is a measure of latency) which gives a result of 33ms (which I gather is pretty good). Speed is still around the 6Mb mark.

Performance is variable tonight. Some of yesterdays 6-8 secs sites load in a couple of seconds or less. Others still take 6-8 secs. Is there some reason for this variance (the slow sites are 'reputable' ones; Rotten Tomatos or BingMaps or the New York Times (which took 15 secs to load)?

Thanks for any education..

Yes, they're hosted in the USA, your ping times to there will be lots longer than to anywhere here. Try http://www.rte.ie/

You got any toolbars on your browser by any chance? Toolbars are all nasty (even the Google one), they redirect your traffic through their servers so they can spy on you. Uninstall them

ro2

I'd check your DNS servers too. There could be an issue with one of them.

You could temporarily change the DNS servers on your PC to the OpenDNS servers to test it:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

RangeR

Wired or Wireless?

Test on wired. Wireless can be unreliable if there are many access points [or other interference] in your immediate area.