Low speeds on 150Mb line

Sparks43

Self installed the 150mb Broadband yesterday and connected a new Gb NIC as well.

Pc is hardwired to the router with a Cat6 cable and from the router to the wall is new Class A compliant cable

My speed is maxing out at 102 meg and ul is fairly consistent at 9.5meg

Ping is below 16ms

Im assuming that i can do no more at my end and im wondering is that as good as i am going to get?

All advice welcome

Thanks for reading







Testing Gb NIC

Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% l
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Response time to router

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% l
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Tracert to Google

Tracing route to www.google.com [74.125.24.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 11 ms 9 ms 6 ms 188.141.17.1
2 9 ms 7 ms 8 ms 109.255.255.254
3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 84.116.238.42
4 11 ms 9 ms 9 ms 213.46.165.54
5 9 ms 7 ms 16 ms 209.85.252.196
6 26 ms 8 ms 7 ms 72.14.235.187
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 12 ms 8 ms 9 ms de-in-f99.1e100.net [74.125.24.99]

Pinging what i assume to be the upc exchange

Pinging 188.141.17.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 188.141.17.1: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=64
Reply from 188.141.17.1: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=64
Reply from 188.141.17.1: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=64
Reply from 188.141.17.1: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 188.141.17.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% lo
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 8ms, Maximum = 22ms, Average = 12ms

Router info downstream

Power Level: Signal to Noise Ratio:
Channel 1: -2.4 dBmV 39.6 dB
Channel 2: -2.1 dBmV 39.9 dB
Channel 3: -2.4 dBmV 39.9 dB
Channel 4: -2.4 dBmV 39.4 dB
Channel 5: -7.3 dBmV 36.3 dB
Channel 6: -7.3 dBmV 36.3 dB
Channel 7: -7.5 dBmV 36.2 dB
Channel 8: -7.8 dBmV 36.2 dB

Upstream info

Power Level:
Channel 1: 36.7 dBmV
Channel 2: 0.0 dBmV
Channel 3: 0.0 dBmV
Channel 4: 0.0 dBmV

kamin99

Hi Sparks43 read my post on same topic
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056763697

Sparks43

kamin99 wrote: »

Hi Sparks43 read my post on same topic
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056763697

Having a scan through now m8

What makes me laugh is that i am doing my CCNA at the moment and i have the layers of the OSI model going through my head:eek:

Cheerful Spring

Sparks43 wrote: »

Self installed the 150mb Broadband yesterday and connected a new Gb NIC as well.

Pc is hardwired to the router with a Cat6 cable and from the router to the wall is new Class A compliant cable

My speed is maxing out at 102 meg and ul is fairly consistent at 9.5meg

Ping is below 16ms

Im assuming that i can do no more at my end and im wondering is that as good as i am going to get?

All advice welcome

Thanks for reading







Testing Gb NIC



Response time to router




Tracert to Google




Pinging what i assume to be the upc exchange





Router info downstream




Upstream info

no offense dude your paying for a certain speed and your not getting it, fair enough. But most of the population can't even get a speeds above 5 meg and there paying arm and leg for it too.

iPhone.

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

no offense dude your paying for a certain speed and your not getting it, fair enough. But most of the population can't even get a speeds above 5 meg and there paying arm and leg for it too.

What's the relevance of that?

The lad is as entitled as you are to attempt to maximise the service he is paying for. I myself can only avail of a theoretical max of 7MB where I live but I do all I can to maximise my speeds too.

Just because the OP is fortunate enough to live in a area where he can pay for and avail of much faster speed than a lot of others doesn't preclude him from being just as entitled to attempt to make sure his service is as good as it can be than anyone else.

PogMoThoin

Eh, how are you measuring the speed. For high speeds you cannot trust Speedtest

kamin99

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Eh, how are you measuring the speed. For high speeds you cannot trust Speedtest

so what can you measure the 150 mb with ?

PogMoThoin

kamin99 wrote: »

so what can you measure the 150 mb with ?

You can't really. A speedtest server is limited by it's upload and depends on the amount of traffic to it at that exact time. Most websites cannot deliver faster than about 3-4mbit, this includes Google sites.

jimmycrackcorm

What does the UPC speed test report as it should indicate speeds on their network. Outside of that you cannot rely on speeds.

Tommy Lagahan

I found the Vodafone Dublin server to be fastest at ~300Mbps when I was testing the broadband in college. No server that I know of can max out gigabit fibre though lol

N64

I agree with the other posters here, speedtest.net is rubbish for measuring the actual speeds of your connection.

Try downloading a linux iso from heanet and see what the max MB/s is:
http://ftp.heanet.ie/disk1/ubuntu-cdimage/dvd/current/quantal-dvd-amd64.iso

Sparks43

N64 wrote: »

I agree with the other posters here, speedtest.net is rubbish for measuring the actual speeds of your connection.

Try downloading a linux iso from heanet and see what the max MB/s is:
http://ftp.heanet.ie/disk1/ubuntu-cdimage/dvd/current/quantal-dvd-amd64.iso

Wow now thats what im talking about

Max speed 12.3 MB so 100Mb/s

And there is lots more linux distros there

Im in heaven thanks m8

kamin99

Sparks43 wrote: »

Wow now thats what im talking about

Max speed 12.3 MB so 100Mb/s

And there is lots more linux distros there

Im in heaven thanks m8

I'm downloading the above at 1800KB/s so what speed is that , I'm supposed to be on 150MB

Sparks43

kamin99 wrote: »

I'm downloading the above at 1800KB/s so what speed is that , I'm supposed to be on 150MB

Bout 14.4 Mb/s m8

Quite slow unless your on eircom then its lightning speed

kamin99

Sparks43 wrote: »

Bout 14.4 Mb/s m8

Quite slow unless your on eircom then its lightning speed

Fab UPC ! 14 out of 150 Mb :mad: