NTL users check your speeds

Lexmark.Printer

Yip, I've been upgraded too!!!

You can check your speed here www.irishisptest.com

Astro1996

seems to be slowing/stuck for me at the moment, I was getting 1.91mbps/198kps (200-220kps) steady since the upgrade happened around 1pm yesterday, but for the last 5-6 hours it will not go past 1.20mbps/193kps (160-175kps)....still....

causal

Wed, 11 May 2005 01:48:02 GMT
1st 128K took 521 ms = 251578 Bytes/sec = approx 2093 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 520 ms = 252062 Bytes/sec = approx 2097 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 521 ms = 251578 Bytes/sec = approx 2093 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 521 ms = 251578 Bytes/sec = approx 2093 kbits/sec

After being up and down all evening these are quite nice (max should be 2048!)
Maybe they've settled coz everyones gone to bed and not testing their new speeds

causal

Infini

Strange I'm getting the full speed from downloads from heanet.ie but transfers from microsoft.com are running at less than 180kb/s.

CyberGhost

Lexmark.Printer wrote:

Yip, I've been upgraded too!!!

You can check your speed here www.irishisptest.com

Could you please do that again, just in in kB instead of Mb?

you can change it by clicking on the "kbps=1000 bits/second Mbps=1000000 bits/second" text on the bottom of the test.

congrats to all the upgraded ones!

ArthurG

Much more stable this morning:

Wed, 11 May 2005 06:21:49 GMT
1st 128K took 375 ms = 349525 Bytes/sec = approx 2908 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 359 ms = 365103 Bytes/sec = approx 3038 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 344 ms = 381023 Bytes/sec = approx 3170 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 359 ms = 365103 Bytes/sec = approx 3038 kbits/sec

Wed, 11 May 2005 06:22:29 GMT
1st 128K took 359 ms = 365103 Bytes/sec = approx 3038 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 360 ms = 364089 Bytes/sec = approx 3029 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 343 ms = 382134 Bytes/sec = approx 3179 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 360 ms = 364089 Bytes/sec = approx 3029 kbits/sec

Irishisp reporting 2.88Mb / 292kbit.

kin9pin

I'm not surprised there were fluctuations yesterday, everyone and their mother were running speedtests (me included)!

crawler

kin9pin wrote:

I'm not surprised there were fluctuations yesterday, everyone and their mother were running speedtests (me included)!

Indeed, it is afterall a shared service.....people who would like a 3Mbps dedicated connection should pay for it, I think a 2Mbps leased line Internet service is about €20k per annum these days??

Lexmark.Printer

CyberGhost wrote:

Could you please do that again, just in in kB instead of Mb?

you can change it by clicking on the "kbps=1000 bits/second Mbps=1000000 bits/second" text on the bottom of the test.

congrats to all the upgraded ones!

Here ya go!

I'm in work at the moment and have used Remote Desktop to get the results so including the overheads thats very good!

CyberGhost

Lexmark.Printer wrote:

Here ya go!

I'm in work at the moment and have used Remote Desktop to get the results so including the overheads thats very good!

Thanks!

aaah visual pleasure!

367kb/s wow! that's a lot!

btw, how did you use Remote Desktop, what remote desktop? that comes with Windows or third party?

I tried that(windows one) once but couldn't figure out hosts, because I was behind the router.

Lexmark.Printer

It can be a bit tricky when your behind firewalls and have to forward ports and create rules but you would really need to have administrator rights in your company to do this.

I setup everything from my home PC without needing to do anything in the office. The main thing I needed was to be able to access the router from my home PC using an internet browser. This can be done with the majority of routers these days. This way I was able to see where any problems would arise.

For example. I setup my home PC for a remote connection to my office PC but I couldn't connect. I logged into the router from my home PC using an internet browser, checked the firewall log and could see I was being block there. So I created a rule to allow my IP address access. Tried again but still couldn't connect. Check the firewall log again and saw I was being allowed through.

So now I needed to create a rule to Allow And Forward TCP with a port rang of xxxx (default is 3389, but you should change it after you can connect) form IP 81.98.xx.xxx to Forward it to my office PC internal IP address of 192.168.xx.xxx and it worked perfectly.

Once you can log into your office you can then do the Remote connection to your home PC by using your office PC even though you’re really using your home PC!!! :eek:

Nietzschean

it does seem rather unstable for me still massive ping flucuations... though possibly more disturbing.. :
1 int.ddmfw01.esat.net (193.120.10.61) 0.390 ms 0.381 ms 0.271 ms
2 ge5-0-0.core001.ddm.esat.net (193.95.138.34) 0.555 ms 0.567 ms 0.572 ms
3 pos2-2.core001.cwt.esat.net (193.95.131.25) 0.712 ms 0.708 ms 0.854 ms
4 ge0-0.core002.cwt.esat.net (193.95.129.18) 0.707 ms 0.720 ms 0.709 ms
5 pos2-0.br002.ldn.esat.net (193.95.131.50) 17.380 ms 17.392 ms 17.384 ms
6 linx-gw2.router.ntli.net (195.66.226.22) 15.187 ms 15.205 ms 15.298 ms
7 gfd-bb-a-so-320-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.77) 16.653 ms 16.652 ms 16.656 ms
8 gfd-bb-b-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.172.6) 16.790 ms 16.647 ms 16.650 ms
9 bre-bb-a-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.172.149) 18.691 ms 18.406 ms 18.397 ms
10 bre-bb-b-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.172.85) 18.547 ms 18.270 ms 18.402 ms
11 ren-bb-a-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.165) 28.223 ms 28.348 ms 28.202 ms
12 ren-bb-b-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.186) 28.346 ms 28.199 ms 28.204 ms
13 dbln-bb-a-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.174.42) 30.102 ms 29.957 ms 32.592 ms
14 dbln-t2core-a-ge-000-0.inet.ntl.com (213.105.174.54) 29.954 ms 29.822 ms 29.812 ms
15 dbln-cam-1a-ge01.inet.ntl.com (82.9.145.6) 33.174 ms 33.028 ms 33.208 ms
16 dbln-inch-ubr-1-ge01.inet.ntl.com (82.9.146.26) 30.949 ms 31.137 ms 30.544 ms
17 cpc2-inch1-4-0-cust215.dbln.cable.ntl.com (82.9.177.215) 64.931 ms 40.348 ms 62.717 ms


(ipv4 traceroute from esats looking glass)

The ping time difference between the last hop before me and me is absolutely massive 30ms to me default gateway is a bit woefull

ArthurG

Gone crappy again (3mbit package):

Wed, 11 May 2005 17:31:16 GMT
1st 128K took 625 ms = 209715 Bytes/sec = approx 1745 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 500 ms = 262144 Bytes/sec = approx 2181 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 1110 ms = 118083 Bytes/sec = approx 982 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 968 ms = 135405 Bytes/sec = approx 1127 kbits/sec

Irishisptest reporting around 880kbit/280

ArthurG

Sweet mother of.... worser and worser:

Wed, 11 May 2005 18:57:38 GMT
1st 128K took 359 ms = 365103 Bytes/sec = approx 3038 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 1735 ms = 75546 Bytes/sec = approx 629 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 875 ms = 149797 Bytes/sec = approx 1246 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 7937 ms = 16514 Bytes/sec = approx 137 kbits/sec

Rang ntl broadband support at 6:40pm (they're there till 7 supposedly....). At 6.55 got through to a confused young man in tv support who didnt know why i was talking to him, and didn't know why the broadband support people weren't at their desks at 6.55.

Anyway, he was very helpful and tried his best to get me an answer. He did mention there have been 'problems' over the last 24 hours, resulting in a large 'backlog of information which is now being downloaded, resulting in poor speeds'. Hmmmmm. Suggested cycling the modem (done many times already). Ended up that I will rang back again tomorrow.

I'm guessing this has to be contention issues - speeds were prefect at 7 o clock this morning, and also in middle of night judging from some earlier posts.

Lets just hope its teething issues!.

ArthurG

mollser wrote:

yep

i'm on the max package for the 3 month trial, and it has been bumped up alright. Must admit that there really isn't much noticable difference in speeds, i guess you can only download as quickly as the 'servers' on the other end allow, and its making shag all difference to before.

I wasn't aware that ntl offered a trial period?. I know they're offering 3 months free plus installation (which I availed of), but a trial?. Are you suggesting you can cancel as per DSL trials?. Can't see anything along these lines on the website.....

mollser

ArthurG wrote:

I wasn't aware that ntl offered a trial period?. I know they're offering 3 months free plus installation (which I availed of), but a trial?. Are you suggesting you can cancel as per DSL trials?. Can't see anything along these lines on the website.....

oh right - i thought it was a trial period, but its just 3 months free - whoops! I never had any intention of scrapping it anyway, and less so now, cracking service.

Nietzschean

ArthurG wrote:

I wasn't aware that ntl offered a trial period?. I know they're offering 3 months free plus installation (which I availed of), but a trial?. Are you suggesting you can cancel as per DSL trials?. Can't see anything along these lines on the website.....

the 3 month thing is a trial, or was a few months ago..

OfflerCrocGod

The upload of 35K makes me drool! I wish we had at least 256k damn you €ircon!