Broadband Speed & Ping Test Megathread

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Gomo 5G Enniscorthy.

500mb via FTTH with Pure, had to tweak my Unifi AP settings the other day and got this tonight...

Looks good to me. Mind you I'll admit I don't know, what's the 34 & 101 scores? I Googled the ping and jitter numbers and I know they're not bad but expert analysis would be good!

More detail:

Well looks like im moving and only option is Imagine. So my speeds are going to drop. And my pings are going up I would 'Imagine'

Try separating them first, 2.4 won't give much more than 60 anyway.

Wired I presume, great speeds in fairness.

This is driving me nuts. I have Vodafone 1Gb FTTH. For the past several weeks the connection always feels sluggish when browsing, and have had a few glitches on Zoom/Teams calls. Sure enough, when I run a speed test at https://www.speedtest.net I am consistently down in the 40-50 Mbps range with ping times often in dozens of milliseconds. My upload speed, however, is consistently around 105 Mbps (the nominal value I'd expect).

Now, when I run a speed test at https://switcher.ie/broadband/speed-test/ it's a completely different story. Same machine, hitting the same server just a few seconds later (it doesn't matter which one I choose), and it says I am getting consistently over 500 Mbps. This seems to be totally reproducible almost any time of day.

Both speed tests even look to be using the same Ookla widget. But the first (slower) one is more akin to how the connection "feels" when browsing, with sluggish and uneven page loads. I'm testing over Wifi but sitting next to the router, and I know from previous experience the Wifi usually maxes out around 600 Mbps.

Anyone seen anything like this?

Have had Eir Gigabit for just over 1 week and havent yet had a test go over 500Mbps, averaging between 350 and 450 testing at various times of the day and night, uploads happily hit 100Mbps everytime. Lines are relatively new maybe 1-2 months so dont think its a congestion issue as I wfh and haven't seen the KN vans around much since they did the actual wiring upgrades.

Yeah I'm on 500mb, get 450-480 on WiFi for the most part.

Given that before FTTH I was getting 3mb I'm more than happy lol.

Just moved from 500mb BB with Virgin

using these test

https://fast.com/#

and

I average 250 to 400 mbps on two different laptop relatively new, using three tests

Virgin tell, me they router takes time to build up speed ?? I installed it an hour ago (the new BB router they supplied ) is a Sagemcom Fast3896

Virgin tell me to test using https://samknows.com/realspeed/ I suspect this test gives me a false positive , test comes in approx 850mb

Just visiting my dads house in Clontarf and he has Eir 100 I believe. I have randomly tested his connection on and off over the day and night for a couple of days now and I am not getting a download speed over 3.5. And an upload of 11. Which is pretty awful. He said he called them at some point and the only thing they said to him was that he should pay for the 500 package. But he was loath to do so - so is just waiting at this point for the contract to expire so he can switch provider.

Is Eir particularly known to be bad in Clontarf?

Chances are he can get full fibre for the same price or less especially if willing to switch or at least threaten it, so if available he should probably upgrade.

In the process of switching from eir VDSL to Virgin cable, it’s nice (although not really needed) getting 1Gbps wired, but pity the latency is consistently 2x worse (although still acceptable to the gamers in the house)!

VM Coax. I actually got a really good retention offer from eir, so I’m going to stick with them. Eir latency a quarter of VMs when both wired:

That's a great connection. When I had fttc I was getting 65/15 all day everyday in reality anything around those speeds is more than good enough for a house.