The joys of broadband :brickwall
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The joys of broadband :brickwall
Ill post my old crummy broadband i had during the golden years of WOHD
http://i47.tinypic.com/zyj9.jpg
Now people should understand why i was MrCranky for such a long period of time. LOOK at the upload limit people, reason why i never had anything on my youtube channel for ages.
Ping isnt as near as bad as Gaz's net though.
lol, Kigo - you should have put up a before n after pic of your net speed, so we can see the difference.
Anyway, check it - one of my most favourite games of all time is coming to PS3. Deus Ex I played the hell out of it on the PS2, but man - I just saw the trailer for it on PSN store and it looks too good... tooo damn good to be true. Deus Ex is coming soon guys :g
Just did a test then. Bloody Netspace is getting worse by the day. This is starting to become a joke. Here it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by ACE-FLO
http://www.speedtest.net/result/866902684.png
That is a bad net speed for ADSL2+ Kigo.
Is you connection speed going up and down?
Or is it constantly like that?
And where did you test to, the Melbourne servers?
I just did a test, Sunday11.20am Sydney time, Sydney to the Perth servers and got.
7.61mbs
.82mbs
ping 71ms
Distance 2050 miles.
But as you know I'm less than 1Km from my exchange and very close to the CBD, so my speed is always going to be way faster than yours.
They have already installed the optical cables in my area for the National high speed internet, just need to get the building wired up with it now, it will be interesting to see if I'll still be alive to see that happen since anything to do with this building takes forever, it's took them 10 months to partially re-render and paint the outside :mad: [legal proceedings pending because of that]
Did a broadband test...
Download speed is 10 mbps,that is what my parents pay for,fair enough,but an upload speed of 0.5 mbps? What the frack? Ping 47ms(what does it do anyway?)Distance <50mi(huh?)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868294353.png
Decent solid net connection you have over there in Singapore. Then again all of Singapore is heaps more advanced in Australia in alot of ways.
Well every once in a while everyday the stupid net disconnects then reconnects, pain in the arse when on the PSN having a talk with someone. I do find it goes up and down alot. But overall ive noticed the speed slowly dropping away from the 10mbps that i originally got with this internet provider.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackwiggle
Did the test from Perth to Melbourne. Just did a Melbourne test there alone. This is what it came out with
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868321557.png
Yeah the exchange from my place is up the main street all the way, then up another main street all the way, and on top of a hill. Fair few kays away from me. ADSL2+ is still quite of a bit of a luxury here in Perth, quite a few areas still are running on the crap i had last year. Telstra still has world domination of all the cables running under the streets of Perth. Bloody joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackwiggle
Been pretty much next to the CBD of the biggest city in the country, you would expect the optical network to start there. Perth probably will get it in 2025 or whenever the hell Gran Turismo 5 gets released.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackwiggle
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868330612.png
ph34r my 1337 connection! Well, I guess it's not so bad...
After doing some ping tests around the globe I think it's pretty safe to say any problems with playing HD/Fury online or any other UK server based game, can basically be put down to the UK's internet infrastructure.
Signals hit a brick wall as soon as they enter the UK and ping basically doubles.
It would seem from the ping results like there is some sort of blanket security at a national level, internet filtering/tracing/tagging going on as signals enter the UK and get distributed.
Probably a goverment modified version of the very controversial P.R.O.M.I.S. system.
Even if the UK had archaic phone lines/exchanges around the country, it wouldn't explain the more than doubling of the ping time over such a short additional distance.
My ping test from Sydney to New York is 244ms - distance 9950 miles
My ping test from Sydney to London is 612ms - distance 10550 miles
Well that's depressing, my Ping to London is around 500ms at times and that's <50 miles AND when there's no other computers on the network eating up bandwidth.
DAMN YOU INTERWEBS!
My internet is slow wherever I ping to on Speedtest, even to Morecambe which is only about 20 miles away. The results are not so good:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868652924.png
And if I ping to another country like the USA, who I generally encounter frequently whilst playing games, the result is this:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868655603.png
I have slow internet with reasonable ping times, but my ping never seems to go below 50 in any circumstances. After inquiring to my ISP about better packages all they can really say is 'Your county is in the North, too bad'.
Hmm, my download seems to be ok, but my upload speed is bloody awful :brickwall
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868703097.png
Speed's different...I have no fracking idea what is going on.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868709194.png
500ms ping over 50 miles!!! :o that is truly atrocious.Quote:
Originally Posted by yeldar2097
That's what I mean about the lag/ping doubling as soon as it hits the UK.
My 50 mile ping rate is 24ms.
It's a national [UK] thing.
Either the whole of the UK's internet is on the verge of collapsing under the weight of usage, or there is a national internet security filter in place or more likely a combination of the two.
It seems to be the way the UK has it's phone exchanges sorted, as I try different areas of the UK [different exchanges] and a minimum base level of over 600ms is always present.
If you have a lot of small rim exchanges which people are connected to in individual suburbs, then these exchanges are ring linked to larger exchanges, then that will be a major cause of the excessive ping.
The same thing happens in Aus, I think Kigo is right on the edge of a rim exchange and probably gets his internet routed through it occasionally, that's why it can be fast one day, slow the next.
I just hope the Aus government doesn't bring in the national internet security filtering that it's been testing, it will most likely leave us with a similar, but not quite as bad situation as the UK.
My connection is supposed to be a 20/2 - I guess it would be to much to ask to actually deliver it... Grrr... But I digress - my local ping:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868781948.png
When I try a randomly chosen UK server it doesn't really seem to affect my ping - it still looks reasonable:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868784398.png
I don't really buy the whole National Security Filter theory. My guess is the wildly differing ping times has more to do with interconnects between the different ISPs than any Echelon style government conspiracy.
I've created a thread here for everyone to discuss and moan about their connections speeds, as it seems to happen in so many threads that it's obviously worth its own.
Is this your second/crappy connection? When we were comparing before yours was half mine, i.e. 40 ms compared to my 80 ms. That was to London, despite you being further from London than I am. What happened to that connection?Quote:
Originally Posted by yeldar2097
That one's still around but it now gets eaten by my father and his VPN wotsit to the Isle of Shite. Business n that. Stealing my nice low ping network :brickwall
I've tested multiple times and my connection always gets the same result:
~80 ms to London
~40 ms to Maidenhead
I'm closer to London so I can only assume it's something to do with traffic.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868858809.png
I was going to complain
Then I realised there are many others worse off >_>
This is because I live a fair distance from the telephone exchange :| If I lived next to it i could have 24mbit down!
I don't get all of this telephone exchange business, I live on the same street as mine yet my connection is still awful. I currently receive an 8 Megabit package, but at the most you can see I only get 2 of those 8.
But according to this chart, in the UK that's all we should expect. Plenty to moan about I suppose. :lol
It's because the UK are still using copper cables for its broadband, which is considerably slower than fibreoptic. The reason that Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea have such fast speeds is because they went straight to fibreoptic.
Australia is still using copper cabling as well, you will see that we are actually ranked lower than the UK atm.
Thankfully the Aus government has realized that something needed to be done, and quickly, so that we didn't drop behind Nigeria, Tonga and the highlands of Papua New Guinea in internet speed.
The have started a national upgrade of the internet infrastructure [Aus$43 billion over 8 years] that will give us 100mbs.
Unfortunately they are also intent in bringing in a national web content filter system which will inevitably slow things down, it's in trial stages atm.
mic-dk wrote QUOTE
I don't really buy the whole National Security Filter theory. My guess is the wildly differing ping times has more to do with interconnects between the different ISPs than any Echelon style government conspiracy.[/QUOTE]
It's not a government conspiracy, it's an already in place, system in operation, fact, and has been in one form or another for around the last 15 years.
The only difference is that now it is turned on 24/7 in the USA [where the have the infrastructure to make it not as obtrusive], where initially it was only used under a court order on specific targets.
You'd be fooling yourself to think they didn't have it in place and use 24/7 in the UK as well, what with heighten security being as it is, particularly after the London bombings.
My older brother has been working with this stuff since the early 90's, it's interesting to hear how it works and how it's evolved over the years.
The second half of the title of this thread is stupid " / moan thread". Its a joint discussion of what peoples internet speeds have from all over the world.
I wonder what will happen if (most likely) there is a change in the Federal Government in the next election, which will be in the coming months. Will the whole plan of upgrading the country's internet infrastructure will still go ahead, or would it be pulled off and shelved for another time.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackwiggle
It's a signed deal, especially since Telstra has been slapped into pulling it's finger out a to stop stalling the roll out.
Even if there were to be a Liberal government after the next election, which I really don't think there will be, they would be absolutely crazy to try and rescind it.
Not only would it show how totally inept the Liberals are at any forward planning for the countries benefit, it would end up costing the Australian tax payer a fortune to pull out of now the ball is rolling, and also not have anything to show for the money already spent.
Telstra would just love to take any government, be it the present one or a future one, to court for pulling out of the deal and get a nice fat payout for doing F**K All.
The Liberals are just a big enough bunch of stupid reactionary halfwits to do something like that, they would quite happily cut off their nose to spite their face.
We have already had 1950's politics twice, once with Chifley 1945-1949 and a second time with John Howard 1996-2007, why the hell would Australia want it a third time with Tony Abbott.:rolleyes:
here is my results:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/869276862.png
i'm paying for a 24 Mb/s but i never had above 6Mb/s... lol
i have to say that ISP's are like politicians: always promising things that they can't deliver! :)
Like most things in life :brickwallQuote:
Originally Posted by DreamyElf
Here's mine:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/869356604.png
Interesting ISP name there.
I'm not questioning that such systems exists - I know they do - I'm just trying to point out that they're not likely to cause these weird ping scenarios you see AUS->UK and UK->UK. Since my ping times to the UK seems OK, it leads me to think that it is more a question of peering (or the lack of!) between the different ISPs.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackwiggle
Of course there is the possibility that my traffic is exempt from all government snooping, but my ego ain't that big :p
I know, last time I checked it, it was AOL that provided it. :SQuote:
Originally Posted by KIGO
http://www.speedtest.net/result/869620404.png
I live in the middle of (very nearly the middle, yes) a huge country. Ping to Ontario, just a province away, goes up to 90ms. To the UK, it's 457ms. To Spain, 173 ms. To Australia, 521ms. Interestingly the UK is almost as bad...blackwiggle's suggestion seems to make sense to my internet connection.
AOL merged with Carphone Warehouse so that's the reason that the ISP name is different. The worst thing they ever did if you ask me - I had numerous problems with my net straight after the merge and had no Internet for a week. And I wasn't the only one.Quote:
Originally Posted by mdhay
here's mine, no idea what the fuk it means but here it is,
http://www.speedtest.net/result/869665541.png
Upload and the ISP could be better, but it's okay otherwise. :)
Cool, yeah, i'm just waiting for my contract to end, then i'll be switching.. :+
Epic ping
:brickwall
http://www.speedtest.net/result/869805305.png
Yeldar, how come your ISP has a rating of 4.2/5.0? :lol
Because technically we're on a 24Mb connection -_-
Heh, Yeldar, that is epic! Not in the way the ISP would like, I'm sure, but still epic.
I think it's time for facepalm...