Internet connection speed discussion/moan thread.

[yeldar2097]

The joys of broadband

[KIGO1987]

Ill post my old crummy broadband i had during the golden years of WOHD



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.

[ACE-FLO]

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

[KIGO1987]

lol, Kigo - you should have put up a before n after pic of your net speed, so we can see the difference.

Just did a test then. Bloody Netspace is getting worse by the day. This is starting to become a joke. Here it is.

[blackwiggle]

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 [legal proceedings pending because of that]

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

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?)

[KIGO1987]

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.

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?

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.

Did the test from Perth to Melbourne. Just did a Melbourne test there alone. This is what it came out with

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.

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.

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 [legal proceedings pending because of that]

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.

[Harvai]

ph34r my 1337 connection! Well, I guess it's not so bad...

[blackwiggle]

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

[yeldar2097]

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!

[Amorbis]

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:


And if I ping to another country like the USA, who I generally encounter frequently whilst playing games, the result is this:


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'.

[Dark_Phantom_89]

Hmm, my download seems to be ok, but my upload speed is bloody awful

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

Speed's different...I have no fracking idea what is going on.

[blackwiggle]

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!

500ms ping over 50 miles!!! that is truly atrocious.
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.

[mic-dk]

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:



When I try a randomly chosen UK server it doesn't really seem to affect my ping - it still looks reasonable:



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.

[SaturnReturn]

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.

[SaturnReturn]

...my Ping to London is around 500ms at times...

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?

[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

[SaturnReturn]

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.

[rdmx]

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!