Internet connection speed discussion/moan thread.

[KGB]

Hmm! I've done this off a laptop so it might of had a detrimental effect to the results. I was checking it for a while after I changed my IP and the fastest I saw was about 15mb. Need to have a word with Rupert I think.

[stin]

Cool, yeah, i'm just waiting for my contract to end, then i'll be switching..

Which ISP are you planning to get?

But I will have to wait another year!

stevie

[Rezatron]

I've been using broadband ADSL since 2004 in 3 different places. Each place has been a nightmare in regards to stability until 2 weeks ago. Yep only took 6 years of hell! Getting Bell (the company in Canada which owns 99% of the copper lines) to actually send out a technician is a feat in itself. They would rather remotely lower my speed profile until my line becomes "stable." This never worked no matter how low they set the profile too.

Purchasing ADSL service is really rolling the dice. My first place was too far away from the central office, second place had internal wiring issues which I wasn't going to pay out of pocket to fix, and the third place had local equipment issues which were fixed a few weeks ago. Happy to say I have a 6mbps profile which is solid 24/7 for the first time in my life. Hopefully it'll stay way *crosses fingers*





Use pingtest for a more thorough ping analysis.

Edit: added pingtest across the Atlantic:

[KIGO1987]

So you live in Toronto Rezatron?

Right this is my story:
1998-2007 Dial Up
2007-2010 ADSL1
2010- ADSL2+

Still the speeds havent advanced that much tbh.

Ok here is the leaderboard atm of the top 3 crappiest net connections.

Can anyone out do this?

Best ping goes to Zen while the best upload speed goes to Dodo

[amplificated]

I'm happy enough with my download and ping, but my upload capability sucks immensely. Makes things stuff up when someone is browsing the internet on another pc. What kind of ISP thinks 14.6kB/s is acceptable in this day and age Stupid plan hasn't changed since 2003 when I first got it.

[KIGO1987]

Youve had an ADSL2+ plan with Telstra since 2003? Damn that plan must of costed you an arm and a kidney back in the day.

Seems like dodgy upload speed is an Australian thing, and dodgy ping is a pommy thing by the looks of speedtest.net results

[amplificated]

oh sorry, I have cable

[TarquinFarqhuar]

Which ISP are you planning to get?

But I will have to wait another year!

stevie

Not to sure Stevie, was thinking of going with Virgin Media.. I'll have a shop around to see what's what, when the time comes

[rdmx]

oh sorry, I have cable

That's just the way it is with cable, fairly low upstream.
Your low downstream also suggests that there are a large number of cable users on your street. Maybe you should use ADSL2 instead

[amplificated]

600kB/s isn't that bad, most places never deliver close to that, and good sites I can pull over 800 from when downloading large files. Torrents usually hover around 650 if they're good.

docsis 3.0 cable has no problems with upstream, I had that for a few months in some testing thing for Telstra. Unlimited downloads with no caps, 6mB/s+ downloads, 2mB/s+ uploads. Good times
The extreme cable plans (still not docsis 3.0) from Telstra have basically 10x the available upstream bandwidth, so it's not the tech or network. It's arbitrary restriction.

It's not entirely up to me on what plan I have though, so all I can do is complain.

[SaturnReturn]

Got our fibre optic connection (or whatever) installed today:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/888668834.png

My ping still isn't great but it's half what it used to be. Download is 4 times what it was and upload is 26 times what it was. Hooray!

[Darkdrium777]

Local


Atlantic


Pacific (Twice)
Oceania
Asia

Something is terribad in Australia and I don't know what it is.

Oh and the ISP rating is probably vote botted, but they deserve it. They really wont do anything for you unless you're paying them.

[blackwiggle]

Is the UK still having a internet infrastructure upgrade as well ?
I read at BBC world news that it had been put on hold.

Were getting a national cable upgrade here in Aus as well, but what I've been reading the UK & Aus are both going to be in the same boat.
We've been told to not expect a huge jump in performance until pretty much everybody in a particular area has been upgraded, and the old exchanges, especially RIM ones which are the real problem ones for people, have been upgraded as well.

For some reason today my Firefox web browser has crashed and won't start back up again, most upset, having to use EE which I haven't done in a very long time, and have lost the use of all my Favorites/bookmarks.
Which means I haven't been auto-signing in to sites, frantically looking for passwords
Technology is bitch when it stops working.

Darkdrium
Yeah our net sucks atm, it's in the process of being upgraded.
It has a very old phone wire infrastructure that hasn't been serviced properly by the major telco since the goverment sold it off [ a very very stupid thing to do ]

[SaturnReturn]

My area is a suburb of London and was one of the first due to be upgraded. I'm assuming that BT ringing up and trying to get us to sign up for the fibre broadband must have come off the back of that upgrade. How far the fibre extends I'm really not sure.

Something odd is that the guy who installed it said that the we were getting 40 Mb at the socket, but only realising 20 Mb due to losses through the PC/modem/router etc. Is that really possible? Sound like guff to me.

[KIGO1987]

Got our fibre optic connection (or whatever) installed today:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/888668834.png

My ping still isn't great but it's half what it used to be. Download is 4 times what it was and upload is 26 times what it was. Hooray!

Australia in 2020, and Western Australia in 2030 at this rate.

Yeah our net sucks atm, it's in the process of being upgraded.
It has a very old phone wire infrastructure that hasn't been serviced properly by the major telco since the goverment sold it off [ a very very stupid thing to do ]

1000% agreed there

[blackwiggle]

It's possible to lose speed through the equipment you have and the way you have it set up, but by half, I doubt it unless you have quite old equipment
How old is your modem?
How old is you PC?
On the modem front,you should search the manufacturers website to see if there are any new drivers more suitable for your new connection type as a first step.
Then it's down to how you configure it.
The newer modems are quite a bit better than ones made say, 3-4 years ago.
This is particually true of wireless ones.

As for the PC, baseline, that will decided by the ethernet connection speed of your PC's MB, something that you can't change as it's board components that decide it.
Then it's down to CPU type & speed, RAM amount & speed for loading the pages [try upping your virtual RAM as that can speed things up], HD speed and how full and fragmented the drive is, all effect performance.

Just for God's sake don't be tempted by these new Solid State HD's thinking that they will speed things up, I've installed about 20 in peoples computers over the last 5 months as a seperate drive with just the OS on them, and the failure rate is about 30% atm, and I expect it to rise, some have only lasted 2weeks.
Sure they are blindingly fast, about 25X -50X faster, and when they work it's like WOW! but as reliable as the first generation of Japanese cars.

[KIGO1987]

ADSL Modem is 2007, same age as the PS3,
Wireless Router is even older, got that at half price in 2007, but its a 2006 D-Link wireless router 802.11g certified. Thats lasted for ages, during the Pulse and HD golden years.

PC is the same POS as i had from 2008. HP Pavilion Notebook computer. Is still up to date, i do those irritating automatic updates now that come up all the time, lappy has plenty of RAM 4GB and heaps of CPU grunt behind it for its age 2.53GHz Dual Core.

The Wireless Router is due for an upgrade, still works just sluggy as hell, but by what everyone is saying to me on the PSN is that the new ones are faster, but last heaps less longer (like everything built now days).

Whats this about first generation Jap cars? you speaking about the ones from the 70's? Those Corolla's are still going strong today, you see them all in the outback as bush banger cars, they simply dont die, you put a current 11th Gen Corolla out there, it'll probably fall to pieces as soon as it hits the gravel. 21st Century build quality = FAIL. 20th Century build quality = LEGENDARY

[Lance]

Currently at a theoretical 15 Mbps here, but highest actual tends to be just a bit over 14 Mbps. The problem is that site servers rarely ever give anything remotely that high. The most I've seen on a normal site is 7.5 two days ago [on a slide show page of more than a 100 MegaBytes! What the hell was he thinking?], and even that is a very rare occurrence. Often busy sites may deliver only 200 to 300 Kbps, so people shouldn't feel that they have too bad a deal if their ISP only allows a half-Megabit rate or even less. It's the sites that really limit the speed, and how long a delay there is before you even get a response. Sometimes I wait for a few seconds before actual data transfer even begins. Luckily, there are a few where the page just appears like BANG, and it's there. But most just aren't like that.

[amplificated]

New intarwebs!

... Stupid plan hasn't changed since 2003 when I first got it.

Less than a month after this comment, the plans finally got upgraded to something that wasn't spastically overpriced! yay.

[Sengoku]

I usually get over 600kbs when i'm downloading sometimes over a MB! My internet is awesome and could you believe that it's AOL lol. They have really improved.

Although i'm quite sure the Yanks still hate them hehe ;D