Getting faster

[StuartR]

My internet connection slowed down by about 25% a few months ago, and my ISP didn't seem at all interested in fixing it, eventually I gave up and ordered a new connection from another service provider.

They installed the modem and router yesterday, and I am VERY pleased with the speed.

[Leif]

I can't say I'm not a tad jealous!

[HansV]

I can understand you're pleased!

[Leif]

I can understand you're pleased!

He's only upgraded to try and beat you to a few posts...

[StuartR]

He's only upgraded to try and beat you to a few posts...

In my dreams !!

[Claude]

I'm very jealous !



_{do you happen to have a spare room for rent ?}

[steveh]

This is my work PC!!

[Leif]

This is my work PC!!

At least you have a reasonable upload speed!

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(Roll on our new router installation...)

[stuck]

Hmm, I've just confirmed what I already know, my work connection is highly variable:
About 5 mins ago Down was about 6.5Mb/s and Up was over 8Mb/s.
About 1 min ago Down was only 3.25 and Up was 5.7.

Ken

[Leif]

Hmm, I've just confirmed what I already know, my work connection is highly variable:
About 5 mins ago Down was about 6.5Mb/s and Up was over 8Mb/s.
About 1 min ago Down was only 3.25 and Up was 5.7.

At work, it's always possible that someone or something else was uploading or downloading while the test was taking place, no? I can't believe the SpeeTest.net software can manipulate exclusive use of your company connection!

Interesting, though, that your upload speed is higher than download - usually it's the other way round...

[stuck]

It is highly likely someone else was doing something during both tests, I work at a reasonably large site and it is lunch time.

As for the UP/Down being the wrong way round, if I was brave I'd go upstairs and suggest they plug the cables in the other way round so we could all enjoy a faster ride Seriously though, I think our connection is supposed to be symmetric.

Ken

[Argus]

I'm very jealous !



_{do you happen to have a spare room for rent ?}

Hey Claude, if you do the download I can do the upload.

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[StuartR]

Argus,

A 344mS ping is seriously slow, is that normal for you?

[Leif]

A 344mS ping is seriously slow, is that normal for you?

I don't think Argus normally pings Sydney...

[Argus]

Argus,

A 344mS ping is seriously slow, is that normal for you?

To Sydney, yes. I don't do tests that often, but to the guys down under it (via SpeedTest) often goes over 300ms.
Here, usually 3-4 ms.

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[stuck]

As further evidence of my highly variable internet connection speed I can inform you that the notification of Argus's reply to Stuart's post arrived 12mins before the notification of Stuart's post.

Alternatively, Argus is travelling faster than the speed of light

Ken

[ABabeNChrist]

Over here in the states I'm at a crawl
Suma days are good and suma days are r e a l l y s l o w
Some days I just feel like

I NEED MORE POWER....

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[John Gray]

The download speeds shown by SpeedTest.net always make me laugh - I have a 10 Mbps cable line! The figure hovered at about 6 Mbps then shot up to the ludicrous number above.




Think Broadband's speed tester seems to be about the only reliable one for download speeds - in the UK, at least.

Curious how the upload speed is always pretty consistent.

[Argus]

The download speeds shown by SpeedTest.net always make me laugh ... [...] Think Broadband's speed tester seems to be about the only reliable one for download speeds - in the UK, at least.

Yes, John, I've noticed that SpeedTest.net seems to be a little bit optimistic, but in your case it's three times!

We have a site here that is very often used when people check their speeds, ISPs etc. and you can pick one of five cities. Usually there's a difference around 5-15% compared to SpeedTest for the same city on the download, but up to 25% on the upload, and I think that's within the difference that one can expect between servers etc., at least for the download speed.

But some do the tests with different protocols etc. it seems. Before they created the site I mentioned, there was widely used software that did the same tests, but also some other, pings etc. and it still works. And with that one I get slightly lower download, and quite a bit slower on the upload, compared to SpeedTest, but closer to the online version mentioned above.

I've not tested Think Broadband's speed test since it requires Java.

[Argus]

Alternatively, Argus is travelling faster than the speed of light

Yes, Ken, we've noticed that that can happen up here, especially on rainy days in the autumn. (I wish.)

You don't have to reply to this, my reply to your next post is already in the tubes, somewhere.

Though, when we used ADSL and telephone line, we could get a weather effect it seemed, which was highly volatile.