Internet connection speed discussion/moan thread.

[yeldar2097]

The joys of broadband :brickwall

[KIGO1987]

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.

[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 :g

[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.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/866902684.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[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 :mad: [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?)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868294353.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[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
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868321557.png (http://www.speedtest.net)



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 :mad: [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]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/868330612.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

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:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868652924.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

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 (http://www.speedtest.net)

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 :brickwall

http://www.speedtest.net/result/868703097.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

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

Speed's different...I have no fracking idea what is going on.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/868709194.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[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!!! :o 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:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/868781948.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

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 (http://www.speedtest.net)

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 :brickwall

[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]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/868858809.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
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!

[Amorbis]

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 (http://www.techcrunchit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/broadbandspeedchart.jpg), in the UK that's all we should expect. Plenty to moan about I suppose. :lol

[Dark_Phantom_89]

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.

[blackwiggle]

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.

[KIGO1987]

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.


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.


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.

[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:

[DreamyElf]

here is my results:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/869276862.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
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! :)

[KIGO1987]

i have to say that ISP's are like politicians: always promising things that they can't deliver! :)

Like most things in life :brickwall

[mdhay]

Here's mine:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/869356604.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[KIGO1987]

Interesting ISP name there.

[mic-dk]

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.


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.

Of course there is the possibility that my traffic is exempt from all government snooping, but my ego ain't that big :p

[mdhay]

Interesting ISP name there.

I know, last time I checked it, it was AOL that provided it. :S

[Medusa]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/869620404.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
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.

[Dark_Phantom_89]

I know, last time I checked it, it was AOL that provided it. :S

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.

[TarquinFarqhuar]

here's mine, no idea what the fuk it means but here it is,
http://www.speedtest.net/result/869665541.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[mdhay]

Upload and the ISP could be better, but it's okay otherwise. :)

[TarquinFarqhuar]

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

[yeldar2097]

Epic ping

:brickwall

http://www.speedtest.net/result/869805305.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[Dark_Phantom_89]

Yeldar, how come your ISP has a rating of 4.2/5.0? :lol

[yeldar2097]

Because technically we're on a 24Mb connection -_-

[mic-dk]

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...

[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.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/869978848.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[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!:brickwall

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. :turd

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* :rolleyes:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/870130703.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

http://www.pingtest.net/result/19921278.png (http://www.pingtest.net)

Use pingtest for a more thorough ping analysis.

Edit: added pingtest across the Atlantic:

http://www.pingtest.net/result/19921321.png (http://www.pingtest.net)

[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.
http://i50.tinypic.com/2a6tgz8.jpg
Can anyone out do this?

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

[amplificated]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/870260326.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

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!:brickwall

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 :P
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!:rock

[Darkdrium777]

Local
http://www.speedtest.net/result/888717800.png

Atlantic
http://www.speedtest.net/result/888719528.png

Pacific (Twice)
Oceania (http://www.speedtest.net/result/888720476.png)
Asia (http://www.speedtest.net/result/888721779.png)

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 :brickwall:)
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!:rock

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.:eek
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 :g

[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!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/896517097.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/896522103.png (http://www.speedtest.net)


... 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

[mdhay]

Hold on, how can you have THAT!??! I don't have that. :(

(Welcome to the forum, btw. :g)

[DeepMix]

ok here is mine lol

http://www.speedtest.net/result/898993067.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

and yes is as crap as it looks, at least my ping isnt that bad, but the velocity sucks.. too bad its really expensive to have a nice speed here..

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

http://www.speedtest.net/result/899012298.png (http://www.speedtest.net) Singapore
vs
http://www.speedtest.net/result/899013108.png (http://www.speedtest.net) Penang

Which one's better?

[RedScar]

K, I have an issue where my modem loses sync and I get DC'd. They have checked the lines inside, outside and on the street and they all check out. I'm on DSL and have filters on all the phone lines yet they refuse to believe that the problem is somewhere at the neighborhood box. What can I do to prove this to them? This constant DC'ing randomly has happened 4 days in a row now and its making me angrier then it should be.

[yeldar2097]

I'd like an opinion on that as well. It's an ongoing problem at my house: every so often
(sometimes once a week, sometimes several times a day) both internet lines in my house
will go completely dead for up to 10 mins for no apparent reason.

Ok, it's not a long period of downtime, but it's very frustrating nonetheless :brickwall

[mdhay]

Same here, It only seems to happen when my PS3 is switched off. :?
Used to blame it on the ISP, but that would be a cliché for AOL.

[Darkdrium777]

You threaten them to switch companies if they don't fix their hardware to give you the service you pay them for.
Or something similar.
Works with Bell Sympatico.

[RedScar]

Well my ISP is Distributel, who uses Bell's lines. We are no longer undercontract and can leave at anytime, but bell and rogers are double the price and require contracts so that's not gonna happen.

[rdmx]

Have you tried a different modem?
Have you tried doing an isolation test?

[RedScar]

yes and yes, we have literally done every test possible and thus by process of elmination we know that the prob is at the box in the neibourhood. However, because my ISP doesn't own the lines (bell does) they can't touch it, and can only take out a ticket with BELL. Bell doesn't give a damn because we aren't their customer, it took 2 1/2 years to even get them to come to the door and talk to us.

[Woopzilla]

Has anyone recently received a free upgrade from BT out of the blue without any notice? I'm downloading at 1.1MB/s and uploading 80mb vids in 10 minutes to youtube. o_O

Not that I'm complaining... I just hope they aren't going to come and say "Oops, you're only paying for 8mbit and not 14mbit, we'll throttle your connection accordingly."

[amplificated]

Some of the speeds I'm getting told I'm having are higher than the theoretical max for my plan (30Mb/1Mb). Maybe the time has come where ISP's around the world are feeling so good about their networks that they've upgraded their customers' bandwidth by 5-10% or so, because they're so nice. <.<.

[Woopzilla]

I hope that's the case. :P

I've had an increase of like 60%. I've just checked and it's reporting that I'm connected at 13,098kbps with an upstream of 1,215kbps!

[SaturnReturn]

I had an improvement from BT a while back. Maybe it was a year ago or something. The improvement was more modest though, say around 4Mb/s download to around 6Mb/s download. As they're rolling out the fibre I guess it's possible they've upgraded a lot of their old equipment too, leading to an improvement for all customers...maybe?

[Darkdrium777]

I'm not with BT but I did receive the free upgrade from Bell when they pushed fiber in my area. It was quite a good upgrade too, from less than 1MB/s to what you saw now (6MB/s.)

[OBH]

I hate Orange, I hate them so much.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/917684527.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
http://www.pingtest.net/result/22315526.png (http://www.pingtest.net)

No idea why it changes so much, and this is the time of day when it should be fastest apparently.
god damn charge me for 6 months just to give me this sh*tty connection *grumble, grumble, winge, complain, grumble*

If i wasnt the most broadband-naive man alive id do something about this. My normal method of fixing electrical equipment by kicking and shouting at it doesnt seem to be working.

[SaturnReturn]

Is it the ping you don't like OBH, or the actual download and upload speeds? This looks pretty similar to my old connection. It's actually better in all except ping, which depends largely on where you are in relation to the server, so in general it's about even. The upload speed is rubbish for uploading videos etc., but I don't think you'll get a download speed better than that from many sources anyway, so not much of an issue. I'm definitely not seeing any real advantage to my new 20 Mb/s d/l connection, but upload speed is vastly improved and would make the world of difference if I was still making videos for youtube.

[LurifaxFlux]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/724087686.png
http://www.pingtest.net/result/10921267.png

Mmm, yeah I can't really complain :pirate

Doesn't help one tiny bit with the lag ramming though.

[zeeZ]

I guess it's rare that you actually get what you're paying for?
http://www.speedtest.net/result/918330244.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
http://www.pingtest.net/result/22345771.png (http://www.pingtest.net)

Well lag ramming also is part of your host's connection, could even be their/your PS3 responsible for sudden hiccups

[yeldar2097]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/724087686.png
http://www.pingtest.net/result/10921267.png


no way!!

[amplificated]

:o @ lurifax

... :o

[Darkdrium777]

:g

He must be the president of his ISP and we don't know xD

[blackwiggle]

Depending on the outcome of Australia's federal election on the weekend, if the current Labour Govt retains power the National Broadband roll out will stay as it is and we will be getting similar internet as Lurifaxflux of 100mps.

If the Liberal/national party get in they intend to use a hotch-potch of several different technologies that will give a promised base speed of 12mps :lol:lol:lol.
Why even bother releasing any proposed counter policy if it's that pathetic, they haven't got a clue.
They had Tony Abott, the Leader of the Liberal party on the ABC's Lateline.
He was asked questions about their proposed Broadband plan, it was hilarious, it was like watching a episode of "Yes Minister", you have never seen a person look so completely lost, he didn't have a clue about the most basic internet terminology or what the interviewer was asking him.
He kept admitting that he was no Bill Gates during the interview, but that couldn't save his obvious ignorance in what is turning out to be a big election issue.

[Darkdrium777]

So it costs 274$ CAD per month for that connection. I want that kind of cash. :D

[OBH]

I want that kind of ping!! Changing from 104 to about 340 does my head in.

[Woopzilla]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/919433875.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
http://www.pingtest.net/result/22399230.png (http://www.pingtest.net)

The thing I'm most happy about with my connection is the upload speed... since that unannounced upgrade I can upload 6 or 7 videos an hour (hence how I got all those videos up so quick).

[rdmx]

I think I know what I'll be voting for this weekend...

[blackwiggle]

Well after having a Federal Election here in Australia and ending up with a hung Parliament just like in the UK, it was left to 3 independents who won seats to decide who they would give their preferences to, so that either the Labour [current Govt] or Liberal [opposition] could form a Government.

This has been drawn out over the last 17 days.
Finally a decision a few minutes ago, 1 went with the Liberals and 2 went with Labour.
Labour can now form government.

The deciding factor for the 2 that went for Labour was that they knew that the National Broadband roll out was a vital long term plan in the countries future, and that the Liberals half arsed hotch-potch use of many different technologies wouldn't work.

So fast broadband nation wide here we come, a win for common sense.:D [just - whew!]

[amplificated]

I wouldn't call the decision for government branded infrastructure in an open (and thriving) market a win for common sense, but there's no doubt that it will offer benefits for the convenience of Australians and laying the groundwork for a hugely important appliance for the future.

Would've been so much better if the government never privatised Telecom Au., there would be absolutely no doubt that this would be a great thing.

[blackwiggle]

I agree the Howard Govt should not have sold Telstra.
NO Govt should sell it's telecommunications base to private enterprise, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
If it were just small shareholders a lot of what happens would not go on.
But it's large fund managers that are calling the shots, they demand profits/dividends at all costs, otherwise they just sack the board and put "Their" people in, then the rot starts.
Nothing get's upgraded, no new infrastructure is even planned for let alone built, the current services are slowly cut and have a price hike at the same time, staff are layed off, usually long term Repair & Maintenance staff to reduce long service etc, so that leads to a huge knowledge base loss, then they have to retrain new people to replace them, they are overburdened and leave, and that circle perpetuates.

Pretty much every nation that has privatized it's telecommunications now has, or is heading for, the equivalent of the car situation in Cuba.
Just keep patching it up and hope it will still work because your not getting anything to replace what's breaking down.

Same situation with Electricity supply.

[IDReaper]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/943996856.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
http://www.pingtest.net/result/23636648.png (http://www.pingtest.net)

Mah upload bandwidth is low ><.

[nexekho]

I swear my ISP is putting Speed/Pingtest.net on high priority or something, because on Filefront/Rapidshare/Megaupload/online games I get pings of 350-400, download of 30-40kb/s, upload of 5-10kb/s whilst *test.net gets pings of 45-90, download of 1.5mb/s (you divide by eight to get megabytes rather than bits) and an upload of 300-400kb/s.

[SaturnReturn]

I tried Ubuntu the other day. I was amazed. Not only was it way faster than Windows XP as an operating system, but I was getting stable download speeds from video streaming sites which were maxing out my connection. I was amazed.

I looked into it to try and find out why it is that download speeds fluctuate so much when I use Windows, and by fluctuate, I mean typically starting at 700 kB/s and then dropping rapidly to 100 kB/s, and then fluctuating between that and 50 kB/s. Anyway, I found out about something called MTU, did a lot of reading, and then did some tweaking according to recommendations made by http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks. Now earlier today I was getting the same maxed out d/l as on Ubuntu. Score!

I've also done a lot to reduce the background programs, startup programs and especially unneeded services and pre-installed windows components. Now XP is running much faster too. I'm glad, because as much as I fell in love with Ubuntu very quickly, I also had problems with it very quickly, and whenever I tried a fix, the restart function failed to work and I was getting crashes, and then failure to start up again. I had no idea what to do in recovery mode. I'm sure I could create a boot disk and fix all that stuff with google and forum help, but I think it would turn into a bit of a project, which I don't want right now. Maybe some day I will return to it though, now that I know hoe loverly it could be.:D

[nexekho]

I fell in love with Ubuntu very quickly, I also had problems with it very quickly

Same here. 3Gb of my netbook's 4Gb SSD went down the drain for no aparrent reason. It's just not mapped to the filesystem. No files are using it, yet the space is consumed?

Though I can't say I saw a speed increase over 7 and not only did I have to get my own graphics drivers because Ubuntu refused to bundle them, they only support TV resolutions over HDMI. Fffffuuuuuuu...!

[KGB]

I've just moved my router into the front room so I can connect via cable to the ps3. The problem is my internet speed has dropped from about 14Mbs to about 1.1Mbps and the ping has gone up from 50ms to 550ms! When I tried to do a network test on the ps3 the download and upload part of the test failed :frown:.If I had bought a cheap extension for my phone line from Argos (which I have) would it make a difference or are Sky just dicking around again?

Just tested it again the download speed is still the same but the Ping has dropped to 124ms now

EDIT: Never mind, taking out the filter that the extension was plugged into helped enormously :paperbag:D.

[stin]

My connection for BT at the moment

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1317269261.png (http://www.speedtest.net/result/1317269261.png)

Virgin will come shortly possibly today or in a few days cos, I already got Virgin but I yet to moved my stuff due I`m just too busy!:paperbag

stevie:)

[greenymac]

I decided to go and take a look at mine just to give a checkup.


http://www.speedtest.net/result/1317312294.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[stin]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1324804002.png

Much better than BT! :D

stevie:)

[blackwiggle]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1326305536.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Not too bad, I might run it again when I don't have multiple things accessing the net at the same time.

[MyNameIsBom]

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[Darkdrium777]

Today the internet is slow. I'm gonna give them a call, we're not in 1998 anymore.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1734177926.png

Slow day on some sites. I wonder if this can be caused by DNS servers (I'm using Google)

[AG-SYSTEMS]

Sorry to boast, but...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1735122065.png
http://www.pingtest.net/result/55536157.png

[MyNameIsBom]

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[Darkdrium777]

LOL I'm supposed to have fiber optic 10Mbps.
I'm currently streaming a shoutcast radio station with a bitrate of 56kbps in MP3 format. It cuts out. I wish I was kidding.

OK so this customer service story:
I called when I said I would earlier and a guy answered.
I asked if he knew of problems they were having providing services, or if there were problems in infrastructures they were depending of, because my connection was really crappy.
He said he'd run some tests. He does it and tells me that everything's fine, the speed he gets is what I should have, etc. He asks me if it was on specific websites that I experienced the problem.
I think about it for a minute, and well the most noticeable ones are Google websites (Youtube, GMail, Android Market...) so I'm like yeah maybe it's specific, but I ask him again if he knows of problems anyways.
He tells me it's probably that they are doing maintenance.
I find that highly unlikely (I mean it's Google, their maintenance are basically transparent and don't affect service) so I ask my question again.
Same answer. Obviously this is going nowhere so I say goodbye and decide to wait it out.

It's been a lot of hours, and it's only getting worse, so I call back. The robot answers first (as always) and says the things like the options, etc.
It asks for my phone number, so I dial it in. Immediately, the robot lady tells me that problems in my area code (Oh there were problems were they, strange how the guy didn't know about them when I called) are resolved and that I should reset my modem.
I do that and everything's fine now.


Bleeeh customer service. Better service from answering machines than actual humans.

[MyNameIsBom]

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[stin]

I don`t know, if`s that good enough?

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3099137359

stevie:)