Test your speed and give the results here. Other topics are the adequacy of your plan for various tasks like streaming and downloading, the availability of faster plans, and whatever else you might dream up.
Quote from: drogulus on September 01, 2017, 06:53:54 AM
Test your speed and give the results here. Other topics are the adequacy of your plan for various tasks like streaming and downloading, the availability of faster plans, and whatever else you might dream up.
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This is the connection I use at home. I don't know anything about this stuff and so I can't really comment on it much.
The modem is downstairs in a cupboard. I only have a tablet connected to it because my best friend/assistant still hasn't built my PC that we bought the components for at the start of this year.
At some point every day (if I remember) I leave the connection open in case anyone passing by needs bandwidth.
I don't know exactly how much it costs, but I think it's about 25 EUR/30USD a month.
And I don't know what other speeds or plans are available. But I do know I generally don't need much.
In the studio we had a business connection that was fast and reliable for sending RAW files to be edited. That was more expensive. It had two Macs and a Windows machine connected to it. The modem was under a desk in the reception/lounge area. I don't remember how much it cost.
e: I might be confusing 'modem' and 'router'.
I have what's called a gateway for my cable connection. It's a combined modem/router I use for both wired and wifi connection. I run 2 networks off of it, a 2.4 and a 5. I also have another wifi router to run a second pair of networks. This way I can run giant downloads on my PC while I stream movies on my Roku with less interference.
Download speed: 97.61 Mbps
Upload speed: 9.90 Mbps
Ping: 30 ms
www.speedtest.net
Download speed 418 Mbps
Upload speed 422 Mbps
Ping 1 ms
The supplier says 500 / 500
Faster than I can use it.
my internet has velocity - a vector - since it points to a bunch of greedy Git's who charge way too much per month! >:D
Quote from: nodogen on September 01, 2017, 01:43:34 PM
Faster than I can use it.
I guess that means you don't feel the need for more speed. I'm thinking about getting a 4K TV fairly soon, and I'll be streaming Amazon video at 4K.
Quote from: drogulus on September 01, 2017, 02:32:45 PM
I guess that means you don't feel the need for more speed. I'm thinking about getting a 4K TV fairly soon, and I'll be streaming Amazon video at 4K.
Well, I don't know how to test it but I don't seem to have any issues over loading or streaming or whatever. The TV goes on rarely. 😴
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thanks new zealand
there are times when I suspect a shark chewed through the cable connecting us to the rest of the world....
Response time (latency) 492 ms
Download speed 1.7 Mbps
Upload speed 0.9 Mbps
🤔
LOL..
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There is an ongoing upgrade to the internet service in Australia ATM - as you can see from the above it sucks ATM :-X.
Quote from: amw on September 02, 2017, 12:35:08 AM
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thanks new zealand
there are times when I suspect a shark chewed through the cable connecting us to the rest of the world....
This makes me feel (slightly) better - yes, that is bad.. :o
So is mine good, bad, average or...?
Quote from: Conor71 on September 02, 2017, 01:51:06 AM
LOL..
(http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6590678216.png)
There is an ongoing upgrade to the internet service in Australia ATM - as you can see from the above it sucks ATM :-X.
Quote from: amw on September 02, 2017, 12:35:08 AM
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thanks new zealand
there are times when I suspect a shark chewed through the cable connecting us to the rest of the world....
This makes me feel (slightly) better - yes, that is bad.. :o
Ugh. Just ugh.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/6590820804.png)
Quote from: nodogen on September 02, 2017, 02:53:03 AM
So is mine good, bad, average or...?
Your Ping and Upload Speed is better than amw's but your Download speed is the lowest posted so far - I don't know a lot about Computers I guess but going from the data you posted your speed does seem very slow.
You're living in the UK right? - I lived in London for a few years back in the early 2000's and I remember the internet connection there was a revelation coming from Australia.
Places like Australia and New Zealand lag behind other parts of the world in internet connectivity so your result really surprises me - are you on a Dial-Up connect or living somewhere that's remote?.
Quote from: North Star on September 02, 2017, 03:06:29 AM
This makes me feel (slightly) better - yes, that is bad.. :o
Ugh. Just ugh.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/6590820804.png)
wow.. - another suprise: I assumed most of Europe had good connectivity..
Quote from: Conor71 on September 02, 2017, 03:08:31 AM
wow.. - another suprise: I assumed most of Europe had good connectivity..
It's just my housing company's lousy Internet.
as far as I know a ping exceeding 50-60 ms is a bad sign. Definitely quite bad here, although to be fair I think I was checking it during peak load hours.
Mbps is megabits per second and a bit is 1/8 of a byte. So if you're getting download speeds of 1 Mb/s that translates into 128 kilobytes of data per second, or about twice as fast as the old dial-up connections. I think.
DSL (including my useless supplier) is supposed to be something like 20 Mb/s, broadband something like 50 Mb/s and cable/fibre-optic are higher (100?)
I don't really know much about computers either though.
Quote from: North Star on September 02, 2017, 03:23:19 AM
It's just my housing company's lousy Internet.
I see - Is it some kind of shared connection?
Quote from: amw on September 02, 2017, 03:23:36 AM
as far as I know a ping exceeding 50-60 ms is a bad sign. Definitely quite bad here, although to be fair I think I was checking it during peak load hours.
Mbps is megabits per second and a bit is 1/8 of a byte. So if you're getting download speeds of 1 Mb/s that translates into 128 kilobytes of data per second, or about twice as fast as the old dial-up connections. I think.
DSL (including my useless supplier) is supposed to be something like 20 Mb/s, broadband something like 50 Mb/s and cable/fibre-optic are higher (100?)
I don't really know much about computers either though.
Thanks amw - I remember you saying that you download a lot of stuff; is that right?. Does it take forever when you want to download a full album? (I dread to think what time a box-set would take... :o).
Quote from: Conor71 on September 02, 2017, 03:30:57 AM
I see - Is it some kind of shared connection?
Not as far as I know.. The download speed seems to have slowed during the summer for some reason. I could pay to upgrade it to 10/10 or 100/100 Mb/s but haven't seen the need to consider that until recently.
Quote from: Conor71 on September 02, 2017, 03:07:01 AM
Your Ping and Upload Speed is better than amw's but your Download speed is the lowest posted so far - I don't know a lot about Computers I guess but going from the data you posted your speed does seem very slow.
You're living in the UK right? - I lived in London for a few years back in the early 2000's and I remember the internet connection there was a revelation coming from Australia.
Places like Australia and New Zealand lag behind other parts of the world in internet connectivity so your result really surprises me - are you on a Dial-Up connect or living somewhere that's remote?.
Not dial-up, but wifi from Murdoch's Empire. I wish I did live somewhere remote, but no, a city in the middle of England.
No doubt we'll all have brilliant internet once we leave the EU. And pet unicorns, too. 🙄
Quote from: Conor71 on September 02, 2017, 03:36:19 AM
Thanks amw - I remember you saying that you download a lot of stuff; is that right?. Does it take forever when you want to download a full album? (I dread to think what time a box-set would take... :o).
I usually just queue downloads up before I go to bed in e.g. Qobuz or the eClassical download manager or whatever other software I'm using, since I anyway leave the computer on at night in order to play music. (I have issues with getting to sleep, staying asleep, and quality of sleep, due to mental health issues. Music helps.) As for downloads of.... questionable legality.... torrent clients also still work <.<
It's not always quite that slow, either. I tested it just now again, a bit after midnight, and got 20 Mb/s down which is ideally what I'm supposed to have all the time. Certain times of the day it just doesn't work as well, presumably due to shark-related cable outages.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/6591236695.png)
I discovered my connection was no longer 100 Mbps a couple of days ago. That's why I started this topic and asked for speed tests.
Quote from: Conor71 on September 02, 2017, 03:07:01 AM
Your Ping and Upload Speed is better than amw's but your Download speed is the lowest posted so far - I don't know a lot about Computers I guess but going from the data you posted your speed does seem very slow.
You're living in the UK right? - I lived in London for a few years back in the early 2000's and I remember the internet connection there was a revelation coming from Australia.
Places like Australia and New Zealand lag behind other parts of the world in internet connectivity so your result really surprises me - are you on a Dial-Up connect or living somewhere that's remote?.
Are you on the NBN yet? My brother is in Armadale and when I was there in July I helped him transfer over from his adsl service. He went from figures a little bit better than yours (between 3 - 4 Mbps download) to 25 Mbps. Both with Telstra.
Quote from: North Star on September 02, 2017, 03:44:10 AM
Not as far as I know.. The download speed seems to have slowed during the summer for some reason. I could pay to upgrade it to 10/10 or 100/100 Mb/s but haven't seen the need to consider that until recently.
Ahh curious - there's quite a difference between your speed and 71dB's but maybe he pays (a lot?) more for his service?.
I could probably make do with a cheaper plan for my internet I think (as I don't stream or download a lot these days) so I can understand you being happy with your current connect.
Quote from: nodogen on September 02, 2017, 04:21:27 AM
Not dial-up, but wifi from Murdoch's Empire. I wish I did live somewhere remote, but no, a city in the middle of England.
No doubt we'll all have brilliant internet once we leave the EU. And pet unicorns, too. 🙄
Thanks for your reply - to the best of my knowledge wireless connectivity is a bit slower than a cable so your data makes sense now (I was really scratching my head over the numbers you provided!).
I'm sort of following the news about the Brexit and such going on in the UK so I can understand your apprehension about it - I feel really sorry for people like yourselves living in the UK and US at the moment.
Australia has seen a similar rise in the kind of politics which have led to the Brexit in your country so we will probably end up like you guys before too long..
Quote from: amw on September 02, 2017, 04:21:42 AM
I usually just queue downloads up before I go to bed in e.g. Qobuz or the eClassical download manager or whatever other software I'm using, since I anyway leave the computer on at night in order to play music. (I have issues with getting to sleep, staying asleep, and quality of sleep, due to mental health issues. Music helps.) As for downloads of.... questionable legality.... torrent clients also still work <.<
It's not always quite that slow, either. I tested it just now again, a bit after midnight, and got 20 Mb/s down which is ideally what I'm supposed to have all the time. Certain times of the day it just doesn't work as well, presumably due to shark-related cable outages.
Haha yes, good stuff; I used to do these "overnight" type of downloads too - Good to know your connect is better at non-peak times!.
Sorry to hear about your health problems - I suffered quite badly from anxiety and depression for most of my life (although it has somewhat improved in my later years) so I understand where you're coming from.
Music is a great healer I think - I listen to Music during any free time I have to calm and center my mind and I do the same as you and listen before sleep.
Quote from: Holden on September 02, 2017, 03:16:26 PM
Are you on the NBN yet? My brother is in Armadale and when I was there in July I helped him transfer over from his adsl service. He went from figures a little bit better than yours (between 3 - 4 Mbps download) to 25 Mbps. Both with Telstra.
Hey Holden - I'm supposedly on the NBN now and was issued a new Modem and such a couple of months back.
I haven't noticed much of an improvement in my connect speed so far but I remember hearing/reading somewhere that the NBN is not finished/fully active yet (I could certainly be mistaken though..)?.
I'm in Morley which is a bit closer to the city center than Armadale and I'm with Telstra too - I'll check out my speed again later today and post to see if my figures are closer to your Brothers.
BTW, you live in Queensland - is that right?. Has the NBN been set up in your state yet?.
Is Optus widely available in Australia? They have the fastest plan I've found.
It's a good idea to reboot your modem from time to time to get performance back up to spec. Try that if everything seems slower than it should be.
Download 66.34 Mbs
Upload 5.84 Mbs
Ping 9ms
Connected to a router by Gb ethernet.
This with Comcast Cable using their fastest service. The only alternative here is AT&T, which is is slower.
Quote from: Conor71 on September 02, 2017, 08:26:26 PM
Hey Holden - I'm supposedly on the NBN now and was issued a new Modem and such a couple of months back.
I haven't noticed much of an improvement in my connect speed so far but I remember hearing/reading somewhere that the NBN is not finished/fully active yet (I could certainly be mistaken though..)?.
I'm in Morley which is a bit closer to the city center than Armadale and I'm with Telstra too - I'll check out my speed again later today and post to see if my figures are closer to your Brothers.
BTW, you live in Queensland - is that right?. Has the NBN been set up in your state yet?.
When I set up my brother's NBN service I did some research and called his ISP. What I discovered was that just plugging in the new modem and doing the things in the set up brochure is not the whole process. Yes, if you just plug it in it will work... but very slowly.
Apparently (from what the nice and very helpful lady at Telstra told me) you have to go to a new port at the exchange. Activating this port (took about 10 days) gives you the full NBN service. My Bro and SIL are very happy with it. What you need to do (if you haven't already) is call Telstra and start the NBN registration process. You also need to tell them that you've plugged the new modem in already. (I'm fairly sure it will be running off your old system). When I read all the literature that came with the new modem, contacting Telstra was not mentioned.
Qld has been rolling out NBN for a while now but it doesn't look like making my area until 2019. I'm not concerned as I am Foxtel cabled and run my internet through that with a respectable 30mbps. I could upgrade to 100 mbps but don't really need it.
Finally, it doesn't matter how close to the city you are, it's the distance from the exchange that affects the speed. Let me know how you get on with Telstra.
Quote from: drogulus on September 03, 2017, 09:27:14 AM
Is Optus widely available in Australia? They have the fastest plan I've found.
Quote from: drogulus on September 03, 2017, 09:37:13 AM
It's a good idea to reboot your modem from time to time to get performance back up to spec. Try that if everything seems slower than it should be.
Quote from: Holden on September 05, 2017, 01:42:05 AM
When I set up my brother's NBN service I did some research and called his ISP. What I discovered was that just plugging in the new modem and doing the things in the set up brochure is not the whole process. Yes, if you just plug it in it will work... but very slowly.
Apparently (from what the nice and very helpful lady at Telstra told me) you have to go to a new port at the exchange. Activating this port (took about 10 days) gives you the full NBN service. My Bro and SIL are very happy with it. What you need to do (if you haven't already) is call Telstra and start the NBN registration process. You also need to tell them that you've plugged the new modem in already. (I'm fairly sure it will be running off your old system). When I read all the literature that came with the new modem, contacting Telstra was not mentioned.
Qld has been rolling out NBN for a while now but it doesn't look like making my area until 2019. I'm not concerned as I am Foxtel cabled and run my internet through that with a respectable 30mbps. I could upgrade to 100 mbps but don't really need it.
Finally, it doesn't matter how close to the city you are, it's the distance from the exchange that affects the speed. Let me know how you get on with Telstra.
Thank you both very much for the helpful replies and sorry I took so long to respond - I'll consider the measures that you have described.
Holden - I didn't know about registering the new port with Telstra; I'll definitely have a look into that :).