How fast is your internet connection?

[EdwinEdwin is verified member.]

Just a lazy Friday evening sort of thread...

If you go to http://www.speedtest.net/ you can easily measure the speed of your internet connection, then there's an option to share the result that includes an image version.

(Ironically, we're supposedly on a tier that tops out at 200Mbps, but I quite often see speeds a bit above that.)

Pretty hard to remember how genuinely excited I was to be getting ISDN - yes, a full 64Kbps - back in the mid-1990s!

 

[MurrayMurray is verified member.]

3.51 dowload
0.78 upload
30ms ping

 

[Adam HAdam H is verified member.]

Wow thats some serious download, pity the upload wasnt better though. I've heard before Virgin are notorious at bottle necking the connection because there is nothing in their terms to state a min upload speed to customers ( Like most ISP's fail to state ).

I should be getting about 50MB down, although tonight its sitting at 20mb. Most likely wireless interference, im sure if I check the router in speed it will be 40+ .

I get about 8 Upload and my ping is good around 8 or 9ms

EDIT, yeah Hardwired :

40.54 Mbps
8.40 Mbps
8 ms

 

[EdwinEdwin is verified member.]

Virgin state 12Mbps upload on the top tier. It's not very well publicised, but if you look for it on the Thresholds section of this page, they do specify a base upload speed for each service tier (as well as usage restrictions at peak periods)
https://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy-thresholds.html

There are no usage restrictions on downloads (on the 30Mbps package and above), only on uploads. That's basically to catch out peer to peer users, because regular users are unlikely to upload multiple gigabytes of data over a short period.

 

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Currently pay for 50mb/s so quite happy with this result (and sometimes when I test I do get a little bit more than 50).

 

[EdwinEdwin is verified member.]

BTW, if you're paying for a very high-speed package, it's worth remembering that your actual experience will be limited by the slowest device standing between you and the internet.

In the case of a wired connection, things to look out for include the port speed on the router, the port speed on the switch/hub (if you've installed one) and the speed of your network adapter, and in exceptional cases the speed rating of the cables you're using to connect everything together (though most modern Ethernet standards support up to gigabit speeds)

So for example if you're paying for a 200Mbps package, then the hub has to support 200Mbps+ speeds (it's likely to be 1 gigabit as the speed typically jumps in powers of ten), but so does the switch (if it's a 100Mbps switch you won't get more than 100Mbps out of your connection, no matter what) and none of that will do you much good if you're using an older computer with a network card limited to 100Mbps. You might also find that some older switches are half-duplex, which means that they effectively have to reserve 50% of the bandwidth for traffic in each direction, so if it's a 100Mbps switch you won't see speeds above 50Mbps from it.

In the case of a wireless connection, then key factors are the router, the max speed of the wireless standard being used (a/b/g/n etc.) and the max speed of the wireless card. That gives you an absolute best case scenario i.e. if you had the wifi router and the card a few inches apart and there were no other wifi signals or anything else causing interference, you might expect to get close to the rated speed. But then the numbers start to be eroded as the distance to be spanned increases, obstacles get in the way, and the wifi channels hit contention issues (caused by neighbouring wifi networks) or suffer from interference (basically anything electrical could potentially cause problems; some regular culprits are speaker systems, microwave ovens, etc.)

You may also find that your provider's bundled modem/router is pretty rubbish at wifi, but does a perfectly good job of providing a wired connection. In which case it might be worth investing in a separate wifi router, and switching your ISP supplied device to modem-only mode.

It's too big a topic to go into more detail here, but hopefully that gives you a few pointers to think about.

 

[boxerdogboxerdog is verified member.]

 

[boxfish]

55 DL
3 UL
4ms Ping

I pay for 50Mbps with Virgin and it's usually around that/slightly above.

As a sidenote, what 4G speed do you get? At my GFs house I regularly get 90Mbps+ which seems crazy. Usually get ~20Mbps most places.

 

[lazaruslazarus is verified member.]

I'm, 200Mb+ Down too and around 12Mb up
Love Virgin speeds

To be honest I don't think I would notice the slightest difference if they slashed it too 50mb without telling me. (On day to day stuff)

I did download Rainbow Six the other day from steam which was 60Gig so that's when it comes into its own.

 

[markb]

Edwin, I think your just showing off with those speeds. This is the fastest I can get which is a shame. We can't get virgin media.

 

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[aZooZaaZooZa is verified member.]

In China, via Hong Kong VPN:



Now I have to switch off VPN (Acorn not reachable without) and post again to show non-VPN local speed...

 

[aZooZaaZooZa is verified member.]

Local China:



That's early in the morning here. When the 4,000 odd people that contend this connection are online later, it drops considerably

 

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[MurrayMurray is verified member.]

In China, via Hong Kong VPN:

What are you upto in China?

 

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In China, via Taiwan VPN (for short durations)