[ILUG] OT - Measure broadband speed

[David]

Hello,

After reading the email regarding testing the speed of your broadband
connection. I noticed that you mentioned that you said " The connection gets
really bad in the evenings."

As does mine...it is terrible and gets so frustrating...

I have an Eircom 3 Meg business line into to my house...and during the day
it is perfect have absolutely no problem with it...the S/N Ratio is about 12
dB

Come 5 or 6pm till about 11 pm it drops to below 3dB and gradually degrades
to below -1 dB, where my router has then decides to drop the line and
connect at a lower speed. After a couple of minutes then the router sees the
at the line can hold a higher bit rate then decides to drop the connection
and connect that the higher speed...This vicious circle continues all night
till about 12 when the S/N Ratio goes back up to about 12 dB... 
Because of this constant dropping of connection and the huge amount of noise
on the line the only thing that I can do online is look at web pages nothing
else.

I called Eircom about it, but the "Tech Support" at the other end suggests I
drop to a 2 Meg line to fix the problem, but I really do think this will
solve the problem, as the noise will probable still be there but my router
might be able to cope with it anyway. But I really don't want to drop down a
Meg.

After checking online, I have found forums dedicated to this particular
problem, but no one seems to have a solution.

I was just wondering had anyone else come across this problem and more so
have they come up with a solution?

Oh and to test my connection I use http://myspeed.visualware.com/

Personally I think it's quite good, but it is not hosted in Ireland, the
latency maybe slightly higher.

Regards
Dave




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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:49:48 +0000
From: <ollie at eillo.org>
Subject: Re: [ILUG] OT - Measure broadband speed
To: Paolo Marchiori <paolo at marchiori.net>
Cc: ilug at linux.ie
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Hello,
     Thanks for the responses. I found blacknight but they require
registration
which im not doing. Tried speedtest.net which gave me 1300kb per second on a
2Mb line
the first try, 1100kb the second. 

The connection gets really bad in the evenings.

Also im aware of the difference between latency and bandwidth. However my
ping
on the speedtest was over 100ms which sucks.

Ill run it again in the morning
when the connection is fastest to get a best possible result.
 
In relation to heanet and distros im newly converted from Arch Linux 
which is like an easier debian, to Mint Linux, based on Ubuntu.

I got sick of, and dont have the time to configure everything anymore.
It really smacked me in the face as its the distro ever that "just worked"
out of the box for me.

wifi, sound, suspend, hibernate etc - everything.

Cheers!,
       Ollie.