[ILUG] OT - Measure broadband speed

[Conor Wynne]

On 23 Jan 2008, at 13:07, David wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> 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
> Message-ID: <a1fa0cb75bb38631235dd6e533b23820 at mail.eillo.org>
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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.


Tests from eircon business and IBB home -- minutes apart....

Same PC used for tests as I have two ISP's (RJ45)

Eircon Business :
--- home.eircom.net ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 8.837/9.487/9.888/0.350 ms

Blacknight reports:
Download 256Mbit
Upload 262KB
QoS 99%
Round trip 14ms
Max Pause 38ms

Now IBB 2Mbit:
--- www.irishbroadband.ie ping statistics ---
13 packets transmitted, 13 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 8.169/9.452/12.057/1.126 ms

Blacknight reports:
QoS 91%
Round trip time 12ms
Max pause 331ms
For VPN to work, I find IBB's 2Mbit syncronous connection far better...

I may change to IBB business, although I am happy with eircon's  
business support.
Now I actually ordered their €169 ex.vat package, but they failed to  
deliver the goods.
Their loss as I don't have to pay for it myself... Anyome use IBB's  
business packages?
Would I also get a phone line? I need one...

regards,
Conor.