Cell C Speed Test Results

morkhans said:
@Akafreakazoid thanks for the speed tests.

While more testing is probably needed these tests do make for some interesting questions.
1) Why if you are in Cape Town does the speedtest.net think Newlands (450mi) is further away than Johannesburg (300mi)? - Looks to me like they don't have all their peering sorted out. Which means if you are in CPT and you have traffic for CPT it will route all the way up to JHB and back down again to CPT.
2) Upload is very inconsistent.
3) International ping looks a bit high, would expect closer to 300ms.
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how come?

Also, I expect 800ms latency from vodacon, so this is rockstar quality at a decent price. Compared to Vodacon
 
Imminent said:
how come?

Also, I expect 800ms latency from vodacon, so this is rockstar quality at a decent price. Compared to Vodacon
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So for comparison here are my Vodacom speed and pingtests. As you can see they are much closer to 300ms, a far cry from your claimed 800ms.

speedtest.net
JHB: http://www.speedtest.net/result/980561434.png 92ms
NY: http://www.speedtest.net/result/980562895.png 330ms
UK: http://www.speedtest.net/result/980572740.png 247ms

pingtest.net
JHB: http://www.pingtest.net/result/25532669.png 123ms
NY: http://www.pingtest.net/result/25532758.png 390ms
UK: http://www.pingtest.net/result/25532840.png 328ms
 
Cell C stellenbosch was outa stock of the 60 Gig sim :( (now i can at least afford food heheehe....) so got the 24 gig. Tested inside shop (bottom middle of big concrete mall) and got ~5 Mbit/s dl (Cell C modem). Tested at my varsity dept with my vodafone k3565 and getting 2.8 Mbit/s dl and rather paltry 0.4 Mbit/s up. Don't know why up is so slow, might just be the location! But I am happy as I don't have to FORK out R389 pm for 2gig to vodascum anymore!!!!!
 
OK just did some new tests, this time not standing near my laptop (modem plugged in right next to my arm....)

Jo'burg Cell C server: Dl 3.69 Mbit/s :D
Up 0.31 Mbit/s :(
Ping 0.178 ms

New York server: Dl 2.31 Mbit/s :D
Up 0.18 Mbit/s :(
Ping 0.718 ms :wtf:


Happy with the New york dl but wtf up with ping?! Maybe time of day (america waking up....)

Will test later tonight at my flat and see if there is a difference!
 
Bought my 7.2Mb stick and 2Gb per month today, and is flying back to Johannesburg within the next hour. The test below was done from the SAA lounge at King Shaka International Airport to the server in Johannesburg:
 
What am I doing wrong???

Today is the first day of me testing the Cell C new 21mb modem (Cape Town: Higgovale). The signal has been variable the whole day (switching from 5 bars HSPA to zero bars EDGE). Tonight it is 91-99% signal strength HSPA+ but the speed tests are abysmal - 0.13 - 0.2. What's going on?

http://www.speedtest.net/result/981870073.png

http://www.speedtest.net/result/981904092.png

http://www.speedtest.net/result/981931477.png

*UPDATE*
It seems to be getting better this morning - hitting a MB now.. (uploads vastly increased, downloads a bit sluggish still but 50 times better).
http://www.speedtest.net/result/982327350.png
 
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umqombothi said:
What am I doing wrong??? ... Today is the first day of me testing the Cell C new 21mb modem (Cape Town: Higgovale).
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I've had consistently good speeds everywhere I've tried so far in Cape Town (ranging from 3Mbits/sec to over 10Mbits/sec on tests to Joburg) ... if you keep having problems like this, I suggest you contact Cell C, could be an actual problem with either your device or the tower in your area.
 
Umhlanga 11:25 9 October 2010 with E1820



Must say, I'm impressed. They can call it 4Gs if they want to, it's faster than Sprint 4G in the USA.
 
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