fast.com Speedtest results - please (-:

DuckKnuckle said:
Vumatel trenched
CISP 1000/100

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Regarding real world performance, Steam and Origin average 80MBps, Battlenet is all over the show, and the Rockstar and Star Citizen launchers both hit 120Mbps
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How do you get 1.2Gbps? Do Vumatel provide an ethernet port faster than 1Gbps? Or is Fast.com just getting creative?
 
SwimGeek said:
How do you get 1.2Gbps? Do Vumatel provide an ethernet port faster than 1Gbps? Or is Fast.com just getting creative?
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No idea. I’m on the standard Raycore CPE provided and installed by Vumatel, and I’m using the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X. Another user in my area with the same package also gets the same results on Fast
 
websquadza said:
And that's what fast.com is great for. Run a fast.com test to see what resolution you can get - but as a measure of linespeed and ISP performance, there are better tools. With free Netflix peering available, every ISP should easily be able to deliver pretty decent Netflix (and Youtube for that matter) performance (even if it means getting it from JHB to CPT).
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Agreed. Practical note, a massive portion of FTTH customers get the service for netflix streaming. I would say that makes this ‘user driven’ simple test very relevant. As relevant as latency tests to the uk game servers are for gamers.

I got this line purely for streaming. 80% Netflix. just surprised a 1 GBPs line tests at 50 - 120 Mbps any time of the day. Other tests here testing close to max line speed.
 
20/20 Accelerit via Frogfoot:
772008

Probably the best fast.com result I have ever seen on this line. Normally I get a much lower result, while, at the same time, everything else seems to behave like it is running on a 20/20 line.
 
lightpixel said:
Agreed. Practical note, a massive portion of FTTH customers get the service for netflix streaming. I would say that makes this ‘user driven’ simple test very relevant. As relevant as latency tests to the uk game servers are for gamers.

I got this line purely for streaming. 80% Netflix. just surprised a 1 GBPs line tests at 50 - 120 Mbps any time of the day. Other tests here testing close to max line speed.
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I couldn’t agree more. Netflix and YouTube traffic make up a pretty significant amount of most ISP’s traffic profiles. This is why these networks spend huge amounts of money dropping caches as close to the edge as possible and ISPs work hard to make sure they run smoothly.

That being said, the relevance for a fast.com test is more about your ability to stream a perfect Netflix stream. You don’t need 1G to stream a UHD Netflix stream, you need around 25 Mbps. So any result above this is ideal. Goodbye buffering.

Why I argue that fast.com is an inaccurate measure is because of the inherent bias it can lead to. In your case, I have no doubt that your ISP has emailed Netflix (more than once, probably weekly) for a local cache of their own. They’re a Cape Town only ISP and need to purchase National capacity to Netflix’s JHB cache. Your results show you’re connecting to a JHB server. Other results on this page show users accessing a Netflix server hosted in their ISP’s CPT rack (basically the traffic never leaves the ISP end). In both cases, you have sufficient capacity to stream multiple Netflix UHD streams, yet the results are biased to the ISP who has a cache.
 
websquadza said:
I couldn’t agree more. Netflix and YouTube traffic make up a pretty significant amount of most ISP’s traffic profiles. This is why these networks spend huge amounts of money dropping caches as close to the edge as possible and ISPs work hard to make sure they run smoothly.

That being said, the relevance for a fast.com test is more about your ability to stream a perfect Netflix stream. You don’t need 1G to stream a UHD Netflix stream, you need around 25 Mbps. So any result above this is ideal. Goodbye buffering.

Why I argue that fast.com is an inaccurate measure is because of the inherent bias it can lead to. In your case, I have no doubt that your ISP has emailed Netflix (more than once, probably weekly) for a local cache of their own. They’re a Cape Town only ISP and need to purchase National capacity to Netflix’s JHB cache. Your results show you’re connecting to a JHB server. Other results on this page show users accessing a Netflix server hosted in their ISP’s CPT rack (basically the traffic never leaves the ISP end). In both cases, you have sufficient capacity to stream multiple Netflix UHD streams, yet the results are biased to the ISP who has a cache.
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That’s exactly the point of this dude.

Try getting a straight answer these days without getting defensive string of tests. In 24 hrs my question is answered. Done and dusted. Obviously my isp needs to work on their cache.
It’s an issue when you have 5 teenagers staying over watching uhd.

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Thanks @websquadza I appreciate your help.
 
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websquadza said:
I couldn’t agree more. Netflix and YouTube traffic make up a pretty significant amount of most ISP’s traffic profiles. This is why these networks spend huge amounts of money dropping caches as close to the edge as possible and ISPs work hard to make sure they run smoothly.

That being said, the relevance for a fast.com test is more about your ability to stream a perfect Netflix stream. You don’t need 1G to stream a UHD Netflix stream, you need around 25 Mbps. So any result above this is ideal. Goodbye buffering.

Why I argue that fast.com is an inaccurate measure is because of the inherent bias it can lead to. In your case, I have no doubt that your ISP has emailed Netflix (more than once, probably weekly) for a local cache of their own. They’re a Cape Town only ISP and need to purchase National capacity to Netflix’s JHB cache. Your results show you’re connecting to a JHB server. Other results on this page show users accessing a Netflix server hosted in their ISP’s CPT rack (basically the traffic never leaves the ISP end). In both cases, you have sufficient capacity to stream multiple Netflix UHD streams, yet the results are biased to the ISP who has a cache.
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You’ve helped me realize I need an isp who has a cache. If you have a cache let me know. Oh you don’t do Frogfoot yet. Please dm me once you do.
 
Xzib1t said:
Correct sir
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Cool. So your ISP has a cache.
See web Squad I am learning.
You’re getting a cache, You’re getting a cache, everyone’s getting a cache! Dam I miss Oprah.
if she we’re here atomic would get a cache.
 
lightpixel said:
You’ve helped me realize I need an isp who has a cache. If you have a cache let me know. Oh you don’t do Frogfoot yet. Please dm me once you do.
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We have caches in both regions, Netflix will only provide you with caching options once you reach a few Gbps worth of Netflix traffic.
 
PBCool said:
We have caches in both regions, Netflix will only provide you with caching options once you reach a few Gbps worth of Netflix traffic.
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Thanks for the info. You learn something new every day.

I'm also getting 500Mbps to Teraco with 10% packet loss running @ 800 Mbps on Iperf and 100 international so maybe its related. Will do some more testing when back home. Sent to the ISP for them to check out.
 
lightpixel said:
....We get how clever you are sunshine and I know the difference between an iperf and a content delivery Speedtest service.
i wasn’t born under a rock and know how to google....
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Was this really neccassary? :rolleyes: It was a very informative thread until this point.
 
I promise I will... and you too. :thumbsup:

So even with 120mbps via your AA connection, you weren't able to handle 5 streams?
 
abudabi said:
I promise I will... and you too. :thumbsup:

So even with 120mbps via your AA connection, you weren't able to handle 5 streams?
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Buffering without VPN even local only. But I've had bad luck with Atomic and Netflix since Jan 2019 its buffered since I signed up.

Hard to test for them and diagnose with the cache's and local etc etc. Where do you test to to determine why there's a slow connection so you don't get anywhere. At the moment I'm getting 10% packet loss when I push the line to 800 Mbps, which I suppose is not unreasonable. Crazy thing is, Telkom LTE does not buffer running @ 20Mbps. Go figure.

The 1 Gbps is definitely a waste of money though, there's no difference to the 500 Mbps

99% of content is served @ 100 Mbps due to shared firewalls etc. I would have to say I have seen Zero benefit to anything over 200 Mpbs other than being able to say, I have a 1 Gbps line. Disclaimer : I am not a gamer so I can't talk about what I don't know.
 
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