iBurst Speed Tests: Your help needed

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Hi folks

AS part of this year’s broadband survey we need a few tests using the “Line Speed Meter” It will be great if you can install the Line Speed Meter, run a few tests and post your results URL.

http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpeed/Download/

The more tests the better, but even if you can just run one or two tests it will help tremendously.

Just for good measure we will throw in two MP3 players for two lucky testers :D

Regards,

RPM
 
Er, why are these broken, even in the ADSL section, people getting a few KB for downlod and normal upload speeds?
 
http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpee...ountryId=196&ConnectionId=14467&UserId=244686

Comments:
1. I only connect to the Northcliff tower and there was no other Internet traffic during the tests.
2. Immediately after the 03h31 test ran (269kbps down / 157kbps up) I performed 2 manual speed tests (screencaps available):
a) iBurst: 663kbps down / 237kbps up
b) myspeed.visualware.com (Chicago): 350kbps down / 206kbps up
3. The tcpIQ tests are performed against 6 or so servers (on different provider networks?) - I haven't resolved the addresses but I think they're all in the US. The results are distinctly lower than those obtained from single server tests, but perhaps are more "real world".
4. The tcpIQ tests mirror my subjective perception of overseas connectivity through iBurst - reasonable for a few hours after midnight and pathetic to unusable throughout the rest of the day.
5. I'll let the tests continue to run until later this afternoon - I'll be away so there will be no other traffic.

Many thanks for your work on this rpm - it needs to be made public.
 
hmm I get 136kbps or something ridiculous, then at the same time I can download a file at 900kb-1mb, both from US servers...

I don't think it's more real world, it's just slower than you download at. What else is there to it? I'll try some more during the day, but it looks like it will always be slower than your real speeds, wouldn't this be misleading? The same for the ADSL tests actually..
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
hmm I get 136kbps or something ridiculous, then at the same time I can download a file at 900kb-1mb, both from US servers...

I don't think it's more real world, it's just slower than you download at. What else is there to it? I'll try some more during the day, but it looks like it will always be slower than your real speeds, wouldn't this be misleading? The same for the ADSL tests actually..
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For me it's interesting the how the speed is effected during the day. But it's true though, before 7pm iBurst seems laggy (playing GW with 2000 ping) but after 7 and early morning I get pings in the 500-800. None the less, I've always know my 1M line doesn't ALWAYS go 1M, I'm usually stuck at about 40Kbyte/s (~=384 line), only on a few occasions have I broken 90 (~= 700 line).
 
I get the same results as EHV. 246kbps, yet my laptop is pulling 60Kb/s as I type - in a single threaded download.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
hmm I get 136kbps or something ridiculous, then at the same time I can download a file at 900kb-1mb, both from US servers...

I don't think it's more real world, it's just slower than you download at. What else is there to it? I'll try some more during the day, but it looks like it will always be slower than your real speeds, wouldn't this be misleading? The same for the ADSL tests actually..
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You're very fortunate to get those speeds - I suspect you're in an ever decreasing minority.

To illustrate what I mean by "real world" I'll give you an example of something that has just happened. I don't use iBurst much for downloading files (if you look at my Speed Meter results you'll understand why), but rather for local VPN, and business/personal browsing - mainly international. I needed some information from the Oracle website a short while ago. The required documentation download page took 109 seconds to complete loading and was 250KB in size - so that's 18.3kbps. The file I'm downloading (thankfully not very large) is coming down in 4 threads at a combined ~13KBps - that's 104kbps. My latest Speed Meter download result is 70kbps. I don't take this 70kbps as gospel, just as an indicator of the overall performance I'm getting, and as such I think it's a fair reflection.
 
mashu said:
You're very fortunate to get those speeds - I suspect you're in an ever decreasing minority.

To illustrate what I mean by "real world" I'll give you an example of something that has just happened. I don't use iBurst much for downloading files (if you look at my Speed Meter results you'll understand why), but rather for local VPN, and business/personal browsing - mainly international. I needed some information from the Oracle website a short while ago. The required documentation download page took 109 seconds to complete loading and was 250KB in size - so that's 18.3kbps. The file I'm downloading (thankfully not very large) is coming down in 4 threads at a combined ~13KBps - that's 104kbps. My latest Speed Meter download result is 70kbps. I don't take this 70kbps as gospel, just as an indicator of the overall performance I'm getting, and as such I think it's a fair reflection.
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I actually just joined this minority, a new tower come up closer to me.

Those speeds sound terrible, really... I'm sure you know all about that though :)
 
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