International Speed Improvement

[moosag]

I completed a re-format and re-installation of my machine yesterday. Anyways at about 3pm yesterday i went to www.winamp.com to download winamp. At first i could not beleive it and i though i was dreaming but it was downloading at a stable 30-34KB per sec.

Anyways i took a screenshot to back my proof up. If anyone wants to see it

At that time i did not believe it and though something must be chached or running against a mirror.

Later that night i was d/l something else at www.tgtsoft.com and yup the d/l speed was between 27-32 KB per/sec, but this time the Download timedout after 65% of downloading. I went to www.download.com to clock a download and check my speed and it showed 192Kbs. So they deffinatlly working on something.

Just thought i'd let you guys know.

Tower 90, 256K Package

 

[MrGray]

Are you sure this is not just because the files you downloaded are in their transparent proxy cache? I too occasionally get high international speeds but only on commonly downloaded files and popular websites. You can test this by finding something obscure to download from an international site - I bet you'll find the same old crap international speed on those.

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of by mere mortal men - Shakespeare

 

[moosag]

At first i thought that was the case. But when I went to www.download.com and completed a speed test it showed 192Kbs which I havent seen since 5 August. So I dont really know. I cant be absolutely certain.

Tower 90, 256K Package

 

[Headend]

Boy are you licky. Just did a speed test. A wopping "70.2 kilobits per second" from http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

Also my international download test shows...
0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 9% 5.75 KB/s
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 19% 4.24 KB/s
100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 29% 6.10 KB/s
150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 39% 7.81 KB/s
200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 49% 9.09 KB/s
250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 59% 8.84 KB/s
300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 69% 8.04 KB/s
350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 79% 7.84 KB/s
400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 89% 5.73 KB/s
450K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 9.76 KB/s
500K .... 100% 8.54 KB/s

10:27:52 (6.89 KB/s) - `test.hex' saved [516514/516514]

Headend
<font size="1"><b>Tower:</b> Mintek (82) - <b>Signal:</b> 29% (Poynting Grid Antenna) - <b>Firmware:</b> 5.0.1.60/A1 - <b>256k</b> package
<b>SNL:</b> 13dBm <b>BER:</b> 71% <b>RSCP:</b> -77dBm <b>ISCP:</b> -88dBm - Smoothwall and PPPoE</font id="size1">

 

[moosag]

At the moment i am at work and will deffinately investigate into this further when i get home.
I'll run speed tests from just about joint out there.

Tower 90, 256K Package

 

[Headend]

Moosag, Where is the speed test link on download.com? I'd like to try it. Perhaps Sentech have found a way to cache speed tests ;-)

Headend
<font size="1"><b>Tower:</b> Mintek (82) - <b>Signal:</b> 29% (Poynting Grid Antenna) - <b>Firmware:</b> 5.0.1.60/A1 - <b>256k</b> package
<b>SNL:</b> 13dBm <b>BER:</b> 71% <b>RSCP:</b> -77dBm <b>ISCP:</b> -88dBm - Smoothwall and PPPoE</font id="size1">

 

[moosag]

go to www.download.com

click on any download they have. Either in the Top 5 i.e. Winzip or any other. I used a random one.
Then click on the "clock this download" text and a new window will open up and then click "GO".

Tower 90, 256K Package

 

[Headend]

Moosaq. This uses a javascript in the pop-up window to time the download of a 50 KB image. With the bursty nature of MyWi there is no-way this gives an accurate measure of overall speed. We've all seen how downloads often start fast and then back off after a while.

Headend
<font size="1"><b>Tower:</b> Mintek (82) - <b>Signal:</b> 29% (Poynting Grid Antenna) - <b>Firmware:</b> 5.0.1.60/A1 - <b>256k</b> package
<b>SNL:</b> 13dBm <b>BER:</b> 71% <b>RSCP:</b> -77dBm <b>ISCP:</b> -88dBm - Smoothwall and PPPoE</font id="size1">

 

[moosag]

True. But i still cant understand why those other d/l's were going at 30KBs. Hopefully (/me Prays) that Sentech will fix the blerry problem.

Tower 90, 256K Package

 

[Kai]

well, i've had one or two downloads run at 27K/s as well, but ONLY if I multithread them... *shrug*

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[Headend]

Because the way the graphic downloads forces it to bypass Sentech's cache. If someone else had already downloaded the actual file you downloaded, you then got it from the cache, which should happen at close to your package speed i.e. 256 Kbps or 32 KBps.

If you want to really test download speeds use something like "wget". You can force it to bypass transparent proxies.

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<font size="1"><b>Tower:</b> Mintek (82) - <b>Signal:</b> 29% (Poynting Grid Antenna) - <b>Firmware:</b> 5.0.1.60/A1 - <b>256k</b> package
<b>SNL:</b> 13dBm <b>BER:</b> 71% <b>RSCP:</b> -77dBm <b>ISCP:</b> -88dBm - Smoothwall and PPPoE</font id="size1">

 

[moosag]

Will do. Will give it a test later and supply some feedback.

Tower 90, 256K Package

 

[bb_matt]

It's the typical inconsistency of this service and lack of decent bandwidth management - at least, that's my guess.

My speeds improve and decline with no seeming logic behind it - I'm well aware that there are times of the day when any internet connection will slow down, however, this is a far worse problem than that in my uninformed opinion.

On the 10th of September and the days before that, I couldn't download a bittorrent and browse at the same time, even though the bittorrent was only using 2k down and 2k up max. - apparently there's issues with upstream bandwidth too.

Around the 14th of September, everything came right - bittorrent, surfing and FTP'ing all at the same time at good speeds.

Now, I'm back to 4.7k max international and bittorrents sap ALL bandwidth no matter what speed they are running at.

What I'm trying to say is don't get your hopes up.