International speeds on 100mbps fibre connection?

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macedon

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Hi everyone,

Would you be kind and share your "International Speed tests" on your 100mbps Fibre connections? I just got a fibre with Vumatel and Comtel as ISP 100/100 link, however international speeds are terrible, hardly getting 20mbps to any international server. US servers not even 10mbps. I would like to gather more speed tests from you so that I can share with the ISP as they are telling me that these speeds are normal.

Thank you
 
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Johnatan56

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Here on another thread, was just posted: https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/698038-Cool-Ideas-FUP/page4
<20Mbps for international is not normal, it only applies to single-threaded which speedtest isn't anymore.

https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/796694-FTTH-International-bandwidth Might interest you though. Also, lots of servers that you connect to don't support that speed. Something like YouTube should max out though (also because of local CDN)

EDIT: https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showth...eeds-are-you-getting-to-international-servers
A speedtest to London should always give you at least 50Mbps.

Can you also test using fast.com?
 
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This is a test after I got fibre. Can run another test tonight when I'm back at the house.

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macedon

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I thought about it and the ISP seems to use this as an excuse, but again, I would understand some latency and some speed impact, however my international speeds to e.g London, Munich, New York, are all about 5-18mbps max... Surely I should be getting at least 60mbps or at least 50% of line capability, to International servers considering the fact that it is international servers and the distance... Local speeds are 100mbps with 2-3ms latency which is perfect.

I am just getting frustrated as they dont seem to know what speeds their service is capable of either...
 
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The latency does play a part in the speeds you get, but not to the degree they're making it out to be.

100/100 Cool Ideas on Frogfoot:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/6216926915.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/6216932907.png

Like some others have said - don't expect 100% full speed, but you should be getting way higher than 20mbps.
Contact them again and use our tests as reference to show them that clearly it's not the latency causing the slow speeds.
 
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Mercury12

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I have been experiencing awfully slow international speeds over the metrofibre network tonight, local speeds are fine. I'm running a 25Mbps line. Anyone else experiencing issues?
 
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