At last, really fast broadband, yay!

[Ian]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

Ah... if only!

Ian

By the way, this was measured at my room in the Park Plaza Westminster hotel last week, where I was staying overnight during a Panasonic conference.

Ian

[sara_criss]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

waoo... dats a nice speed. well last week i went to a friends office who is working in a high speed fiber optics broadband network for corporate users and i was amazed to see the speed he got there. It was just above 300MBps as for the downloading. That's some speed man...

[yoshi]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

By the way, this was measured at my room in the Park Plaza Westminster hotel last week, where I was staying overnight during a Panasonic conference.

Ian

The upload speed is very nice.
yoshi

[Ian]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

Well, the BT engineer has been and gone, but of course things have not gone as smoothly as I would have wished for. I'm having to use mobile broadband via my phone to type this



Mmmm.. lovely download speed, shame about the upload speed (zero!).

The powers that be are looking into it...

Ian

[yoshi]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

Hi Ian,
well, half congratulations to you! (Is this funny English?)

I was wondering if I can use the speed test to measure the speed between UK and Japan? I have never measured international speed.
yoshi

[Ian]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

Hi Ian,
well, half congratulations to you! (Is this funny English?)

I was wondering if I can use the speed test to measure the speed between UK and Japan? I have never measured international speed.
yoshi

Actually, that is quite funny

If you can give me a url for a Japan-based broadband speed test site, I will have a go for you!

Ian

[Goatsmilkuk]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

You can test any server in the world that are on speedtest.net

[Goatsmilkuk]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

Mine is not totally smooth either I get great speeds via ethernet, but wireless is very erratic. I have tried all the channels on the hub, tried switching everything else off in the house, different rooms etc. I have g rated and n rated wireless on netbook and laptop.

An engineer is calling me tomorrow as their must be a problem with the wireless part of the hub as I got half a 0.6 Mbps through to 20 Mbps

Did a test on both today got 37 via ethernet and 10 via n wireless

[Ian]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

Mine is not totally smooth either I get great speeds via ethernet, but wireless is very erratic. I have tried all the channels on the hub, tried switching everything else off in the house, different rooms etc. I have g rated and n rated wireless on netbook and laptop.

An engineer is calling me tomorrow as their must be a problem with the wireless part of the hub as I got half a 0.6 Mbps through to 20 Mbps

Did a test on both today got 37 via ethernet and 10 via n wireless

Are you getting a good wireless signal strength?

I'm using a D-Link DIR-655 wireless router (we have one at the office and at home) and a separate VDSL modem (only the modem was supplied by the BT engineer). The router is pretty good spec.; Wireless N support, Gigabit Ethernet, etc.

My desktop PC here at the office is connected to the router via Ethernet cable, but my laptop (also Wireless-N capable) is not usually connected using an Ethernet cable so it will be interesting to see if I get similar throughput to the desktop machine.

Thanks for the tip about international speed-testing

The new fibre broadband installation here is still unusable

Ian

[yoshi]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

If you can give me a url for a Japan-based broadband speed test site, I will have a go for you!

Ian

The one I use often is;

http://netspeed-tokyo.studio-radish.com/speedtest.html?mode=rw&precision=hi&type=l

I already set up some options so that you can minimize the time you need to learn Japanese. Well, I mean the highest reliable mode, which in turn means it takes a bit longer (around 30 sec.). When a number is shown at the upper right of the box it means the number of people waiting. (usually one or two)

Just click the bottom box which says "測定開始" (=start measurement), after JAVA installation finishes. (see attached pic., if necessary.)

yoshi

[yoshi]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

Many thanks for this helpful link.
I now tested it but ...
the results shown have big discrepancies against the one I get from an internal speed test link.
So I'm a bit confused.

will check once more later.
yoshi

[Ian]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

At last a turn for the better!



The download speed is not as fast as had been hoped for, but it's still about six times faster than our ADSL connection, while we were told to expect 6Mbs upload speed, and we actually have 25% better than that at 7.5Mbs.

The ISP monitors and adjusts as necessary the line over the next 10 days so we could see some changes in that time.

Ian

[Ian]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

Interesting, I'm getting this on another test site:



Ian

[Ian]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

While I'm at it (are you bored yet!?! )



To Tokyo:



To Los Angeles:



And to near where our servers are in Lansing, Michigan (USA)



Ian

[Goatsmilkuk]

Re: At last, really fast broadband, yay!

Are you getting a good wireless signal strength?

I'm using a D-Link DIR-655 wireless router (we have one at the office and at home) and a separate VDSL modem (only the modem was supplied by the BT engineer). The router is pretty good spec.; Wireless N support, Gigabit Ethernet, etc.

My desktop PC here at the office is connected to the router via Ethernet cable, but my laptop (also Wireless-N capable) is not usually connected using an Ethernet cable so it will be interesting to see if I get similar throughput to the desktop machine.

Thanks for the tip about international speed-testing

The new fibre broadband installation here is still unusable

Ian

My signal strength is full and reading excellent, the router is in line of sight too. The original engineer could not understand why either, must be a faulty hub or software I would think.

I see your enjoying the round the world speedtest have you tried pingtest yet?