Speedtest Global Index

[LucaMs]

Are you connected with a wire? After a long time of network problems I switched from wifi to ethernet and it is 3 times faster and more importantly, there are no network failures.

You are so right (as usual).

My (very old, 12 years old) laptop has an Intel Centrino wireless N-130, which should allow up to 150Mbps. Well, if I connect via WiFi I reach about 42.5 Mbps (download) while via Ethernet cable... the one shown in the image in a my previous post, 190Mbps! (190 / 42.5 = 4.47x !).

Next week I will go to buy a... long Ethernet cable ?


Note: I tried to change some settings of that Centrino without "success" (no substantial improvement).


P.S.
I found the reason: up to 150Mbps, yes, but since encryption is used, this affects getting a maximum of 54Mbps.

 

[rabbitBUSH]

I do not know what it means!

Means is there a limit to the GB that you can up- and down-load - and when you hit that limit they will "shape" the connection so that it is slower - in an effort to remind you that you're a Flippin' Bandwidth HOG so behave yourself. Like - you used too much water and we're making your pipes thinner.

[[edit - of course knowing you and your humour I may have misinterpreted the "shape" of your statement ]]

 

[emexes]

Here is my mobile 4G speed tested on laptop (using hotspot). Signal is 1 bar out of 4. I complained to my ISP and get reply that the capacity is fully used.

I'm not sure if that lost something in translation (no worries, though: your Australian is way better than my Malay) but slowness due to low signal strength and slowness due to isp (radio? backend?) bandwidth congestion ("fully used") are two different things.

Also, I've found that hotspots are faster when connected by cable (usb or ethernet) to laptop, rather than wirelessly (wifi or bluetooth). But the plus side of a wireless connection is that it's easier to position the hotspot to maximise signal strength, eg on the same side of the house as is the 4G tower, higher up to avoid ground obstructions, near window to avoid metals in the wall (incl. foil insulation) (albeit some window tintings and/or safety glass seem to be metallic-like too).

Some hotspots have an external antenna connection; that might be worth looking at as well, if your hotspot is currently working off an internal antenna.

Or if you have any spare phones hanging about, try using them as hotspots. Phone antennas seem to be generally better than hotspot antennas, and the speed gain from improved signal strength might outweigh the speed degradation (if any) of using a general phone instead of a designed-for-task hotspot.

 

[emexes]

Are you connected with a wire? After a long time of network problems I switched from wifi to ethernet and it is 3 times faster and more importantly, there are no network failures.

You are so right (as usual) ... if I connect via WiFi I reach about 42.5 Mbps (download) while via Ethernet cable... 190Mbps!

Next week I will go to buy a... long Ethernet cable ?

Great minds think alike ? I was introduced to this issue by my teenage online-game-playing son, who can "feel the lag" down to the millisecond, and also seemingly every single dropped byte and packet retransmission ?

 

[emexes]

I do not know what it means!

Lucky you! Here (Australia) a common ploy by ISPs offering high-speed low-cost is to limit the total download GB, and then throttle the speed down rather than cut the service completely, so that they can still call it unlimited.

My parents are on a $30 per month plan that is intended as a phone-replacement service. Includes phone number, cable, modem, router+VOIP and 10 GB data per month which is enough to cover 200 hours of phone calls. I thought it'd also be enough to cover mum's sudoku games on her iPad, but we got stung by iOS updates chewing up 3 GB each try. When the 10 GB cap is hit, speed reduces to 32 kbps, which makes the phone service barely intelligible. Yes, I have complained to the ISP about this: if they upped the capped speed to 64 kbps or didn't throttle VOIP packets, then we'd be sweet.

Happily, the iPad takes a SIM, so currently we're paying an extra $10 per month for that, which has the benefit of the iPad still working when they take it on holidays anywhere in Australia (well, anywhere within the 97% population coverage area, anyway) (including around and on top of Ayers Rock a couple of years ago).

I have a contract for up to 200Mbps-upload (fiber+copper) so that speed is excellent (I don't think it will be like this for very long, now it is because the contract is only 2 days and the provider wants to make a good impression)

I think that, with your luck and optimism, it'll be 200 Mbps forever. ?

 

[LucaMs]

Lucky you! Here (Australia) a common ploy by ISPs offering high-speed low-cost is to limit the total download GB, and then throttle the speed down rather than cut the service completely, so that they can still call it unlimited.

My parents are on a $30 per month plan that is intended as a phone-replacement service. Includes phone number, cable, device and 10 GB data per month which is enough to cover 200 hours of phone calls. I thought it'd also be enough to cover mum's sudoku games on her iPad, but we got stung by iOS updates chewing up 3 GB each try. When the 10 GB cap is hit, speed reduces to 32 kbps, which makes the phone service barely intelligible. Yes, I have complained to the ISP about this: if they upped the capped speed to 64 kbps or didn't cap VOIP packets, then we'd be sweet.

Happily, the iPad takes a SIM, so currently we're paying an extra $10 per month for that, which has the benefit of the iPad still working when they take it on holidays anywhere in Australia (well, anywhere within the 97% population coverage area, anyway) (including around and on top of Ayers Rock a couple of years ago).

As far as I know here in Italy only SIM cards have limited Gb.

I think that, with your luck and optimism, it'll be 200 Mbps forever.

How bad do you think! !! I have never been lucky, much less optimistic!
??

 

[emexes]

As far as I know here in Italy only SIM cards have limited Gb.

I used to have an unlimited data SIM, loaned it to a friend, somehow it got lost. Spewin, because Optus discontinued the plan but active plans were still honoured, turns out those SIMs were trading for $700. But we got our money's worth out of it anyway: we'd moved into a house that didn't have a connected phone cable, and rather than pay the $300 to rectify that, we set the SIM up as a hotspot and the four of us gave it a bit of a hammering for the next few years.

Vodafone here currently offer unlimited SIM but it slows to 2 Mbps after using the 40/80/150 GB "full speed" quota.

How bad do you think! !! I have never been lucky, much less optimistic!
??

I think good. I see plenty of optimism. Two out of three emojis agree.
??

 

[aeric]

slowness due to low signal strength and slowness due to isp (radio? backend?) bandwidth congestion ("fully used") are two different things.

I also not sure why the customer support give me such a reply as an answer. Maybe he/she just want to close the ticket. My mobile signal used to be strong (full 4 bars) most of the time but since the last 2 months, it has dropped to 2 bars and sometimes 1 bar. It makes different if the signal is much stronger contribute to faster speed. When I move away to my bed room (my apartment is corner lot) which is close to open air, the signal indeed improve 1 bar. I tried with 1 bar signal and manage to download huge file at 100Kbps from certain servers. So I can say the speed is not consistent however the ISP I use is considered the fastest ISP provider for mobile broadband. On the other side, for fiber optic Internet, the speed is much stable and high for decent usage.

If you say about cable, I assume you mean using USB cable to connect from my iPhone to my laptop. I never tried it and I assume it won’t help much. I am a cheapskate person and only use mobile plan. Until I have better income one day, I will subscribe to fiber connection. For the time being, I just use whatever I have right now. ?

The best I can get using iPhone Chrome browser:

 

[emexes]

I also not sure why the customer support give me such a reply as an answer. Maybe he/she just want to close the ticket.

More like probably than maybe. Although it is plausible that your nearest tower has so many users trying to connect to it, that the network is bumping some of you to a less-used tower that is further away, and more distance = less signal strength.

If you have multiple real tower network providers eg in Australia we have Telstra, Optus and Vodafone, it might be worth trying SIMs for other networks. I was setting up a birthday video call for someone in an aged care home a couple of weeks ago, and went in with devices covering all three networks. Telsta is usually best but also most expensive; Optus and Vodafone are cheaper and one or the other of them usually has decent coverage.

I assume you mean using USB cable to connect from my iPhone to my laptop.

A good assumption.

I never tried it and I assume it won’t help much.

A possibly-bad assumption. Give it a go, and ideally turn off iPhone wifi and bluetooth at the same time, so the personal hotspot is only via USB.

I am a cheapskate person and only use mobile plan.

You are not alone. ?

 

[aeric]

You are not alone. ?

???

 

[Peter Simpson]

Fastest I ever saw was when I did a test at uni six years ago,

At uni only 6 years ago. Hey guys and girls, we have a young gun here ?

I think lol ?

 

[emexes]

At uni only 6 years ago. Hey guys and girls, we have a young gun here ?

I think lol ?

Hey, here's a spooky coincidence... look what I just stumbled across that I last saw about three years ago:

I would have preferred 8080 rather than 4040 for my student number but that's ok, for bitters can't be choosers.

 

[aeric]

Hey, here's a spooky coincidence... look what I just stumbled across that I last saw about three years ago:

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I would have preferred 8080 rather than 4040 for my student number but that's ok, for bitters can't be choosers.

I was 6 years old then. ?

 

[rabbitBUSH]

here's a spooky coincidence..

All of the stuff listed here is Older than you . . . the confused 4004 chip

4040 for my student number

the registrar of that place in Mellies was dyslexixicic-ish

 

[Daestrum]

I found this old printout of a speedtest I did in 2002

Only 11.1 seconds for a 1MB file download.

 

[rabbitBUSH]

11.1 seconds

Nice rating as well.

Now we're sending the producers of the series Hoarders over to assess the prospect of an episode at your place......

PS stay away from my place.....??

 

[aeric]

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/internet-speeds-around-the-world

 

[emexes]

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/internet-speeds-around-the-world

https://www.speedtest.net/result/11832980093.png

yay ? better than average ?

 

[emexes]

https://www.speedtest.net/result/11832980093.png yay ? better than average ?

Didn't realize I'd be needing it quite this soon ?

 

[josejad]

Here is my connection.
I have symmetric fiber 100mbps. Tested with wifi connection.
With 2 mobile lines (ilimited calls, one with 25Gb data and the other one with 3Gb). The standard price is 39'9€
After term time, I called them to say I want to go, and now I'll pay 22€ for a year (renewing the one year term)