Your internet connection?

[nick09]

Wireless N is only faster if you have the ISP fast enough for it. So say you get a 54Mbps download speed. Wireless G is rated for 54Mbps while Wireless N is rated for 300Mbps. So if your internet connection is faster than the bandwidth of Wireless G then it's a good idea to use a Wireless N adapter. What is causing the problem sounds like the wireless card because the PS3 uses a very small internal antenna that you'd see from a tiny usb wifi adapter. While there are small wifi cards for the PC with bigger and more sensitive antennas.

The speed for your PS3 is not bad at all and is plenty to host an online game on your bandwidth.

 

[Eks]

Thanks for clearing that up. Regardless, the PS3 actually gave pretty accurate results.


(From my laptop which is in the same room as my PS3)

 

[GranTurismo916]

Err.....

 

[Bigbazz]

I just got upgraded to Fiber Optic yesterday

Before : 5mb down, 0.5mb upload
After : 65mb down, 20mb upload

Quite the difference then!

 

[JohnBM01]

I'll try not to sound like a commercial or anything. Recently, my parents went from a max of 54 Mbps with AT&T to about 130 Mbps with Comcast Xfinity. This junk is wicked fast! More than a decade on dialup, about half a decade with DSL... now with Wireless-N type speed. Just incredible.

 

[bluemoon_19]

I have a little tip for people in the UK on how to get a good result on speedtest.net. There is a server in Amsterdam hosted by OOKLA(the company on the bottom on every speedtest.net result. here is my result from that server(I live Yorkshire here)

And if I don't select the server myself and just click begin test I get this. Thats A difference of 11 Mb to a server thats 250 miles closer to me!

 

[Bigbazz]

I just tried those 2 tests, when the engineer was here he tested and got 65/20 off of a 80/20 connection, the connection base is right next to my house.

Anyway, not sure what is more accurate but I like the sound of the Openreach engineers test results better!

 

[Spoil-t]

The further the server the faster the connection but a lot more ping which defeats the purpose. Talking in terms of gaming.

 

[bluemoon_19]

If the green box is just outside your house you should be topping out at 80Mb. The box I'm on is 250 meters down the road. With fiber internet its not about distance to the exchange its distance from the cab(unless you get FTTP).

The further the server the faster the connection but a lot more ping which defeats the purpose. Talking in terms of gaming.

Surprisingly the server that was the furthest away was faster for me. but going to pingtest.net I get this

 

[Bigbazz]

If the green box is just outside your house you should be topping out at 80Mb. The box I'm on is 250 meters down the road. With fiber internet its not about distance to the exchange its distance from the cab(unless you get FTTP).


Surprisingly the server that was the furthest away was faster for me. but going to pingtest.net I get this

The engineer said that I was losing speed probably due to likely aluminium in the ground, the fiber optic connection only goes as far as the box, the rest is through copper wires into my house, but in some cases there are aluminium cables which causes a massive loss of speed. Could also be **** cabling in my house, and/or the fact that the hub is upstairs.

Anyway 65/20 is amazing compared to what I had before, quite soon I'm told the base speed will be upgraded to 100/30, so it should be even faster within the next few months.

I got this on pingtest

 

[bluemoon_19]

Very nice ping you got there. Yes apparently back in the past when copper prices went through the roof bt used aluminium. Seemed like a good idea at the time but not now aluminium is no where near as conductive as copper. I hope they offer that speed at the same price as infinty 2. With the totaly unlimited package(no p2p throttle at anytime) that would be amazing.

 

[Akira GT]

UPC sent out a free new router with a bump in speed.


(Before I averaged 20Mbps Download and 3Mbps Upload speed.)

 

[lbsf1]

A new personal worst for us, the internet has been slow all week. (youtube has now set our default resolution to 144p for videos because that's the only speed which it doesn't need to be constantly buffering.)

We are on BT's premier fibre optic service "BT infinity" and it was only at the speed advertised for the first 15mins after the guy installed it, he demo'd how quick it was and then the moment he left it has been slow has hell. The download speed shows as around 20mbs normally however the ping sits at around 300ms.

However this morning we reached a new all time low.

 

[Bigbazz]

A new personal worst for us, the internet has been slow all week. (youtube has now set our default resolution to 144p for videos because that's the only speed which it doesn't need to be constantly buffering.)

We are on BT's premier fibre optic service "BT infinity" and it was only at the speed advertised for the first 15mins after the guy installed it, he demo'd how quick it was and then the moment he left it has been slow has hell. The download speed shows as around 20mbs normally however the ping sits at around 300ms.

However this morning we reached a new all time low.

Its not just you

It was peaking at 60/17 on this site when I tested just the other day.

http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity/Infinity-Speed-Increases-What-you-need-to-know/td-p/470601

So I took a look at this, and read some of the threads and turned off both the BT router and Open Reach modem, then back on again. Tested right after and got this

Which is much more like it.

 

[RattijuoppoFIN]

30 megs off what I am paying...
Still I find the first post made by Jordan in 2001 hilarious.

 

[Jahgee]

Wow being someone that uses the internet a lot but lives in the boonies sucks.

 

[optiongamers]

I have 7MB/s download and 0.71mb/s upload

 

[Monatsende]

I really don`t wanna make you guys laugh. But this is real.
Maybe you understand why I just hate Deutsche Telekom and like them to go to hell. *#§$%& basterdz.


I feel like living in a cave.

 

[Max_DC]

 

[Monatsende]

I hate you. (No offense.)

 

[nick09]

 

[TB]

I hate you. (No offense.)

 

[Max_DC]

I hate you. (No offense.)

Well, I just switched to KD. Had Telekom before, 3 Mbit. So I know your pain

 

[Eks]

I don't know what has happened lately, but my internet has gone straight to hell.

 

[Leicht]

Is it normal that when I surf the internet, I only get at maximum of 120kb/s for 1mb data plan?

 

[F1GTR]

1 Megabit = 0.125 Megabytes so yes, your download rate looks normal.

 

[dr_slump]

1 Megabit = 0.125 Megabytes so yes, your download rate looks normal.

But he wrote kb...

Is that at the office or do you seriously have a synchronical connection for private use?

I know it's possible to buy one, but they're goddamn expensive here. Especially the 10gig (yes gig and not meg) up and download connection my provider offers...

 

[F1GTR]

But he wrote kb...

0.125 MB = 128 KB, so not far off. Downloads rates are measured in KB (at least in the browsers I'm familiar with) so I assume he's referring to bytes instead of bits.

 

[Leicht]

1 Megabit = 0.125 Megabytes so yes, your download rate looks normal.

Oh, I thought my internet speed will be 1MB/s too I've been deceived

 

[TB]

Is that at the office or do you seriously have a synchronical connection for private use?

That would be at work and looking purely at the numbers, it was a pretty poor test. Running straight into the wall instead of through a 10/100 switch (I work on other machines at my desk and only have the one wall jack), it'll usually hit around 125 up and down with a ping of 5ms.

Not that I'd ever notice the real world difference in any of that.

I just moved to a new house a month ago and when we transferred the internet over, apparently the best connection I can get is 1.5Meg, down from the 7 I had. Good lord is that painful. Especially as I only moved one mile away and am in the same development.