Re: Speed Tests

**capnwpac** Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:17 pm

just tested in our unit in melbourne

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**sparton** Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:26 pm

you move places tom?

**capnwpac** Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:05 am

no. we just have a unit in melbourne.

cracked 1mb downloading torrents multiple times. movies were taking no time at all.

it's an unlimited plan here as well. downloaded 15 movies in like 2hrs total, haha.

**Brad** Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:38 am

Just installed the new server at work

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**azza2906** Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:07 am

Brad wrote:Just installed the new server at work

Warhawk hosting??

**capnwpac** Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:22 am

is that even possible?

is that fiber?

**Brad** Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:00 am

capnwpac wrote:is that even possible?

is that fiber?

No Idea of the details (Super or someone else maybe?)
But we don't actually have an ISP, we serve as our own Gateway direct to a Telstra connection.
Notice the "ISP field"

United Group Limited is the company I work for, we're not an ISP though.

**Brad** Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:03 am

Noticed a spike in Internet usage (usual lunch crowd I guess) so i ran the speedtest again.

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**capnwpac** Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:29 am

that must be the most expensive internet bill ever.

**azza2906** Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:50 am

I think I can answer this 1...

So you have a direct connection to the Internet so theoretically you do not have an ISP (but you do use a telstra connection.... I'm pretty sure every1 does?)

The reason your speeds are so high is that you are choosing a server housed fairly locally. If you were to test off a US server i think it will still b fairly high but it still needs to go through the pipe running to US with the rest of us.

In other words your company has a relatively large ammount of bandwith because it is shared internally, and does not go through an ADSL connection. I have done a bit of work for Sydney Uni and thaey get similar speeds.

This is my works
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**Gasman40** Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:25 am

Wow thats an impressive speed.

Mine at home is Speed Tests - Page 3 1146168989

**Brad** Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:55 am

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**azza2906** Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:58 am

wow.... that is impressive.... Can u run a test to a US server 4 me, pweeeeease

**wottagunn** Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:51 am

Mine is around 14mb.

**Brad** Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:59 pm

azza2906 wrote:wow.... that is impressive.... Can u run a test to a US server 4 me, pweeeeease

**azza2906** Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:26 am

ok...so i was browsing through the qd forum yesterday and discovered a thread on speed tests. I had a read just out of curiosity to c wat other people get.

It turns out that iinet have a section where you can monitor your speed. For 3 fucking years I have had mine at the adsl setting with a maximum download of 8mb/s. WTF

I realised and changed it last night. My speed nearly doubled and am now sitting oround the 13mb/s and about 0.86 mb/s upload. I had no idea!!!!

Found out my cap has also been upped to 50GB on 50GB off. Don't I feel like an idiot!

**mrcrowley24** Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:23 am

azza2906 wrote:ok...so i was browsing through the qd forum yesterday and discovered a thread on speed tests. I had a read just out of curiosity to c wat other people get.

It turns out that iinet have a section where you can monitor your speed. For 3 fucking years I have had mine at the adsl setting with a maximum download of 8mb/s. WTF

I realised and changed it last night. My speed nearly doubled and am now sitting oround the 13mb/s and about 0.86 mb/s upload. I had no idea!!!!

Found out my cap has also been upped to 50GB on 50GB off. Don't I feel like an idiot!

Really? Im with iinet,going to check this out!

**capnwpac** Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:55 am

Iinet good/cheap?

**azza2906** Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:26 am

O the gamer setting I get 0.1 Mbps more upload but it takes down my download by 3mbps. Still can't host 16 Sad

must b real close

**mrcrowley24** Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:36 am

capnwpac wrote:Iinet good/cheap?

Ive been with them for a while. I have no complaints, but I haven't really been with any other ISP's so can't really compare. I do hear that internode and TPG are also good.

**mrcrowley24** Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:22 am

Interesting

I have been fiddling around with the connection speeds of my internet (like Azza said, with iinet you can change settings) and measuring it at speedtest.com and this is what happened:

Standard Speed
DL - 14.3
UL - 0.83

Thrillseeker
DL - 15.87
UL - 0.86

Gamer
DL - 10.94
UL - 1.02

Its worth noting that in the first 2 settings I could only host 12 players in Warhawk, on Gamer I can host 16!

**capnwpac** Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:54 am

Use gamer then!

**Superstar655** Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:30 am

Probably worth noting that Gamer most likely has a process called interleaving turned off which will lead to a unstable connection on poorer lines

You might want to monitor its uptime closely

**wottagunn** Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:51 pm

**tristo8** Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:34 am

Much better than Wireless. This is ADSL 1 as well.

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