Speed on 200/20 UFB esp. to LA

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Brumfondl

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#196532 3-Jun-2016 11:44

I have been doing some speedtests to various places and they have me scratching my head a little, especially the results to LA compared to others I have seen posted on these forums.

I live in Wellington and have a fixed IP address. I had UFB for about two years, the last 10 months or so having been with BigPipe. A test to the Spark Wellington server give me:

Spark Wgtn

A little odd but ok. The result when I test to Auckland is what I would expect/hope for:

Spark Akld

A test to Sydney give me the following:

Aus

That will do fine, especially as apart from the ping it is actually a little better than I get to Wellington. But then we have the kicker with a test to LA:

This is the best result I could get, testing to every server in LA on Speedtest. I realise that we are heading in to West coast prime time but still. I have seen people getting easily over 100mbps to LA and I can't even seem to break 30. Is this just an issue for me or a BigPipe problem. I am interested to see what others have to say.

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#1564949 3-Jun-2016 12:01

I'm also in Wellington - with same ISP and on the same plan as you. I get those speeds to LA most of the time.

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#1565274 3-Jun-2016 17:49

this is my spark 68/27 VDSL connection

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#1565288 3-Jun-2016 18:16

Yep same bagpipe vdsl synced at 70/10 gives often less than 20mpbs to LA

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#1565317 3-Jun-2016 18:22

Speedtest.net servers in the US are massively variable. Try this specific one please.

http://webnx.speedtest.net/

Cheers - N

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#1565318 3-Jun-2016 18:25

Hmmm. One wonders if @BigPipeNZ has any input. I know that Spark did somethings to improve their speed to the US. Mayhap BigPipe will do the same.

And why the hell does Chrome not think that 'mayhap' is a word?

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#1565325 3-Jun-2016 18:43

speedtest.net is garbage as you move further away from the closest server - should not be relied on at all.

Try downloading an actual file from an LA server and see how long it takes.

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#1565441 3-Jun-2016 23:25

Talkiet:

Speedtest.net servers in the US are massively variable. Try this specific one please.

http://webnx.speedtest.net/

Cheers - N

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#1565443 3-Jun-2016 23:52

Be glad you're not on "Australia's fastest cable network"

100/2... Yes, TWO up! The best we can get.

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#1565448 4-Jun-2016 00:39

So mine is a little strange:

However, downloading from a server I own in that area gets me around 180Mbit down, and uploading from it almost maxes out my connection so my conclusion = Speedtest is rubbish.

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#1565499 4-Jun-2016 09:20

michaelmurfy:

So mine is a little strange:

However, downloading from a server I own in that area gets me around 180Mbit down, and uploading from it almost maxes out my connection so my conclusion = Speedtest is rubbish.

This is entirely possible and others have said that the results are unreliable, etc., but I don't have a server in the States that I can test to so...

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#1565724 4-Jun-2016 16:54

Brumfondl:

This is entirely possible and others have said that the results are unreliable, etc., but I don't have a server in the States that I can test to so...

Here you go: https://www.linode.com/speedtest

It isn't as fast as my server however is located in the same place (Fremont that is). I have now noticed that testing generally in that area is rather slow and the download I did from my server was quick due to Cloudflare (despite doing no caching).

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#1565739 4-Jun-2016 17:48

michaelmurfy:

Brumfondl:

This is entirely possible and others have said that the results are unreliable, etc., but I don't have a server in the States that I can test to so...

Here you go: https://www.linode.com/speedtest

It isn't as fast as my server however is located in the same place (Fremont that is). I have now noticed that testing generally in that area is rather slow and the download I did from my server was quick due to Cloudflare (despite doing no caching).

So using Fremont I got about 4MB/s using a download manager and about 3-400KB/s just using chrome. Dunno about you but to me that kinda sucks.

I know I can tap out the connection for local/cached stuff like video drivers but I used to able to get at least 10MB/s or more using services like uploaded and a download manager but seem lately to only getting 2-4MB/s.

I spose at least Youtube works fine and I am happily watching a lot of things on Youtube Red. Would still like to hear what @BigPipeNZ have to say :)

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#1565746 4-Jun-2016 17:55

My spark connections maxed out on the fremount one

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#1565764 4-Jun-2016 18:54

Yes agreed. I am currently downloading around 2gb of files from Github and getting 1.6MiB/s which for me is bloody slow (when normally this will get around 15MiB/s) so I think you're onto something. Disregard my US Server post before since I found out the speed improvements were due to Cloudflare even though it wasn't cached. Really hope @BigPipeNZ can look into this.

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#1565771 4-Jun-2016 19:14

I remember when someone was making a similar complaint about Spark that they said they had made some changes and from what Jase has said they are working well. I was hoping that BigPipe had made the same changes but it would appear not :(

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