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Aaron2222

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#207333 19-Dec-2016 19:56
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So I'm with Spark on a Gigatown fibre connection and usually get 440 up and 740-840 down on a speedtest (Ookla) to the Christchurch Spark server. However it has recently dropped to 300 down and 50 up. Also, the download speedtest takes significantly less time than it used to to complete. Similar behaviour for CallPlus Christchurch, 2Degrees Auckland and a few others. One of the Wellington ones is a bit faster but I get 840 down and 400 up to 2Degrees Dunedin, which makes me think my connection is fine. The internet in general isn't noticeably slower, just the speed tests. Is something up with them at the moment? I get a better speed to Sydney (~ 300/200) than to Spark Christchurch. What are you getting on speed tests at the moment?

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maxzzz
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  #1692391 19-Dec-2016 20:08
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I'm on gigabit and I have the exact same problem, it seems that speedtest cannot property do the ping test as it takes a very long time to start, like it goes on some sort of fallback mode.
Then the speedtest is performed very quickly and does not seems to be smooth.

 

It seems to be a problem with Ookla since I have the same issue with http://linetest.nz/

 

However I get my line speed when using their competitor: http://nperf.com/




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  #1692447 19-Dec-2016 21:01
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Slow for me too - mentioned this earlier tonight.

 

I tried the 3 links above too and no diff - still 27/8'ish




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  #1692508 19-Dec-2016 22:34
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I don't know what's going on, but I have observed similar issues recently. For me I found a combination of computer, browser and the Beta html5 client that worked well.. sometimes.

 

I have access to our speedtest servers so I dumped a very large file on the same webserver as speedtest uses and used wget to grab it to nul. A 2GB file downloaded at an average of 103MB/sec, peaking at 112MB/sec (Megabytes).

 

This proves that the underlying service is unchanged. Personally I suspect a flash or windows/browser update has temporarily screwed things up - The flash client in Chrome was working great for me a week ago - but not now.

 

Since then, I have tried the windows 10 ookla speedtest app and my results through that are as I would expect.

 

Try the windows app and see what you get.

 

You can also try this beta - http://spark.speedtestcustom.com/ and report what you get...

 

I just got http://spark.speedtestcustom.com/result/3f8192d0-c5ce-11e6-8dd4-e9d599187b8d

 

[edit - could be a problem with speedtest although across several users / PCs / OS/ Browsers / connections it's intermittent... I'll raise it with them tomorrow]

 

Cheers - N

 

 





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  #1692575 20-Dec-2016 08:49
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have found myself that on chrome the flash based app has been dodgy as hell lately.

 

 

 

Beta works consistantently, although i have notice their image share links often dont work..





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  #1692582 20-Dec-2016 09:08
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Bah - somehow missed pasting the link for the windows app...

 

 

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/speedtest-by-ookla/9nblggh4z1jc

 

 

 

Cheers - N

 

 





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  #1692668 20-Dec-2016 10:42
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Got to come clean - I'm getting the speed quoted as I'm on the 30/10 plan. Sorry.

 

I was on a 50/30 plan and have screenshots to show this but on the 19th (roll over date for me), Sshot switched me to 30/10 - just discovered this fact this morning.

 

Thing is - I had asked for the 'full noise' plan at 100download. Didn't happen and now I'm forced to wait a month.


 
 
 

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