Is this a good result for the UFB top speed plan?

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#248122 11-Mar-2019 09:51

I recently upgraded to BigPipe's Super Speed Fibre

This is typical of my Speedtest results

I am using a Asus RT AC66U router and my PC is a AMD Ryzen 3 2200.

BigPipe advertises 700-900 download (so I am in the range) and 400-500 upload (again in range).

Could I do better with a better router or should I be happy with this?

Certainly it's nice to have the fast speed but the effective difference between 200/20 and this is mainly in uploading - my cloud syncs run much faster. For movies etc. speed was never an issue for streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu since all of these are running off an Amazon Firestick 4K so it's wireless.

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#2195601 11-Mar-2019 10:00

You should be very happy

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#2195663 11-Mar-2019 10:26

You should be happy.

You will probably never notice a slither of difference between 200Mbps plan and the one you got now for general web usage. It is literally bragging rights.. Maybe if you get some very well seeded torrents and have a raid 0 SSD array you will start to get some nice numbers..

10GBASE-T modem/ethernet will probably help to get closer to 1gig in perfect case scenarios.
You will only get that speed in a perfect case as there are many more weak links in the chain.

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#2195710 11-Mar-2019 11:12

Lol - are you taking the piss? :)

We have been in our home for 10 years now and fibre is FINALLY gonna be available in July ...so I would be so stoked with those speeds after 10 years of 20 - 30 Mb/s an ADSL and VDSL.

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#2195711 11-Mar-2019 11:14

I would try with the Windows 10 client rather than the browser.

Also note, that AC66U is notorious for under preforming and randomly dropping. Just have a search around the forums...
That speed is within the balpack that i'd say your getting full speed.

Peak rate i would personally like to see a bit more, but there are oh so many variables that feed into that top rate outside of anything todo with the connection itself.

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#2195724 11-Mar-2019 11:31

Coil:

It is literally bragging rights..

I dunno, a 20Mb/s upload is pretty tedious for a lot of people who do any form of backup, file sharing or remote desktop stuff. Given that gigabit can be had for similar/cheaper to symmetrical 200/200, it makes a lot of sense to me...

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#2195727 11-Mar-2019 11:34

backfiah:

Coil:

It is literally bragging rights..

I dunno, a 20Mb/s upload is pretty tedious for a lot of people who do any form of backup, file sharing or remote desktop stuff. Given that gigabit can be had for similar/cheaper to symmetrical 200/200, it makes a lot of sense to me...

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Coil: You will probably never notice a slither of difference between 200Mbps plan and the one you got now for general web usage

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#2195731 11-Mar-2019 11:38

hio77:

I would try with the Windows 10 client rather than the browser.

lso note, that AC66U is notorious for under preforming and randomly dropping. Just have a search around the forums...
That speed is within the balpack that i'd say your getting full speed.

Peak rate i would personally like to see a bit more, but there are oh so many variables that feed into that top rate outside of anything todo with the connection itself.

Well I see people recommend the Mikrotik but the last time I had experience with one of those was in a corporate environment and always got Campbell Software to come along and configure it for me (it was used to support a VPN between two Wellington CBD sides over dark fibre) plus some web access. The configuration menus just made me cringe :-(

backfiah:

Coil:

It is literally bragging rights..

I dunno, a 20Mb/s upload is pretty tedious for a lot of people who do any form of backup, file sharing or remote desktop stuff. Given that gigabit can be had for similar/cheaper to symmetrical 200/200, it makes a lot of sense to me...

That was my key motivator plus the fact it was only $10/month more than what I was paying and they threw in in 3 months free :-). It's good to have fast cloud backups now

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#2195734 11-Mar-2019 11:40

driller2000:

Lol - are you taking the piss? :)

We have been in our home for 10 years now and fibre is FINALLY gonna be available in July ...so I would be so stoked with those speeds after 10 years of 20 - 30 Mb/s an ADSL and VDSL.

Not really. Before UFB I was on TelstraClear and then Vodafone cable 100mbs plan so I am used to fairly decent Internet. But just wanted to make sure I was getting what I was paying for - not bragging.

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#2229101 2-May-2019 07:06

Seems better than what I get;

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#2229341 2-May-2019 12:05

lchiu7:

I recently upgraded to BigPipe's Super Speed Fibre

This is typical of my Speedtest results

I am using a Asus RT AC66U router and my PC is a AMD Ryzen 3 2200.

BigPipe advertises 700-900 download (so I am in the range) and 400-500 upload (again in range).

Could I do better with a better router or should I be happy with this?

Certainly it's nice to have the fast speed but the effective difference between 200/20 and this is mainly in uploading - my cloud syncs run much faster. For movies etc. speed was never an issue for streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu since all of these are running off an Amazon Firestick 4K so it's wireless.

You should be testing against the Spark Wellington Speedtest server. As Speedtest has a tendency to select the wrong server.

If you aren't testing against your local server (ie I can see Grafton) then all bets are off.

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#2229343 2-May-2019 12:11

I get the full 940mbps on slingshot. Maybe network congestion or just a bad server.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7315955530.png

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#2229594 2-May-2019 17:34

ABPH011: Seems better than what I get;

please dont go off samknows, i dont think they have got their issues sorted yet

does the asus router do gigabit speeds?

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#2229601 2-May-2019 17:38

Jase2985:

does the asus router do gigabit speeds?

the dsl one is the really bad one for gbit.

the other one doesnt preform the best, but within the ballpark of acceptable for anyone but the most demanding on of their router.

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#2229662 2-May-2019 18:43

ABPH011: Seems better than what I get;

Have you done a Traceroute?

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#2230369 3-May-2019 17:11

hio77:

Jase2985:

does the asus router do gigabit speeds?

the dsl one is the really bad one for gbit.

the other one doesnt preform the best, but within the ballpark of acceptable for anyone but the most demanding on of their router.

As the OP I decided to run the Windows app rather than Chrome and got this result. This is about 5pm in the evening

Download seems fine, upload is not the highest but that could by my router. This seems fine to me and as many people have noted, it's more for bragging rights than actual real-world performance benefits

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