Seriously Shocking International Speeds!

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Jiriteach

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#33705 10-May-2009 12:06

Anyone experiencing seriously shocking international speeds? Normally I am not one to complain about international BW knowing how ISP's rate and limit BW but its starting to really annoy me now as whenever I need to do something.

Ive been with Orcon for nearly 8 years now and I love them, but in the last 3 months its just got really bad.

Switched to Orcon+ in March. Based in Wellington, used to be to MAX/MAX bitstream, now on MAX/MAX Orcon+ Platinum. Live basically next to the exchange.

Have run stupid number of tests of speedtest.net. Nationally I normally get about 18 Mb/s to Auckland and Christchurch. Internationally well .. anything from 0.2 through to 0.9 through to 1 or 2 Mb/s.

So yea its annoying me when I have to wait for Youtube videos to buffer or downloads that take forever.
Considering switching to another ISP, sad but I'm considering it due to the speeds.

Anyone else in the same boat?

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andysh

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#213845 10-May-2009 13:06

Speed tests on Sunday 1pm:

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Jiriteach

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#213848 10-May-2009 13:25

Yea exactly my point. I just run some tests as well.
How are these even rated as results? Look at these speeds. At least the test to Sydney is comparable.

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Ilmarin

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#213859 10-May-2009 14:05

That FastServ speedtest.net server in LA doesn't seem to be quite as good as the old FastSoft one, so don't read too much into the 481 kbps result... but the San Jose (smugmug.net hosted) server is fairly representative, so andysh's result is about par for the course these days.

I've been too lazy to switch to a new ISP... as long as I can get reasonable speeds during off-peak, I don't mind doing my downloading then... but I haven't done any online gaming for many months. If that were to change, I'd be off Orcon in a heartbeat... the packetloss in the evening is obscene.

Jiriteach

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#213864 10-May-2009 14:41

Yea I've noticed that. Downloading Firefox and it's going at 13 kb/s :)

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Perrin

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#213882 10-May-2009 15:52

Yes!

I'm in an identical situation (switched to Orcon+ in March, in Wellington, used to be to max/max bitstream, now on max/max Orcon+) and have been equally frustrated lately. On speedtest.net I can get 12Mb/s in NZ, but less than 1Mb/s anywhere else at prime-time.

I can't watch any streaming video in the evening, not even low quality YouTube videos. But I was at home during the day last week, and found I could almost stream YouTube HD video (from memory it was pulling down about 3.5Mb/s).

duncanblair

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#214139 11-May-2009 16:17

Hi guys,

Added in the other thread, but just to reiterate. An international upgrade is going in today. Should see improvements as a result.