Two gems from Queue Very erratic ADSL connections…
2007 07 02

David Channe Vy has sent me his results for today (what about the others?) and together with mine, I can make the following preliminary observations:

  1. I’m getting 72% of what I am paying for on my MyT 256
  2. David is getting 39% of what he is paying for on his ADSL 512

Note: I’ve decided to ignore the results for the 1k and 10k files both from the US and Europe. They are too small and the latency and connection time is big relative to the transfer time and therefore bandwidth calculation cannot be made.

As from now, only do 4 tests at a go (100k from the US and Europe and 1000k from the US and Europe). Do this 3 times per day (at around 8:30, 16:30 and 22:30). Thanks.

Second day update

  1. I’m getting 68% of what I am paying for on my MyT 256
  2. David is getting 29% of what he is paying for on his ADSL 512

I pity David who got an average of only 150kbit/s today from his 512kbit/s ADSL connection…

Third day update

My internet connection is as slow as molasses tonight. I’ve collated all the data and things are looking interesting. Simply said, we are getting much less than what we are paying for. I’ll give you hard figures tomorrow.

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written by avinash

6 Responses to “Bandwidth survey - First impressions”

  1. Inf says:

    Difference between IP 100 and 106:

    (Dual sets of data to test which is faster. Only for one day)
    (IP xx.xx.106.xx is definitely faster)

    —> 02.07.07 - 18h45 - IP xx.xx.100.xx - 512K
    —> 02.07.07 - 18h55 - IP xx.xx.106.xx - 512K

    http://www.noulakaz.net/avinash/resources/bandwidth/100k
    12 secs - 10.2 KBps
    4 secs - 41.7 KBps
    http://avinashmeetoo.ifrance.com/100k
    11 secs - 10.7 KBps
    3 secs - 42.5 KBps

    http://www.noulakaz.net/avinash/resources/bandwidth/1000k
    1 mins 48 secs - 9.41 KBps
    21 secs - 49.7 KBps
    http://avinashmeetoo.ifrance.com/1000k
    1 mins 26 secs - 11.7 KBps
    21 secs - 49.3 KBps

    —> 02.07.07 - 21h45 - IP xx.xx.100.xx
    —> 02.07.05 - 21h55 - IP xx.xx.106.xx

    http://www.noulakaz.net/avinash/resources/bandwidth/100k
    21 secs - 5.0 KBps
    8 secs - 14.9 KBps
    http://avinashmeetoo.ifrance.com/100k
    6 secs - 21.5 KBps
    10 secs - 16.9 KBps

    http://www.noulakaz.net/avinash/resources/bandwidth/1000k
    2 mins 54 secs - 5.82 KBps
    54 secs - 18.7 KBps
    http://avinashmeetoo.ifrance.com/1000k
    2 mins 22 secs - 7.13 KBps
    1 min 10 secs - 14.3 KBps
    —————————————————————————————————————-

    My data. I have for the 1st of July too, just in case..

  2. Inf says:

    –> 03.07.07 - 20h30 - IP xx.xx.100.xx - 512K

    http://www.noulakaz.net/avinash/resources/bandwidth/100k
    20 secs - 5.6 KBps
    http://avinashmeetoo.ifrance.com/100k
    20 secs - 5.5 KBps

    http://www.noulakaz.net/avinash/resources/bandwidth/1000k
    2 mins 44 secs - 7.6 KBps
    http://avinashmeetoo.ifrance.com/1000k
    1min 34 secs - 10.6 KBps

    -> 04.07.07 - 01h05 - IP xx.xx.100.xx - 512K

    http://www.noulakaz.net/avinash/resources/bandwidth/100k
    5 secs - 31.8 KBps
    http://avinashmeetoo.ifrance.com/100k
    5 secs - 31.7 KBps

    http://www.noulakaz.net/avinash/resources/bandwidth/1000k
    28 secs - 50 KBps
    http://avinashmeetoo.ifrance.com/1000k
    30 secs - 43.5 KBps

  3. avinash says:

    Hi Inf,

    Can you please send me your report (as from now) by email? Sometimes I forget about checking comments…

    Thanks.

  4. ames says:

    Cam we contact EFF?
    http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2007/11/28

    I mean we are not getting what we are paying for. We need to get the surveys to a credible organisation.

    We need to form a group, an open group, affiliated with EFF. United We Fight, United We Win.

  5. avinash says:

    Thanks for this great idea.

  6. ames says:

    You’re welcome but I’ve a feeling that you already knew about EFF.
    I also suggest that group (if you intend to create and lead it) will have to be affiliated with NNSQUAD (nnsquad.org) in order to deal with Facebook-ICTA like issues.

    Hey Avinash (can I call you Avinash or do I call you Sir? I’ll call you Sir)..huh…Hey Sir, is it worth to go for MyT or should I go for ADSL 512KBps, from your pov? I merely update my OSs, watch streaming channels on Miro, download ISOs of Gentoo, Fedora and Damn Small Linux off FTP when new ones are available and do basic surfing. I’m just scared that I won’t be able to watch HD streams off Miro with MyT once the limit has been exceeded.

    Anyway, have a good day.

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