Fibre Broadband speed questions.
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Fibre Broadband speed questions.
05-11-2012 4:36 PM
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The engineer said that there should be no differences of speed with wireless.
I have connected wirelessly to the internet with my samsung NC10 netbook, and after redoing a BT test it has gone down to around 6Mb.
Why is this? Is it the age of my netbook?
Is Fibre the same as ADSL, does it take a few days to stabilise the speed?
Is there something wrong with speedtest.net, I cannot do any tests anymore, it just get stuck at "selecting best server based on ping".
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05-11-2012 4:45 PM
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My experience is that Atom based products like the NC10 (have one myself) will affect speed test results, as will using wireless.
You can see results of my speedtests on an Atom based nettop and an Intel Quad core here - http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,108726.msg931761.html#msg931761 - I didn't realise quite how much effect lower powered hardware would have on the results.
BT would say the line takes 10 days to "train", I read somewhere that it should be stable within a couple of days.
I had the same type of problems with speedtest.net, not sure why though.
Re: Fibre Broadband speed questions.
05-11-2012 5:03 PM
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After this, I have redone another my broadband speed test with the netbook (wireless) and it showed 5.1MB, down from the previous 6MB.
There is a big difference between my wired PC desktop and my wireless netbook.
I suppose I can't do nothing about it, but I wouldn't like it to go down too low on my netbook, it looks like the speed is sliding down more and more.
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05-11-2012 10:46 PM
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06-11-2012 11:09 AM
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06-11-2012 1:38 PM
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Any chance you have any other wireless devices handy so we can confirm whether or not it's the netbook? If other devices are working at faster speeds then chances are that is what's slowing things down for you.
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06-11-2012 6:48 PM
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Tonight, I have redone a test on my netbook, and it has gone up a bit (9.19 MB), which is more like it, as now the download speed is higher (even if ever so slightly) than the upload speed. How long it's gonna stay there, I don't know.
I would not expect the same speed on my netbook than on my wired PC anyway, with my netbook being quite old, however I would expect it to be a lot better than what I had on ADSL broadband. If it can stay at around 9-10MB on my netbook, it'll be good. But following what I saw yesterday, it can fluctuates quite a bit, and can crash down quite low.
What I can't explain is why the upload speed is so stable compared to the download speed.
I am hoping the download speed will stabilise once the line finish training,
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06-11-2012 10:41 PM
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http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/android.html
Re: Fibre Broadband speed questions.
07-11-2012 7:46 AM
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Re: Fibre Broadband speed questions.
07-11-2012 11:14 AM
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While it's great for testing in situations like this, we wouldn't recommend results are taken as gospel. Having said that though even if it is an android mobile, if it's seeing faster speeds than the netbook over wireless then it definitely points to an issue with the netbook which is what I'm hoping to establish here - whether or not that's the case.
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07-11-2012 11:24 AM
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07-11-2012 7:03 PM
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PC Desktop (wired, bt speedtest)
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DOWNLOAD : 34.65 MB --- UPLOAD : 8.49 MB
Tablet PC (tested with thinkbroadband speed test beta)
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DOWNLOAD : 30.9 MB --- UPLOAD : 8.50 MB
Netbook (wireless, with BT speedtest)
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DOWNLOAD : 8.53 MB --- UPLOAD : 8.47
So, that is confirming that it's the netbook which is the problem, not the router or the connection.
I suppose I can't do nothing about it but to consider buying a more up to date netbook, as long as it's not atom based? (which is not really an option right now)
What would make the download speed go so low compared to other devices, but the upload speed seems about right?
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