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Thread ID: 81570 2007-07-31 20:05:00 Speed Test results - amazing comparisons ! Digby (677) PC World Chat
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574690 2007-07-31 20:05:00 Hi Guys

After the article in the Herald on NZ's broadband speeds - they asked readers to submit their results on the test site Speedtest.net I thought I would try mine.

I am reasonably happy with my speeds on Actrix 2495 kbps d/l and 133 up.

Speed test is a very impressive looking site, well its home page certainly is)

But what amazed me was the window in the bottom right hand corner when it shows you the best 5 continents, countries and ISPs.

Countrywise Japan came out top and Sweden was next, that was fairly predictable although I would have expected to see S Korea there.

But the next three countries blew me away Latvia, Romania and Bulgaria !
They are hardly known as world leading technology countries. Is this for real ?

regards

Digby
Digby (677)
574691 2007-07-31 21:31:00 The saddest part of the stats they provide is that NZ is faster than just 18% of connections. Tell us something we didn't know! johcar (6283)
574692 2007-07-31 21:41:00 Yes I thought S Korea was the fastest. It showed that on a recent Documentary I watched, but maybe it was an old Doco.

Getting onto this forum for me with Ihug Broadband feels like a slow dialup connection at the moment.

Current test on www.nzdsl.co.nz shows:
Download Speed: 1527 kbps (190.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 131 kbps (16.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Bantu (52)
574693 2007-08-01 00:36:00 I got
Download Speed: 336 kbps (42 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1172 kbps (146.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

which is wierd...
netchicken (4843)
574694 2007-08-01 00:40:00 At work we have 8988 down and 766 up at the moment - thats pretty normal. At home I get about 3850 down and 160 up. It's supposed to be 128 up but i'm not complaining :lol: I'm actually pretty pleased with it at home - seeing I live out in the wops. wratterus (105)
574695 2007-08-01 06:46:00 I got
Download Speed: 336 kbps (42 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1172 kbps (146.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

which is wierd...

Do you have a monitored burglar alarm in the house ?
decibel (11645)
574696 2007-08-01 12:32:00 mine is 2200 down, 133 up

I tried the extreme/fastest plan but it was no faster so back on the 2mb plan.
Slingshot.
Morpheus1 (186)
574697 2008-07-04 08:52:00 Telecom Xtra Go Large
30000kb/s download 115kb/s upload
I don't know what happened that day but I like it :clap
www.speedtest.net (http://www.speedtest.net)
narutophantom (12610)
574698 2008-07-04 09:11:00 Telecom Xtra Go Large
30000kb/s download 115kb/s upload
I don't know what happened that day but I like it :clap
www.speedtest.net (http://www.speedtest.net)

O_O Maybe the cache didn't reset before you re-done the test? But usually you don't have to do that for speedtest.net

Here's my current specs with Vodafone, on Max/Max plan, but I need a new modem with better firmware for dealing with the DSLAMS (or thats what I've been told, it's on it's way here anyway) -

As reported by modem :
736 Kbps Upload 1888 Kbps Download

As reported by speedtest.net

-to Auckland (I am in Auckland):
582 Kbps Upload 1607 Kbps Download
www.speedtest.net (http://www.speedtest.net)

-to New York
340 Kbps Upload 1459 Kbps Download
www.speedtest.net (http://www.speedtest.net)

All tests conducted ~8.20pm, will try some at midnight if I remember and see if there's a notable difference.
Deathwish (143)
574699 2008-07-04 10:09:00 Yes I thought S Korea was the fastest. It showed that on a recent Documentary I watched, but maybe it was an old Doco.

Getting onto this forum for me with Ihug Broadband feels like a slow dialup connection at the moment.

Current test on www.nzdsl.co.nz shows:
Download Speed: 1527 kbps (190.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 131 kbps (16.4 KB/sec transfer rate)


After trying that link, I ended up with 1970 kbps download and 2007 kbps upload...
the_bogan (9949)
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