mikej101 Posted March 7, 2013 CID Share Posted March 7, 2013 Just thought I'd say a big hello from someone in the UK who is looking for a decent broadband speedtest site. Hope to speak to folks later. At the moment I'm trying to find out if I can check the download speed of a Satelite connection using the checker on here ? Will it fail because of latency issues ? Anyone help ? mikej101 and CA3LE 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted March 7, 2013 CID Share Posted March 7, 2013 Hi Mike, There is one way to find out how much latency is effecting your connection , test at all the servers here at testmy.net Run a ping and traceroute test to testmy.net, Post your results so we can get into the middle of it with you yes ? CA3LE and mikej101 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pgoodwin1 Posted March 7, 2013 CID Share Posted March 7, 2013 Hi and welcome. CA3LE and mikej101 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles Posted March 7, 2013 CID Share Posted March 7, 2013 good evening Michael ? , or Hi M8 from Biggles UK , I am intrigued by a UK Sat connection. v. rare in the UK, Seen a lot of 56k dialup ,adsl, fibre. Fttc ,Ftth but never Sat , that is totally new to me , please post more details , But I guess TMN is the right place for Sat questions , and never did me any harm only good from dial up through to Fibre to the cabinet , CA3LE and mikej101 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted March 8, 2013 CID Share Posted March 8, 2013 On 3/7/2013 at 11:29 AM, mikej101 said: Just thought I'd say a big hello from someone in the UK who is looking for a decent broadband speedtest site. Hope to speak to folks later. At the moment I'm trying to find out if I can check the download speed of a Satelite connection using the checker on here ? Will it fail because of latency issues ? Anyone help ? Hope you like what you see. It won't fail for high latency. You'll probably get poor results but it's to be expected. mikej101 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikej101 Posted March 13, 2013 Author CID Share Posted March 13, 2013 On 3/7/2013 at 5:57 PM, Biggles said: good evening Michael ? , or Hi M8 from Biggles UK , I am intrigued by a UK Sat connection. v. rare in the UK, Seen a lot of 56k dialup ,adsl, fibre. Fttc ,Ftth but never Sat , that is totally new to me , please post more details , But I guess TMN is the right place for Sat questions , and never did me any harm only good from dial up through to Fibre to the cabinet , Hi Biggles, You've not heard of Satelite Broadband ??? A company called Tooway are installing it all over the UK and have been for a while now. It's great out in the sticks where there's no chance of BT laying fibre or even telephone cables. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikej101 Posted March 13, 2013 Author CID Share Posted March 13, 2013 On 3/7/2013 at 12:57 PM, mudmanc4 said: Hi Mike, There is one way to find out how much latency is effecting your connection , test at all the servers here at testy.net Run a ping and traceroute test to testy.net, Post your results so we can get into the middle of it with you yes ? Hi mudmanc4, The latency is running at 667 - half a second basically - but the overall speed is not to bad. Not much good if you are trying to bid on Ebay ! Your bid gets there way after the auction closed ! The company selling the package offer 20mb down and 6mb up - I've yet to find a test site that even gets anywhere near that figure. The testmy.net tester is returning a down speed of between 1.8 and 2.2mbps and an upload of 200-227mbps - pretty rubbish really considering the costs involved with installation etc.. I'll keep you updated mudmanc4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted March 14, 2013 CID Share Posted March 14, 2013 Yea the ebay thing can be a bummer -- however just add the highest price you are willing to pay and see what happens. Might work out well for you. Many times people pay too much for a product simply due to the thrill of the betting. I've not done my homework on your tests, so please excuse me , but have you tested on any of the public testmy.net mirrors ? It's in the server selection tab >HERE< , then select the 'publicly hosted mirrors' - try each one and see what results you get, many times you'll want to test more than once for various reasons. On 3/13/2013 at 9:42 AM, mikej101 said: Hi mudmanc4, The latency is running at 667 - half a second basically - but the overall speed is not to bad. Not much good if you are trying to bid on Ebay ! Your bid gets there way after the auction closed ! The company selling the package offer 20mb down and 6mb up - I've yet to find a test site that even gets anywhere near that figure. The testmy.net tester is returning a down speed of between 1.8 and 2.2mbps and an upload of 200-227mbps - pretty rubbish really considering the costs involved with installation etc.. I'll keep you updated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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