lets see if anyone can beat my speedtest.net results...

[Jeff7]

During the testing your TCP window was very large and likely had a ton of packets coming your way without needing an acknoweldgement. This leads to packet loss/drops on egress from the modem termination system (coming into your modem) when you loaded the page with a UDP stream which is bad for video. It also caused TCP to close it's window some and resend which further compounds the problem until the TCP socket would eventually be closed.

What you experienced is the definition of congestion. It's how networks work.

If you nincompoops would let me use QoS and traffic policing/shaping this wouldn't be a problem for you.

Think of it as a series of tubes/pipes. Your pipe was full and you poured more water into it, that water mixed with the water destined for the pipe and water (packets) dumped onto the floor (dropped).

Or...it may also be a long-running bug that's somehow related to Windows 7 and network cards and lunar phases.
:hmm:

I happened to notice in the most recent slowdown that it was even slow-going to access my router. Also of note is that the slowdowns don't affect anything on my LAN, and my tablet doesn't seem to trigger these slowdowns.

Still kind of touch-and-go though. A fix attempt may seem to work for awhile, but then it's back to 56k-land.


Generally what I see happen with large file transfers is that my connection will max out at whatever rate I'm capped at. Usually 2+ transfers at the same time from a good server is enough to max out the connection. But I can still browse other sites, albeit a little slowly - not the complete dead-halt that streaming video would often cause. And streaming video is nowhere close to reaching that bandwidth cap

(I also just ran 6 windows of the speedtest as concurrently as I could. I got the usual large spike of speed, nearly 35% of my LAN's capacity, and then it plateaued at the capped speed.
9.33, 4.26, 1.03, 0.84, 3.90, 3.57 downstream. So I can manage some decent speeds with concurrent downloads.)


It's a series of tubes, and Windows is sitting on the toilet to provide the tubes with entertainment, when suddenly I try to stream video, and Windows spews forth a nightmarish eruption of terror that causes the sewage system to seal itself and go hide in a corner.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

OP were you at Quakecon? Those are the speeds that most people were getting there. Just curious.

 

[schneiderguy]

 

[spidey07]

Only the upload. EA had SLOWER download.

I hope you realize that normal internet tubes are symmetrical, full duplex and there isn't a difference between upload and download, same speed both ways.

 

[drebo]

Woot woot.

 

[Argo]

And this is just from my iPad.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

That's right biches.. super fast satellite internet in the middle of the ocean! Those packets are going out to SPACE and back to our shore station in UCSD! MF'ing SPACE YO!!! Space..

:'( :'( :'( .. I also had to wait 30 minutes and 3 attempts for speedtest.net site to load properly.. also that ping is actually very good! It usually takes 600ms to get to space and back. Usually, it gets pretty damn slow once you count the 4-5 ships (each with 30-50 crew and scientists) that's using a single 512mbps pipe.

wooo T.T... This is essentially what I had to live with since October, 2010... Well, I was home for two months earlier this year... ya. haha. I haven't seen youtube in a long time now. :'(


on the topic of Space.. where do astronauts chill out at?

 

[Old Hippie]

Man, those are some great connections.....Nice! :thumbsup:

 

[MotionMan]

Over wi-fi at the office.



MotionMan

 

[ultimatebob]

It's Comcastic!

 

[Lorthreth]

Home Record is 581mbit/s

 

[MotionMan]

Over wi-fi at the office.



MotionMan

I just installed a new modem, ran speediest and, oddly, remembered this thread.

I currently pay for 400/20, and this is over wifi, so I'm happy.

Certainly better than my prior result.



MotionMan

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I just installed a new modem, ran speediest and, oddly, remembered this thread.



I currently pay for 400/20, and this is over wifi, so I'm happy.

Certainly better than my prior result.



MotionMan

Why would you post to an almost 9 year old thread when younger threads on the same subject and with more recent responses are available in competition. BTW, your connect is slow and I get your performance while on an overseas VPN and more than doubled when not on VPN. Eat crow you bird.

 

[MotionMan]

Why would you post to an almost 9 year old thread when younger threads on the same subject and with more recent responses are available in competition. BTW, your connect is slow and I get your performance while on an overseas VPN and more than doubled when not on VPN. Eat crow you bird.

1. I posted here because this is the last such thread I had posted in, so it was relevant to me;
2. My connection is exactly what I pay for, so I'm happy with it.

MotionMan

 

[BarkingGhostar]

OK, but everyone might beat your speed.

 

[Arkaign]

Haha y'all talking about hundreds of megabits and I'm over here with like 12 or 15 or something like that at the moment. Ah well, it's enough to get by on and the latency is pretty ok.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Sounds like a third-worlder problem.

 

[UsandThem]

Unsurprisingly, my results have been a little "low" after since the "stay at home" orders went into place.

 

[Arkaign]

Sounds like a third-worlder problem.

No, just rural America. You'd be surprised how bad the speeds are for many many tens of millions of Americans due to lack of options. There is exactly one ISP in my town, and the only alternative is satellite internet that is EVEN WORSE haha.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Haha fun necro.
I wish I saw it when it was a new thread about 5 weeks after it began we moved into our home with 50/50 up & down Fios service.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I get a pretty solid 50/30 on my home internet. On cell LTE I get like 100 down, I forget what up is, and a single speed test brings me over my cap so I'm not going to try that again.

 

[sdifox]

No, just rural America. You'd be surprised how bad the speeds are for many many tens of millions of Americans due to lack of options. There is exactly one ISP in my town, and the only alternative is satellite internet that is EVEN WORSE haha.

So, third world problem.

 

[Captante]

Right now 20ms ping 115 down only 8 up on Xfinity/Comcast. (for some reason can't take a screenshot)

 

[shortylickens]

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this is a necro.

I was forced into Xfinity and we're getting 300/5 which is nice for downloading shit but if I ever wanna make a video of something (my belly button for example) it has to be 480i or else it takes all damn day to post.

 

[Captante]

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this is a necro.

I've given up!


And I don't upload much myself these days so I hadn't really noticed till now but 5-8 is the same crappy upload I'm getting with Xfinity.