Local ISP's Speed Test and Tweaks

[RuHaSs]

In my daily surfing i ran into this forums and figured i'ed jump in and contribute. I figured i would start with internet speed problems since over the yrs i've had so much problems with speed issues with local ISP's its not funny. I will post a few results for different ISP's and tweaks i did to get whats the best i can get out of them as to speed at my location. I hope the rest of members chime in with what works for them and there own speed test results. For now i will post Gotel and CW dialup, with more to come.

Gotel 128K Results:
2003-02-21 09:22:29 EST: 8 / 52
Your download speed : 8107 bps, or 8 kbps.
A 0.9 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 52770 bps, or 52 kbps.

My upload speeds maxs out at about 110 kbps with an average being around 50-60 kbps. The download speed maxs out at 50 kbps with 20-40 kbps being average, i've tried tons of RWIN values and other software setting tweaks and found RWIN 131070 and MTU 1500 best for me but overhaul those values i feel are very subjective. i just cant get the downloads up to any real good level with any software tweaks. I will comment on what i feel is the problem later.


CW Dialup Results:
2003-02-21 09:18:37 EST: 39 / 23
Your download speed : 39258 bps, or 39 kbps.
A 4.7 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 23571 bps, or 23 kbps.

I connected at 49333 bps, these results sre pretty much consistent with what i get everytime.

Speed Test Results and Tweaks sites
I use these sites all the time and find them just about the best.

Speed Results: http://nyc.speakeasy.net/

Speed Tweaks: http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks


I will leave my opinion to the best, ok, poor and down right ugly to later on after i post a few more ISP's.

On a side note if getting Gotel http://www.gotelja.com/ internet try and get them to install the AirSpan WipLL http://www.airspan.com/home.html equipment instead of the Level 3 http://www.level3.com/ as its seem to work better. Also dont expect your ping times to get below about 500 ms with Gotel as their ISP backbone is http://www.verestar.com/ which is via satellite :(.

Keep the speed flowing.

[yeayea]

Satelite backbone..not good. Not good at all! They should've just risked it, and hooked up to the C&W backbone. I think this might explain the speed reliability, satelites are not known to be as reliable, since there are so much elements that can affect you..especially the blasted ping times. GOTEL needs to get something bettter..satelite might be o.k for voice, but it won't be ok when thousands of people are on your network for both internet and voice.

I think your rwin is a little bit too high for a 128 K connection. Try 12240

[DarkAngel]

Satelite backbone..not good. Not good at all! They should've just risked it, and hooked up to the C&W backbone. I think this might explain the speed reliability, satelites are not known to be as reliable, since there are so much elements that can affect you..especially the blasted ping times. GOTEL needs to get something bettter..satelite might be o.k for voice, but it won't be ok when thousands of people are on your network for both internet and voice.


Satelite not good indeed especially for gamers, i am gettin ping rates of around 610 on Gotel (64 K connection)while playing Q3- can never win a single game :(.
Only hope that the quality of their service don't deteoriate any further as more customers get on their network.
btw i have tried tweaking the MTU and rwin settings using various software but have not seen any improvement in either upload or download speeds, can't remember the various settings i tried,i simply just gave up.

[Chris]

I tried the tests at http://nyc.speakeasy.net/ with a C&WJ ADSL setup that I have access to and below are the results:

C&WJ 256kbps/128kbps (down/up) ADSL package
2003-05-11 23:05:08 EST: 211 / 116
Your download speed : 211113 bps, or 211 kbps.
A 25.7 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 116788 bps, or 116 kbps.

[RuHaSs]

Here is my nyc.speakeasy test results, for Gotel :)

2003-05-12 08:53:29 EST: 111 / 98
Your download speed : 111360 bps, or 111 kbps.
A 13.5 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 98280 bps, or 98 kbps.

I've had this kind of speed results constantly for about a mth now. I have the 128k package. Oh the RWIN value that works well is 49152 , and believe me i've tried tons anything in the 40000 - 60000 seems to work well. Hope this helps a few with Gotel probs.