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vanchrian
post Sep 28 2011, 07:29 AM

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I've just come back from Australia after finishin my degree, and I'd almost forgotten just how bad Streamyx is.

The house I was living in had a 'mere' ADSL2+ line, and you know what download speeds I was getting? 500kbps to 1mbps regularly. Of course it was capped at a 120GB limit per month, and only after exceeding it did our speeds drop to about 70 to 100 kbps.

And now I'm back here, using Streamyx's 1MB line, and my average speed is 40 to 50 kbps...

Their throttled speeds are better than my average Streamyx speeds...

And now I find that Fiber is slowly coming up, and after asking around my friends report speeds ranging from 100kbps to 700kbps.

Our Fiber connection... is worse than their ADSL2...

I'm sick of living here... I want to go back to Australia.
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post Sep 29 2011, 03:28 PM

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QUOTE(Areas Elysian @ Sep 29 2011, 11:22 AM)
I'm sorry, but I will have to interrupt you guys..

First, I will state the connection I had in Australia. I had ADSL 2+ as well... I had a SNR of 6dB +/- that allows me to connect at 18-22 mbits to the servers which was considered very good. With that, I got about 300-500kb/sec download speed often via torrents, with the few rare moments where I got 800kb/sec - 1mb/sec.. the only time I saw speeds of 1mb/sec or more was when I was downloading from an Australian file server..

Not to mention ADSL 2+ you're limited to 1mbit upload.. so you can't seed for nuts, leaving those private tracker sites which requires you to have a good upload ratio out of the question..

Secondly, vanchrian, what ISP were you using in Australia? Most ISP shapes your connection to 128kbits or 256kbits after you pass your quota.. meaning 10-20kbytes/sec download speed..

Thirdly, I have no comment about your friend's fiber connection, but my UniFi VIP10 hits 1.2mbytes often when downloading via torrents.. often and stable.. after being impressed with that speed, I upped my package to VIP20 and now am able to do 2.4mbytes..
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I was in Adelaide, my landlord had subscribed us to TPG. My landlord was a pretty nice guy actually. After we hit the limit once, he changed our subcription to the Unlimited one, and only charged us an additional 2 AUD per week on our rent.

Actually I'm not asking for us to be as good as them. All I'm asking for is for my 1mbps connection to actually perform like a 1mbps connection.

Speedtest is reporting my download rates at an average of 0.4mbps, and yet my max download rate from anywhere, within or without Malaysia, is 40 to 50 kbps. I've been living with 40+- kbps since that earthquake many years ago that affected the internet of the entire Asian continent, only mine never recovered.

So... is there anything I can do? Will calling up TMNet actually help?

This post has been edited by vanchrian: Sep 29 2011, 03:35 PM
vanchrian
post Oct 1 2011, 04:41 AM

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There is something I really don't get. Why is it that Speedtest.net keeps reporting that my downloads are about 500+- kbps, and yet my actual download speeds don't go above 50kbps?

What could possibly cause this? Is speedtest.net not reliable? Should I call up TMNet to ask them what's going on?

Edit:
Speedtest.net reports that my average download rate is 500kbps.

My actual max download rate that I'm seeing on this file I'm downloading from youtube is 30kbps.

With a VPN, its 10kbps.

Something is seriously wrong here. What the hell is going on?

This post has been edited by vanchrian: Oct 1 2011, 04:59 AM
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