People with slow 50Mbit Please Read This

[DigitalShadow]

I've been thinking this for a while now, and the person i've quoted below wrote a useful post, so I thought I would use it to check my thinking.

If you are getting SLOW speeds on your 50mbit, from newsgroups or speedtests, then please do the following, and leave it running and see if you sustain higher speeds.


Following are the steps.

Download http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/

Then I went to CentOS web site & select download the DVD ISO image via a torrent, it s big 4 GiG file from the university of Warwick Site.

Question is? using Torrent why University of Warwick, because two of their servers are feeding these ISO images in peer mode. so you will get the pipe of 10GiG, if one had the download capacity.

Following is the link for university of Warwick

http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/centos/5.3/isos/x86_64/

Select the torrent for DVD download of the ISO image, this is just for test only, you can delete the ISO image later on after testing the download speed.


Post your results here, Thankyou

[HEADRAT]

Well the University of Warwick might have a 10Gig pipe probably probably supplied by Janet but this will still be completely dependant on how peer with the Virgin Media network, I would imagine at the LINX.

In fact it looks like it transits the telia network for some reason!

Tracing route to anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk [137.205.124.72]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 7 ms 9 ms 6 ms 10.27.136.1
3 8 ms 5 ms 7 ms cmbg-cam-1a-ge814.network.virginmedia.net [80.1.
202.125]
4 30 ms 7 ms 7 ms cmbg-core-1a-ge-017-0.network.virginmedia.net [1
95.182.182.81]
5 13 ms 13 ms 12 ms pop-bb-a-xe-700-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.25
3.188.193]
6 15 ms 14 ms 13 ms bre-bb-b-as4-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.255.8
1.238]
7 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms telc-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.
185.74]
8 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms ldn-b2-link.telia.net [213.248.100.97]
9 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms ldn-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.250.225]
10 13 ms 11 ms 11 ms ldn-b4-link.telia.net [80.91.249.78]
11 13 ms 15 ms 14 ms jnt-110793-ldn-b4.c.telia.net [213.248.100.238]

12 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms so-5-0-0.read-sbr1.ja.net [146.97.33.161]
13 19 ms 19 ms 20 ms so-5-0-0.warr-sbr1.ja.net [146.97.33.90]
14 19 ms 20 ms 20 ms po1-0-0.birm-rbr1.wmrn.ja.net [146.97.42.190]
15 23 ms 20 ms 21 ms te1-1.wolv-rbr1.wmrn.ja.net [193.62.80.34]
16 20 ms 21 ms 21 ms 193.62.80.174
17 22 ms 32 ms 22 ms te2-1.cove-rbr1.wmrn.ja.net [193.62.80.53]
18 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms te2-1.warw-rbr1.wmrn.ja.net [193.62.80.45]
19 23 ms 22 ms 23 ms 193.63.208.34

before getting onto Janet, I will do some more digging.

HEADRAT

[DigitalShadow]

My thought is, are people with slow 50mbit connections only getting poor speeds from newsgroups. If so, are torrents also getting slowed down.

Short of getting everyone on private trackers, there isn't really a better way of testing a high speed torrent.

[aphex187]

I dl'd that file and at first it hung at 60kbps! Anyway it started to gradually climb up to 3.4-3.0M/bs.

Im using Vista 64 with the Netgear WNR2000 Wireless N Router with the latest firmware on, my duplex/speed is set to auto negotiate and on my Netgear settings on the wireless network mode i have it set at up to 145Mbps.

[DigitalShadow]

do you usually experience slower speeds than that?

I'm curious how well the modem copes with torrents.

[indie1982]

For the record the University of Warwick only has a 1Gbit/s connection to JANET

There are 10Gbit/s connections (4) from JANET into LINX.

[Ignitionnet]

For the record the University of Warwick only has a 1Gbit/s connection to JANET

There are 10Gbit/s connections (4) from JANET into LINX.

The DNS in the traceroute appears to disagree.

18 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms te2-1.warw-rbr1.wmrn.ja.net [193.62.80.45]

te2-1 = ten gigabit ethernet 2-1 and the rest of it is warwick, unsure what the rbr means probably regional backbone router or similar, and the wmm is for West Midlands MidMAN I believe.

The JaNet supercore is a 40Gbit core with dual 10Gbit links to each regional network with 10GbE links on regional cores.

http://www.ja.net/images/company/network-topology/topology-map.pdf

[indie1982]

I think Warwick are connected to the Warwick POP on WMRM using the 10Gbit/s connection but only have 1Gbit/s bandwidth at the moment, all the stats show they're on at 1Gbit/s, They moved from 622Mbit/s in October 08.

Possible that they've gone up to 10Gbit/s in June though, new stats at the end of the month!

From JANETs quarterly report February-April 2009
JANET access to the LINX (London Internet Exchange) is via four 10Gbit/s connections from the Telehouse® and Telecity PoP locations. Aggregated public peering traffic peaked at 17Gbit/s during the quarter and aggregated private peering traffic reached around 19.5Gbit/s.

[Pushkar]

Just because it has a fat 20gb pipe doesn't mean it will be able to give you a full 20gb, other people use it, they host other things so you'll never get 20gb from it.

Anyway, im getting only about 2.7-3mb/s which is about 25mb. While on private trackers I get full 6.4mb/s from the connection.

[Ignitionnet]

I think Warwick are connected to the Warwick POP on WMRM using the 10Gbit/s connection but only have 1Gbit/s bandwidth at the moment, all the stats show they're on at 1Gbit/s, They moved from 622Mbit/s in October 08.

Possible that they've gone up to 10Gbit/s in June though, new stats at the end of the month!

From JANETs quarterly report February-April 2009

Ah the Uni itself is on 1G even though there's a 10G MAN interface, that makes sense - thanks!

[DigitalShadow]

Just because it has a fat 20gb pipe doesn't mean it will be able to give you a full 20gb, other people use it, they host other things so you'll never get 20gb from it.

Anyway, im getting only about 2.7-3mb/s which is about 25mb. While on private trackers I get full 6.4mb/s from the connection.

how reliable is that speed? do you suffer from the slow downs other people have reported?

[Pushkar]

how reliable is that speed? do you suffer from the slow downs other people have reported?

I get 50mb all the time really, I haven't had any problems but I guess some people have, you still have that 28 days to cancel if it doesn't work out.

[Peter_]

If you are having issues with your 50Mb then call the number below.

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50Mb support line number.

0800 052 0431

Do not call if not 50Mb as you will be asked to hang up as the is no facility to transfer you to Broadband Support.

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