On Thursday, 23 August 2018 20:49:47 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
news
I have just this week moved to fibre (well VDSL), from ADSL. On ADSL I was
connecting at 18Mbs, speedtest at around fairly consistent 16Mbs.
I was moved in the early hours of Tuesday morning, since when speedtest
results have been all over the place - sometimes 31Mbs, sometimes 10Mbs.
My initial tests showed a steady, 30Mbs with the ISP supplied dumbed down
router.
I bought a second identicle router, but with OpenWRT installed. I spent
much of Tuesday trying to gets it configuration settings to work, swapping
to that and back to the ISP router, between times, until I finally got the
OpenWRT to work - so multiple times.
Throughout, a connect speed was reported of a steady 40,000Mbs/9.000Mbs,
So the service is fine.
Sounds too spot on to be real.
ping can also be important to record.
yet actual speedtests showed wild variations.
That's normal, it varys with the server its using.
Normally the server selcted is the fastest one at the time.
It shouldn't vary too much from the same server which is normally stated in the app.
Are the wild variations part of the system settling in
Nope.
and how long might it go on for?
Forever. Speedtest is a lousy way to measure performance.
How else would you measure it ?
I used to use the apple servers when they had combo updates you could download but at busy times just after they are realsed the apple servers were responsible for slower connections rathe rthan the ISP.
And its important to measure it over a wired connection,
not over wifi. Wifi just adds another variable.
It depends what you are using, a wired connection is pretty useless for a smartphone.
Last week I tried to find out why my wi-fi connection was dropping.
My computer was getting 130mbs download, wi-fi was about 2.8Mbs down 12.5Mbs up ping 11ms , and 4G was about 24.1Mbs down 13.0MBps up, ping 38ms, so 4G significantly faster than wi-fi at home.
wi-fi at work today 77.2Mbps down, 100Mbps up ping 3ms