Justin Cook wrote:
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Dave Green
mailto:dave.green(a)snowline.co.nz> wrote: Simon Lyall wrote:
>Seriously, we've had people complaining about Orcon continuously for >months here, if it's bad enough then there must be a few other companies >willing to take your money. Obviously it's not putting any pressure on >Orcon to fix it. > > FWIW ... I use a supposedly 1Mbps Orcon sattelite service and, using Youtube as my download test, find I can get .7-1.5Mbps sustained download rates early morning ~4am-7am but only 200-300kbps most evenings. I've checked with consumerspeedtest.org.nz http://consumerspeedtest.org.nz at times when the download is really slow and it tells me that I still have ~1Mpbs download rate so not sure where the bottleneck is. Given that Orcon or others seem to be pushing cheap sattelite service out to rural areas I don't expect performance to improve any time soon.
Dave
Simon obviously outlined the proper steps to take here, but if you're going to ghettotest it, try using speedtest.net http://speedtest.net. At least then you can try testing against remote locations. Yes, tried that. Remote speedtest locations give similar poor results 200-300kbps, while consumer gives ~1Mbps measured at the same time of day. I'd be interested to know where the consumer test is run from, it uses Ookla as do many of the other test sites and I don't know if Ookla hosts the tests or provides an app to be used by the test provider.
Dave