Have you tested your broadband?

Posts: 8 · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:51 pm Post subject:

its suppose to be 3 meg at least thats what I am paying for

Posts: 4777 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Aug 30, 2005 Posts: 4777

Unless there's a typo on your post, you're getting about 1/10 that. I'd try temporarily removing any routers, etc. that you have. Connect your computer directly to the cable modem and re-run the speed test. If you don't get what you're paying for, call your ISP and raise the roof.

Posts: 8 · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:22 am Post subject:

as of 11/07 5:21am this is the reading

Download 1,819,248 bps
Upload 245,904 bps
QOS 24%
RTT 59 ms
MaxPause 2123 ms

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Sep 15, 2005 Posts: 16

This is consistently "scoring" me about 25% of what I get from other testers which are right there with my rated speeds. I'm in NC. Confused

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Nov 13, 2005 Posts: 1

Download 1,542,024 bps
Upload 299,000 bps
QOS 36%
RTT 33 ms
MaxPause 360 ms

I am new to this Voip. What does this mean??
BTW I am having very slow connection with WRTP54G. I was having much better performance with BEFW11s4 router (802.1b)

Posts: 71 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jul 19, 2005 Posts: 71

Hi all,

Running the Vonage speed test consistently gives me awful downstream rates typicallt 1 or 2 Mbs on my 8Mbs service.

Running speedtests to www.adslguide.org.co.uk gives me a consistent 8Mbs downstream and 500kps upstream.

Also another test I run is to download a 30mb file from the US Logitec website that nearly always gives me 1mbytes/s which is what I would expect.

Does ir seem reasonable that the speed test is unreliable in the UK?

Regards,

Paul

Posts: 4777 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Aug 30, 2005 Posts: 4777

You might be interested in the discussion here- http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopic9546.html .

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Nov 18, 2005 Posts: 2

I'm getting terrible results...absolute best on numerous tries over 45 minutes was 1.47/151 using Shaw cable. Can i expect anything better from their high speed cable?(British Columbia)

Posts: 34 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Nov 29, 2005 Posts: 34

I'm quite happy with my results (running Verizon FIOS at 5 down and 2 up):

Download 4,748,984 bps
Upload 1,718,480 bps
QOS 96%
RTT 47 ms
MaxPause 31 ms

Vonage Voip Analysis
Given your current Internet speeds, we estimate that your Internet connection can support a maximum of 22 simultaneous high quality Vonage® Voip connections.

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 27, 2005 Posts: 3

I have a quite respectable bandwidth, but due the volitility of the load on my home network plus two Vonage adapters (3 total lines), I was getting quite a bit of choppiness on some calls (with everything in parallel).

I put the two Vonage adapters in series before the network hub, so that they would get the first crack at the bandwidth. The first adapter phone never has problems. The second one is occasionally very choppy - usually fine.

Has anyone tried a router with QoS ports to see what sort of service ratio you need to give the phone adaptors vs. a network?