Telstra Speed Test Internet Speed Test
Anais Wachowski
Hey all, I have a RBR750 Orbi WiFi 6 Router AX4200 that has a slow wifi connection for videos.
The google speed test on the router LAN connection (ethernet) shows 100/38 Mbs (great) - It is connected to a telstra fibre internet connection.
If I connect to the wifi, the speed test download starts at 80Mbs (good) then drops down to 3Mbs (bad) after 15 seconds.
I have reset the modem, updated the firmware, and still no improvement. It used to work fine. Any suggestions?
Modem is Telstra technicolor TG799vac. When connecting my new Dell Laptop XPS-15 to the LAN port on this modem the speed test works well at 106/28.2 Mbs and the download speed does not slow down while testing.
Your ISP Modem already has a built in router and wifi. This would be a double NAT (two router) condition which isn't recommended. -is-Double-NAT
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Couple of options,
1. Configure the modem for transparent bridge or modem only mode. Then use the Orbi router in router mode. You'll need to contact the ISP for help and information in regards to the modem being bridged correctly.
2. If you can't bridge the modem, disable ALL wifi radios on the modem, configure the modems DMZ/ExposedHost or IP Pass-Through for the IP address the Orbi router gets from the modem. Then you can use the Orbi router in Router mode.
3. Or disable all wifi radios on the modem and connect the Orbi router to the modem, configure AP mode on the Orbi router. -do-I-configure-my-Orbi-router-to-act-as-an-access-point and =H7LOcJ8GdDo&app=desktop
Strange thing is that it used to work just fine untill a few months ago i.e. it has always had the double Nat, and it made no difference to the speed. Something else has changed, but i'm not sure what....
The download speed starts off fine (80Mbs), then slows down to 4Mbs over a few seconds. So videos are a pain to watch, they stop & start.
ALL USERS of the 7 series Orbi AX system, please contact NG support by opening a support ticket and contact NG and ask them for the beta that seems to be avialable for the 7 series that seems to be directed to fixed what everyone with a 7 series has been having problems with:
Here comes the interest part, exact the same Interenet speed tests (same target server, test B is conducted right after test A, )on these 2 sites are giving me totally different result. Site B is much slower than site A, results attached.
It really bothers us beacuse it is happening on muptiple sites now. And customer are using Internet speedtest tool all the time. Our Cisco siwtches are in good shape with plenty of free CPU and memory.
There is already an open case 112026, where you have asked for the same information and one of my colleague has already send response to you. So I would request you to revert on the same ticket to discuss further.
So far, everything I can find leads me to the Force 200 PTP link. Whether it is radio interference or something else I cannot really tell right now. All of our force 200 PTP link are running in clean channels. But we still experience speed loss after Force200 PTP link.
Normally, from my experience with Cambium EPMP series, we only have interference issue when we get a fair bit Error Drop packets. Please see performance statistics as attached. Both uplink and downlink MCS are stabled at 14/15 and link quality/capacity are over 95% consistently.
This sounds a lot like a switch buffer issue. What else do you have plugged into the Cisco switches? Do you happen to have any devices with only 100Mbps ports connected to the switches? What does the topology look like between site A and the internet?
The initial test is not working for some people - this is a known issue that NETGEAR are looking to fix. There is a workaround - go to speedtest.net and run a speedtest. Then go to Anti-Bufferbloat and manually enter in your speeds in the advanced options
At the moment there is nothing much we can do regarding a real fix we have problems at both sides of the equation with both router problems and server problems that are at the moment going hand in hand and compliment each other especially regarding black ops 4
my advice i would give would be don't mess about with your internet/router to much because to be frank its not going to make a much of a difference with this game at all until some of these problems above are addressed you'll be just wasting your time
So I did some speedtests. Mostly using Ookla speedtest, but also some others like DSL Reports, and Telstra speedtest. Results make little or no sense. I get upload speeds that are fairly consistent of about 90mbps, but get some around 15mbps. But download speeds vary from 15 - 85mbps, and change constantly. They vary significantly depending on the device I use to test. A Fetch DVR (like a Tivo) connected via ethernet shows 28mbps down, but others show numbers varying between 20 - 80mbps down.
So my take away is this. Totally confused by location error. Using a speedtest is almost useless unless one takes the time to make sure app is configured to use the same testing server route, and the route chosen will result in different results. Some devices must have speed limitations, probably result of the hardware. And, when village gets results from random residents, the results will be almost useless.
In most cases there will be many network hops between you and any other useful server, and at any of those points, there can be congestion and delay. The point of a speed test wanting a local connection is to avoid as many of these interconnection points as possible.
I can run Net Uptime Monitor on my Bootcamp based Windows 10 system, but have to use wifi connection during the day. Not interested in monitoring internet uptime over wifi as that does not indicate the village network performance. Also locks me out of my MacOS environment.
I just downloaded the latest uTorrent version after not having it installed for several months, because of a PC reformat and I never got round to getting it again, but now I want to put my new internet speeds to use.
How can I get speed test to work, open my port, and achieve the best possible results? Any help will be appreciated! If you cant answer here for any reason at all you can email me directly at game...@gmail.com
1. To open your port (in the screenshot is 40672) you should see your routers manual and make a Virtual Server (that usually is in the NAT section) or a Port Forwarding from this port to the ip of your computer. Now for your firewall, it will depends on what firewall program you are using (theres a topic here that describes the rules you should add for most of the firewall programs - search for it).
4. Look in your router and tell us what module connection you are using, for example, if you are using ADSL or ADSL2 or ADSL2+ or AnnexL or AnnexM, etc...( this is important since AnnexM is ADSL2+ for Autralia and have a different upload rate.
I was asked to update uTorrent so i did and had problems with the latest version so downgraded to the popular 1.6 version but download speeds were terrible even though id set download speeds to unlimited. I checked my firewall there seemed to be no problem i even turned off all protection to check and still downloads were slow. I then noticed in the setting on the version id downloaded that my upload speed was set to 1 so i changed it to a higher number and my download speeds instantly shot up and sorted the problem
About the speed issue, it doesnt matter (as far as i know that test option never worked since i use utorrent). The important test is the port one. I am on a similar situation, even if the port test says my port is open the red flag remains there and the speeds are very slow. Even with the automatic mapping activated.
Why would these iperf commands give such slower results to an in browser broadband speed test?I've tried a few different free iperf servers and they all give similar results. I am wondering if I am perhaps misunderstanding how these network speeds work.
Great little app Speedtest ( ) which has been working perfectly for the last few years. Until my ISP upgraded the network last week and now my upload metrics are off. Only when Splunk runs the script. If I manually run it it works perfectly.
and it doesn't have the 1/6 speed issues I used to have.
@markhill1 maybe if you can release an updated version with the latest version of this script from Github it might help others. If you dare run the brutal gauntlet of the Splunk's app inspector.
This sort of download speed differential between the two tests is pretty consistent regardless of server, day of the week, or time of day, with the above tests carried out within seconds of each other at 3:55AM on a Sunday.
Me too, I'm not a cynic. But the reality is your "Speed Test" is assessing the download speed of a package of data not the actual link speed back to the exchange and results are influenced by many variables such as Server loads, Local exchange congestion and Your system as an example.
If you get your modem stats you will find your Downstream Attenuation and from that you can make a judgement about line conditions by finding the theoretical download speed you might get, . Any difference between about 85% of the theoretical Attainable Rate and your speed test result will give you some indication as to the level of congestion or slowing down of the actual signals getting to you. Example below;
When I buy I an internet connection I do expect the 'service' to extend past the POI. At least to my ISP/RSP's network and in some respects beyond. That doesn't mean some bloke's server that is connected to a mobile phone connection in the middle of Tajikistan, but it might a mean decent connection to the East of Coast US. So in that regard an OOKLA speedtest is a good measure of service quality.