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04-16-2014, 08:11 PM | #1 |
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Internet Access and Speed in the Lakes Region
Have you taken the NH Internet Speed Test!? The New Hampshire Broadband Mapping and Planning Program (UNH led) is collecting data for their research. This data (or "these data" for you geeks) helps undeserved communities plan projects and apply for grants to improve internet infrastructure.
As of early 2014, over three thousand NH households and businesses registered and took the speed test. Town profiles are at linked from the home page at www.iwantbroadbandnh.org To see Moultonborough's graphic, Click on this link. State wide, more than 50% of 8000 tests are below FCC's minimum download performance standards of 4 megabits per second. Next time you are at a lakes region residence, please run the test at least once between now and September. Encourage your neighbors to run it too, and try it over your small business networks. Forum member participation could make a difference in the lake region's internet future infrastructure. The link for the NH speed-test is at www.iwantbroadbandnh.org/speed_test. Enter the street address from where you are running the test. It only takes a few minutes and you get your results right away. The test is similar to other speed tests, but standardized for this research project, so your results may vary. I'm reaching out to Moultonborough residents to encourage strong participation. Last I heard, there were only 20 data points across the whole town. Surely we can light the map up with many more. This will help highlight the under-served areas as well as good areas for telecommuters and other bandwidth needy businesses. I just took the test and got 1.51 mbps download and 2.19 upload speed. What's yours?
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04-16-2014, 08:38 PM | #2 |
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thanks and did it too.
Here are the results:
Ping 26ms Download 7.10Mbps Upload 1.71Mbps Provider: Metrocast
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04-16-2014, 09:06 PM | #3 |
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Alton Mountain results
This is mine here on Alton mountain.
Download: 13.83 Mbps Upload: 1.64 Mbps Ping: 16MS Carrier: Metrocast
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04-17-2014, 02:48 AM | #4 |
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Download Speed: 7337 kbps
Upload Speed: 5395 kbps Latency: 39 ms Town: Moultonboro Carrier: Time Warner Its much slower than any of the other speed test utilities report. (I ran different ones right after) TW has a strange "reverse-bursting" technique, that is to say it takes a good 10 seconds to ramp up to billed speeds, maybe OOLA is catching this. It would also be good if the project logged paid for speed, can't really blame the provider for 128K service, if that is what the customer pays for. Speed also quite seasonally dependent here. Winter times, I consistently get 30M down (on the other speed tests), summer time is quite a different story. One summer I had 500K all summer long, I called to complain, and there was laughter as a response.... Last edited by wifi; 04-17-2014 at 03:21 AM. |
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04-17-2014, 05:03 AM | #6 |
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Metro Cast Download Speed: 15.36 kbps Upload Speed: 1.8 kbps Latency: 50 ms 4/17/2014 6:01:08 AM |
04-17-2014, 06:19 AM | #7 |
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MetroCast Download Speed: 16450 kbps (2056.3 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 1644 kbps (205.5 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 18 ms April 17, 2014 7:11:02 AM EDT |
04-17-2014, 06:34 AM | #8 |
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In order to take the test I need to put in my street address. This would tie in my exact address to my IP number.
For some reason I don't want to do that. Don't know the exact reason, but I always thought my location and IP were kept private. What do other people think about this?
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Service providers dynamically assign IP addresses to their customers out of a huge pool of available addresses. Any place you visit on the internet can see where your coming from, or the gateway your going though as many providers will NAT out all their traffic. As a matter of fact some sites are able to determine your geographic location and adjust content on the fly just from the source address.
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04-17-2014, 07:22 AM | #10 |
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I was wondering about this also. My neighbor and I both have Metrocast service. But our results are very different based on the service levels to which we subscribe (as they should be)
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04-17-2014, 07:45 AM | #11 |
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Laconia Test
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Download Speed: 14161 kbps (1770.1 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 1669 kbps (208.6 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 20 ms 4/17/2014 8:27:40 AM provider: Metrocast I have seen download speed down to 1 MB and up to 25 MB. Metrocast is never consistent. When it is raining out or the snow is melting, I would lose internet connection. Fairpoint Fiber optics is available on an adjacent street to serve the industrial park. A call to sales I learn Fairpoint has no intention of fiber optics to residential customers. I talked to a Fairpoint Veep last weekend and the plan is to provide fiber optics speed to residential customers in the near future. The biggest hurdle is upgrading the 'trunk' lines to fiber optics and this is 98% complete. The plan is to hook up the commercial accounts and eventually provide fiber optics to residents. POTS (Plain old telephone service) or copper wires will eventually go with the dinosaurs. Lately I learn to use 'Verizon Hotspot' when Metrocast is down. I had up 5 devices on the hotspot one time and it performs beautifully. Even when I am streaming a video. Metrocast would slow to a halt.
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Last Result: Download Speed: 3905 kbps (488.1 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 808 kbps (101 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 20 ms 4/17/2014 8:49:02 AM |
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Download Speed: 3864 kbps (483 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 745 kbps (93.1 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 32 ms Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:43:50 AM Back side of Winnisquam in Sanbornton on Meredith line.
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Just a welcome to one of the posters
tabascocat98, I just noticed that you are fairly new to posting on the forum and glad you have joined us. Have fun and enjoy the Winni Forum while making many new friends.
Glad to have you in the forum and your input.
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Download Speed: 9840 kbps (1230 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 1071 kbps (133.9 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 49 ms 4/17/2014 9:20:34 AM |
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Yeah I was just going to say I get better speed than that through my cell phone hot spot!
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04-17-2014, 02:48 PM | #18 |
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It's interesting to note that I consistently get 15-20Mbps down and .9 up with http://www.speedtest.net but the NH one only shows 4-7Mbps down and .9 up.
It couldn't be that TW is gaming the speedtest.net results, could it? Naaw... |
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While IP's are dynamically assigned, the average consumer device keeps its IP for 2 years or more if it stays constantly connected and in-use. IP's can be sorted down to a geographic area with tools like this: http://ipinfo.io/ but *not* down to an individual street address. I didn't put my real address in the tool either. I used 1 [My Street], that would be accurate to the node that feeds my street, and for any mapping purposes they want/need to do, more granular info than that won't be helpful. Good data security is actually *really* hard to do, and lots of part-time developers think they understand encryption and security far more than they do in real life. My personal guess would be that the probability of this data getting accidentally released into the wild is fairly low, but the risk is fairly high. In other words, I'd wager that the people collecting this data probably suck at security, but the project is low profile enough that nobody is going to try to hack the data. However, on the off change the data DOES get leaked, my IP address would only get you as far as my street, not my house.
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I took the test and it's just about the same as speedtest.net.
UNH: Download Speed: 15461 kbps (1932.6 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 1654 kbps (206.8 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 22 ms Thursday, April 17, 2014 5:28:00 PM Speedtest.net: Download Speed: 16.93 Mbps Upload Speed: 1.610 Mbps
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My IP doesn't change very often. The webmaster of this forum could tell you how many times mine has changed since I've used "Rusty" as my username.
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Last Result: Download Speed: 15661 kbps (1957.6 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 1648 kbps (206 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 52 ms 4/17/2014 7:13:13 PM I don't know what any of the numbers really mean but I have no problem with my internet speed. I am very impatient and would go nuts if my speed was slow or lagged. I can get full wifi down to my docks (approx. 100 yds from my router). I hate metrocast and would love a reason to complain to them but I haven't had any issues with my internet for 2 years. Do the new numbers look any better? |
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[QUOTE=BroadHopper;222930]On Lake Shore Rd.
Download Speed: 14161 kbps (1770.1 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 1669 kbps (208.6 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 20 ms 4/17/2014 8:27:40 AM provider: Metrocast Download Speed: 17554 kbps (2194.3 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 15089 kbps (1886.1 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 24 ms 4/18/2014 11:47:45 AM What a difference! 14 to 17 on the download speed. I paid for 15. The upload speed is puzzling! .2 to 1.5! I paid for 1.0 You would think it would be more consistent and the network speed will be lower in the afternoon because of traffic!
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Download Speed: 725 kbps (90.6 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 852 kbps (106.5 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 85 ms 4/18/2014 8:48:15 PM Must be a lot of internet traffic on Friday night!
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Seven weeks to go
Those in Moultonborough may have seen the "speed test" posters around town. The town's Internet Speed Test campaign has seven more weeks to go. Then, the data will be compiled, mapped and published. I'm bumping this thread to ask all M'boro business and property owners that haven't taken the test to take a moment and just do it. Click here to get to the test site.
As of July 7'th, 341 unique properties have been tested but the goal is to map over 500. Please note; to take the test, your web browser must support Flash. The folks from UNH are supporting this special test using old code from Ookla, and that won't be changed by September.
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