Dec 07 2008
Broadband Performance in Ireland
There was mainstream media coverage during the week about a report by Epitiro into broadband services in Ireland. The main finding was that the average fixed line consumer receives only 60% of the advertised bandwidth of his/her product.
This seems like very poor performance to me, so I decided to test my home broadband using Irish ISP Speed Test. I am an Eircom customer, and I am supposed to have a download speed of up to 3Mbps and an upload speed of up to 384kbps.
I conducted the first test very late at night time during the week, so I expected the results to be a best case scenario. This is what I got:
Broadband Speed Test at Night
I conducted the second test in the middle of the afternoon during the week, so I expected the results to be a worst case scenario. This is what I got:
Broadband Speed Test in Afternoon
Based on these two tests I am getting roughly the same results in both my best case scenario and my worst case scenario. Furthermore, my real download speed and upload speed are both over 80% of the speeds that I am supposed to have. So I seem to be doing better than average!
For more details see Ireland Internet Performance Index, where you can download the full report.
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