Sunday 24 October 2010

Moving to BT Infinity Broadband

Tomorrow I'm moving from my Demon ADSL network connection to BT Infinity Broadband.  I wanted to do a quick test to see how much better this made my network link.  I did a few tests:

(1) Simple Ping to the BBC

ping -n 20 news.bbc.co.uk


Ping statistics for 212.58.244.59:
 Packets: Sent = 20, Received = 20, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
 Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 39ms, Maximum = 40ms, Average = 39ms

(2) Trace Route to the BBC

Tracing route to newswww.bbc.net.uk [212.58.244.59]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
 1 60 ms 99 ms 99 ms 192.168.1.254
 2 39 ms 40 ms 39 ms anchor-access-4-s2018.router.demon.net [194.217. 23.69]
 3 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms anchor-inside-3-g5-0-2.router.demon.net [194.159 .161.90]
 4 * * * Request timed out.
 5 * * * Request timed out.
 6 * * * Request timed out.
 7 * * * Request timed out.
 8 * * * Request timed out.
 9 42 ms 39 ms 39 ms bbc-vip104.telhc.bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.59] 
 Trace complete. 

(3) Getting a 15meg file from my Rimu Hosting hosted server

  scp -v -P 9999 dave@myhost.com:goo.tar . 2>&1 | tee time.txt
  ...


  Transferred: sent 5408, received 15695080 bytes, in 28.0 seconds
  Bytes per second: sent 193.1, received 560422.6 

(4) Sending a 15meg file from to Rimu Hosting hosted server

  scp -v -P 9999 goo2.tar dave@myhost.com:. . 2>&1 | tee time.txt 
Transferred: sent 15694528, received 6008 bytes, in 201.9 seconds

Bytes per second: sent 77736.8, received 29.8

That's the tests done with ADSL. Let's see how BT fibre lives up to its billing tomorrow.

1 comment:

Dave Potts said...

Well the install went very smoothly. All up and running with little problem. Working from home in the afternoon it felt faster and the line seemed stable. Here's the stats:

(1) Ping to BBC

Average ping time more than halved to 14ms

(2) Trace Route to BBC

This actually had more hops to go over than the Demon equivalent. Still, it was much faster.

(3) Getting 15 meg file from Rimu Hosting

The receive time was 21 seconds rather than 28 seconds. Not quite as much better as I would have hoped if I'm honest. Still certainly an improvement.

(4) Sending a 15 meg file to Rimu Hosting


107 seconds, compared to the 202 seconds with the ADSl. A very pleasing improvement.


Overall I'm a very happy customer so far.