3 Comments

1. 

   Sanjana Hattotuwa

   December 13, 2007, 3:40 pm

   Hi Chanuka,

   Using the same programme as you on Vista I ran some rough and ready speed tests on my hotel network and the GK III wifi at KLCC and got some very different results.

   From my hotel at 8.20am (13th Dec) using a wired LAN, the results were:

   Download speed 869 Kbps (socket test)
   Upload speed 582 Kbps (socket test)
   Quality of service 64 %
   Maximum pause 197 ms
   Round trip time 289 ms

   From the KLCC at 10.42am (13th Dec) using the GK3 wifi connection, the results where:

   Download speed 273 Kbps (socket test)
   Upload speed 239 Kbps (socket test)
   Quality of service 60 %
   Maximum pause 670 ms
   Round trip time 284 ms

   These seem much faster than what you were able to get off-peak, so I suspect that your hotel may be to blame?

   Cheers,

   Sanjana

2. 

   chanuka

   December 13, 2007, 7:36 pm

   Hi Sanjana,

   Thanks for your detailed reply and the effort you have taken.

   Yes, it would be unfair for me to say the broadband speed in KL is low everywhere. Most probably my case might be an exception rather than norm. Still that proves even at places like KL the operators not necessarily keep their word – at least in some cases.

   I am sure the fault could not have been at the user end (hotel). The only possible way for bandwidth to go down at user end is excessive sharing of the link. I do not think many might have been surfing at 12 midnight. (The reason why I wanted test right at that time)

   BTW, today morning I got much better results, in par with second set of yours.

3. 

   chanuka

   December 14, 2007, 7:59 am

   At 10.30 hrs today I got 359 kpbs download and 1.38 Mbps upload speeds using the same link.

   Pretty impressive. Wonder why it drops off peak.

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