What about the web browser?

If I run your speed test using Firefox the green line is above the yellow line, and I am tempted to think that I have an excuse to upgrade my Intel E6600 based PC.


If I use Project Spartan (from windows 10) the yellow line is above the green line.

I should say that I have moved from having one of the slowest connections (bottom 3%) to one of the fastest (top 3%)

I think that's probably the best you're going to get using the Draytek. If you want better you'll probably have to switch to something that supports fq_codel (or nag Draytek to include support).

I typically limit my speed to around 90% of actual on both upload and download using OpenWrt and score an A+ on the DSLreports test and an A on TBB (both upload and download). During normal usage my latency doesn't increase by more than around 3-5ms and even stressing the connection using the RRUL test didn't see more than 10ms of additional latency on average (see my recent thread where i tested the Huawei and ECI modems).

Strange that you saw no improvement at all on VM though. Perhaps your area is just so congested nothing you do could help.

Link to the results please, verbal descriptions lack the necessary detail

I got A down and F up. TalkTalk HG533.

That said, it's unusual for me to be uploading at full speed. Also, the HG533 does have comprehensive QoS settings which worked ok when I tested them.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Link to the results please, verbal descriptions lack the necessary detail

Firefox

Project Spartan

At those speeds pc speed, browser and flash version have a large impact along with rwin.

Flash based test is unlikely to have lots of development time spent on it too

can you post it somewhere else aside from twitter (image too small to read) and can you make this part of the speedtest results shown to the end user?

C here.I dont see it reporting for upload and download separate, just C overall.

I can see on the supplied graph tho I have more bufferbloat on uploading.

The dslreports test just gives a single combined mark, the tbb one gives separate up and down marks.

If you've got IPv6 you can run the tbb one without logging out of the main site by going to the Tools menu and running the IPv6 Speed Test.

later edit- but it's not the same test and gives poorer marks for buffer bloat

Edited by billford (Mon 04-May-15 20:16:49)

now I am really confused can you please provide a direct url to the tbb test?

When I run the tbb speedtest I see nothing related to bufferbloat.

ok so have to logout sorry I didnt see that info.

I get a B for down and E for upload.

But the html5 test seems less reliable than the flash test, it 3 times during the test spiked up to 30mbit/sec although I know from dumeter actual throughput was a solid 19mbit/sec. This might be related to firefox stutters, as flash on firefox is protected from stutters due to been a separate process whilst html5 isnt.

Edited by Chrysalis (Mon 04-May-15 19:40:01)