15-01-2022 12:19
Hi,
I noticed that upload speeds are slow/being limited on my NOW TV broadband connection. SFTP currently maxes out at 2 MB/s, despite speedtest.net reporting a connection upload speed of 7 MB/s?
To test if it was my computer I tried the same upload connected to an alternative network (Eduroam) and speed hit a consistent 24 MB/s.
Any help in increasing the speed / removing the limit would be greatly appreciated!
Plan: Super Fibre
NOW TV network upload speed: 2 MB/s
Speedtest result: ~7 MB/s (average of 3)
Alternative network upload speed: 24 MB/s
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16-01-2022 18:45 - edited 16-01-2022 18:51
I was about to say the same as @redchiz1 , if you are getting 24 MB/s on Eduroam (whatever that is) it equates to nearly 200 Mbs, you can't get that on VDSL. You would need FTTP, which Now doesn't offer.
Edit: Your Speedtest result https://ibb.co/SxDYYLZ matches exactly what you are getting using SFTP.
15-01-2022 13:01
Can you just confirm that you are using the correct terminology? Speed is measured in megabits per second (Mbps), rather than megabytes (MB/s), which is the volume transfer rate. There are 8 bits to the byte.
16-01-2022 12:54
Apologies, Mbps for the speed tests and MB/s for the SFTP transfer.
The speed test result is here: https://ibb.co/SxDYYLZ
And here is the terminal output from the SFTP command (usernames and host replaced): 'sftp user@host:upload <<< $'put /Users/XXX/Desktop/cluster.zip': https://ibb.co/9WbFKZH
Connection was via Wifi both on the NowTV network and also on Eduroam, close to AP's in both instances with no physical barriers between computer and AP.
The transfer maxes out at 2MB/s on NOW TV network, on Eduroam 24MB/s.
Apologies for the image upload links, I don't have permission to upload images directly to posts!
15-01-2022 13:27
@Anonymous User
When you said you did it on your computer was this a Ethernet connection?
Is your speed poor on Wi-Fi?
16-01-2022 12:55
WiFi in both instances yes - I actually don't own an ethernet adapter for the computer in question!
However, I still don't understand why I would observe a 2MB/s on the NOW TV network and 24MB/s on Eduroam - unless its router hardware related?
16-01-2022 14:59
What are the the speedtest results on the Eduroam connection you are using? 2MB/s on NOW equates to 16Mbps, so pretty much near the top level available.
16-01-2022 18:45 - edited 16-01-2022 18:51
I was about to say the same as @redchiz1 , if you are getting 24 MB/s on Eduroam (whatever that is) it equates to nearly 200 Mbs, you can't get that on VDSL. You would need FTTP, which Now doesn't offer.
Edit: Your Speedtest result https://ibb.co/SxDYYLZ matches exactly what you are getting using SFTP.
16-01-2022 19:10
@Anonymous User @Anonymous User
I found out what e-duro-am (how I read the name at first, but now I know it’s edu-roam 😛) is by the obscure method of looking it up on Google:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduroam
which half-explains it, but what I am not clear about, @Anonymous User , is exactly how you go about accessing it?
Not through the Now router, surely; but if you are using some enormous university computer with a fat pipe to high-speed internet the thickness of a tree-trunk, that’s not exactly a fair comparison with the piece of wet string leading from the Now router…..
16-01-2022 21:52 - edited 16-01-2022 21:55
For my job, WFH, I have to connect to several networks, albeit one at a time, over VPN connections, but they are all going out from my work laptop, and going out over my BT router, and via BT as my ISP.
So @Anonymous User could have meant the same thing - but as my posting made clear, I hope, I rather expected that he didn’t.