Day Two of Optimum Online Ultra here at Deleon HQ, so I thought I’d share some info regarding how it works in the real world. (Yesterday we looked at a speed test, which isn’t necessarily reflective of what you’d find in everyday Internet use.) Onward!
Let’s first look at BitTorrent, which I’d guess is the most popular P2P thingie out there. I use Vuze because I’m on a Mac (well, two Macs: a Fall 2006 era iMac, which now sorta acts as a server, and a pre-unibody MacBook, which is what I use to pump out all these posts on a daily basis) connected to the 802.11n Wi-Fi network provided by the D-Link DIR-825; Transmission, the other big Mac client, is a little too “dumbed down” for my tastes (and it seems to be more buggy than many “private” BitTorrent sites would like to see), and I’m not about to run uTorrent in Wine or anything like that.
I used this site’s speed calculator to determine what settings to put Vuze at. It seemed to work pretty well. Observe:
Or, zoomed in:
That’s a movie from a certain BitTorrent site; you’re out of your mind if you think I’ll identify either the movie or the site in question. I’ll just say it’s a very well-seeded torrent and leave it at that.
As you can see, it’s pretty damn close to Optimum Online Ultra’s max speed of 101 megabits (or, 12.62 megabytes), running at 10+ MB/s.
That same torrent then began to upload at this speed:
So the upload is about half of the max speed of 15 megabits (or, 1.87 megabytes) at 962 KB/s. I may still have to some tweaking in Vuze—speaking of which, do any of you know a good how-to guide on how to setup things like max connections per client?—in order to get that number closer to the max.
Last night my younger brother crossed the 11MB/s barrier using Giganews. (For the record, I use Newsdemon—a perk of the job!) Sorry, no screenshots of that amazing moment. Just take my word for it, okay?
Probably the most disappointing is YouTube. Here I was expecting each video to load like lightning, but it really doesn’t seem to be any faster than it was using my old Internet connection. I guess that’s Google’s fault, though.
If there’s any requests out there to demonstrate how fast Optimum Online Ultra is just drop a line in the comments. If not, thank you for your time, and God bless America.
I have Optimum and you’re making me jealous and angry.
I hit 600kB the other day and was excited…now I’m just jealous! haha Vista + uTorrent though…so meh, I blame myself… :(
When was the last time you tried Transmission? I suppose it USED to be pretty buggy but I think it’s pretty rock solid now.. Very light weight too. Also, there’s a beta of uTorrent for the mac out there too. x=) /me continues his jealous rage for you.
Well the “private” BitTorrent site I used in the example bans Transmission because of its shaky history. So I’m stuck with Vuze, I guess.
could you try downloading something like ubuntu using download accelerator e.g. downthemall flashgot or DAP?
Jesus thats fast! You’re upload speed pwns my download speed. Completely configured I get ~300kKbps =/
I’m super incredibly jealous.
Under the Transfer section of Options, increase the max connections and max upload slots, by say tenfold.
Nicholas,
I get consistent 12MB/s on Thundernews & Giganews w/ Comcast Ultra. Lovin the service!
I’ve got Ultra as well but can’t seem to seed on any private torrents. I’ve tried all the security settings in Vuze and uTorrent as well.
This is because Optimum is using Sandvine to traffic shape.. Essentially blocking seeding.
If anyone finds a way aruond this please drop me a line.
Not that anybody ever comes back to a one month old posting (which is like 1995 in Internet years), I still wanted to throw this little comment out there:
YouTube loading slow on your fat pipe is not Google’s fault, but actually a feature! Most people never actually watch a video to the end but loose interest after 25 seconds or so, so they don’t load the whole video on purpose to save bandwidth, but only as much as needed to play it without interruptions. It’s actually pretty smart and I felt you aren’t doing Google justice (like they need it!) by saying it’s their fault.
My max was 1.2mb/s using vuze and i have regular optimum so if i had ultra i would have insane speeds.