Zzoomm Fibre Discussion Thread.

ChrisD. · 3 Apr 2023 at 18:03

You don’t really need cat7 to exceed 1 Gbps, sounds like you had dodgy or old cables before. I’m doing 10 Gbps over cat5e.

DataVampire · 3 Apr 2023 at 18:37

ic1male said:
Edge is my preferred browser of choice these days. I don't have Chrome installed anymore.

Yes i meant to say i use chrome or edge lol

ic1male · 3 Apr 2023 at 19:04

DataVampire said:
Yes i meant to say i use chrome or edge lol

Interestingly, the Henley server recorded a lower download speed than Ilkley (approx. 650Mbps v 850Mbps).

Disco_P · 3 Apr 2023 at 20:59

@DataVampire out of curiosity what sorta speeds do you get from steam/origin/battlenet/other game launchers?

DataVampire · 3 Apr 2023 at 23:51

ChrisD. said:
You don’t really need cat7 to exceed 1 Gbps, sounds like you had dodgy or old cables before. I’m doing 10 Gbps over cat5e.

No the older cables were like erm 4 months old. it was just the switch for some reason just didn't like them, they worked and still do work at 1gb nps.

I got cat 7 just because why not they was around the same price of cat 6 and why on earth would anyone buy cat 5e nowadays.

DataVampire · 4 Apr 2023 at 00:44

Disco_P said:
@DataVampire out of curiosity what sorta speeds do you get from steam/origin/battlenet/other game launchers?

I Just did a test and downloaded a game from steam(22.5gb) it was downloading at 230.4mbs.

I also went to battle net and downloaded world of warcraft it was 80 something odd gb that was downloading at 255.6mbs.
Nice to watch

Disco_P · 4 Apr 2023 at 12:17

DataVampire said:
I Just did a test and downloaded a game from steam(22.5gb) it was downloading at 230.4mbs.

I also went to battle net and downloaded world of warcraft it was 80 something odd gb that was downloading at 255.6mbs.
Nice to watch

Nice, thanks

Steam seems to really struggle to saturate my gigabit connection but the others are fine.

ic1male · 4 Apr 2023 at 14:22

DataVampire said:
I Just did a test and downloaded a game from steam(22.5gb) it was downloading at 230.4mbs.

I also went to battle net and downloaded world of warcraft it was 80 something odd gb that was downloading at 255.6mbs.
Nice to watch

So do you mean it's maxing out the line at 230 Megabytes/sec or only using 1/10th capacity at 230 Megabits/sec?

ic1male · 6 Apr 2023 at 23:14

Good Lord. Just downloading a game from PlayStation Network tonight and it’s maxing out the connection at 100Mbytes/sec. That’s some good going. Shame PS5 doesn’t have a 2.5G Ethernet port.

Caged · 6 Apr 2023 at 23:18

Oh so Sony finally fixed their servers then, I remember the PS4 speed test used to tell me I had a 15Mbps connection.

DataVampire · 7 Apr 2023 at 00:16

To be fair. There is no way we would in our house fully max out our connection its just good knowing we can all do what we want without one person downloading and affecting others. also, we have got quite a few smart home devices phones tablets ect also.

DataVampire · 7 Apr 2023 at 00:18

ic1male said:
So do you mean it's maxing out the line at 230 Megabytes/sec or only using 1/10th capacity at 230 Megabits/sec?

Megabytes.

DataVampire · 7 Apr 2023 at 00:21

I do want to replace the provided router though. something decent for both wifi and lan.

TheVoice · 7 Apr 2023 at 12:54

Caged said:
Oh so Sony finally fixed their servers then, I remember the PS4 speed test used to tell me I had a 15Mbps connection.

PSN and Steam seem to be the only two game services I can max out my 1Gbps connection on. Download speeds for PC Game Pass games from MS servers are all over the place and rarely hit more than 50MB/sec at peak.

ic1male · 13 Apr 2023 at 06:52

Well the fibre cable is still in one piece! It sure has had a good battering these past couple of days with all the wind!

ic1male · 15 Apr 2023 at 12:49

So I think I can say with certainty that the general internet usage experience from Zzoomm is a bit crap. Definitely huge amounts of contention at times on the network. But I really, REALLY love having 900Mbps upload speed. It helps immensely with iCloud stuff. Shame that BT Openreach don't do anything like that.

DataVampire · 15 Apr 2023 at 17:54

ic1male said:
So I think I can say with certainty that the general internet usage experience from Zzoomm is a bit ****. Definitely huge amounts of contention at times on the network. But I really, REALLY love having 900Mbps upload speed. It helps immensely with iCloud stuff. Shame that BT Openreach don't do anything like that.

I have not experienced anything like that yet. Mine has been fine.

ic1male · 15 Apr 2023 at 19:35

DataVampire said:
I have not experienced anything like that yet. Mine has been fine.

I’m wondering if it’s just my PC then.

it does seem to be acting up a bit lately. Streaming to the Apple TV is flawless. But then other things like connecting to the Ring camera takes an age to connect which it never used to.

ChrisD. · 15 Apr 2023 at 20:12

ic1male said:
I’m wondering if it’s just my PC then. it does seem to be acting up a bit lately. Streaming to the Apple TV is flawless. But then other things like connecting to the Ring camera takes an age to connect which it never used to.

Connecting to a Ring camera is wireless, not the ISP? Unless you mean watching the videos stored in their cloud?

ic1male · 15 Apr 2023 at 20:28

ChrisD. said:
Connecting to a Ring camera is wireless, not the ISP? Unless you mean watching the videos stored in their cloud?

Yes watching the live feed must go through their servers as you can do it away from home.