[iyonix-support] Re: Iyonix broadband access speeds

In message <20d1ade44e.Andrew Pin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Has anyone else had experience of testing the throughput / bandwidth 
>that can be obtained from a DSLmax (up to 8MB) broadband connection 
>when using an Iyonix?
>
>My broadband ISP (Waitrose) provides a speed tester.  The highest 
>figure I've ever got out of that is about 1.9 Mbps.  I've just run a 
>test on the BT speedtester site (http://www.speedtester.bt.com) using 
>IE6 on a Win98SE PC and got a figure of 4368kbps for throughput.  Two 
>minutes later I got 1.54 Mbps via the Waitrose site using Firefox 2 on 
>an Iyonix.  Both computers were connected at 100 Mbps via a Safecom 
>ADSL modem router. Why the 3 to 1 ratio in speeds?  Is it just my 
>Iyonix or is this typical?

To get a meaningful measure of the difference in down load speeds
between a PC and an Iyonix the tests do need to be as alike as possible,
that is using the same speed tester. That turned out to be difficult
here as the test site I would have most confidence in, PlusNet's beta
test at http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ requires Flash and was not
accessible with Firefox on the Iyonix.

I did a test to PlusNet's old speed tester via the PlusNet portal. This
tool was designed in the days when 2Mb/s was the best on offer and is
not reliable at higher speeds. I tried it anyway.

Sync rate             7630kb/s
PlusNet Portal
Firefox on Iyonix     1815kb/s
Firefox on WindowsXP  4263kb/s
http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/
Firefox on WindowsXP  6282kb/s

The figure reported by Firefox on the Iyonix is rubbish, downloads of
big zips come in at about twice that speed.

To see if the WindowsXP laptop is faster than the Iyonix I downloaded
Netsurf.zip using NetSurf and IE7, which both show the download rate.

Iyonix     336kB/s
WindowsXP  471kB/s

In use I find browsing on the laptop a much slicker experience than with
the Iyonix, and that is not just that the RISC OS browsers are rubbish,
it is faster on the laptop.

That is a five year old Iyonix against a one year old laptop. A modern
laptop with dual core or a hi-spec PC may be better still. Conversely
the Iyonix might hold up well against a similar age laptop.
-- 
David Pitt.

Computing with RISC OS.
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