[iyonix-support] Re: Iyonix broadband access speeds

In message <4ee4cd8116lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
  Paul Vigay <lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In article <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?
>
>I just download a large appication from a fast site. My benchmark is
>usually Firefox (the 'dark side' version) because they've got a pretty
>fast site and it tends to download at max speed.
>
>An Iyonix can easily max out the fastest of broadband speeds. Even a
>bog-standard Risc PC with 10baseT card can. The bottleneck is the
>broadband connection, not the computer.

Never, that is just so the opposite of what I find. (Must learn smilies!
Broadband is such a variable I am sure we have a variety of
perceptions.) What follows is via PlusNet a reputable top of the range
ISP, (smilie).

BT recently changed a bit of my line and I can now sync at 7360Kb/s.
Previously I was on a slower router syncing at around 2500kb/s. A lot of
the time not much difference is seen which I put down to slow servers.
When it is not busy, when the road is clear so to speak, the bottleneck
is not the broadbank link it is both ends. My feeling is that the Iyonix
is a bit slow relative to the rest of the world. Its strength is
elsewhere.

>I regularly get download speeds of around 350Kbps which equates to
>roughly 3.5M download speed, which is not bad considering BT told me
>the max I could get on my phone line was 2M.

350kB/s is about the maximum on my Iyonix and that is with a 7Mb/s line.

Now for something contentious I compared download times on the Iyonix
against the A9home. I did two downloads on each of netsurf.zip and
report the faster here.

A9home 392kB/s
Iyonix 336kB/s 

>Don't forget that AFAICT all current ADSL routers only have 10/100
>switches in them. I've not see a broadband router with a Giga switch in
>it, although they're probably expensive if you can get them, so you're
>not really getting any advantage on an Iyonix to a PC or Mac anyway.

As I understood it the Giga bit on the Iyonix ethernet port was very
much in name only, it is not much faster than the 100Mb/s option.  

-- 
David Pitt.

Computing with RISC OS.
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