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Slingbox testers wanted

Last post 06-29-2010, 4:11 AM by slinghostca. 3 replies.
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  •  06-27-2010, 2:20 AM 4567

    Slingbox testers wanted


    Edit: This was a post about trying out a "5 Mbps Slingbox". I moved to a new internet provider (100 Mbps down / 5 Mbps up) & wanted to test my Slingbox speeds to different countries. I found out that the speeds are accurate for shorter distances. But get a lot slower as you get farther away.

    I'm not completely sure why the speeds are poor, but Google finds lots of people claiming that many internet companies, including mine, use traffic shaping to reduce upload speeds. Apparently a lot of (most?) consumer plans won't sustain a long distance upload above 1 Mbps either because of slow backbone links or because their provider uses traffic shaping to throttle out of country connections.


    Here are the speeds that I saw if you are curious
    (Slingbox is in Canada)
    4.6 Mbps USA
    4.5 Mbps Canada
    3.8 Mbps Switzerland
    1.3 Mbps UK
    0.9 Mbps Mexico
    0.7 Mbps Belgium
    0.6 Mbps Australia
    0.6 Mbps Brazil

    0.6 Mbps France



  •  06-27-2010, 5:06 PM 4570 in reply to 4567

    Re: Slingbox testers wanted

    Are you with Shaw?
  •  06-27-2010, 8:57 PM 4572 in reply to 4570

    Re: Slingbox testers wanted

    Yes. Doesn't seem to be any better options where I live.
    Novus > Shaw > Telus
    . But Novus isn't available for most addresses.
  •  06-29-2010, 4:11 AM 4581 in reply to 4572

    Re: Slingbox testers wanted

    Shaw caps the upload speed when it leaves Shaw network, so doesn't matter how fast your upload is.
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