CIRA has a new Internet test

Donoreo

https://performance.cira.ca/

New features and if you click on the Advanced Results you get a lot of nerdy numbers.

WalterDnes

Donoreo
As Mr. Spock would say... interesting. I live in Vaughan, Ontario, one block north of Dufferin+Steeles. I'm on EBOX 60 mbps fibre. The results...

If I let CIRA guess my address (They guess approx 2200 Yonge St) 35.59 mbps down and 46.53 mbps up
If I enter my postal code, CIRA says 78.35 mbps down and 93.04 mbps up
nperf.ebox.ca says 79.50 down and 93.08 up
speedtest.net says 78.89 down and 93.72 up

Speedtest and Nperf have consistently given me the 78+ down and 93+ up numbers ever since I moved to 60 mbps at the beginning of December 2024. CIRA's "What is my service good for" list is rather conservative, to say the least. Here is a subset of CIRA's list

5/1 ==> Streaming audio
10/2 ==> Streaming SD video
25/2 ==> Streaming HD video
50/10 ==> Streaming 4K video
Netfflix says https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306
3 mbps or higher ==> Streaming 720p video
5 mbps or higher ==> Streaming 1080p video
15 mbps or higher ==> 4K video
Personal experience; when I had 7 mbps ADSL I ccould stream Youtube 1080p video without buffering. Note that ADSL has overhead, so I was netting approx 6 mbps data download.

linus

Donoreo I only got 341 down and 27 up with that.

Same system with speedtest.net:
Here

[deleted]

WalterDnes Personal experience; when I had 7 mbps ADSL I ccould stream Youtube 1080p video without buffering. Note that ADSL has overhead, so I was netting approx 6 mbps data download.

It all depends on what the bitrate of the video was. It varies quite a bit on youtube from video to video.

HELLFIRE

Thanks for the tip. Will have to add this to my toolkit...

Regards

px_eliezer_

It's a good test, and works in New Jersey too.

jjprevost

px_eliezer_ It's a good test, and works in New Jersey too
Works pretty good in Southern California also.

[deleted]

This test is terrible. my 1G/1G fiber shows this

Download speed
285.59 Mbps

Upload speed
153.92 Mbps

FrathosCAN

[deleted] Is that by wired ethernet or WiFi?

Lebon14

[deleted] This test is terrible. my 1G/1G fiber shows this

Download speed
285.59 Mbps

Upload speed
153.92 Mbps

Yes, it's terrible.
I have symmetrical Gigabit with Ebox and CIRA's test give me 753.37 download and 200.63 upload.

Choosing Ebox' server on speedtest.net, I get 940 / 900 (939.96 / 899.9 exactly).

So, yeah........ it's not a good representative test unless you happen to be close to their servers or have a much slower connection.

[deleted]

FrathosCAN Is that by wired ethernet or WiFi?

Wired ethernet of course. I didn't fall off a turnip truck. 😉

I just tried it again today,
Download speed
325.65 Mbps
Upload speed
107.82 Mbps

speedtest.net for reference

Server: Bell Canada - Scarborough, ON (id: 53394) ISP: Bell Canada Idle Latency: 1.35 ms (jitter: 2.86ms, low: 1.26ms, high: 6.93ms) Download: 924.88 Mbps (data used: 495.3 MB) 3.90 ms (jitter: 3.80ms, low: 1.65ms, high: 214.01ms) Upload: 923.43 Mbps (data used: 464.4 MB) 3.36 ms (jitter: 1.69ms, low: 1.62ms, high: 28.58ms)

thenewdc

Ya, the speed test is way off. My 1GIG Down/UP shows very slow speeds when I use this test.

Dks01

[deleted] yes. Way off for me, too.

Hydraglass

Same as the others - way off -
CIRA test:
download 502.20
upload 200.08

Speedtest.net
download 935.98
upload 800.74

Fast.com speed test
Download 850
upload 680

Service is 1.5gbps, but computer and router eth ports are 1gbps LAN, so max would be 1GBPS

Dks01

Hydraglass

Service is Bell 3Gb XGS-PON 10 Gb Lan card

Speedtest.net
4112 down
6653 up

CIRA
2816 down
2530 up

Bell
4106 down
3659 up

Fast.net
3100 down
1600 up.

GrumpyCanadian

Borrowing my brother's EBOX connection again (1gbps symmetric), it wasn't too far off, the few times that I tried it. Downstream was consistently around 920-935, but upload varied from 850 to around 730. I'm not sure the connection was entirely idle at the time.

CalvinClaim

Isn’t CIRA a regulation authority that has no business spending tax money on a replica of Ookla?

WalterDnes

CalvinClaim
According to https://www.cira.ca/en/about-cira/

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is a not-for-profit organization that helps build a trusted internet for all Canadians.

It’s a private organization, not a government body. It makes money selling domains and various services.

bjlockie

I get 170-270 on a 300Mbps.
Subsequent runs give different results.

MichelR

I had to look over my shoulder after this. 😃

Got half the advertised upload speed on the first test, but I clicked “Test Again” and got the expected result.

bjlockie

MichelR Got half the advertised upload speed on the first test, but I clicked “Test Again” and got the expected result.

My experience is similar.
Could be caching by the ISP I guess but subsequent runs are wildly different.