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Not all Swiss Internet providers keep their promises. image: shutterstock
Internet of high speed? These ISPs deliver the performance they promise
Do the biggest Swiss Internet providers offer the speed they promise? The specialized magazine “Connect” did the test.
Quickline has won the “Connect” trade magazine’s fixed internet network test. Surprisingly, Switzerland’s second largest cable network operator rose to first place ahead of Sunrise and Swisscom.
In fourth and fifth place are Salt and UPC, according to the “Connect” test published this Wednesday. Swiss landlines are “fully connected,” wrote the trade magazine: They would withstand the high stress of home office, distance learning and video streaming in Corona times without any problem.
Quickline and Sunrise were rated “very good”, Swisscom and Salt “good” and UPC a “satisfactory”.
Surprise winner Quickline “Connect” wrote that it offers outstanding performance in web TV measurements. The web services are also very good. Quickline achieved very good results in high speed internet tests and was second best on the test field. However, there are higher proportions of metrics in which the download bandwidth falls below 90 percent of the agreed-upon value in the contract when uploaded at the same time, he said. This is particularly the case for gigabit (Gbit / s) cable connections.
Even with the second Sunrise, data rates for downloads with simultaneous uploads often fell below 90 percent of the bandwidth agreed in the contract, pronounced with the 1 Gbit / s connection and with uploads under load also with the 200 Mbit / s lines .
Sunrise showed the best performance in the test field with web services. However, this is offset by the second slower response time for game servers. The photobook measurement results are very good. Web TV performance is still good, but in a general comparison it is the weakest, as «Connect» wrote.
At number three SwisscomIn a notable number of cases, the download bandwidth fell below 90 percent of the value agreed in the contract, particularly pronounced with the 1 gigabit fiber optic connection. The web service and web television tests performed very well, although they were the second worst in the testing field, the magazine wrote. Together with Sunrise, Swisscom achieves the fastest resolution time for Top 1000 Alexa DNS servers.
Salt The fourth did not reach the promised speed of 10 Gbit / s in all measurements. “Even under optimal conditions, these connections can only achieve a usable data rate of 8 Gbit / s. Salt only points it out covertly, “criticized” Connect “:” Despite this limitation, these lines are the fastest in the test field. “
The performance of web services and web television are second best in comparison. Upload times to photo book services and YouTube response times could be better, he said.
Holds the red lantern CPU: “As unfortunately often happens with cable connections, data upload and download speeds often drop below 90 percent of agreed bandwidth; the higher the promised speed, the steeper. This means that high-speed services alone are sufficient ”, judged“ Connect ”.
When it comes to web services, UPC scores well, but is still in last place overall. This can also be seen in slow game pings and photo book loads. There is very good performance on Web TV.
(was / sda / awp)
