High Speed ​​Internet? These Internet Service Providers keep their promises

High Speed ​​Internet? These internet providers deliver the performance they promise

Do the major Swiss internet providers deliver the speed they promise? The trade magazine “Connect” took the test.

Quickline won the Internet fixed network test of the trade magazine “Connect”. The second largest cable network operator in Switzerland surprisingly rose to first place ahead of Sunrise and Swisscom.

In fourth and fifth place are Salt and UPC, according to the “Connect” test published on Wednesday. Swiss landlines are “fully communicating”, writes the trade magazine: In time Corona would have easily withstood the heavy load of home office, distance learning and video streaming.

Quickline and Sunrise were rated “very good”, Swisscom and Salt “good” and UPC “satisfactory”.

Surprise winner Quickline “Connect” wrote that it offers outstanding performance in Web TV measurements. The performance of the web services is also very good. Quickline performed very well in high-speed Internet tests and was second best in the test field. However, there are greater proportions of measurements where download bandwidth drops below 90 percent of the contractually agreed value when uploading at the same time, he said. This is especially true with gigabit (Gbit / s) cable connections.

Even with the second Sunrise, data rates for simultaneous upload downloads have often dropped below 90 percent of the contractually agreed bandwidth – pronounced with the 1 Gbit / s connection and with uploads under load even with the 200 Mbit / lines s.

Sunrise showed the best performance in the test field for web services. However, this is offset by the second slower response time to game servers. The results of the photo book measurements are very good. The performance of the web TV is still good, but in an overall comparison the weakest, as «Connect» wrote.

At number three Swisscom, in a significant number of cases, the download bandwidth has fallen below 90 percent of the contractually agreed value, particularly pronounced with the 1 gigabit fiber optic connection. The web service and web tv tests performed very well, even though they were the second worst in the test field, the magazine writes. To this end, Swisscom, together with Sunrise, obtains the fastest resolution time for DNS servers from the Top 1000 Alexa list.

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 points this out only in secret “, criticized” Connect “:” Despite this restriction, these lines are the fastest in the test field. “

The performance of web services and web TV are the second best in comparison. Load times on photo book services and YouTube response times could be better, he said.

He holds the red lantern UPC: “As is unfortunately often the case with cable connections, data upload and download speeds often drop below 90 percent of the agreed bandwidth – the higher the promised speed, the more pronounced. This means high-speed services. speeds are just enough “, judged” Connect “.

When it comes to web services, UPC scores well, but still ranks last in the overall comparison. This can also be seen in slow game pings and photo book uploads. The performance of the Web TV is very good.

(was / sda / awp)