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Iol broadband sorted (nearly)
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It took me roughly 4 minutes?
I have 2 phone extensions in my house.. the main one downstairs used to have a splitter, one line going to the phone, the other running to the computer.. I just replaced that splitter with the dual microfilter esat provided me with.. The other extension upstairs I just put the microfilter between the phone line and the socket.. (like it hooks up to the socket, and the other end hooks up to the end of the phone cable)
Connected my USB modem.. hooked it up to the phone line, said no hardware was found, inserted cd, it installed the drivers and automatically set up Esat's IOL Broadband connection.
All I did then was enter my username@iolbb and password, and in under a second I was connected at 512Kbps (Connects faster than ISDN).0 -
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Just off the phone with IOLBB.
I had guessed at 11th July and that looks about right. The (very polite and helpful) lady said my line activation is expected early next week and I should have the modem by the end of next week (11th).
Not holding my breath at this stage.
So that will be 20 working days from when I handed over my username and password.
Well hopefully IOL will have sorted out their network probs by the time I'm hooked up.
Congrats to Bizmark, Synkronite and Jaques. Keep pinging and posting!
Hopefully tomorrow for you Ancient1.
Looks like we'll be in the same batch Mr.Daz.
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Pings have been stable all day, and so Im happy (Posted @1750)
PING www.boards.ie (217.114.166.147): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 217.114.166.147: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=65.864 ms
64 bytes from 217.114.166.147: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=40.595 ms
64 bytes from 217.114.166.147: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=41.87 ms
64 bytes from 217.114.166.147: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=33.125 ms
--- www.boards.ie ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 33.125/45.363/65.864 ms
Im not a gamer so this feels okay when browsing. Download speeds are still 35-40Kbps, but I guess many people on my exchange are enjoying bb 0 -
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pings are grand now
to boards below 35ms
to jolt around 35-43ms
and gamespy pings have gone from 1000ms to 120ms to american server,s
been like that since 4 in the morning yesterday till when i logged on today (just now)
great
im not sure how d/l speeds are (i didnt get this for downloading really) but i did manage to download a 7 mes termanitor 3 trailer in around 1 min 30 secons
btw im not sure what size Synkronite letter box is ..... but their,s noway the box that i got would have fitted0 -
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exiot,
you the man! "esat have stuck to their word":D
sorry - just thought thats funny, after all the bull....
Daz,
i'll give them til 1645hrs tomorrow - if i dont see that courier - i'm afraid im gonna have to cal them again any messages for them? 0 -
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Stokolan,
same here. Been waiting since Monday, so today is the long wait.
Daz,
it will be my pleasure. However, i cannot guarantee that i'll be able to display your diplomatic finesse. Sounds like supmin from the Department of Health and Children "members of public (and employees of Esat) are advised by the minister not to eat yellow snow"
Later dudes.0 -
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Had been hoping my modem would arrive today, as they told me on Wednesday that I should have it "in a couple of days". No such luck. Rang them again about an hour ago. Apparently, is was actually shipped yesterday (Thursday) and they say I should get it on Monday. Bummer - another 56K weekend.
By the way, I was also told that the modems are shipped directly by Ericsson, not by EsatBT. Surprising that - not the fact that they're being shipped directly by the supplier, but that the supplier is Ericcson - didn't know they were in this area of the telecoms business. Also, they ship them from Dublin - I had been wondering if they shipped from somewhere further south, seeing as the Leesiders seem to have been prominent among the first few people to get them.
Just curious - can any of the lucky few who have their modems lets us know anything technical about them? Make, model, whatever - and is there any mention of Ericsson? I'm hoping to use the modem with Linux (ssshhh - don't tell Esat!), so a model number and a bit of googling may be required, if I'm to find the right driver. An FCC ID (long number prefixed with FCC) is often useful for that sort of search, by the way.
Cheers, and happy surfing to the bandwidth-blessed among us.0 -
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