Improvement today

Richard Dower

Well things seem better right now, i have been using the DSl since 6.30pm and my speeds are flying.

Tried a Microsoft server and got 53.3K downstream...i pray this remains the same and not some heavy downloader in Limerick is eating his dinner right now.

-ADREN-

or that ure the only lucky limerick person connected to Esat exchange in limerick.. ive been waiting a month and a half.. i would be on the Castletroy exchange when and if i get connected... what exchange u on?

radiospan

Same here. I'm on UTV Clicksilver and my speeds had been terrible since the weekend, but at about five o'clock today there was a huge improvement.

Web surfing is flying and downloads are always above 50k.

Hope it lasts.

Richard Dower

Originally posted by -ADREN-
or that ure the only lucky limerick person connected to Esat exchange in limerick.. ive been waiting a month and a half.. i would be on the Castletroy exchange when and if i get connected... what exchange u on?

I spoke to some just now in technical support and what he said was Eircom admitted there was problems and that they are actively working on the problem.

I asked to speak to someone high up in regards the DSL exchange here in Roches Street, i asked if more bandwidth could be made available on the DSL line from 2MB to something more reasonable.

So as all 48 users can at least have a functional service, god willing they will...but for right now it's at least functional for me.

bizmark

Same here much better speed havent tryed d/ling anything yet but going from 600b/s to over 34kbs web surfeing is good anuff lol

Esat want me to call them so they can give me a respons of what was the problum

I knew esat would fix it

Richard Dower

Originally posted by bizmark
Same here much better speed havent tryed d/ling anything yet but going from 600b/s to over 34kbs web surfeing is good anuff lol

Esat want me to call them so they can give me a respons of what was the problum

I knew esat would fix it

Cool...least if they do fix it up y'all won't have to hear me bitch no more --.

bizmark

I always had faith in Esat richard you should to

They really dont do thing,s badly even their billing deparment have gotten better

Being pissed off doesnt make the problum go away

BKtje

Delighted to hear it folks, now only if Esat Business would hurry up and install my line

UbahOne

Excellent News Guys...check out this.

No you are not imagining things. This is what i got...i downloaded Americas Army v1.70.EXE which is 380 or 390mbs in two hours. This was completely consistent. Look at that guys...Very impressed with the improovement.

-ADREN-

C:\>ping clarity.jolt.co.uk

Pinging clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=411ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=350ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=371ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=380ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 350ms, Maximum = 411ms, Average = 378ms


Tracert...

C:\>tracert clarity.jolt.co.uk

Tracing route to clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms lo3.bas501.cwt.esat.net
2 41 ms 70 ms 40 ms fe2-0.rate501.cwt.esat.net
3 30 ms 30 ms 40 ms vlan500.rt501.cwt.esat.net
4 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms vlan51.rt001.cwt.esat.net
5 30 ms 50 ms 30 ms ge0-0.core001.cwt.esat.net
6 60 ms 50 ms 70 ms pos1-0-0.br001.ldn.esat.net
7 400 ms 401 ms 440 ms lon1-9.nildram.net
8 431 ms 430 ms 411 ms jolt-gw.nildram.net
9 420 ms 431 ms 410 ms clarity.jolt.co.uk
Trace complete.
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bizmark

Could someone tell me where the UTV speed test for broadband can be found ?

Adrian thats pritty sucky m8 im getting 32ms

bizmark

Oh wait im getting 400 to jolt and 32 to boards, might be something wrong with jolt

radiospan

http://u.tv/speedtest/

There's a good test too at http://www.bandwidthplace.com/

UbahOne

Rating Compared to all connection types worldwide, yours is above average

Nice. 404kilobits per second.

19 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.

Lovin that. better stay like that.

Thats with Bandwithplace.com.

With UTV speedtest, i get 948592 bytes transferred in 18.015 secs

411 kbit

Very nice.

bizmark

Mine is bad anuff still

113kbs to 256kbs

It used to be 450kbs

AHHHHHHHHH well give em a few days and we see

Ancient1

Its improved today (but has since dropped for me again) - average 108kB/sec on Dumeter, 30MB file D/l in about 9mins.

UbahOne

Ancient1,

A 30mb file in 9 minutes is the best ya can get...

Fabre

Yes much better indeed.

eth0_

Apparently they've quadrupled available bandwidth. Thank f*ck.
Now get back to your warez downloads!

Fabre

Btw ubahone and ancient you should set your Dumeter properly.

Its improved today (but has since dropped for me again) - average 108kB/sec on Dumeter, 30MB file D/l in about 9mins.

30mb in 9mins thats something around 55kb/s

The theorical max you can get with our 512kbps line is 68.8Kb/s

in Dumeter go to options / general
And in the bottom line select the modem.

bizmark

Wait my computers unbleavebale lack of memory seemed to be slowing my broadband down

i restarted the pc and got 410 kbits from 2 tests

Is it possible for the lack of ram to slow down broadband?

Ancient1

cheers Fabre,
i didnt even notice that the dumeter was reading all interfaces instead of just the zyxel.

MrPinK

Originally posted by bizmark
Wait my computers unbleavebale lack of memory seemed to be slowing my broadband down

i restarted the pc and got 410 kbits from 2 tests

Is it possible for the lack of ram to slow down broadband?

Unlikely. These tests just aren't hugely acurate. Don't take them as gospel. A far, far better indicator is how fast your downloads are going. You didn't get broadband to repeatedly run speed tests and look at pretty DU graphs after all

bizmark

but wouldnt the lack of ram affect the usb port ?

Ah screw it it hardly matter,s lol

UbahOne

Bizmark...not AT ALL.

Fabre...mine was set properly. I dont know how or why but i keep getting those speeds...

MrPinK

You're DU meter is definitely not right. At 109Kb/s a 390Mb file would have taken just under 1 hour to complete. I'm afraid you don't actually have a 872K connection

UbahOne

Well thats the average overall it says im getting. I dont know why its reading that.

andrew163

Originally posted by bizmark
Wait my computers unbleavebale lack of memory seemed to be slowing my broadband down

i restarted the pc and got 410 kbits from 2 tests

Is it possible for the lack of ram to slow down broadband?

Yes it can for USB. It depends on your hardware/software/OS configuration and specs.

Mutant_Fruit

Originally posted by UbahOne
Excellent News Guys...check out this.

No you are not imagining things. This is what i got...i downloaded Americas Army v1.70.EXE which is 380 or 390mbs in two hours. This was completely consistent. Look at that guys...Very impressed with the improovement.

well looking above i see that your screen has a graph limit of 62.5 kb/sec. however you seem to be downloading at 109 kb's, so therefore of course the screen is full red, cos the graph goes about another 40 kb's over that

still, thats damn good speed, i take it you have a 1mb line to get speeds of that magnitude...

UbahOne

ye that number on the side is the max a 512k connection can get as set by DU Meter. I cant comprehend why it says that speed. No doubt its bloody fast BUT i still get a 1mb file in 18 seconds and the amount normally is 19seconds in PERFECT conditions so obviously im not on a 872k line...dunno why its running at the MOST perfect condition though...theres gotta be some ppl online.

Mutant_Fruit

go to DU meter, right click->options
go to Graph Options
then in connection type select Resize Graph Automatically.