Eircom Broadband Slow the last few days?

Davexirl · 01-12-2003 6:14pm #1

Over the last few day's I have noticed it is taking ages for most webpages to open.
I am on the Leixlip exchange anyone else notice any problems?

Thanks

Clover · 01-12-2003 7:15pm

i'm on the blanchardstown exchange myself davexirl and i have'nt noticed any slow down .

Practical · 01-12-2003 8:12pm

Im on the leixlip exchange and its perfect for me.

You might have a virus

Davexirl · 01-12-2003 8:26pm

Could a Norton Firewall 2004 be doing anything to it my downloads seem fine its just opening web pages.

dub45 · 01-12-2003 11:11pm

You could always switch it off and see what difference it makes?

Practical · 02-12-2003 6:28pm

Originally posted by dub45
You could always switch it off and see what difference it makes?

hey hey slow down, that would be just too crazy!

Davexirl · 02-12-2003 8:08pm

When I got the Eircom broadband first everything was fast but now even opening this thread took a long time

GUI · 02-12-2003 8:19pm

no problems here

daveyjoe · 02-12-2003 9:03pm

Originally posted by Davexirl
Could a Norton Firewall 2004 be doing anything to it my downloads seem fine its just opening web pages.

A firewall may slow down your P2P downloads (kazaa) but it should not affect downloads off the web (try microsoft.com for instance), are you noticing a slow down on all downloads?

Davexirl · 02-12-2003 9:34pm

Downloads seem fine it is the opening of web pages which seem a lot slower to when I first got it.

daveyjoe · 02-12-2003 9:42pm

Originally posted by Davexirl
Downloads seem fine it is the opening of web pages which seem a lot slower to when I first got it.

Well if your download speeds seem fine then it is probably an issue with internet explorer. You might have some spyware running through IE that is slowing you down. Try to either install a different browser opera or Firebird/mozilla .
also try downloading something like spybot search & destroy off download.com to see if any malicous spyware was installed on your system.

Davexirl · 02-12-2003 10:22pm

Well I downloaded spy hunter and it found 14 in my registry, and 70 in my cookies. but it won't let me delete them I have to purchase it to delete it.

Is there any free ones out on the web that will delete the files as well

daveyjoe · 02-12-2003 10:31pm

Originally posted by Davexirl
Well I downloaded spy hunter and it found 14 in my registry, and 70 in my cookies. but it won't let me delete them I have to purchase it to delete it.

Is there any free ones out on the web that will delete the files as well

Try spybot search and destroy as I suggested earlier, just type spybot into the search box at download.com

Davexirl · 02-12-2003 11:14pm

I did that and removed about 70 of them and kept 5 because they were in Internet Explorer and I dont want to remove any of them incase it does some damage to it.

I try to open www.cd-wow.com.hk/ still slow as well is boards.ie

I dont know whats happening still.

Anima · 02-12-2003 11:43pm

Maybe you could try deleting the temporary internet folder. If its too big i hear it can cause slow downs when trying to access sites. That could be bs but its worth a try.

MickFarr · 02-12-2003 11:55pm

Here's a few sites to test your broandband on

http://promos.mcafee.com/speedometer/test_0150.asp

http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

Here's a great site to run test and also tweak your broadband. Lots of stuff there

http://www.broadbandreports.com/tweaks

Good Luck and happy surfing!!

muffen · 03-12-2003 2:40am

I'm in D15 (Blanchardstown).

I have the 1MBit uncapped line, and my Eircom connection is crawling right now (and I have 4 computers running, and they are all running slow).

I'm gonna go through a full reboot (gonna reboot the router, firewall and all computers) on my network. If that doesn't solve my problem (which it probably won't), I'll have to start complaining to Eircom.

ando · 03-12-2003 4:32pm

have noticed a bit of a slowdown during peak hours, but thats only some sites. pings are still excellent all the time

Kristok · 03-12-2003 8:19pm

check if you have a proxy enabled in ie under lan settings this might explain it.

alastair · 03-12-2003 8:33pm

There's been a noticable slowdown for me as well (particularly on opening webpages - downloading is less effected). Running the 1Meg package out of the Summerhill exchange. It only started late last week. A new PC at the same time had me suspecting firewall issues, but I'm having the same problem on an unchanged Mac setup.
Let us know what you learn if you're talking to eircom.

alastair · 03-12-2003 8:36pm

no proxy enabled. this is something that lies at eircom's door.

Kristok · 03-12-2003 9:04pm

did you goto their support site and try downloading their test file ?!?Link If you get a slow download on that under 25k then there is a problem although you should get 50k but eircom wont care as long as you get over 25k. If its over 25k, have you tried another browser ?!? Opera or somehting as ie might be just acting up. If its under 25 give eircom a call it might be somehting wrong with your account.

alastair · 03-12-2003 9:18pm

no, like I say; file download speeds seem to be fine. The problem (with my current scenario) is that webpages are noticeably slower to open. I'm not a dentist, but it smells like some DNS issue to me.

Davexirl · 03-12-2003 9:30pm

I am having the same problems and tonight it wont connect at all to broadband i am on my dial up connection now.

Is anyone having the same problem?

MagicBusDriver · 03-12-2003 9:31pm

Did you try different DNS servers. I use eircom DNS servers with my NTL BB and they seem ok.

Kristok · 03-12-2003 9:36pm

lol, id doubt it im using their dsl now and not getting the same prob id assume if it was a dns problem everyone would be getting it. Have you tried entering dns numbers into tcp ip ?!? might help your computer by stopping it having to search for the dns servers.

Davexirl · 03-12-2003 9:46pm

Broadband is back up and running need to get the other problem sorted as in it is taking a while for pages to load.

I got these numbers to put in in TCP/IP on my USB connection hope these help

Primary 159. 134. 237. 6

Alternate 159. 134. 248. 17

Kristok · 03-12-2003 10:14pm

Actually try setting up a dial up service with elive If you dial through them then still have slow webpages (well slower than should be on dial up) then youd be eliminating dsl and eircom as the problem as youd be on a diferrent server.

Davexirl · 03-12-2003 10:50pm

Another Question do you leave you modem switched on or off. Does it matter at all if you do or don't.

Kristok · 04-12-2003 3:27pm

If your setting up a dial up connection then turn your dsl modem off or it wont know which connection to use and could still use the broadband one,

muffen · 04-12-2003 3:35pm

My problem actually went away after rebooting all the stuff on my network (router, firewall and all computers).

After rebooting my router, it wouldn't connect back to Eircom. However, I left it off for a day, and when I turned it back on, it connected fine, and speed was ok.

I'm DLing at 94Kb/sec right now

Eircom Broadband Slow the last few days?

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