Is Everything Slllllllooooooooow Again Today?

swoofer · 06-03-2004 4:33pm #1

I am finding access to various sites slow again today. I am with IOLBB.

GB--

Placebo · 06-03-2004 4:36pm

same here !
pics are even loading slow and recently some pics dont even load, red x come sup.

swoofer · 06-03-2004 4:38pm

thank goodness for that, lets hope things improve from Monday, at least I am not alone!!

gb--

Placebo · 06-03-2004 4:39pm

well boards.ie is working fast now, so are others.
but l;ast night it was quite VERY slow.

swoofer · 06-03-2004 4:41pm

I was out last night but this board is not too bad but others are very slow.

gb-

Paul007 · 06-03-2004 5:00pm

How slow are we talking about?

I'm currently on dial-up and thinking about signing up with IOLBB or Clicksilver. I have to say I'm in two minds at the moment after reading a lot of the posts on these forums.

How reliable is the service as a rule?

swoofer · 06-03-2004 5:05pm

Paul I got IOLBB last Sept and it has been fantastic. It is only these past 2 weeks I have noticed one or 2 hiccupps but there is so much muck flying around at the mo I am not surprised. It is just becuase it has been so good that when things go wrong one tends to blame their own kit initially but this is not the case. I am in Clare.

It is defenitely worth getting and new offers are out from 8th March.

This is just a blip!
gb--

Paul007 · 06-03-2004 5:09pm

Cheers gb, that's reassuring.

Looks like I'll be signing up shortly so.

Xcellor · 06-03-2004 5:23pm

Broadband rocks....

No doubt about it, kick that dialup connection if you can...

Broadband might be dodgy sometimes but when it works (which is often) it's a treat....

Downloads... online gaming... mp3 downloading... if of course you are one of those damn evil accursed pirates that are sucking the life blood out of the recording industry.. cough cough.. yeah right...

But be warned. If you make the jump up to broadband you will never be able to cope with dialup again. It's a change for life... no going back...

X

Placebo · 06-03-2004 8:15pm

VERY SLOW now, my website wont even load.

ffs.

swoofer · 06-03-2004 8:26pm

I'm ok here in CLARE on some boards but others are crawling and I am switching browers.

GB--

Aepos · 06-03-2004 9:11pm

UTV clicksilver has been slow since yesterday, they told me Eircon had or has a problem. Still very poor 8.00pm Sat

Xcellor · 06-03-2004 9:35pm

I haven't experienced any slow down... must be region specific... I'm in Longford area. (midlands to all you dubs

)

X

BigEejit · 07-03-2004 12:48am

I'm with Netsource and my page loads have gone to hell ... firefox isnt loading some pages at all because it has a lower timeout setting .. I had to go back to IE to see some of my usual pages .... luckily boards isnt too bad...

I can ping the sites ok ... just web browsing is cat slow

actually it seems to be american sites that are suffering worst

Aepos · 08-03-2004 6:51pm

Clicksilver still slow today downloads between 20-30 kps

Valentia · 08-03-2004 6:55pm

Getting 440 on Giganews here on Clicksilver, which is as fast as it's ever been. Mabye your suffering from contention blues.

Aepos · 08-03-2004 7:12pm

Dont think its a contention issue as the download speed has been steadily slow ie not much variation from around half normal speeds (around 440ish) since Saturday am. It just went off alltogether a minute ago.....

I hope this isnt a ruse to get us to go for the 24/1 package...

Its more likely to be an Eircon issue in the Terenure/Knocklyon area..

Aepos · 08-03-2004 7:16pm

Just tested on Giganews 240 is my number (total rubbish) Thats a very usefull link thanks!!

Chad ghostal · 08-03-2004 7:25pm

im on iolbb and its been far slower than usual all day
im in cork .

BigEejit · 08-03-2004 7:34pm

I'm on netsource in Cork and getting 420 now ... wish I checked when it was slow .... [kiss of death]seems alright so far[/kiss of death]

Chad ghostal · 08-03-2004 8:05pm

i just tested and got 162..
this have anything to do with the "big change" ?..
this is like browsing on56k ..

:dunno:

Phibsboro · 08-03-2004 8:45pm

118 here - IBB pointing to the Guinness mast. Its been slow all weekend. I just rang and left a message for IBB.

Interestingly, I've just done a test downloading from one the heanet mirrors (try http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-10.0-rc1-CD1.i586.iso )and I'm getting a steady 53 KBs transfer rate (this is the equivalent of 424 in the giganews test) so it defo seems to be a backbone issue somewhere rather than a connection issue. IBB is wireless obviously so it isn't an Eircom exchange issue (not to say it ain't an Eircom backbone issue of course).

I'll let you know if IBB can shed any light on it. Do IOL/UTV/Eircom have any support sites where they post known issues that might give us a clue as to whats going on?

Cheers,
Colm

Aepos · 08-03-2004 9:40pm

Its very poor with me now 10kbps to 24kbps D16 area

Rang utv yesterday and again this evening.

havn't had this problem before always 54kbps very rarely 40-45kbps.

Still I suppose its a little better than dial up!!!

DMT · 08-03-2004 10:57pm

Originally posted by Aepos
Its very poor with me now 10kbps to 24kbps D16 area

Rang utv yesterday and again this evening.

havn't had this problem before always 54kbps very rarely 40-45kbps.

Still I suppose its a little better than dial up!!!

Please tell me you mean KB/s not kbps...

ando · 08-03-2004 11:09pm

Originally posted by Phibsboro
Do IOL/UTV/Eircom have any support sites where they post known issues that might give us a clue as to whats going on?

eircom never have any issues

Aepos · 08-03-2004 11:48pm

yes of course you are correct kb/s, my mistrake!

Phibsboro · 09-03-2004 7:50pm

just to follow up on this - I am getting 468 tonite from the giganews test site ( http://www.giganews.com/comps/test_connect.mhtml ) which is fine - its the equivalent of 58 KBs. For those who haven't worked it out yet, you divide the Kbps (bits per second) number by 8 to get the KBps number (Bytes per second). The Kbps number is what the ISP's quote (56k, 512k etc) while the KBps is the transfer rate you see when you download in window.

Anyways, looks like the slow down is over - yeah

Colm

Aepos · 09-03-2004 8:33pm

I was getting 54Kbs at around 6pm but its gone to hell again now up anddown like a yo-yo 2-40kbs using giganews

DMT · 09-03-2004 10:02pm

Originally posted by Phibsboro
For those who haven't worked it out yet, you divide the Kbps (bits per second) number by 8 to get the KBps number (Bytes per second).

You actual have to divide by 8.192 because 1 kbit = 1000 bits whereas 1 KB = 1024 bytes....

And the correct units are:
kilobits per second = kbits/s or kbps
kilobytes per second = KB/s

Phibsboro · 10-03-2004 11:28am

8.192! Yikes! - you're right

Its all so confusing.

What I should have said of course is that Kibibits/sec divded by 8 gives KibiBytes/sec :eek:

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

Colm

DMT · 10-03-2004 12:45pm

Originally posted by Phibsboro
What I should have said of course is that Kibibits/sec divded by 8 gives KibiBytes/sec :eek:

A good example of engineers being too anal as usual.
In communications engineering, which is what is relevant here, kilobit = 1000 bits and kilobyte = 1024 bytes = 8192 bits.

To confuse things a little bit more, communications engineers also use the term octet (as well as byte) to mean 8 bits.

There are no kilo-octets however....

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