DSL trial in D16

frodi

I'm taking part in a trial of fibre optic based DSL in D16 with €ircom. These are the speeds that I am getting.

www.u.tv/speedtest

948592 bytes transferred in 1.453 secs

5.1 Mbit

www.dslreports.com

2004-08-22 14:30:14 EST: 672 / 767
Your download speed : 688267 bps, or 672 kbps.
A 84 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 785426 bps, or 767 kbps.

And it's free (until January)

Moriarty

.. more info?

thejollyrodger

intresting stuff, send us more info on

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here, ever think that signature is a bit long ??

Mutant_Fruit

i'm in D16! Tell us more indeed.

spongebob

This was mentioned in the late spring on the IoffL Board or in here with a contact number and all if you wanted to get on it.

M

Turner

Jesus, im in d16 too. Never heard of it.

Have you a link for where it was mentioned before ?

Chief.

A mb in just over 1 second. Now thats broadband!!

spongebob

Chief--- wrote:

Jesus, im in d16 too. Never heard of it.

Have you a link for where it was mentioned before ?

Can I search ?

Its on a biggish housing estate in Walkinstown only IIRC

M

spongebob

Jayzus Chief

You asked and were told at the time , here is the Thread

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1688040#post1688040

M

Turner

Haha my head isnt the best at the moment.

Mixed vodka and bulmers last night. Alot of each.

Chief

carrotcake

Muck wrote:

Can I search ?

Its on a biggish housing estate in Walkinstown only IIRC

M

walkinstown is d12. the mystery remains unsolved...

Celt

It's in Whitechurch in Dublin 16, there's an exchange just off it.

frodi

Just off Whitechurch Rd in Ballyboden. Every one in the estate was contacted by letter last June

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=166539

wasn't usual €ircom cust. support. (ie they were fast & helpful)

We have it free until Jan 2005. After that ??????

It goes like a greased snot!

spongebob

Show us yer Pings Frodi

www.jolt.co.uk and www.boards.ie .

M

Lex_Diamonds

Ok now if someone calculates the time it took RADSL to be available from the time of the first DSL trials then we should have a pretty accurate figure of when we will all be using this! :P

frodi

I'm in work at the mom. But last night I was pinging eircom.net in about 30 msec.

Moriarty

2-3 years methinks. Add another 2 for the price to become affordable, natch.

tomk

frodi wrote:

We have it free until Jan 2005. After that ??????

After that, you'd better line up some counselling - imagine the withdrawal symptoms going from this back to plain old RADSL?! :eek:

Worse than going from dsl back to dial up, I'd say..........

Gonzo

frodi wrote:

I'm in work at the mom. But last night I was pinging eircom.net in about 30 msec.

that would indicate that the dreaded interleving is possibly still enabled even on that amazing product, I was hoping you would say pinging boards more like 10ms to 20ms range and about 20 to 25ms to jolt.

Blaster99

Is this fibre-optic to the curb that's tested by people who are really near an existing exchange hence requiring no new cabling, or what's the story?

SkepticOne

Is D16 not an NTL broadband area?

frodi

Pinging €ircom 8 msec
Pinging boards 8 to 17 msec

You're right I will need counselling when this is over. :rolleyes:

Moriarty

A few traceroutes might be nice, frodi.

Try to www.boards.ie www.jolt.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk and www.microsoft.com

frodi

you'll have to give me simple instructions how to do these and capture results.
Running XP Pro

spongebob

eg

tracert www.jolt.co.uk > c:\jolt.txt

when the tracert completes the prompt appears again, there is a text file called jolt in the root of the c: drive and you open it and copy the contents

for a ping try

ping www.jolt.co.uk -t > c:\joltping.txt

hit control c or control x after 10 seconds and the file will be writter then .

M

Moriarty

start -> run

cmd.exe

'ok'

tracert www.boards.ie

<leave it run, then copy it and paste the results in here. repeat for each.>

<<Mucks way ^^ will work just as good>>

Mutant_Fruit

SkepticOne wrote:

Is D16 not an NTL broadband area?

Only parts of it, only parts. For example, ballyroan road isn't :mad:

frodi

<1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.254.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 20 ms 20 ms 19 ms clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\David>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.111]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.254.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 21 ms 19 ms 19 ms www11.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.111]

Trace complete.

boards & micro$oft both timed out after 30 attempts

Moriarty

Strange.

OfflerCrocGod

Those pings are very nice indeed! Surely €ircon will afto trow us a bone later on in autumn because by then NTLs BB will be available to quite a few ppl in Dublin and those numbers will only increase ( crosses fingers ) and €ircon's current offering is laughable compared to NTLs. Maybe a 1Mbit for the more expensive home package by Jan/Dec...? This may very well be out in 2 years or a little more but it will be a biz offering.....at least at first.

Ripwave

frodi wrote:

We have it free until Jan 2005. After that ??????

When the original eircom DSL trials finished, users were told that they could keep using the service for €108/month. How much would you be prepared to pay to keep using the service you've got now?

Perhaps more to the point, how much would your neighbours be prepared to pay?

frodi

I wouldn't pay that for it. :eek: Doubt that most of the neighbours would either. I'll just go shopping aroung for the best deal from all the available suppliers.