Eircom seemed to upped their speed

ADSLUSER · 16-12-2005 12:12am #1

I'm now appear to have 2MB download and 256K upload speeds. Surfing the web already feels a lot faster!

Anyone else experience this yet. I'm in the Malahide exchange.

cgarvey · 16-12-2005 12:26am

I'm on the same speed (Ternure exchange)

Irishpimpdude · 16-12-2005 12:41am

Nothing here in finglas... 2048/128 (kbps)

kaizersoze · 16-12-2005 1:15am

Nothing here either.
Malahide is one of the 4 test exchanges for the forthcomming speed increases but Terenure isn't. Strange

halenger · 16-12-2005 1:17am

The tests were done a week or two ago.

...

Are you both ex-1024/128 customers?

2048/128 on IOLBB still. It'd be nice to see the upgrade this side of Christmas alright.

Creamy Goodness · 16-12-2005 1:21am

still 2048/128 BT here in bray

SirLemonhead · 16-12-2005 1:24am

Same old in Dundrum.

Irishpimpdude · 16-12-2005 1:31am

Exchanges upgraded

* Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.
* Greystones, Co. Wicklow.
* Rathmines, Dublin.
* Rochestown, Co. Dublin.
* Terenure, Dublin.

Source: http://www.eircom.ie/cgi-bin/bvsm/bveircom/bladerunner/displayNews.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0769192305.1134693089@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciaddghfkdkkecefeceiedffndffj.0&site=Res&chanId=0&newsItemId=outage%20tuesday%2012-12-05

Creamy Goodness · 16-12-2005 1:42am

lol why do greystones always get the sweeter deal, they can get BT business package bray can't, they get this upgrade before us aswell

halenger · 16-12-2005 1:46am

Is this just testing again or are they going to roll out this upgrade on a slower basis?

OfflerCrocGod · 16-12-2005 3:58am

Blanch with EsatBT 2/128 still

I'd love it if €ircon went ahead with the upgrades as soon as possible but so far no show.

Zenith74 · 16-12-2005 10:30am

Was on a customer's site yesterday in Ballymount Ind Estate, they are now on 5Mb/512k with Eircom. Wonder when I'll be upgraded...

ADSLUSER · 16-12-2005 10:41am

halenger wrote:

The tests were done a week or two ago.

...

Are you both ex-1024/128 customers?

2048/128 on IOLBB still. It'd be nice to see the upgrade this side of Christmas alright.

Yes, I'm an ex-1024/128 and the new speed is quite noticeable! One great way of checking is viewing movie trailers from the Apple site - you can open a large or high defn. trailer and it's almost immediately viewable.

Praetorian · 16-12-2005 11:18am

It looks like this is the way they're going to roll it out. It's a shame it's not alphabetical

zuma · 16-12-2005 11:44am

Damn tight!!!

I liked it when it was done on a Saturday night 8 or so months ago.
Just shows that eircom were putting a false sealing on their speeds and could have increased out speeds from 512->2M anytime they wanted....monopolistic bsatards!!!

Alun · 16-12-2005 1:12pm

Irishpimpdude wrote:

Exchanges upgraded

* Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.
* Greystones, Co. Wicklow.
* Rathmines, Dublin.
* Rochestown, Co. Dublin.
* Terenure, Dublin.

Source: http://www.eircom.ie/cgi-bin/bvsm/bveircom/bladerunner/displayNews.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0769192305.1134693089@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciaddghfkdkkecefeceiedffndffj.0&site=Res&chanId=0&newsItemId=outage%20tuesday%2012-12-05

That URL doesn't work (damned session-id's!!). Have trawled through the eircom.ie website but can't find a link to the News section. Any clues?

paulm17781 · 16-12-2005 1:16pm

Alun wrote:

That URL doesn't work (damned session-id's!!). Have trawled through the eircom.ie website but can't find a link to the News section. Any clues?

To go Eircon.ie and it is bottom right hand side. Two news stories. Doesn't say the speeds were upgraded, it just says and upgrade in the exchanges, that could be new cabling or anything.

Drapper · 16-12-2005 1:20pm

Cremo wrote:

lol why do greystones always get the sweeter deal, they can get BT business package bray can't, they get this upgrade before us aswell

PAt Kearney CEO Eircom lives in greystones

paulm17781 · 16-12-2005 1:38pm

Drapper wrote:

PAt Kearney CEO Eircom lives in greystones

Is Phil Nolan not the CEO?

Drapper · 16-12-2005 1:39pm

paulm17781 wrote:

Is Phil Nolan not the CEO?

Sorry Infra Director

Tazzle · 16-12-2005 1:53pm

Walkinstown has upgraded dsl speeds too.

halenger · 16-12-2005 2:40pm

Irishpimpdude wrote:

Exchanges upgraded

* Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.
* Greystones, Co. Wicklow.
* Rathmines, Dublin.
* Rochestown, Co. Dublin.
* Terenure, Dublin.

Source: http://www.eircom.ie/cgi-bin/bvsm/bveircom/bladerunner/displayNews.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0769192305.1134693089@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciaddghfkdkkecefeceiedffndffj.0&site=Res&chanId=0&newsItemId=outage%20tuesday%2012-12-05

I'm not sure how much this should be given attention...

Reasoning...

http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/bbkblink.asp?case=8730
http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/bbkblink.asp?case=8733
http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/bbkblink.asp?case=8721

I'm on the Belcamp exchange and we haven't been upgraded since Tuesday. I'd guess those announcements were more likely something equipment related or when they were letting Smart/similar poke their heads around the exchange.

kaizersoze · 16-12-2005 3:12pm

halenger wrote:

I'm not sure how much this should be given attention...

Reasoning...

http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/bbkblink.asp?case=8730
http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/bbkblink.asp?case=8733
http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/bbkblink.asp?case=8721

I'm on the Belcamp exchange and we haven't been upgraded since Tuesday. I'd guess those announcements were more likely something equipment related or when they were letting Smart/similar poke their heads around the exchange.

Those service announcements are probably just as you say or work on the equipment in preparation.
The last speed increase was listed in their service section as a "broadband enhancement" rather than an upgrade

Sparky · 16-12-2005 7:26pm

woohoo nice one

waiting for BT

raphaelS · 16-12-2005 11:56pm

There are these today...!

Possible broadband service interruption - Fri 16/12/2005 @ 00:30

Possible disruption to your broadband service

We will be upgrading our broadband service on Friday 16th December 2005 between 00:30 and 02:30. If you are an eircom broadband customer in one of the areas listed below, you may experience a 15 minute disruption to your broadband service.

* ROCHESTOWN
* FOXROCK
* DUNDRUM

You can see more here:
http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/bbkblink.asp?t=announcements

Raphael

OfflerCrocGod · 17-12-2005 12:54am

Great so they are upgrading 5 exchanges in total by the 22nd..........I see they are seriously pushing themselves.

Anarchist · 17-12-2005 1:31am

lol

Praetorian · 17-12-2005 12:40pm

It's pretty slow alright. At that rate surely it would take them until March or something to get them all done?

badrobot · 18-12-2005 2:55am

I'm on Rochestown, but I'm still getting the same 2Mb.

Nick_oliveri · 18-12-2005 3:24am

Praetorian wrote:

It's pretty slow alright. At that rate surely it would take them until March or something to get them all done?

Probably, probably not.
When i was a 512k customer, they seemed to upgrade me fairly fast. 1 meg to 2 meg within a few months. And i got word here about the estimated dates at the time. This is all just testing. They'll roll it out quick come the new year. Wonder what the cap will be.

BTW, im purely anti eircom, but the service here (Offaly) seems to be up to standard.

rogue-entity · 18-12-2005 3:56pm

All you dubs are lucky. Errorcon probably wont be touching the exchanges in Waterford until sometime next century, if I am lucky. I am currently on BTs 1024/128 service and I am itching to get upgraded to 2048/256. I just wont pay more then 30/month for broadband and am still sore from the knowledge that Sweden will be getting 100Meg broadband for the equivilent of 50Eur/month.

Eircom seemed to upped their speed

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