Eircom Shankill exchange gone wonky?

morlan

As of yesterday, my speed had been dropping as low as 16Kbps. I'm getting a lot of timeouts and horrible ping responses as well. Anyone experiencing the same problem?

Pinging www.irishisptest.com [217.114.173.16] with 32 bytes

Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=150ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=107ms TTL=54
Request timed out.
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=1594ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=1702ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=152ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=997ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=269ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=1241ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=1837ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=410ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=1341ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=1811ms TTL=54
Reply from 217.114.173.16: bytes=32 time=399ms TTL=54
Request timed out.

SNR Margin: 31.00 7.50 dB
Line Attenuation: 33.50 19.00 dB
Output Power: 0.00 0.00 dB
Errored Seconds: 0 0
Loss of Signal: 0 0
Loss of Frame: 0 0
CRC Errors: 21 0
Data Rate: 1024 128

Dest

getting something similar in bray. my ping is still generally good but im getting a lot more timeouts that i should be. did a speed test on irishisptest.com there yesterday and i was getting 128k down (im on 2mb). seems to vary a lot though, sometimes im getting 2mb and five minutes later its back to 128k.

fightin snr

I`m getting the same and I`m in the midlands,taking web pages on some sites ages to load,pings are showing intermittent losses as are tracerts to the same sites:(

Alun

Same here in Bray with Eircom BB, i.e. everything is painfully slow, especially "foreign" sites, although Irish sites (like boards.ie!) seem to be generally OK.

Blaster99

Yep, seeing the same in Bray. Speeds are diabolical, pings good.

morlan

Down speed 4.92Kbps :cool: The odd thing is that the upload speed is always normal in these tests.

Yelnahs

yeah I'm in Bray too and I came on here to see if everyone else was the same, guess its an exchange problem in and around Bray/Shankill. Has anyone rang Eircom yet? Doubt they would be in a hurry to fix the problem in this weather

Töpher

I'm in Bray:

1.71 Mbps down
103 Kbps up

morlan

Do those of you in Bray have a 282 or 272 number? If so, you're on the Shankill exchange. I tried ringing 'support' but was on hold for the usuall 10 mintues and hung up. Useless.

Yelnahs

Im on the Bray exchange, im 286

Dcully

Kildare here, browsing and teamspeak is really slow.
Gaming seems fine though.

Dest

yeah im on bray exchange aswell, 286.

Duiske

Having the same problems in Carlow.

Yelnahs

its a strange one allright, I have a newsgroup subscription raring to go too... Gopefully they will have it fixed soon

fightin snr

Dcully wrote:

Kildare here, browsing and teamspeak is really slow.
Gaming seems fine though.

thank god for that was beginning to think this was a bray only problem:(

Yelnahs

I think I'm fixed, how about you guys? Downloads seem to be fine...

Alun

Yeah, seems to be back up to speed at the moment. Maybe someone from Eircom reads this board

EDIT: Oops... spoke too soon! Seems to have gone tits up again

Duiske

Seems to be back to normal in Carlow. It was strange. Some sites would just not open, but others (including Boards) seemed to load faster than usual.

Yelnahs

yes same here, someone mentioned above that only irish servers were responding quickly like this site. No interruption yet, my downloads are still flying through

fightin snr

yeah I`m back to normal here??

Burago

Still having some problems here in Kildare. Been this way since Tuesday.

morlan

Yeah, back to normal here on the Shankill exchange. Fingers crossed.

Dest

yeah seems okay now. hope it stays that way.

TonyD79

Has anyone rang eircom to find out what the story is? think they are too busy celebrating their 200k DSL customer!!

morlan

Well it seems to be fixed now so there's not much point looking into it.

Töpher

Just a further query to this thread:

Anyone else having problems with it now over the last day or two? On BT on the Shankill exchange (presumably, as my phone number begins with 272 - even though I'm about 2 mles outside of Bray). Suffering from serious ping spikes in games, and torrents won't go above 5Kb/s. Normal downloads seem fine for the most part, but sometimes lose connection and have to restart (the download) entirely.

Krusty_Clown

Einst&#252 wrote: »

Just a further query to this thread:

Anyone else having problems with it now over the last day or two? On BT on the Shankill exchange (presumably, as my phone number begins with 272 - even though I'm about 2 mles outside of Bray). Suffering from serious ping spikes in games, and torrents won't go above 5Kb/s. Normal downloads seem fine for the most part, but sometimes lose connection and have to restart (the download) entirely.

Nope, no problems with BT on Shankill Exchange (272xxxx).. Not that I've observed anyway...

n3lly

My speeds have been diabolical for the past few weeks.
I'm on the shankill exchange.

I've just been told it's a contention ratio problem and that there is no fix.


Nice.

nelly