Further confirmation from Eircom :D

kaizersoze

Possible disruption to your broadband service
We will be upgrading our broadband service on Friday 20th January 2006 between 22:00 until Saturday21st January 2006 at 20:00. This work is to facilitate giving our DSL customers higher downstream and upstream bandwidths on their accounts. If you are an eircom broadband customer in one of the areas listed below, you may experience a disruption to your broadband service.

DSL traffic will be affected for approximately 20 hours
All DSL Enabled Sites Will Be Affected

Link:http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/&/?St=25&E=0000000000007458720&K=4752&SXI=4&case=8778&branch=4
Unless the cookies kill it

Willymuncher

Ah thats great, I knew it was coming but its nice to hear it from them.

Karoma

\o/

Creamy Goodness

that's a long down time for a simple (or in the case of eircom) not so simple increase in speeds.

OfflerCrocGod

Blanchardstown is getting it done on the 12th WHOOOOOO!!!

kaizersoze

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

Blanchardstown is getting it done on the 12th WHOOOOOO!!!

I'd say thats just work in preparation for Saturday. Every other service bulletin for the past month has the same wording as that one.:p

Blaster99

I'm wondering if my current 28kbps download speeds have anything to do with these upgrades. This **** is beginning to happen a little too often for comfort.

aob

Blaster99 wrote:

I'm wondering if my current 28kbps download speeds have anything to do with these upgrades. This **** is beginning to happen a little too often for comfort.

That's what I'm hoping too, my connection has been fine until the past week, slow as hell, 26kbps down, 46kbps up, I'm hoping it's just due to the upgrading and will be fixed before the 20th

vibe666

now, i know this is supposed to be for all their bitstream products, but does that mean that all bitstream resellers will get the u/g at the same time (e.g. BT, UTV etc.) too?

god's toy

They did last time (afaik...)

kaizersoze

vibe666 wrote:

now, i know this is supposed to be for all their bitstream products, but does that mean that all bitstream resellers will get the u/g at the same time (e.g. BT, UTV etc.) too?

They have no choice unless they throttle the connections at their end. Very doubtful though.