Bray Upgrade Disaster

Blaster99

I think it's a misconfiguration. Call Eircom.

Teamhair

A problem with the coniguration of my router? How could that have happened? I'm sure I was getting the proper speeds a couple of days ago.

Sponge Bob- the DSL modem is the only thing plugged into the main phone line. Don't have a telephone handset of any kind or a Digibox

fasty

Just got someone at home to ping www.jolt.co.uk 50 times...

min of 22, max of 24ms

Got her to do a download test from the irishspeedtest site and got 323 up and 2.2 meg down. I'm happy with that.

It'll be interesting to see how it'll be tonight.

Blaster99

Teamhair wrote:

A problem with the coniguration of my router? How could that have happened? I'm sure I was getting the proper speeds a couple of days ago.

Sponge Bob- the DSL modem is the only thing plugged into the main phone line. Don't have a telephone handset of any kind or a Digibox

No, misconfiguration at Eircom's end. It happens every so often that they set people up with the wrong speed. The fact that you get such even numbers suggest that, eg multiples of 256. Your router doesn't have any speed configured in it. It connects with the highest speed that Eircom or your line permits.

Teamhair

Just off the phone to Eircom. They don't seem any wiser as to why the maximum speed indicated when I logon to my router is 512kbps down 256kbps up when in actual fact it should be reading with this "upgrade" 2MB down 256up. Anyway, it doesn't seem to be as simple as them throwing a switch on my account to get it back up into the realms of proper broadband! I told them I'd be happy getting my 1MB speeds back. My issue has been escalated so fingers crossed I hear something back. Otherwise the router is going to be turned into a petrol bomb. Plan is to lob it into the nearest exchange.

Gonzo

anyone elses pings still screwed? havent been able to do online gaming since sunday now. mine have been bad all day and connection less than 512k all day too

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C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>ping www.jolt.co.uk

Pinging www.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=112ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=318ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=133ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=139ms TTL=59

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 112ms, Maximum = 318ms, Average = 175ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>ping www.boards.ie

Pinging www.boards.ie [82.195.136.250] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=122ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=207ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=277ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=233ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 82.195.136.250:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 122ms, Maximum = 277ms, Average = 209ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>ping www.eircom.net

Pinging home.eircom.net [159.134.198.138] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=129ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=105ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=203ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=150ms TTL=60

Ping statistics for 159.134.198.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 105ms, Maximum = 203ms, Average = 146ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>tracert www.eircom.net

Tracing route to home.eircom.net [159.134.198.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 56 ms 62 ms 84 ms b-ras1.srl.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.155.27]
3 214 ms 227 ms 179 ms 83.71.112.161
4 182 ms 132 ms 130 ms 159.134.125.15
5 134 ms 167 ms 214 ms 159.134.198.138

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>

fasty

Mine seems back to what I'd expect tonight...

Last login: Wed Jan 25 22:06:03 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
mirage:~ neil$ ping -c 10 www.boards.ie
PING www.boards.ie (82.195.136.250): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=15.407 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=16.112 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=17.242 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=15.629 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=17.201 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=16.136 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=6 ttl=58 time=15.459 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=7 ttl=58 time=16.506 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=8 ttl=58 time=15.348 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=9 ttl=58 time=16.079 ms

--- www.boards.ie ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 15.348/16.112/17.242/0.660 ms
mirage:~ neil$ ping -c 10 www.jolt.co.uk
PING www.jolt.co.uk (82.133.85.65): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 82.133.85.65: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=24.379 ms
64 bytes from 82.133.85.65: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=25.535 ms
64 bytes from 82.133.85.65: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=25.862 ms
64 bytes from 82.133.85.65: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=24.999 ms
64 bytes from 82.133.85.65: icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=24.456 ms
64 bytes from 82.133.85.65: icmp_seq=5 ttl=59 time=25.068 ms
64 bytes from 82.133.85.65: icmp_seq=6 ttl=59 time=35.346 ms
64 bytes from 82.133.85.65: icmp_seq=7 ttl=59 time=24.503 ms
64 bytes from 82.133.85.65: icmp_seq=8 ttl=59 time=24.564 ms
64 bytes from 82.133.85.65: icmp_seq=9 ttl=59 time=24.324 ms

--- www.jolt.co.uk ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 24.324/25.904/35.346/3.186 ms

Given that my SNR is a bit high and I'm on a Molten Core raid in WoW right now I reckon I'm happy enough.

jaykay2

I'm on the Longford exchange and had the Starter package before the upgrade. Before, i used to get d/l of 110kb/s wired and 50kb/s wireless (neotopia). I now get 215kb/s (roughly) d/l wired and 90 to 100kb/s wireless.

Have to say, i am happy enough with the upgrade, but i would be raging if i were some of ye.

Teamhair

You're happy with those speeds? But thats only a little bit better than ISDN? I signed up for 1MB Home Starter and was getting close to that speed before the upgrade. Since the upgrade I'm only getting 408kbps down. My down speed has halved, while my up speed has doubled. Its arsed and Eircom still haven't come back to me.

Creamy Goodness

this may have something to do with it, i've seen about 3 eircom vans up by the southern cross at the dell end of the road.

my connection has gone bad aswell but my speeds are alright but ping is unbearable (150ms on game servers)