Anyone still getting awfull Eircom connection in the evenings?

Gonzo

This is the start of the 3rd week since that poxy upgrade about 3 weekends ago and I am still getting dreadfull speeds and pings into the 100s after 5pm every evening, I thought this would have been sorted by now but still bad, Im blue in the face from telling eircom about it but they dont want to know, is it just me or is anyone else getting quarter of their speed every evening from about 5pm till nearly midnight?

carbsy

From the times you mention (virtually exactly peak times) it sounds like some sort of contention/congestion.

Blaster99

Where do you get the ping spike?

Gonzo

I get the ping spike on the 2nd hop, during the daytime its grand but come 5 or 6pm its rotten and this goes on untill midnight every day without fail... this never happened before the upgrade and my friend who is 3 doors away from me on the same exchange doesnt get this problem at all.

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
2 496 ms 487 ms 462 ms b-ras1.srl.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.155.27]
3 580 ms 530 ms 520 ms 83.71.112.161
4 409 ms 462 ms 462 ms 159.134.125.46
5 566 ms 507 ms 482 ms 159.134.198.138

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>

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

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

Tracing route to www.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 585 ms 592 ms 575 ms b-ras1.srl.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.155.27]
3 413 ms 387 ms 414 ms 83.71.112.165
4 344 ms 324 ms 267 ms pos0-0.corea.the.london.eircom.net [159.134.191.
238]
5 311 ms 369 ms 349 ms lon1-10.nildram.net [195.66.226.59]
6 490 ms 437 ms 427 ms 84.12.225.130
7 378 ms 407 ms 427 ms jolt-gw.nildram.net [195.149.20.214]
8 634 ms 635 ms 525 ms 82.133.85.65

Trace complete.

Gonzo

my line stats seem fine and eircom tested my line and said theres no problems with it either and that im able to get up to a max of about 6.75mb with it.

mang87

I'm getting perfect pings and my upload speed is still at 310 as per usual, but my download speed is back down to 294kbps!! Come on ffs! It was back to 3mbps yesterday, but it's back to this snails pace again.

Never though I'd have an upload speed faster than my download speed. thanks ericom you pile of w@nk :mad:

falteringstar

YES!!!! And its driving me crazy!!

Im with digiweb, and have emailed them twice with speed test results of the low hundreds, and still no fix!

Blaster99

Gonzo, have you tried simplifying your setup, like removing any routers or anything on your LAN? Have you visually checked lights on your modem/router to see that the connection is idle when you think it's idle? It sounds fairly plausible that the problem is at your end.

Gonzo

yeah my setup is very simple, just the netopia 3341 plugged directly into the socket, the traffic light seems to blink on and off but when i check nothing is actually downloading. perhaps my modem is getting faulty or else its just my old 4 year old computer but it is odd that things are perfect during the night and into the early afternoon.