Not Again ... Eircom BBand dreadfully Slow - Cork. Anyone else?

bandon1 · 13-10-2006 7:04am

Ok here in Bandon. Was broken badly at 10.30 last night (not even DSL sync) and ok since I first checked at 7am this morning.

But that was also the case yesterday and it all went to hell again around 8.30am. I'm not counting any chickens.

At least BT have the problem up on their support page. But just with a "we're working on it".

Mallian · 13-10-2006 9:20am

Touch wood everything seems ok at the moment 2.54Mbps on BT 3

GreenHell · 13-10-2006 10:14am

Seems ok now, upload speed still pants

abcd · 13-10-2006 1:44pm

aidanodr wrote:

Hi Guys,

By george I think they have got it. Upload and Download speeds back to normal for the first time in over a week.

A piece of guarded optimism though, tomorrow will tell alot ...

Me with Eircom - [ saying this just for comparison purposes ]

Cheers
Aidan

Aidan, if you hear any details from your contacts about what the problem was, and what the eircom techs ended up doing to fix it, I'd be interested to hear.

thrill wrote:

Home by 5:30??? Not a chance. This was an overtime fest for the techies. They probably could have fixed this on monday, but where's the profit in that. Big bulging wage packets next week me think's.

Ok, so it's an advantage for the techs to solve the problem slowly?
How did eircom end up with a situation like this.....probably something to do with the fact that it was a state-owned monopoly.
But more importantly, how do companies who do this kind of network/systems maintenance (e.g. EMC) motivate their techs to solve problems quickly?

Thrill · 13-10-2006 5:25pm

I have the eircom 2mb download package.Last night i did the eircom speed test and got 202KBps.I noticed some slowdown when i logged on a few moments ago so i did the test a couple of times again.It's down to 68.98KBps.

Is it just me or is there a slowdown again?

aidanodr · 13-10-2006 6:55pm

Hi Thrill,

Just did a test at: http://www.irishisptest.com/runmyspeed.php

DLoad: 1.74mbps
ULoad: 214kbps

Eircom 2mb Package also, here in Carrigaline,

Cheers
Aidan

Thrill · 13-10-2006 7:37pm

Thanks Aidan.

I just tried that site and my test results were
almost exactly the same as yours.

Quality of service : 84%

A hell of a lot better than earlier.

Thanks again.

14-10-2006 3:41pm

Hey,

Noticed the slowdown when videos started rebuffering.
My Quality of Service is low - averaging around 30% on that site.
with 600kbps download.

what should we expect from eircom? Do they state a QOS standard?

richman · 18-10-2006 11:32pm

I have read with interest the comments on BB speeds over the last 10 days or so. I am with BT and up to a few weeks ago my speed was 1.75Mb on 2Mb package. For several weeks the speed has been all over the place from no connection(offline) to low as .300Mb. But the upload speed has been reasonable. Not that I do much of that. (using Irishisptest)

I have noticed over severminutes that the speed can vary. This evening the sysyem has bogged down,

Is it the LL is not up to it. Another fine mess we have got ourselves into. I believe that ComReg does not have any powers over ISp's

Richman

Not Again ... Eircom BBand dreadfully Slow - Cork. Anyone else?

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