Massive ping on eircom this evening

Fizzix

Anyone else experincing high pings on eircom this evening ? I was playing bf2142 earlier and my ping was the usual 20-30, but this evening its up in the 200's on all servers.One of my clan mates is also having this problem damn fustrating.:mad:

SirLemonhead

Yep getting the same in CS Source on Eircom.

blackgold>>

I'm having the same problems as yourself.
I'm in cork and my ping is 200 for counterstrike.
Must have been the storms last night i'd say.

Fizzix

Dont think it was the storms, it happened in the last 2 hours.Anyone taking bets on long it will take eircom to resolve this ?

apeking

Same problem here, playing cs:s on IOA server and i was getting ping of 350ms, load of **** tbh

twinQuins

I was just going to have a game of BF2142 when I noticed the servers (what ones appeared) had a red bar under latency. Hmm.

So I went into the advanced settings and found the ping going from 200 to 700(!). My line attenuation is up to 63/31 dB. An absolute joke.

SirLemonhead

Is your telephone line noticeably noisy when you listen on a telephone set?

My line sounded worse than usual earlier on, but mine has been terrible lately anyway..

parliament

Is this problem limited to Eircom? I'm on BT and its the same for me pings over 200...speeds have gone to pot to

Dcully

My eircom3 meg connection has been like this for 6 weeks now,great pings during day but 300-500 in the evenings,load of bollocks.
Sick and tired ringing them.

Sponge Bob

2Mbit DSL (not eircom)

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

Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=122ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.136.250: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 82.195.136.250:
Packets: Sent = 42, Received = 42, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 122ms, Average = 37ms

Can't complain can I

Ciarán_R

try pinging a server outside of ireland. i get 16ms to boards, 12ms to other irish servers, but once i ping to any server outside of ireland my ping is 200-400ms.

(im on eircom 2mb btw)

parliament

is there anyway of checking current traffic stats for a particular exchange?

Smellyirishman

Looks fine to me.

Pinging www.joystiq.com was grand too, results in the 20ms range.

I am on Eircom 3MBit.

Dundalk Daily

Not sure what a ping is exactly but my eircom modem blew today, its completely lifeless, could this be connected to this Eircom activity.

Gavin

It looks like anyone on an Eircom DSLAM is having trouble, that includes Esat.

C:\Documents and Settings\Gav>tracert www.boards.ie

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [82.195.136.250]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms     1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2   145 ms   137 ms   140 ms  bas002.bmt.esat.net [193.95.142.243]
  3   141 ms   139 ms   138 ms  vlan101.rt001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.141.1]
  4   142 ms   140 ms   136 ms  ge0-0.core001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.140.1]
  5   141 ms   147 ms   145 ms  pos3-0.core001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.131.41]
  6   150 ms   150 ms   149 ms  ge0-0.br001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.4]
  7   154 ms   154 ms   155 ms  border2.hosting365.ie [193.242.111.23]
  8   146 ms   146 ms   149 ms  82.195.143.4
  9   134 ms   133 ms   138 ms  boards.ie [82.195.136.250]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Gav>ping -t 193.95.142.243

Pinging 193.95.142.243 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 193.95.142.243: bytes=32 time=134ms TTL=254
Reply from 193.95.142.243: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=254
Reply from 193.95.142.243: bytes=32 time=121ms TTL=254
Reply from 193.95.142.243: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=254
Reply from 193.95.142.243: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=254
Reply from 193.95.142.243: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=254
Reply from 193.95.142.243: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=254
Reply from 193.95.142.243: bytes=32 time=125ms TTL=254
Reply from 193.95.142.243: bytes=32 time=123ms TTL=254

Ping statistics for 193.95.142.243:
    Packets: Sent = 9, Received = 9, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 100ms, Maximum = 134ms, Average = 117ms
Control-C
^C
C:\Documents and Settings\Gav>

That's pinging the BAS, the very first piece of hardware on the Esat side. It must be something in between causing the latency.. Something on the Eircom network. This does bode well though, means it should get fixed quickly.

Gav

[DVDF]Merlin

Ya I'm suffering the same problem. It seems that nobody in Ireland can play on line outside of the country without encountering pings that are reminiscent of dial up. This has happened to me before it seems to take place every 4 to 6 months or so. The problem seems to be the gateway server into England. I'm with Eircom and i have emailed them regarding this problem(and others) and have yet to get a response other than an automated one. I doubt if they are aware of this anyway, much less being able to do anything about even if they did. The last time i encountered this problem it lasted for 24 hours. When i did finally get to speak to someone at Eircom 2 days later i was told that the problem was not their end and all was well with Eircom ETC:mad: .
So it looks like I'm not playing 2142 or anything else tonight it seems. For the record Eircom's customer support in my experience has to be one of the worst i have yet to encounter, and if i could contact them i would tell them so:mad:

parliament

These all look like BT devices to me...

C:\>tracert www.boards.ie

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [82.195.136.250]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms www.routerlogin.com [10.0.0.2]
2 1083 ms 134 ms 184 ms bas003.bmt.esat.net [193.95.142.244]
3 149 ms 134 ms 124 ms vlan103.rt002.bmt.esat.net [193.95.142.1]
4 111 ms 124 ms 130 ms ge1-0.core001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.140.17]
5 118 ms 118 ms 123 ms pos3-0.core001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.131.41]
6 110 ms 113 ms 104 ms ge0-0.br001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.4]
7 272 ms 316 ms 196 ms border2.hosting365.ie [193.242.111.23]
8 111 ms 103 ms 110 ms 82.195.143.3
9 109 ms 412 ms 356 ms boards.ie [82.195.136.250]

Trace complete.

C:\>

[DVDF]Merlin

Actually i would be grateful if someone could post up the command line to do a tracert i cant for the life of me remember it thanks;)

Gavin

parliament wrote:

These all look like BT devices to me...

People above have clearly pointed out that they are on Eircom. ESAT DSL runs over Eircom equipment in the exchanges.

I'll be mailing support@iol.ie as advised in previous comments on the same problem from several months ago. Eircom customers should probably do the same to their appropriate support addresses

Although it could be two seperate problems alright if Eircom people are only having trouble exiting the country, but local connections are fine, whereas Esat people are having trouble with the very first link.

Gav

tuxy

[DVDF]Merlin wrote:

Actually i would be grateful if someone could post up the command line to do a tracert i cant for the life of me remember it thanks;)

parliament already posted it

tracert

[DVDF]Merlin

tuxy wrote:

parliament already posted it

tracert

Ya sorry guys i need the actual command line. I.E what do i type after tracert i keep getting incorrect syntax error when i type the ip.

JNive

tracert boards.ie


as an example.

defenderdude

Ping is chronic ok - tried playing coduo on DVDF server and quit as it was 250-300.

I am on eircom and noticed the netopia stats say I'm a-ok, low(ish) attenuation 34/15 and 2048/256 but when I've tried measuring the download rate on pcpitstop.com it was only 310 to 400kbps. (typically 1850kbps).

Ahh well, better go talk to the wife... lol

maybe tomorrow. :-)

Defenderdude aka Bogman (on COD)

ninjasurfer1

Guys,
I had very poor speeds today (5MB connection) and restarted the router(netopia). When it came back, it said the DSL was available, but Broadband was disconnected. When I hit the connect button, it prompted me to enter the user name and Password so i did (its always been the default one:
UserName:eircom@eircom.net
Password:broadband1).

Each time it came back and said i had the wrong username or password(evern though this has never changed from day 1).
Could this be due to the poor connections people were talking about earlier in the post (and should i just wait until the morning)or does it sound like something more serious??

[DVDF]Merlin

defenderdude wrote:

Ping is chronic ok - tried playing coduo on DVDF server and quit as it was 250-300.

I am on eircom and noticed the netopia stats say I'm a-ok, low(ish) attenuation 34/15 and 2048/256 but when I've tried measuring the download rate on pcpitstop.com it was only 310 to 400kbps. (typically 1850kbps).

Ahh well, better go talk to the wife... lol

maybe tomorrow. :-)

Defenderdude aka Bogman (on COD)

Well hello Bogman;)

defenderdude

Keep the settings as you have - I'd reckon it's just the day thats in it. I reset my router and it came back eventually, seemed really fast but went back to the same crap within 5 mins. :-(

No need to change the settings you already have methinks m8.

Defenderdude aka Bogman (coduo)

defenderdude

Hi Merlin m8.
Had to disconnect - before the abuse:mad: started to come about my ping

Besides, the slagging about the "usual suspected reasons" which cause high pings were starting too come...

LOL

Good to see you Merlin! :-)
DVDF ROCKS!
kill ya tomorrow me hopes

apeking

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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C:\Documents and Settings\Family>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=194ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=209ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=199ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=219ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 194ms, Maximum = 219ms, Average = 205ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Family>



It seems to be getting a bit better, avearge was 325 earlier but still a joke

PartridgeIRL9

Its absolutely painful, has dropped (in the last 15mins) by about 100, you have to remember just because esat/bt and smart use eircoms exchange to get to the consumer doesnt mean they use eircoms data backbone to access the internet, obiviously they do not as they are not experiencing this. Seriously considering a move to BT, this is not the first downtime this has happened to me.

Pinging www.euro.yahoo.akadns.net [217.12.3.11] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=210ms TTL=247
Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=131ms TTL=247
Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=155ms TTL=247
Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=138ms TTL=247

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

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=136ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=131ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=157ms TTL=58

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

Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=124ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=60

Pinging www.euro.yahoo.akadns.net [217.12.3.11] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=247
Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=156ms TTL=247
Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=234ms TTL=247
Reply from 217.12.3.11: bytes=32 time=157ms TTL=247

Skud

ya **** im on esat but it's eircoms fault,

Down with this sort of thing!

tuxy

mine is back to normal now