Eircom speed

BoobeR

Anyone else pinging bad with eircom today? 160ms to any UK server.. games1 = 25 instead of 15. (3mb - midlands area)

Also checked what speed router was connected at..
Speed
3072/384 (kbps)

Gonzo

yeh im gettin it too

BoobeR

ffs meant to have div1 clanmatch tonight and it does this :mad:

Pacifico

Yup around 170 here

BoobeR

ireland is broken!;)

Champ

Eircom Limerick here.

Noticed some latency problems here as well.
Did a bit of investigating.

Routing to limerick exchange is fine...
Heading out from Limerick....
The last hop before data packets go outside Ireland slam into at least one Dublin ip(presumingly Eircom?) where there is a massive slowdown of around 200ms.
If you try tracing packets to eircom.net there's no slow down which i'm guessing is because its hosted natively and thus has no need to go through Dublin. Thus i'm thinking only packets heading overseas are getting hammered. No packet loss so non latency sensitive apps should be okay....

Eircom DNS1 (Secondary DNS seems nominal) for the South-West seems to be fluctating in performance as an added note. So maybe Eircom are up to something...?

Pacifico

Its a regular occurrence at this stage...:rolleyes:

CrowdedHouse

Seem to be back to normal here in Oranmore,speed was varying all afternoon from 200-400kb instead of usual 1.8 Mb

Recent Tests

16/01/2007 19:39 1754 kbps (215 KB/s) 205 kbps (25 KB/s) 99 % 28 ms 121 ms
16/01/2007 19:06 147 kbps (18 KB/s) 211 kbps (26 KB/s) 25 % 51 ms 1106 ms
16/01/2007 16:36 338 kbps (42 KB/s) 209 kbps (26 KB/s) 48 % 51 ms 843 ms
16/01/2007 15:37 339 kbps (42 KB/s) 210 kbps (26 KB/s) 62 % 55 ms 483 ms
16/01/2007 15:32 451 kbps (55 KB/s) 210 kbps (26 KB/s) 66 % 53 ms 533 ms
16/01/2007 15:31 430 kbps (53 KB/s) 211 kbps (26 KB/s) 23 % 57 ms 651 ms
11/01/2007 19:53 1792 kbps (219 KB/s) 217 kbps (27 KB/s) 89 % 29 ms 221 ms

Champ

Seem to be back to normal here

Just checked now, oh yeah in Dublin its gone down from 200ms to around 20ms..

Go gamers go:D

Pacifico

Yeah its fine now in Limerick

Champ wrote:

Go gamers go:D

BoobeR

woohoo! clanmatch is a go-go!

Dcully

Well my ping is 300-600 the past 4 months in evening times,30-40 during the day.
Whole town gets same issue,eircom do **** all about it.

Count yourselves lucky when your slow for a few hours.

dak

Have a look at www.opendns.com . Solved my Bt problem .Don't see why it wouldn't do the same for eircom!

OfflerCrocGod

BoobeR wrote:

ireland is broken!;)

It's been broken for years.

Dcully

Hi dak ive done opendns already.
My router page shows the new numbers but when i do the opendns test pages they fail.
Cant figure it out.

Ok ive just tried option 2 and its working now.