Broadband Speed Test thread

rc28 · 28-03-2008 12:31pm

allybhoy wrote: »

Is this good??lol :eek::D

:eek:
I want fiber bb:mad:

Cryos · 28-03-2008 9:52pm

Eircom home 3MB

onedmc · 29-03-2008 12:11pm

Just upgraded to 6mb NTL but now getting half a meg down and up. :mad:

onedmc · 29-03-2008 12:24pm

onedmc wrote: »

Just upgraded to 6mb NTL but now getting half a meg down and up. :mad:

27 minutes on the phone but unfortuanatly all their agents are dealing with other customers and they will have to call me back.

RoyalMarine · 29-03-2008 12:41pm

onedmc wrote: »

27 minutes on the phone but unfortuanatly all their agents are dealing with other customers and they will have to call me back.

thats how ntl operate. you ring them, explain whats going wrong and they schedule a call back.
usually takes 24 - 60 hours for a call back to be done.
and usually ends up with an engineer being scheduled to call to the house.

if you want, there is a premium rate number you can call and speak to a tech support agent straight away but its charged at 95c a miniute.

yoyo · 29-03-2008 1:19pm

Eircom 3 meg, waiting patiently to be upgraded :P

Nick

Ciaran500 · 29-03-2008 1:20pm

Anyone else getting odd speeds from Esat?

This is when I chose a server in New Zeland

EDIT: This would explain it

JNive · 29-03-2008 6:08pm

14ms from Microsoft in Dublin ? thats mighty high :-) should be <5ms really :-) (if its on fibre)

Praetorian · 29-03-2008 6:14pm

The pings to Speedtest.net are not great!

Turner · 29-03-2008 6:15pm

Thread merged with IRISHSPORTSGUY's thread as they are both the same topic.

Chief.

jozi · 29-03-2008 7:33pm

Thats what im getting to day, 3mb metro

Adriatic · 30-03-2008 3:06pm

Net1. 3mb download/upload

jozi · 31-03-2008 12:26pm

Figured i might run speed test from within college, conciderable faster than my 3mb digiweb connection

This was with me downloading

DavyD_83 · 31-03-2008 6:25pm

Eircom 2mb

onedmc · 01-04-2008 8:38am

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

thats how ntl operate. you ring them, explain whats going wrong and they schedule a call back.
usually takes 24 - 60 hours for a call back to be done.
and usually ends up...

2 days and still no callback, so I called again. Another 15 minutes and the agent promised a callback within the next hour. 12 hours later and still no callback. Connect now running at 188k down and 650k up.

Praetorian · 01-04-2008 9:46am

Finally a decent connection fom Eircom

RoyalMarine · 01-04-2008 1:03pm

just had the ntl engineer around

highlydebased · 01-04-2008 1:10pm

Eircom 2mb on a dodgy line in the stix lol

RoyalMarine · 01-04-2008 1:32pm

onedmc wrote: »

2 days and still no callback, so I called again. Another 15 minutes and the agent promised a callback within the next hour. 12 hours later and still no callback. Connect now running at 188k down and 650k up.

ring them and ask for the call centre supervisor/manager and explain that your not waiting anymor and you want to be trransfered to an agent now. dont accept a call back unless its from him/herself.

mickger · 01-04-2008 1:56pm

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

just had the ntl engineer around

Are you a new customer or an old customer thats been upgraded to the new speeds?

RoyalMarine · 01-04-2008 2:31pm

im an old customer. well when i say old, had it 3 months now.

i asked him about it and he said it the main target area for the upgrades are in dublin as they have such an old network there and the cable's are not as new.

here in tipp, he said its a new cable network thats underground and there are very few customers using it down here. so he said thats why my speeds are so good.

he said the speed upgrade wont happen until june.

stanley1 · 01-04-2008 10:14pm

Ping has gone through the roof.

christophicus · 02-04-2008 1:00am

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

im an old customer. well when i say old, had it 3 months now.

i asked him about it and he said it the main target area for the upgrades are in dublin as they have such an old network there and the cable's are not as new.

here in tipp, he said its a new cable network thats underground and there are very few customers using it down here. so he said thats why my speeds are so good.

he said the speed upgrade wont happen until june.

Lol you are getting 17 Mb and they have not given you teh upgrade yet ?? Thats crazy

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RoyalMarine · 02-04-2008 8:28am

christophicus wrote: »

Lol you are getting 17 Mb and they have not given you teh upgrade yet ?? Thats crazy .

ran it last night and it was down to 11mbps
this morning its on 10mbps.

i reckon ive got a good line to the network thats all.

hopefully ill get a good speed increase

but im more interested in the increased download cap!

stanley1 · 02-04-2008 11:34am

why is the ping rate so high?

steve-hosting36 · 02-04-2008 11:41am

Try www.speedtest.ie and see what you get..

Black_Knight · 02-04-2008 11:42am

stanley1 wrote: »

why is the ping rate so high?

Was your network busy while testing?
Was your computer hacking away at some task while testing?

Check it a few times, sometimes ya just get a high ping. Im getting a ping of near 300 here at work. Then again, theres a few thousand people on the network.

steve-hosting36 · 02-04-2008 11:43am

Black_Knight · 02-04-2008 11:47am

steve-hosting36 wrote: »

Nice!
Thats better then NUIGs Nuns Island speed which is pretty high up there!

everdead.ie · 02-04-2008 3:26pm

What really sucks is that despite my 6mb down and 512kb up it still depends on a website to upload files to you so you can be waiting for ages to watch stuff:mad:

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