[Eircom & Resellers..BT, UTV etc] ADSL Speed upgrade to 8MB discussion...ongoing

Praetorian

http://212.23.23.177/ADSL/default.aspx

This is like watching paint dry everyone. It'll happen when it happens. It's unlikely to be in the first few hours of June. I think the upgrades are weeks away.

DECEiFER

Praetorian wrote: »

http://212.23.23.177/ADSL/default.aspx

This is like watching paint dry everyone. It'll happen when it happens. It's unlikely to be in the first few hours of June. I think the upgrades are weeks away.

I agree. I never expected Eircom to roll anything out until late June or early July at the earliest, and I would be shocked to find out otherwise.

Beau x1

I'm guessing we'll see increases on the 23rd-29th.

DECEiFER

Beau x1 wrote: »

I'm guessing we'll see increases on the 23rd-29th.

We should start a pool.

cupthehand

26th of june between 11.13 am and 3.44pm

will_forde

16th of june, sometime in the middle of the night. Hopefully sooner.

DECEiFER

Jesus! I was joking. The mods are gonna get pretty angry if we keep spamming the thread with information of non-pertinence to anything factual about the speed increases. :rolleyes:

Creamy Goodness

ahh here feck off just guessing dates, i came in here and it went to the last post and i thought that they were offical dates

Phlann

It's very odd the way there's been no word whatsoever from Eircom... they've basically said nothing since the announcement earlier this year, haven't they? Why no official word?

Even then you'd think somebody in there would know what was going on and tell us. Every other ISP seems to have snitches in here telling us everything.

I refuse to believe that Eircom are actually running a tight ship!

13th of June, between 00:00 and 01:00

sdanseo

Phlann wrote: »

It's very odd the way there's been no word whatsoever from Eircom... they've basically said nothing since the announcement earlier this year, haven't they? Why no official word?

Even then you'd think somebody in there would know what was going on and tell us. Every other ISP seems to have snitches in here telling us everything.

I refuse to believe that Eircom are actually running a tight ship!

13th of June, between 00:00 and 01:00

I rang eircom in March to ask if I waited till this month would the price stay the same (@48.40) for the 7.6Mb (stupid question in retrospect, maybe) - poor lady on the phone hadn't a clue what I was on about.

Gonzo

I remember there used to be a page on eircoms website announcing when there might be downtime in certain locations due to broadband maintenance etc, if we are all due an upgrade at somestage over this month, there should be an announcment somewhere there telling us that there will 20 minutes of downtime etc?

Richard Dower

My line can handle 12MB, according to that checker above...i'm ready!

DECEiFER

Are you all sure it's going to be changing to the ADSL2+ standard? If so, that means it's going to be an uncontented line (1:1).

Richard Dower

Eircom going 1:1??...ooh, LOL!

kaizersoze

Gonzo wrote: »

I remember there used to be a page on eircoms website announcing when there might be downtime in certain locations due to broadband maintenance etc, if we are all due an upgrade at somestage over this month, there should be an announcment somewhere there telling us that there will 20 minutes of downtime etc?

http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/announce/

Has hardly been used since the last upgrade though.

BopNiblets

Hey guys, I'm with Esat BT or whatever BT are these days, 2MB, are they upgrading too?
A guy in work on DigiWeb wireless just saif he got bumped from 3MB to 6MB and I'm jealous...

kaizersoze

BopNiblets wrote: »

Hey guys, I'm with Esat BT or whatever BT are these days, 2MB, are they upgrading too?
A guy in work on DigiWeb wireless just saif he got bumped from 3MB to 6MB and I'm jealous...

Yes. You're going to 3 meg.

BloodSugarSex

just a question........on that line speed capability test what do you put in the SNR margin box? is it the downstream SNR?

Mr Mojo

Was on the phone to BT the other day, the woman said BT's upgrades were *hoping* to go live around 16th-19th June.

hellboy99

Mr Mojo wrote: »

Was on the phone to BT the other day, the woman said BT's upgrades were *hoping* to go live around 16th-19th June.

Believe it when i see it.

Mr Mojo

BloodSugarSex wrote: »

just a question........on that line speed capability test what do you put in the SNR margin box? is it the downstream SNR?

Yep

Creamy Goodness

Mr Mojo wrote: »

Was on the phone to BT the other day, the woman said BT's upgrades were *hoping* to go live around 16th-19th June.

i'm surprised the telephone monkies even know that there's an upgrade happening.

it's not uncommon practice to only tell them the day before the live day.

BloodSugarSex

Mr Mojo wrote: »

Yep

nice one! i can get 8128Kbps on a normal ADSL service and 19000Kbps on ADSL2

:eek:

conceited

Why don't all yee smart people social engineer the info ?

Griffin87

will this affect all providers or just eircom and bt i am on perlico 2mb. will i get a increase in speed too ?

pizzahead77

All bitstream providers will be affected by this - bt, utv, irish broadband dsl, digiweb dsl, perlico, imagine, etc.

Rebel021

Richard Dower wrote: »

My line can handle 12MB, according to that checker above...i'm ready!

Can you give me a link to that

Rebel021

I'm on a 3meg line no change whatsoever so far
I didn't even know this was happening untill I came across anothe webpage

jarvis

Got a letter this morning from BT, just a promotional "What good value we are " type leaflet. It gave a list of all available price plans/bundles and it stated that I will be freely upgraded to 8 if I'm on LLU or 7.6 otherwise and that it will be done by the end of June.

I know it's nothing we didn't already know but at least it's a communication.
My father in law got the same letter last week.

Still Waiting......

Richard Dower

Rebel021 wrote: »

Can you give me a link to that

http://212.23.23.177/ADSL/default.aspx