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

KNO3

heggie wrote: »

so for some reason i wasnt upgraded. great.

Terenure here as well, I've been upgraded, don't know what time it happened at today. I just have the ordinary Eircom consumer package, upgraded from 2->3mb.

Decerto

was upgraded from 2mb to 3mb and for some reason my ping to all servers has increased by 25ms approx can anyone explain why???

Sully

Sully wrote: »

According to the information supplied by Eircom, my exchange in Tramore should have been upgraded the weekend of July 26th. Now, from speaking to EsatBT they said its not yet been done. Why the delay?

All sorted.. twas upgraded. Your man in Esat was mistaken

mattman

Decerto wrote: »

was upgraded from 2mb to 3mb and for some reason my ping to all servers has increased by 25ms approx can anyone explain why???

higher speeds= higher pings...just the way it works!

ShaneU

Artane upgraded \o/

seansshack

my netopia software version is 7.4.2r2. Would an upgrade help with the sync speed issue of 5 meg rather than 7?

I expected to see 7 and have issues downloading at that speed. Not see 5 megs and get even less than that actually...

ongarite

tenandtracer wrote: »

Clonee, 1.4 km from exchange, still quite a bit off 7.6

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Same for me. I'm in Ongar about 1.5km from Clonee exchange.
Syncing at 5102/512 since this morning.

KerranJast

Kanturk Exchange. Netopia modems telling me line is now 2560kbps down, 384kbps up. Restarted modem several times but speed is now 1/3 of what is was preupgrade. Nice one Eircom :mad:

Cmar-Ireland

From Monasterevin, Co. Kildare

Decerto

mattman wrote: »

higher speeds= higher pings...just the way it works!

no it isnt..... anyone else know why

seansshack

router 5120/512

speed test.net 4237/231

what confuses me is not the speed drop in test (as have to explore connections in house) + 2 k to exchange etc.

But why would the netopia router show sync speed of 5120?

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thefinalstage

seansshack wrote: »

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Spawky

mattman wrote: »

higher speeds= higher pings...just the way it works!

Not to flame you but you are wrong with this one, higher speed does not have to equal higher pings.

Completely different. I hope eircom can sort this part of the upgrade out.

mattman

got upgraded today...

im on 3 meg(254KB's)...now...563KB's

so around 5 meg..ish..but happy with that..cause Im way outside the town..
no download limits is the BIG thing...yippeee.

ping times are about doubled..depends on which server...

so average from 18ms on boards.ie to 56ms ish..Surfing the net does not seem faster..same stuff.just for downloads...got 563KB's from www.gamespot.com (which im a member - thus fast speeds)..

m.

downloaded 2.06gig file in about 45 mins.. (Americans army game)

mattman

Spawky wrote: »

Not to flame you but you are wrong with this one, higher speed does not have to equal higher pings.

Completely different. I hope eircom can sort this part of the upgrade out.

ok..your kinda right..but in general when upgrading ..so far most people have worse pings...im on BT.

and same for me..and lots others!

anyway...5 meg is fine...no difference in surfin net...i set up static IP on my computers..seemed to speed wireless surfing a little..

m.

seansshack

cheers!

router:

speed test:

mattman

ahhhh..

this is great!

12meg file in 13 seconds!

m.! (seemed to fly down that time!)...

mattman

ah..(again) !

87.1 me file in 2m40s...

these upgrades are great!

m.

smellslikeshoes

mattman wrote: »

ok..your kinda right..but in general when upgrading ..so far most people have worse pings...im on BT.

and same for me..and lots others!

anyway...5 meg is fine...no difference in surfin net...i set up static IP on my computers..seemed to speed wireless surfing a little..

m.

Its only that case with this upgrade and thats only because they are pushing the lines to the absolute limit so they have put higher interleaving in place. For any other situation higher speeds would never mean higher pings.

DECEiFER

mattman wrote: »

higher speeds= higher pings...just the way it works!

Higher speeds != higher pings, necessarily. However, for Eircom customers, it does.

mattman

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

Its only that case with this upgrade and thats only because they are pushing the lines to the absolute limit so they have put higher interleaving in place. For any other situation higher speeds would never mean higher pings.

sounds good!

m

Fretless Bass

got my bt broadband line updated last night but noticed this morning my home phone line is dead. way to go eircom messing people around.:mad:

mattman

Fretless Bass wrote: »

got my bt broadband line updated last night but noticed this morning my home phone line is dead. way to go eircom messing people around.:mad:

switch to BT!

I was upgraded this morning..no problems..

im way out of town..and get 5meg ish!

m.

PogMoThoin

mattman wrote: »

no download limits is the BIG thing...yippeee.

Who's your provider or what package have you thats completely unlimited?

leche solara

I see that after the upgrade that my nosie margin has gone doen to an average of 7-8db. It has been hopping around and has gone as high as 10, but also as low as 2. Is there anything I can do to get it to settle at a higher number. So far it hasn't caused any problems, but I believe if it goes below 7 it can cause synch problems.

tinner777

still no upgrade, will they be working all weekend?

mattman

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Who's your provider or what package have you thats completely unlimited?

BT!
Option 3 !

http://www.btireland.ie/AtHome_bb.shtml

NO LIMITS!!!!

M.

heggie

anyone know why soem people on my exchange are upgraded, but i'm not yet??

Decerto

wat is interleaving and will it be changed after the upgrades are complete?

StickyMcGinty

heggie wrote: »

anyone know why soem people on my exchange are upgraded, but i'm not yet??

are you on 1 meg? i dont think the 1 megs get upgraded