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

Jonathan

kleefarr wrote: »

I have just checked the BT site and it lists my exchange as 24Mb enabled.

Do I have to contact them to get this speed?

This is only for eircom + eircom reseller upgrades.

This thread is all about the BT LLU upgrades.

DECEiFER

kleefarr wrote: »

I have just checked the BT site and it lists my exchange as 24Mb enabled.

Do I have to contact them to get this speed?

I believe so.

delllat

it takes 2 weeks to move to bt 24meg apparently from eircom 7.6meg

kleefarr

jmccrohan wrote: »

This is only for eircom + eircom reseller upgrades.

This thread is all about the BT LLU upgrades.

Ah. Thanks.

My name is URL

I've just been on to Eircom (again) about the interleaving issue, I told them I wanted to be downgraded to 3MB unless I could have my connection set on fast-path, they said they'd forward the request to the field technicians because they're unable to do it remotely and it should be switched within 5-10 working days. We'll see :rolleyes:

jarvis

Since the upgrade I was getting very erratic download speeds jumping fron 750Kb to 140 back up etc in the blink of an eye.
Rang BT tech support last night and he said "he could see the problem" (Don't understand how) he done a line check and said it was perfect and then he said he will escalate the issue and I'd receive a call soon......

10 minutes later, checked my speeds on url.ie/qv and I was getting 790Kbps constant with the odd fluctuation of 1-10Kbps, downloading the whole file with average speed of 777Kbps. Don't know if this is a coinsidence or is it possible that he could have fixed whatever the issue was as soon as I hung up????

Either way, I'm happy now. Pings still bad but don't game online so don't see that much difference.

Calebmcd

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAH!

I have gone from 3mb down to 3mb and now my pings are back too!

Pinging boards.ie [89.234.66.107] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=59

Ping statistics for 89.234.66.107:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 16ms, Maximum = 18ms, Average = 16ms

Better than 60-70 for sure...

Same stats too

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3072 kbps 384 kbps
Line Attenuation 48.0 db 28.0 db
Noise Margin 12.6 db 12.0 db


And instead of a ping of 125+ on speedtest

cian1500ww

I haven't been upgraded yet but somwthing is horribly wrong:


Thats 3MB UTV BB, I'm ringing them right away.

cian1500ww

cian1500ww wrote: »

I haven't been upgraded yet but somwthing is horribly wrong:


Thats 3MB UTV BB, I'm ringing them right away.

Just rang them and they said it was due to the upgrades. My line hasn't been upgraded yet so why am I suffering such huge pings and terrible speed ?

Cmar-Ireland

Web browsing for me on the supposed 7.6mb service has now become a very slow experiance. Slower than my old 3mb bt service.

Am I right in saying that if I downgrade to the old 2mb (now 3mb) service, the contention will double to 1:48 so it's likely that it will be slower?

Hank Scorpio

No
Unless your exchange has congestion problems @ night
If your from a small town or a village you should be safe.

Lower latency on 2mb/3mb/1mb means pages load quicker.

Cmar-Ireland

nuxxx wrote: »

No
Unless your exchange has congestion problems @ night
If your from a small town or a village you should be safe.

Lower latency on 2mb/3mb/1mb means pages load quicker.

I'm in a smallish town, but even before the upgrade, it was pretty slow at peak times. I'm afraid it will be worse now at 1:48

MickyJoe

MickyJoe wrote: »

I'm getting 64/8 on a 7140

Thanks for that, it confirms that the interleaving is unbelievably high. I wonder if they will even change it? They said they would but I wouldn't hold my breath. Maybe if enough people downgrade?

Yeah I've a 7140 too by the way.

Valentia

If I do a test on Speedtest.net to Dublin I get:



If I do one to London or elsewhere I get something like this:



So it's pretty obvious that the line to my house is not the problem. Anyone else noticing this?

BTW this is consistently happening.

Jonathan

Valentia wrote: »

If I do a test on Speedtest.net to Dublin I get:



If I do one to London or elsewhere I get something like this:



So it's pretty obvious that the line to my house is not the problem. Anyone else noticing this?

BTW this is consistently happening.

This is always gonna happen.

Going from your house to dublin is a small distance with lots of backhaul.

Going from your house to london is a large distance with your data fighting lots of other users for space on the interconnectors between ireland and england.

My name is URL

Valentia wrote: »

If I do a test on Speedtest.net to Dublin I get:



If I do one to London or elsewhere I get something like this:



So it's pretty obvious that the line to my house is not the problem. Anyone else noticing this?

BTW this is consistently happening.

No, my speeds from London are ok, I know speedtest.net isn't accurate but theres obviously an issue for you somewhere =/




edit: JmC bet me to it, your London speed is crazy though for 7.6MB

Valentia

I'm not in Dublin. Trim.

Sorry but I have seen many times in the past when speeds to London were quicker than to Dublin so I don't go along with what you are saying. It surely has something to do with BT backhaul??

blubloblu

Does this look like 7.6 Megs to you?

Sean^DCT4

upgraded from 2mb to 3mb, I used to get <50pings to a UK server. I am now getting 150-180 after the upgrade.

Seriously pissed off about this. I have no other alternatives to Eircom!

Jonathan

Sean^DCT4 wrote: »

upgraded from 2mb to 3mb, I used to get <50pings to a UK server. I am now getting 150-180 after the upgrade.

Seriously pissed off about this. I have no other alternatives to Eircom!

What app you using out of interest?

Skyuser

My download speed from London is over the 7000 mark, strange that everywhere in Ireland I can only get around 6800-6900

wcarey1975

Speedtest gave me the following test results. Not too bad as I'm currently on the 3Mb (old 2mB). Ping like everyone else has gone up aswell.

My name is URL

jmccrohan wrote: »

What app you using out of interest?

It looks like VisualRoute.

http://www.visualroute.com/

Sean^DCT4

yes it's VisualRoute.

Sierra Oscar

Looks like I got the speed increase, just noticed it a minute ago when I was downloading an update on steam (it was downloading at 6MB!).

This is great news, considering the BT site said I would not get the speed increase until "post September".



I still seem to be getting a decent ping on my servers - which are located in London. Around 50-60, a slight increase.

DECEiFER

This is the best I can get, and it would be 150Kb/s less if I used the PPPoE setting instead of PPPoA.



My router syncs at the full 7616/672. My attenuation is 3dB / 2dB (down / up) and SNR is 17.3dB / 12dB, and live 100m from my exchange.

I wonder why others can get higher speeds with lesser stats, even using BT Ireland, like me?

Jonathan

DECEiFER wrote: »

This is the best I can get, and it would be 150Kb/s less if I used the PPPoE setting instead of PPPoA.



My router syncs at the full 7616/672. My attenuation is 3dB / 2dB (down / up) and SNR is 17.3dB / 12dB, and live 100m from my exchange.

I wonder why others can get higher speeds with lesser stats, even using BT Ireland, like me?

You are doing well do get that. Overheads on PPPoE are about 15%

You will never get full speed. There will always be overheads, they are just 8 bytes more available in the MTU when you choose PPPoA

DECEiFER

jmccrohan wrote: »

You are doing well do get that. Overheads on PPPoE are about 15%

You will never get full speed. There will always be overheads, they are just 8 bytes more available in the MTU when you choose PPPoA

The speed is grand, for the state of our nation. I was just wondering how other 7.6Mb'ers can get more, considering that my line is much better than average...

Must be some exchange issue, where each is different.

vishal

Hi, I got a good increase in download speeds but my upload stayed the same
why?

I have excellent stats
DSL Modulation Mode: GDMT
DSL Path Mode: INTERLEAVED
Downstream Rate: 7616 Kbps
Upstream Rate: 672 Kbps
Downstream Margin: 10 db
Upstream Margin: 12 db
Downstream Line Attenuation: 13
Upstream Line Attenuation: 8

DECEiFER

vishal wrote: »

Hi, I got a good increase in download speeds but my upload stayed the same
why?

I have excellent stats
DSL Modulation Mode: GDMT
DSL Path Mode: INTERLEAVED
Downstream Rate: 7616 Kbps
Upstream Rate: 672 Kbps
Downstream Margin: 10 db
Upstream Margin: 12 db
Downstream Line Attenuation: 13
Upstream Line Attenuation: 8

Check to see that nobody is uploading or downloading on your connection in the house. Make sure you're not doing any either. Then run the test again on all 3 Irish servers, and see what you get. Post them here too, if you want us to take a look.