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So: Why do eircom suck like 10 Dysons?

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  • 23-09-2008 1:03pm
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    banquo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭


    Saw this link comparing broadband speeds from around the world, from last november; even 10 months ago Japan had an average household penetration of 93mbps. My 3mbps line sucks ass.

    http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0711/

    I'm trying to figure it out and just can't. IF magnet can offer 50mbps then a lack of technology is no excuse. Can it be actually be that eircom are just totally clueless, lazy and nearsighted?


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    NeVeR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,330 ✭✭✭NeVeR


    Well it's to do with the old lines that are there as well.

    But ppl on fiber... should they be able to get these speeds?

    I'm not techie.. but whats the fastest speed you can put down a fiber optic line?... what is Japan using?


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    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    And then they do something stupid like upgarding speeds and not updating their equipment :rolleyes:


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    paulm17781
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    Fibre will do very fast, I can't remember how fast, at least 4Gbps.

    Eircon don't offer as they have a lot of old copper and they won't upgrade it.

    Magnet only offer 50 Mpbs where they have fibre, that isn't a lot.

    It is a lot to do with lack of technology, lack of caring, lack of population density.


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Or upgrading the copper...


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    everdead.ie
    Registered Users Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    population density is a huge part in ireland we all like to have our own nice houses where as in japan a whole lot of people live in apartments so they can run fibre through the walls pretty cost effectively. I read somewhere i think it was on the register that around 80% of the cost of fibre is digging up our roads. according to wikipedia the population density is 5796/km2 in ireland its something like 60.3/km2 but maybe its increased a little since then (if i'm wrong correct me) so that makes it a hell of a lot more cost effective to put fibre down.
    overall population density for japan is 337/km2.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo


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    xbox36016
    Closed Accounts Posts: 764 ✭✭✭xbox36016


    ya my 2mb from parlico its hiting only 350kb/s its far shi.t


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    everdead.ie
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    xbox36016 wrote: »
    ya my 2mb from parlico its hiting only 350kb/s its far shi.t
    do you mean your downloading off the net at 350kbits or you did a speedtest that said that


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    xbox36016
    Closed Accounts Posts: 764 ✭✭✭xbox36016


    this is what i am geting

    328038879.png


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    Feelgood
    Registered Users Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭Feelgood


    xbox36016 wrote: »
    this is what i am geting

    328038879.png

    hehehehehe, thats quality....

    I'm gonna get that put onto a poster for my bedroom wall. :D


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    xbox36016
    Closed Accounts Posts: 764 ✭✭✭xbox36016


    and the ''fixid it today'' ya sure day did water on the wire and at my house for 3 hours and its evan worse than before


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    callaway92
    Registered Users Posts: 14,657 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    xbox36016 wrote: »
    this is what i am geting

    328038879.png

    Back in 1986 this would have been just below average


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    xbox36016
    Closed Accounts Posts: 764 ✭✭✭xbox36016


    its gone for **** callaway 92 yap 1980s speeds


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    herewegoagain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭herewegoagain


    More like 1940s speed


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    xbox36016
    Closed Accounts Posts: 764 ✭✭✭xbox36016


    lol hereswegoagan so no msn


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    everdead.ie
    Registered Users Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    fair enough i hope thats a wireless connection and not plugged straight into the wall/router that way it would be possible your just to far away from the router


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    Magnet: Rory
    Company Representative Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭Magnet: Rory


    It must be said that a very large number of telco companies are struggling to raise investment at this time for new projects so it may be as you are for the foreseeable future........sorry to say.


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    xbox36016
    Closed Accounts Posts: 764 ✭✭✭xbox36016


    no i was right beside it on my loptop


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    everdead.ie
    Registered Users Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    well if you try a cable straight from the modem you might squeeze a few extra bites out of it sorry to say it you should be sharing it with a maximum of 24 people so 2000000/24= 83.3kb oh wasn't expecting that looks like your sharing your line with a lot of people


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    xbox36016
    Closed Accounts Posts: 764 ✭✭✭xbox36016


    no i am one off the only 4 whare i live how have bradband thare is only 15 houses whare i live


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    Mongey
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭Mongey


    xbox36016 wrote: »
    no i am one off the only 4 whare i live how have bradband thare is only 15 houses whare i live
    Are any of them literate?


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    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    It's very easy to blame eircom, they are just doing what commercial companies do in markets with limited competition i.e. maximising their profits.

    There's nothing driving the market forward, eircom aren't going to compete with themselves or offer higher speed products 'in the national interest'.

    We've suffered from being in a small very poorly regulated market place with a lot of distortions. The drivers of speed elsewhere were the cable companies, our previous cable companies Chorus and NTL relied on the fact that they had exclusive access to BBC and ITV and just failed to invest in broadband infrastructure. That's all changed since Sky digital came along and since UPC took the cable companies over.

    Wireless services haven't been capable of providing speeds, although that might change.

    We need to be shouting at our idiotic political leaders and ComReg who are supposed to be encouraging competition and driving the market to be more streamlined.

    It's a bit like asking how many eircom marketing people does it take to change a light bulb? Answer : none, as they'll just standardise on darkness and charge €39.99 / month for a small flash light.


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    xbox36016
    Closed Accounts Posts: 764 ✭✭✭xbox36016


    ya i no this but i have bradband whit 3 nad its hits 3.0mb/s whare i live and my eircom only hits today its 0.040kb/sit is going whorse by the day and thay have bing fixing it for about 3 weaks now so many paple have bing out side my house


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