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30-09-2008 7:47pm#1
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Noticed that myself.Captain Slow IRL wrote: »Is there any good alternative to eircom in Mayo? They have been getting progressively worse over the summer - xbox live is a nightmare with them now.
You have a few options, but they're limited:
Eircom (which you're using now)
Mobile Broadband (Vodafone, o2 (My job), Three)
Westnet (oscarBravo's baby)
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Noticed that myself.
You have a few options, but they're limited:
Eircom (which you're using now)
Mobile Broadband (Vodafone, o2 (My job), Three)
Westnet (oscarBravo's baby)
:rolleyes: You mean Mobile Internet that sometimes gives broadband speeds and has very high latency
Perlico, BT, Vodafone and Digiweb all re-sell the Eircom packages, so Your troubles will stay. The latency on Eircom broadband is crazy at the moment, I've the upto 7.6Mbit package at home and its shíte. My ping to boards.ie is a cronic 45-90ms when it used be 15ms before their upgrades. I'm finding it impossible to game on it since, 120ms pings to UK servers.0 -
They all depend on your area
If you're sitting under a 3g, fully updated mast, then you can expect brilliant mobile broadband. If you're in a Touch and Go area, then you can expect a certain level of bad quality.
o2, for example, will work even if it can't get signal on a 3g mast, but it will be terribly slow. On 3', if you can't get signal on a 3g mast, then you can't get signal at all. Latency on o2 is pretty good in comparison with eircom and the other few out there. On 3', it tends to be a little 'iffy.
We're obviously not making enough money for eircom and so they dont give a fúck, so i say fúck them. And the day I can get reasonable broadband anywhere else, I'll be on that boat.0 -
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They all depend on your area
If you're sitting under a 3g, fully updated mast, then you can expect brilliant mobile broadband.
But then you have the brain tumor to worry about:(
It's ****ing atrocious tonight - the only consolation is pissing off the yanks
"Does anyone else notice this lag!?"0 -
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my house is within view of a 3g mast, and i got a 26ms ping on my brothers vodafone e220 mobile broadband, i got a 31ms ping on an e220 o2 modem. it was longer at work, in the middle of town, somewhere around 40ms ping to boards using irishiptest(can't remember now). I'm not denying latency differences at alloscarBravo wrote: »o O?
I'm not going to get into a pissing contest here, but how often do you see 20ms pings on mobile connections?
Of course, if you have signal westnet wins the game hands down, but i have never really tested westnet (apart from once or twice). My house is out of reach of westnet, but is within the o2 catchment area. On the other hand, on the other side of the hill, one of my best friends is receiving signal over the hill from westnet, but is outside o2's catchment area.
i'm not entering a pissing contest either, but every single type of broadband (that I know about at least) has it's limit's, it's weaknesses, but also it's advantages. O2, (and i'm open to correction on this) has more flexible signal, and can host higher numbers of connections per mast, but Westnet's internet would be most capable of holding a high quality VoIP conversation because of less packet loss than o2, higher latency, and a permanent connection
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I meant 'flexible' as in, the range of coverage rather than qualityPogMoThoin wrote: »:rolleyes: In other words, it works sometimes, but not others
Shot ur self in the foot there m8
Btw, i've nothing against westnet at all - i think they're quite good ftr.
also, interesting to note: http://www.speedtest.net/global.php?continent=3&country=49®ion=1492&city=31977 .
westnet ranks pretty good.0 -
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Have Westnet myself now for 18 months and really can't complain, had to odd hitch as in it disappears for maybe 5 minutes or so, but I think if its done that 3 times in the last year thats the most.
I was on my brother in laws laptop last nite, Eircon, and he has the same connection I have but Westnet would have been much faster, but he did say that Eircom can be up and down speed wise.
So if you can get Westnet then I definately would. Any sign of a 2MB residental speed yet OscarBravo out of interest?
Keep up the good work btw.0 -
I was gonna **** the router out the window friday - got home around half 5, tried to connect, wouldn't load any page - all green lights on the router. Tried the xbox, that worked fine - tried another laptop to check mine wasn't packing in, same problem. Getting a little pissed off at this stage, rang tech support (was gonna give them a ragging), number rang out twice on me but I was advised to log onto eircom.net to resolve any issues I have.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
Broadband was back on without fail at 6pm
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While you're waiting: we won't be passing on the VAT increase to residential customers - we're adjusting the ex-VAT price so that the inc-VAT price stays the same.
I know it's only a few cent a month, but like thon big retail chain keeps telling us: every little helps.
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oscarBravo wrote: »While you're waiting: we won't be passing on the VAT increase to residential customers - we're adjusting the ex-VAT price so that the inc-VAT price stays the same.
I know it's only a few cent a month, but like thon big retail chain keeps telling us: every little helps.
That VAT increase is a pain in the ****. Have to change prices, cash registers, etc. just to add 0.5% onto the price of something that you're paying for yourself. I feel your pain oB, I suppose it's more of an inconvenience rather than an ordeal though. Kudos for taking the expense yourselves. 0 -
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foxfordbuild wrote: »I have a 4mb dsl with Eircom in Foxford, have not had any complaints with speed, great for work (vpn) and gaming. Of course I am paying through the nose - €107.69 per month but need it for work, they give me € 45pm towards it so thats something. Still waiting on this upgrade to 10mb but don't see that happening anytime soon.
The fact that You stated You have the 4Mbit package from Eircom means that You are on a business package which uses ADSL2+ with low interleaving which doesn't suffer from the high latency problems that residential does. This is why they can offer upto 10Mbit on business packages. Business contention ratio is only 12:1 IIRC.
The residential packages use ADSL and interleaving is set to very high causing serious problems. Move to residential and see if your still happy, I have it here and its terrible. Contention on upto 7.6Mbit residential is 24:1.
My point is that you cannot compare a business package to a residential one0 -
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