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EIRCOM DROPS SPEED! around 20:00 in evening...
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30-12-2009 9:45pm#1
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heres mine bud:
Max Allowed Speed (kbps) 7168
SN Margin (dB) 12.50
Line Attenuation (dB) 17.50
CRC Errors 23
if thats the right thing? i havent tryed to changce channel yet, as i am stuck on internet, and cant restart atm
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what would be the difference between wep and WPA ( sorry for being newb), and i have mine own iphone aswell athome, so i whant to keep it connected all the time
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ShadowHearth wrote: »heres mine bud:
Max Allowed Speed (kbps) 7168
SN Margin (dB) 12.50
Line Attenuation (dB) 17.50
CRC Errors 23
if thats the right thing? i havent tryed to changce channel yet, as i am stuck on internet, and cant restart atm.
what would be the difference between wep and WPA ( sorry for being newb), and i have mine own iphone aswell athome, so i whant to keep it connected all the time
WEP doesn't work, WPA does (against all but the very determined/bored). Try wired and changing channels to help rule out the wireless aspect as already mentioned.0 -
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meh i've all but given up on eircom at this point. it was fine til about 4 weeks ago (about the time of the floods). the connection at peak went to less than 1/3 of what speed we normally got.
they rang us, saying there was no problem with the exchange, and i ended up buying a linksys modem and router and all, but its still crap.
now i got my mate that just told me hes been getting the exact same problems as me for the same period of time on the exact same exchange, yet eircom say nothings wrong?
EDIT: Also, something interesting, Digiweb rang me after I inquired about the packages they offered. They couldnt offer me a faster speed than 1mb (I'm also on 1mb on eircom because they said I couldnt get any faster), and Digiweb said that I CAN get a faster line, but eircom have to release the throttle on my line themselves. 0 -
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cherryghost wrote: »meh i've all but given up on eircom at this point. it was fine til about 4 weeks ago (about the time of the floods). the connection at peak went to less than 1/3 of what speed we normally got.
they rang us, saying there was no problem with the exchange, and i ended up buying a linksys modem and router and all, but its still crap.
now i got my mate that just told me hes been getting the exact same problems as me for the same period of time on the exact same exchange, yet eircom say nothings wrong?
Eircom work by power of numbers. If it is a contention issue and it does sound like that to me then get as many people with the same issue to call up support. One or two calls and they cannot say there is an issue in the exchange only isolated incidents on those lines. Power in numbers.cherryghost wrote: »EDIT: Also, something interesting, Digiweb rang me after I inquired about the packages they offered. They couldnt offer me a faster speed than 1mb (I'm also on 1mb on eircom because they said I couldnt get any faster), and Digiweb said that I CAN get a faster line, but eircom have to release the throttle on my line themselves.
There is no such thing as a throttle on the line. Something like that would make no sense. Believe me, Eircom will offer you the max available to you or in some cases whats not available to you and you get half the speed advertised. I reckon you have to take digiwebs offer with a pinch of salt if refering to broadband over landline. They could sell you 7mb but you may still only get one. They may mean their metro service or fixed wireless.0 -
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Do yourself a favour and move to another provider, I changed to Digiweb (12:1 ratio) and now have full 7mbps all the time.
Here's my thread on my experiences - http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055708557
I had exactly the same issue, starting around the same time as yours too. I made several calls to Eircom over a 2-3 week period and even emailed them conclusive graphs showing that my bandwidth was dropping from 7Mb to <1Mb after 6:00pm. They escalated the problem to "the engineers" twice, but the same answer came back both times... "there is no fault on the line". At no point could I get them to admit that they were throttling, and they barely admitted that it might just be congestion. I told them I thought it very odd that this just started happening all of a sudden, and that there was no gradual degradation of service.
Anyway, I cancelled the service and ordered a 20Mb line from NTL the same day. Within 2 hours of cancelling, I had a few missed calls on my landline from "the engineers" to query if the problem had been resolved. Typical
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I had exactly the same issue, starting around the same time as yours too. I made several calls to Eircom over a 2-3 week period and even emailed them conclusive graphs showing that my bandwidth was dropping from 7Mb to <1Mb after 6:00pm. They escalated the problem to "the engineers" twice, but the same answer came back both times... "there is no fault on the line". At no point could I get them to admit that they were throttling, and they barely admitted that it might just be congestion. I told them I thought it very odd that this just started happening all of a sudden, and that there was no gradual degradation of service.
Anyway, I cancelled the service and ordered a 20Mb line from NTL the same day. Within 2 hours of cancelling, I had a few missed calls on my landline from "the engineers" to query if the problem had been resolved. Typical
NTL is not offering broadband in mine town
, and same problem tonight...
when i came home from work it was 4mbit++ and now its barely 1mbit... 0 -
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