Net slow tonight ?

hellboy99

Anyone else experiencing really slow speeds tonight ? I'm with Vodafone.

KeithM89_old

Yup - me too unfortunately. On Digiweb.

ShiverinEskimo

Me three on Eircom since about midnight ish. Still at it this morning too.

Mayo Exile

Yes. Awful slow just before midnight. With Eircom on the NGB package. Was only getting 0.10 Mb/s download speeds. Youtube videos constantly buffering etc.

ShiverinEskimo

The only test I could (half) run was about 0.10Mb aswell.

Anyone off today that can ring it in to their provider?

Dale Parish

Getting ridiculously slow speeds here with UPC; Speedtest won't even run properly due to latency errors?

ShiverinEskimo

So far the issues on this thread are on DSL in Dundalk which suggests to me there could be an actual issue locally.

Not sure about UPC in Limerick.

dxhound2005

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

The only test I could (half) run was about 0.10Mb aswell.

Anyone off today that can ring it in to their provider?

I rang and they say everything is fine. But it's not, I couldn't even connect to speedtest.net and it takes for ages to connect to any site.

She said nobody else had reported a problem, so maybe if they get more calls they will check it out.

Eircom NGB Advanced in Dundalk

Salvation

Same here on Vodaphone not registering talked to them twice will call them and say there is an outage

getting perfect ping 25ms but down is 0.01MB and up 0.55

on a 7.6MB Package

My name is URL

Slow as hell here this morning.

Also in Louth.

ShiverinEskimo

Checked again now and it seems to be resolved for me now.



8Mb NGB - No contention my ass.

Salvation

Guys talked to Voda they have'nt had reports but it is happening so more people who call then they will get someone to check the exchange, most likely a dodgy switch or fibre backbone problem.

Mayo Exile

Using speedtest.net just now. Normally I get a 7 Mb/s download speed. As reported up the thread speedtest.net wasn't working earlier.

Salvation

I am getting better speeds but still 50% Less than Normal.

I get constantly until now Down 6.5MB and Up 0.55MB and ping around 20ms

Now I am getting this :

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1259134228.png

Looks like it is going up and down

ShiverinEskimo

Spoke too soon. Back down around 2Mb now.

At least it's semi usable now. Was getting next to nothing earlier.

Salvation

Where is our exchange located exactly I have a screwdriver and a lump hammer handy

ShiverinEskimo

Eircom building on the ramparts I imagine?

Mayo Exile

EDIT: oops! if speed test image not showing, latest result is, download - 1.12 Mb/s, upload - 0.43 Mb/s.

Mayo Exile

If image not showing, download - 0.06 Mb/s, upload - 0.43 Mb/s.

The upload result is what I normally get.

Salvation

Same here not even registering a download figure at all

ninja 12

Just rang Eircom support , he said they're working on the Dundalk exchange at the moment , trying to fix the fault ...

He didn't give an estimated time for when it'll be fixed , but said it usually takes 4-8 hours , depending on the fault.

Salvation

at last some good news

Net1

We love it when this frequent event happens in Dundalk !!! Seriously, they should stop telling their customers that there is not a problem, when there quite clearly is !!

Salvation

Net1 how do I get speeds like what you are showing there when the packages on Net1 go up to only 8MB as if I could get those speeds I would drop DSL in a blink of an eye

hellboy99

Just off the phone to Vodafone TS before checking this thread, I'm the first person in Dundalk to ring about a problem with broadband today :rolleyes:

Salvation

More like the 101st person to call

Net1

We're averaging about 9+ up and down in the North Louth area at the moment. We commit to the values on our website, but wherever possible offer the maximum. If somebody is a data w**re then they are wound down to the advertised speed. Hope this helps

ShiverinEskimo

Net1 wrote: »

We love it when this frequent event happens in Dundalk !!! Seriously, they should stop telling their customers that there is not a problem, when there quite clearly is !!

Frequent event? This is the second problem I've had with it in over 6 years - the first being when Eircom's DNS was hacked and I changed to openDNS.

Net1

The last big DSL outage in Dundalk was on 10th November 2010, where most but not all bitstream customers were offline for 36 hours

hellboy99

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

Frequent event? This is the second problem I've had with it in over 6 years - the first being when Eircom's DNS was hacked and I changed to openDNS.

I agree, it's not frequent, certainly not going to make me change provider. Now if UPC come to the town I'll switch to them, but for now with Vodafone I get constant speeds of 8MB throughout the day and very happy with that.

ShiverinEskimo

Net1 wrote: »

The last big DSL outage in Dundalk was on 10th November 2010, where most but not all bitstream customers were offline for 36 hours

Well I certainly was not involved in that outage (located within town limits) and even at that your use of the word 'frequent' seems a bit liberal if the last major issue was over 5 months ago. Screams of vulturism on your behalf.