Eircom free upgrade

lucernarian

Nah, I'd say you'd get around the 17mbps mark from what I've seen posted here lately.

_John C

Id be happy with that

jarvis

Can I ask someone who got upgraded, what are you paying pm and what do you get. I'm out of contract with Vodafone and am interested.

DjFlin

I was upgraded about a week ago, and my broadbands been all over the place since.

At least once per hour, I'm getting an error from the Router saying the DSL is down, when I open the 192.168.1.254 start page, it tells me:

eircom broadband: Disconnected
DSL Mode: Down

After about a minute it changes to:

eircom broadband: Disconnected
DSL Mode: Initializing

But then it just goes back to saying "Down" and wont reconnect for at least five minutes (It was down for about 7 hours the other day though).

Whenever the internet actually does work, the router gives different stats on speed. It fluctuates between:

Speed: 7168 kbps /512 kbps
Speed: 11621 kbps /670 kbps
Speed: 8192 kbps /512 kbps

The DSL Mode also keeps changing between ADSL, ADSL2 and ADSL2+

I originally signed up for 8Mb, so I dont really mind whether or not I get the full 24Mb upgrade, but I don't get why the connection keeps going to 7Mb.

We got a new Zylex router in the post today (The exact same one I already have), I swapped it with the old one hoping it might help, but it hasnt.


Has anyone else had this problem?

Tungsten Tide

How do i get a free upgrade? What package do i need to be on?

lucernarian

DjFlin, your issue seems very peculiar particularly when you say the modem fluctuates between the 3 different types of ADSL.

I suggest you post that again in the Talk to:eircom forum here and see what they can do for you.

Before the changeover, what broadband speeds did you get? Also, what's the line attenuation currently?

The guys over at the talk to eircom forum should help you out anyhow.

DjFlin

To_be_confirmed wrote: »

DjFlin, your issue seems very peculiar particularly when you say the modem fluctuates between the 3 different types of ADSL.

I suggest you post that again in the Talk to:eircom forum here and see what they can do for you.

Before the changeover, what broadband speeds did you get? Also, what's the line attenuation currently?

The guys over at the talk to eircom forum should help you out anyhow.

Speed: 12287 kbps /670 kbps
Line Attenuation (Down/Up): 35 dB /17 dB

Thats the speed and Attenuation as of right now. First time I've seen the speed that high.

Before the change I was on 8Mb and the router always said 8192 kbps /512 kbps.

Thanks for the advice

Láidir

i regret not researching this first. this zyxel is a piece of junk. the wi-fi signal is crap and it constantly disconnects. the sooner upc comes to my area the better.