Eircom eFibre VDSL/FTTC rollout – plans to reach 1.6m premises by mid 2016

FastFullBack

Anyone in the Matthew Hill / Lehenaghmore area in Cork signed up yet?
The cabinet on Matthew Hill has a yellow tag on it so based on this thread that means it's live. I'm 400 meters from it but Eircom told me today my area isn't live yet.

Manc Red

JustMac wrote: »

Posting from my new broadband connection. Was 5 Mbps yesterday.

I've had 3 eircom engineers here since 9am as there was a problem on the line outside which needed to be fixed first.

All sorted now.

On a different note, how fast are YouTube videos loading? Specifically HD videos.

Can you get your ping any lower?

ash_kay

Before


After


Ballincollig exchange
Vodafone HG658c modem

I'd guess about 300m from the cabinet.
Seem to be on the stable profile.

liamnojo92

Is the yellow tag on the new cabinet i'm guessing ? had a look around Castlebar but the only ones with yellow tags were the old cabinets.

doogydna

ash_kay wrote: »

Ballincollig exchange
Vodafone HG658c modem

I'd guess about 300m from the cabinet.
Seem to be on the stable profile.

Nice!

Are you on a 50Mb or 70Mb bundle?

Praetorian

Guys if you can do some ping tests to www.rte.ie and to www.boards.ie and www.bbc.co.uk

also, try downloading from

http://ftp.heanet.ie/debian-cd/7.0.0-live/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-live-7.0.0-i386-kde-desktop.iso

just to see how fast it goes

well done for the first installs, the prize is the collective jealousy of the rest of us

Johnboy1951

I guess as more and more of you lucky 'blighters' get connected to fibre that 'slower than 65% of IE' will begin to rise.

No plans at all to put fibre cabs from my exchange

I hate this thread!

:mad:

Flibbles

JustMac wrote: »

Out of interest, what can be learned from the ping trace?

In my case, how viable online gaming will be. 10ms is the difference between a ragequit and winning.

ash_kay

doogydna wrote: »

Nice!

Are you on a 50Mb or 70Mb bundle?

Vodafone only have the option of "up to 70Mb" so that's what I'm on.

The profile enabled appears to be 50174 kb/sec down and 15359 kb/sec up.

Having had no more than about 1.5Mb for the last few years, I don't know what to do with 10Mb, let alone 50 or 70!

JustMac

Manc Red wrote: »

On a different note, how fast are YouTube videos loading? Specifically HD videos.

Can you get your ping any lower?

Just tried YouTube HD videos. When I load into a new tab it seems to play pretty much straight away. It seems to preload in a block (about 2 mins worth) and then just stay well ahead of your progress, if that makes sense. Out of interest I've loaded 7 tabs with HD video and they are all streaming seamlessly.

How can I get the ping lower? Keep retrying speed tests?

red_bairn

JustMac wrote: »

Out of interest, what can be learned from the ping trace?

Here is a good article about ping. Basically ping allows you to test the connectivity of a host machine/node. Gamers usually would want a low ping to ensure that they have a great response time during battles, especially in fps.

Pings spike when somebody is streaming on your network and your bandwidth sucks. It can annoying for most folk who have a low download or upload connection. For example, my ping spikes if I play an fps game and my dad is updating apps on his smartphone or he uses the World radio app. It is difficult to stream that amount of data.

red_bairn

JustMac wrote: »

Just tried YouTube HD videos. When I load into a new tab it seems to play pretty much straight away. It seems to preload in a block (about 2 mins worth) and then just stay well ahead of your progress, if that makes sense. Out of interest I've loaded 7 tabs with HD video and they are all streaming seamlessly.

How can I get the ping lower? Keep retrying speed tests?

The ping is fine. You don't need to worry about that.

ash_kay wrote: »

After

*dribbles*

So jelly.

JustMac

Praetorian wrote: »

Guys if you can do some ping tests to www.rte.ie and to www.boards.ie and www.bbc.co.uk

also, try downloading from

http://ftp.heanet.ie/debian-cd/7.0.0-live/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-live-7.0.0-i386-kde-desktop.iso

just to see how fast it goes

well done for the first installs, the prize is the collective jealousy of the rest of us

Timed the debian download to 5min 32sec on phone stopwatch.


C:\Users\Owner>ping rte.ie -n 10

Pinging rte.ie [89.207.56.140] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 89.207.56.140: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=59
Request timed out.
Reply from 89.207.56.140: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.207.56.140: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.207.56.140: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.207.56.140: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.207.56.140: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.207.56.140: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.207.56.140: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.207.56.140: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=59

Ping statistics for 89.207.56.140:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 9, Lost = 1 (10% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 29ms, Average = 28ms

C:\Users\Owner>ping www.bbc.co.uk -n 10

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.246.93] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.246.93: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.246.93: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.246.93: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.246.93: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.246.93: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.246.93: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.246.93: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.246.93: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.246.93: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=55
Reply from 212.58.246.93: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 212.58.246.93:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 39ms, Maximum = 41ms, Average = 40ms

C:\Users\Owner>ping boards.ie -n 10

Pinging boards.ie [89.234.66.108] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=59
Reply from 89.234.66.108: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=59

Ping statistics for 89.234.66.108:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 35ms, Average = 29ms

Manc Red

JustMac wrote: »

Just tried YouTube HD videos. When I load into a new tab it seems to play pretty much straight away. It seems to preload in a block (about 2 mins worth) and then just stay well ahead of your progress, if that makes sense. Out of interest I've loaded 7 tabs with HD video and they are all streaming seamlessly.

How can I get the ping lower? Keep retrying speed tests?

YouTube throttle videos to save bandwidth.

To see if your ping can get any lower, you can speed test different servers (usually the ones that are closest are lower but it depends on various other factors). Your ping looks ok tho for FTTC at that distance.

ash_kay

Praetorian wrote: »

Guys if you can do some ping tests to www.rte.ie and to www.boards.ie and www.bbc.co.uk

also, try downloading from

http://ftp.heanet.ie/debian-cd/7.0.0-live/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-live-7.0.0-i386-kde-desktop.iso

just to see how fast it goes

well done for the first installs, the prize is the collective jealousy of the rest of us

OK. First the download test: Solid 5.6MB/sec. Looking like a full download in about 4 mins. I'm astounded! I usually leave Linux distros run overnight.

Ping tests:

$ ping www.rte.ie
PING www.rte.ie (89.207.56.140) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.rte.ie (89.207.56.140): icmp_req=1 ttl=57 time=283 ms
64 bytes from www.rte.ie (89.207.56.140): icmp_req=2 ttl=57 time=117 ms
64 bytes from www.rte.ie (89.207.56.140): icmp_req=3 ttl=57 time=197 ms
64 bytes from www.rte.ie (89.207.56.140): icmp_req=4 ttl=57 time=74.5 ms
64 bytes from www.rte.ie (89.207.56.140): icmp_req=5 ttl=57 time=234 ms
64 bytes from www.rte.ie (89.207.56.140): icmp_req=6 ttl=57 time=85.7 ms
64 bytes from www.rte.ie (89.207.56.140): icmp_req=7 ttl=57 time=673 ms
64 bytes from www.rte.ie (89.207.56.140): icmp_req=8 ttl=57 time=1027 ms
64 bytes from www.rte.ie (89.207.56.140): icmp_req=9 ttl=57 time=56.7 ms
^C
--- www.rte.ie ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 9 received, 0% packet loss, time 8425ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 56.759/305.657/1027.625/311.442 ms, pipe 2


$ ping www.boards.ie
PING www.boards.ie (89.234.66.107) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.107): icmp_req=1 ttl=57 time=28.7 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.107): icmp_req=2 ttl=57 time=29.6 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.107): icmp_req=3 ttl=57 time=30.8 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.107): icmp_req=4 ttl=57 time=29.0 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.107): icmp_req=5 ttl=57 time=30.0 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.107): icmp_req=6 ttl=57 time=28.8 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.107): icmp_req=7 ttl=57 time=29.5 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.107): icmp_req=8 ttl=57 time=28.9 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.107): icmp_req=9 ttl=57 time=28.8 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.107): icmp_req=10 ttl=57 time=29.9 ms
^C
--- www.boards.ie ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9012ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 28.742/29.458/30.852/0.686 ms


$ ping www.bbc.co.uk
PING www.bbc.net.uk (212.58.246.93) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from bbc-vip014.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.93): icmp_req=1 ttl=54 time=39.3 ms
64 bytes from bbc-vip014.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.93): icmp_req=2 ttl=54 time=39.4 ms
64 bytes from bbc-vip014.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.93): icmp_req=3 ttl=54 time=39.2 ms
64 bytes from bbc-vip014.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.93): icmp_req=4 ttl=54 time=39.2 ms
64 bytes from bbc-vip014.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.93): icmp_req=5 ttl=54 time=39.5 ms
64 bytes from bbc-vip014.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.93): icmp_req=6 ttl=54 time=39.5 ms
64 bytes from bbc-vip014.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.93): icmp_req=7 ttl=54 time=39.0 ms
64 bytes from bbc-vip014.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.93): icmp_req=8 ttl=54 time=39.4 ms
64 bytes from bbc-vip014.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.93): icmp_req=9 ttl=54 time=39.1 ms
^C
--- www.bbc.net.uk ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 9 received, 0% packet loss, time 8011ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 39.051/39.347/39.593/0.282 ms

Vico1612

For the lucky ones on fiber, check out this tool to automate a few tests over the next days : http://www.gmwsoftware.co.uk/
I've used it recently to monitor my Sky connection

allen175

This is a screenshot someone sent me, they are on eircom FTTH down in wexford, profile is set to 25mb down and 8mb up.

Mr. G

georgiecasey wrote: »

some amount of eircom engineers at the new cabinets today in Ennis. i mapped a few of them and I think there was 3 or 4 eircom guys at every one when i passed on the way to mcdonalds. all at the same time. any ideas what they're doing?

I saw more around bank place as well. Must be fibre. Tested a line on lahinch road and says it takes up to 70mb

Mr. G

allen175 wrote: »

This is a screenshot someone sent me, they are on eircom FTTH down in wexford, profile is set to 25mb down and 8mb up.

Ping is excellent

Praetorian

Justmac,

thanks! the download rate was approx. 3979 kb per second. not too bad. Around 4 megabytes per second. Youtube streaming 7 HD vids at the same time is awesome.

The ping rates are actually kind of disappointing. I get 15 ms less to each of those destinations on an 18m/bit x 2m/bit dsl line. Not saying your pings are bad. The difference will matter to hard core gamers. It could be a Vodafone thing also. Looking forward to seeing some numbers from other providers!

well done anyway,

you lucky so n so

doogydna

ash_kay wrote: »

Vodafone only have the option of "up to 70Mb" so that's what I'm on.

The profile enabled appears to be 50174 kb/sec down and 15359 kb/sec up.

Having had no more than about 1.5Mb for the last few years, I don't know what to do with 10Mb, let alone 50 or 70!

Cheers! I just checked Vodafones site and saw that they only offer 70Mb.

Enjoy the 50Mbits! (ya jammy git... )

Praetorian

Ashkay,

great download speeds. but again only slightly disappointing ping rates. Not bad, just not stellar.

Mr.g / Allen175,

that Eircom ping if correct is astonishing. Only seen better pings with magnet FTTH personally.

gebbel

Just had the eircom engineers set me up on behalf of Vodafone. I'm in Drogheda around 800m from the cabinet. Had been getting around 5 Mbps down and maybe 2 up. The guys had a few issues getting the connection right and it took them an hour.

Now am getting 28.5 Mbps down and 7.3 up, based on an average of iPhone wifi speedtests. Not as spectacular as some but the difference to me is huge. Almost 6 times faster and it feels it....no buffering on HD YouTube videos which usually happened on the old speed. The acid test for me was playing the Cloud Atlas trailer on YouTube through an Apple TV....I always had to wait half a minute to let it get ahead....that's no more!

Overall pleased with this increase!

red_bairn

gebbel wrote: »

Just had the eircom engineers set me up on behalf of Vodafone. I'm in Drogheda around 800m from the cabinet. Had been getting around 5 Mbps down and maybe 2 up. The guys had a few issues getting the connection right and it took them an hour.

Now am getting 28.5 Mbps down and 7.3 up, based on an average of iPhone wifi speedtests. Not as spectacular as some but the difference to me is huge. Almost 6 times faster and it feels it....no buffering on HD YouTube videos which usually happened on the old speed. The acid test for me was playing the Cloud Atlas trailer on YouTube through an Apple TV....I always had to wait half a minute to let it get ahead....that's no more!

Overall pleased with this increase!

Pleased for you. Is that powerplug hooked up to the modem? Are you getting similar stats on it?

gebbel

red_bairn wrote: »

Pleased for you. Is that powerplug hooked up to the modem? Are you getting similar stats on it?

Just did a speedtest there, almost exactly the same upload and download speeds via the homeplug.

Mickalus

Manc Red wrote: »

I seen an Eircom van at the Cab outside Wolfe Tone Place this morning (near St Eunans College). It was the first eircom van I have seen since launch.

Haven't seen any activity in the mountain top area. When/if you do get connected, please tell us how it goes.

There were 3 KN vans outside the cab up at Bracken Lea on the mountain top today. Had 4 dudes in high vis eircom jackets looking at the cabinet. Didn't see what they were up to.

irishgeo

Mickalus wrote: »

There were 3 KN vans outside the cab up at Bracken Lea on the mountain top today. Had 4 dudes in high vis eircom jackets looking at the cabinet. Didn't see what they were up to.

looking for the on switch.:D

Vico1612

Slightly off topic, but check out this 4G speedtest which popped up on Eircom's chief architect twitter account https://twitter.com/aokchief
https://twitter.com/elmrob/status/334289293310836737/photo/1

ash_kay

Praetorian wrote: »

Ashkay,

great download speeds. but again only slightly disappointing ping rates. Not bad, just not stellar.

Yup, I was thinking something similar. Don't do much in the way of gaming so it's no big deal for me, but I suspect others would be disappointed.

jantheman91

Can anyone tell me the % decrease in ping times from before and after fibre installation? I'm getting it some time next year and currently am on a DSL 55ms ping. Was wondering if i'd see a drop to a ping of around 20/30ms???

Thanks.