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

smelly sock

tdonegan1990 wrote: »

To this on Enniskillen server!?

That's not just you tdonegan or eircom

Can anyone tell me why the enniskillen server is always quicker

eg:

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http://www.speedtest.net/result/3226828226.png

smelly sock

smelly sock wrote: »

That's not just you tdonegan or eircom

Can anyone tell me why the enniskillen server is always quicker

eg:

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http://www.speedtest.net/result/3226828226.png

Apologies,

This is the dundalk server

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3226832334.png

Mr Cumulonimbus

tdonegan1990 wrote: »

My Efibre speed via Manchester server!!

Manchester for me just now. Poor result this early in the evening.

smelly sock

Do eircom have their own speedtest on their efibre site?

Mr Cumulonimbus

smelly sock wrote: »

Do eircom have their own speedtest on their efibre site?

There's this:

http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/speedtest/?id=1

smelly sock

Mr Cumulonimbus wrote: »

There's this:

http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/speedtest/?id=1

That's brutal.

Same old same old:

dxhound2005

This is Manchester



But this is London (Ealing)



Leeds



Newcastle upon Tyne



Birmingham



An Manchester again. What does it all mean?

ED E

Congestion over certain links. Maybe load balancing issues.

dxhound2005

ED E wrote: »

Congestion over certain links. Maybe load balancing issues.

But Manchester is the only one that is poor. All the other UK tests are close to what I get on the Dublin server. Is the Manchester result Eircom's fault?

Manchester is the only accurate one is what I take from your results.

dxhound2005

Deleted User wrote: »

Manchester is the only accurate one is what I take from your results.

How can you tell?

Mr Cumulonimbus

Test from local server. Speed dropping now. Normally after 9 when this starts happening........

Mr Cumulonimbus

dxhound2005 wrote: »

But Manchester is the only one that is poor. All the other UK tests are close to what I get on the Dublin server. Is the Manchester result Eircom's fault?

How are your speeds now?

dxhound2005

Mr Cumulonimbus wrote: »

How are your speeds now?

All over the place.

Dundalk



Liverpool



But when I tested on this other UK test service I get my "normal" speeds. I did it three times. Also surfing the net does not seem any slower.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

Mr Cumulonimbus

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Also surfing the net does not seem any slower.

True. "Average" surfing doesn't seem much different. However it's when you're downloading an actual file of a decent size is where you start to notice it.

jca

Mr Cumulonimbus wrote: »

True. "Average" surfing doesn't seem much different. However it's when you're downloading an actual file of a decent size is where you start to notice it.

Just home on my break. Speeds are terrible, starting to affect general browsing at this stage.

tdonegan1990

Done a test on the Manchester server. My speed is back to what it should be. 47 down 18 up.
Also got a decent ping of 47ms.

yup it's back to normal:

O'Prez

Mine came back to normal just after 12.30am too and I'm with Sky and on normal broadband. There's a bigger picture here lads.

red_bairn

O'Prez wrote: »

Mine came back to normal just after 12.30am too and I'm with Sky and on normal broadband. There's a bigger picture here lads.

How about you guys put up some tracerts?

seanp_25

red_bairn wrote: »

How about you guys put up some tracerts?

A comparison of traceroute to Dublin vs Manchester would be interesting alright.

Aside: How often is the eircom line checker updated with newly commissioned cabs?

Gonzo

im experiencing same here on adsl2, getting full speeds up to about 2pm then drops to not much more than 2meg till about 1am. Been like this for 4 to 5 weeks now. Friends using other providers on same exchange reporting exactly the same.

tdonegan1990

Even worse again tonight lads!

lemon_remon

Yeah, worst yet tonight... Was getting a 170ms ping in WoW as well:

red_bairn

Edit: I'm on ADSL2+ and get 10Mb on our modem.

tsue921i8wljb3

Why is this Manchester server being held up as a bastion of connection reliability? According to speedtest.net it is hosted by tnp.net.uk. Are they a well known, reliable company? Perhaps people could also test a few different servers from http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=143 to ensure that it is not the Manchester server at fault.

lemon_remon

Jedidiah Billions Caricature wrote: »

Why is this Manchester server being held up as a bastion of connection reliability? According to speedtest.net it is hosted by tnp.net.uk. Are they a well known, reliable company? Perhaps people could also test a few different servers from http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=143 to ensure that it is not the Manchester server at fault.

Most of those are hosted on educational and research networks. They are on a completely separate network to the "rest of the world" and wouldn't be reliable for diagnosing these types of issues.

tsue921i8wljb3

lemon_remon wrote: »

Most of those are hosted on educational and research networks. They are on a completely separate network to the "rest of the world" and wouldn't be reliable for diagnosing these types of issues.

I am pretty sure that Eircom are not going to pay much attention to a speedtest result from a little known UK company so people are going to have to provide more concrete examples of this slowdown.

ED E

Manchester was just an example I threw out there.

Trying out UPC as a comparison.

Manchester:

Voda in Dublin: Repeatable

Digi in Dublin:

(This is what my connection should be doing)

That suggests inbound has problems too. Vodafone/Eircom/Sky presumably join the net through the same link at INEX but at a guess Digiweb have separate backhaul/peering.