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eircom speed upgrade

02-04-2005 11:26am

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GHOST MGG

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anybody being upgraded yet?

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#2 02-04-2005 11:33am

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suppossed to be between 10pm and 8am tomorrow for me! cant wait

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#3 02-04-2005 12:20pm

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Ya me tonite is after 10 too

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#4 02-04-2005 12:35pm

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I 'm with eircom on the home plus plan, but haven't received any letter/email. Does this mean I'm not getting it yet, or they just didn't bother to send a letter out to everybody?

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#5 02-04-2005 12:40pm

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Probably haven't bothered. Im with iol and they didnt send me anything. Don't know anyone who did receive a letter/email

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#6 02-04-2005 12:49pm

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Anarchist wrote:

Ya me tonite is after 10 too

How you do you know you're getting upgraded tonight?

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#7 02-04-2005 12:53pm

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Yeah they are selectiving targeting "valued customers" with increased speeds.

HaHaHa!!!

Just because you didnt get a letter dosent mean you wont get the upgrade.

AFAIK, EsatBT and Eircom are both upgrading as well as Digiweb and Netsource I think.
The only ISP that hasnt announced anything yet is UTV....but in all honesty to throttle back the speed for their customers would be incredible counter productive!!!

Chill out people and please will a Moderator close this thread....Please!!!!

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#8 02-04-2005 12:59pm

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diarmo wrote:

Yeah they are selectiving targeting "valued customers" with increased speeds.

HaHaHa!!!

Just because you didnt get a letter dosent mean you wont get the upgrade.

AFAIK, EsatBT and Eircom are both upgrading as well as Digiweb and Netsource I think.
The only ISP that hasnt announced anything yet is UTV....but in all honesty to throttle back the speed for their customers would be incredible counter productive!!!

Chill out people and please will a Moderator close this thread....Please!!!!

Well said! relax everyone - it will happen when it happens between Monday and Friday next...remember to reset the old DSL modem every so often!

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#9 02-04-2005 1:01pm

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PaulMcG wrote:

How you do you know you're getting upgraded tonight?

Here.

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#10 02-04-2005 1:02pm

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crawler wrote:

Well said! relax everyone - it will happen when it happens between Monday and Friday next...remember to reset the old DSL modem every so often!

what do you mean by reseting the modem?

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#11 02-04-2005 1:03pm

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There was another post that gave the dates that those emails are being sent out.

The last day was the 4th I think.

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#12 02-04-2005 1:05pm

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diarmo wrote:

.........The only ISP that hasnt announced anything yet is UTV....but in all honesty to throttle back the speed for their customers would be incredible counter productive!!!

They have made an announcement.

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#13 02-04-2005 1:07pm

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esat said as of 4th of april, il be on 2mb, i hear the caps are not increasing, suxs/

but anyway since i get around 50kb per sec on 512k, should i be looking around 200kb for 2mb ?

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#14 02-04-2005 1:10pm

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yeah it will mean speeds between 200-250 kbs . not bad.

a 700 mb file will download in under an hour

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#15 02-04-2005 1:11pm

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dub45 wrote:

They have made an announcement.

Thats not an Official Announcement...but simple speculation by a UTV rep.

http://u.tv/utvclicksilver/

Where has it been advertised??

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#16 02-04-2005 1:14pm

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Got the letter as well................lol...
Iam 8 months with BB with eircom @ at an special offer price of 29euro a month.....its supposed to go up to 39euro a month after 12 months,i was going to tell them to disconnect me after the 12 months if they were increasing my rental as other providers are cheaper and have up to 2mb speed, but now with them doubling the speed do you guys think i have an argument?

cramp

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#17 02-04-2005 1:19pm

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diarmo wrote:

Thats not an Official Announcement...but simple speculation by a UTV rep.

http://u.tv/utvclicksilver/

Where has it been advertised??

No if Carl has stated it you can take it its true.

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#18 02-04-2005 1:56pm

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dub45 wrote:

They have made an announcement.

Yes Dub, but looking pack, Karl also suggested speeds will be throttled back to 512kb/s

Thats not offical really, as only a handfull visit that dead newsgroup. But ya, if Carl said so - most likely will happen!

- Sully

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#19 02-04-2005 2:04pm

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This has to be one of the nerdiest threads on boards people are actually so obsesseed with there broadband its unbelievable!
BTW as of tomoro the cap is being enforced by eircom.

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#20 02-04-2005 2:15pm

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Oh look it's Superman calling other people nerds. Trying to cause panic are we, saying the caps will be enforced. Do you not have anything else to do?

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#21 02-04-2005 2:46pm

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He may have a point about the caps being enforced, I had an engineer out to me last week to check my line and he said that they were going to start enforcing caps, and that they expect some customers with Wireless to get some shocking bills through unsecured networks.

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#22 02-04-2005 3:12pm

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Bet this place goes bonkers around 10pm, prolly best that one post is stickied for the coming onslaught

I for one will be checking my speed every few mins come 10PM //yes i am a nerd :P

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#23 02-04-2005 3:40pm

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Thread closed, superman banned permenantly.

Have a nice day.

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