Bandwidth Upgrades

bounty

I got upgraded too

iolbb+

Connection Speed: 2048 kbps down, 128 kbps up

And this time from Bandwithplace.com

IOLBB
Arklow exchange(3miles away)

1.6 megabits per second
Communications 1.6 megabits per second
Storage 189.2 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 5.4 seconds
Subjective rating Great

greys

Giblet wrote:

I doubt it.

I just got upgraded, to 1meg though. Anyone else on IOL plus?

They might not be upgrading the people on the trial fully. I have a 16gb cap so I am on plus.

I've got upgraded to 1meg too and I'm on IOL plus trial as well. I'll get onto them tomorrow if I still don't have 2meg.

Fenster

Forgive me for being dozy, but can someone fill me in on the who, what and where of these broadband upgrades? O.o

j_nolan

Wexford upgraded, apparently. It doesn't actually seem too fast -- almost lagging.

EDIT: Anne St. exchange (1.5 miles away), 1746 down (220, give or take, downloading from decent servers), 110 up.

philologos

my broadband is slower than 512k after the upgrade what crap

enigma_b17

exactly who is getting upgraded?

all networks (i.e. ibb, iol, eircom etc)

or just specific ones?

flogen

I seem to be hitting abour 1mb myself, on IOL BB plus (in santry) so I hope this is just a staged upgrade or something.
Will see how my speeds are doing after work!

Sparky

Everyone you can use this site to do a realtime test of your speed from a server in europe and in the us, I recommend it.

http://www.giganews.com/test_connect.html

Redshift

My modem reports connected at 3072/256 but downloads are trickleing in a 18 - 40 kbps I was in 1024/256 and always got 80 - 108 kbps before today.
Im on the Rochestown exchange anyone else got this problem? Tried rebooting modems ect with no improvement.

Gonzo

im getting about 1740bps from that test, this new speed is fantastic, at last there is a decent difference between the homestarter and homeplus setups to warrant the price difference. Also my pings particularly to uk servers are definitely a slight bit lower than before, pings are staying in the 30s alot more than the 40s/50s which i was getting up till yesterday (in game)

bounty

that giganews test is the best

im getting 1725 kbps from it


im getting a 20 ping to boards.ie now, it used to be 26

Subc

Gonzo wrote:

im getting about 1740bps from that test, this new speed is fantastic, at last there is a decent difference between the homestarter and homeplus setups to warrant the price difference. Also my pings particularly to uk servers are definitely a slight bit lower than before, pings are staying in the 30s alot more than the 40s/50s which i was getting up till yesterday (in game)

gonzo 40-50 ping is very good ping there is no difference between 35 and 45 lol, apart from it being closer to 0 but that doesnt exite me much

zAbbo

Id give up 2mb down for 256kb upload.

Still cant game while the gf surfs

shurl

Now theres a nice thing to wake up to!

Speedtest

Eircom Home Plus.
Just around the corner (ish) from the Clontarf Exchange.

S.

JohnK

I'm with Netsource in Douglas, Cork and I've just been upgraded to 2048/128
My download speeds from Microsoft.com in the US is 214K/Sec
Pings to Irish servers are between 25 - 35ms
Pings to UK servers are between 30 - 40ms

Edit: Results from http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=1712.7&downloadtime=10.031&KB=2097.125&recorded=1

flogen

Just got around 1700 kbps on the giganews european server and over 1000 on the other one (American I think).

thats more like it!

Mthor5

with netsource,on celbridge exchange,
router status shows upgrade to 2048/128,however i 'cant get over 35kb's download.
tried the irish isp test and got 257.50kbps...32.19kb'/sec
www.irishisptest.com

radiospan

Getting 1.69MBps from http://u.tv/speedtest

Pings have improved by 4 or 5ms too.

Placebo

for esat, i am getting


Your current bandwidth reading is:

1.67 Mbps

which means you can download at 213.74 KB/sec. from our servers.


WILL it go up to 2mb in the next few days ? or is that it ? cause i should be 2mb

Anarchist

Placebo wrote:

for esat, i am getting


Your current bandwidth reading is:

1.67 Mbps

which means you can download at 213.74 KB/sec. from our servers.


WILL it go up to 2mb in the next few days ? or is that it ? cause i should be 2mb

Ya anyone know the answer to this?
Although to be fair we only got 430ish when 512 and d/l at 53.5 which = 214kb/s which is less then the 216/7 I get now :E

Sparky

flogen wrote:

Just got around 1700 kbps on the giganews european server and over 1000 on the other one (American I think).

thats more like it!

You Better bookmark it then.

They also do a line traceroute

bkehoe

Anybody with the 'enhanced' service here? Line speed is now 4MBit, but actual download speeds are still 2MBit. Checked this on 4 seperate lines in New Ross and Donegal.

Ciaran500

Placebo wrote:

WILL it go up to 2mb in the next few days ? or is that it ? cause i should be 2mb

Thats 2mb. The overheads will cause you to lose speeds. The faster your line is the higher your overheads can be.

Placebo

Ciaran500 wrote:

Thats 2mb. The overheads will cause you to lose speeds. The faster your line is the higher your overheads can be.

PWNED.

Subc

man don't complain we went from 512kb to 2mb ok?

dave oc

Is there any loss or gain of speed depending whether you connect by usb or ethernet?

mcummins2

Leonard wrote:

that link should be

www.irishisptest.com

Oooops sorry up late last night

DingChavez

Subc wrote:

man don't complain we went from 512kb to 2mb ok?

The swedish get 100mbit connection for under 100e a month. That's 50 times faster for not even double our price. He can complain if he wants.

exiztone

Using UTV in Bray, looks like I was upgraded to 1mbit without even realising

Curious, will our caps increase with this new deal? 8GB does suffice, but I wouldn't argue if I had more.