Bandwidth Upgrades

Cryos

yup, dosnt matter it cycles every 20 mins

ro2

lynchie wrote:

Phew... Thought it was just me. Im getting the exact same problem. Maxing aout about 250KB from any site, ftp.heanet.ie, ftp.esat.net etc.. Eircom better fix this prob. I know distance aint a problem as im 100m from the exchange

240-250KB/s is what you'd get from a 2Mb leased line. The DSLAM in your exchange is connected back to the main ADSL POPs (Summerhill, Dolphins Barn etc) over an ATM PVC which is obviously still at 2Mb/s.

Upgrading the connections between the end user and the exchange is a disruptive process as every end users modem has to adjust to the new speed - which is why the upgrade was done on a Saturday night. However upgrading a PVC isn't, as the ATM links are much bigger than the size of the PVC (it's probably a 2Mb PVC on a 45Mb ATM link) so they just need to allocate more bandwidth to each PVC on their ATM switches.

Eircom should be able to increase the size of the PVCs at any time over the next few days.

Gav wrote:

Yeh I'm on 3mb here and I'm getting about 250KB/sec. Looks like we're hitting the ceilling somewhere...

The good news is that if your modem is connected to the exchange at 2, 3 or 4Mb/s then your phone line is capable of that speed and you will get that speed when they've finished the upgrade.

Dinner

I'm with UTV and my router tells me I have 1024 down. The didnt even tell me about an upgrade.

Anyone else with UTV got this?

quarryman

This is mine

http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=121.6&downloadtime=9.969&KB=148&recorded=1

15.kB/s ?!

Usually when i d/load files it can be up to 50kB/s.

Am i making a mistake somwhere or has the line got worse.

I'm with Eircom btw, how do i check my ney usage with them?

GavinJCD

diarmo wrote:

Stop using irishisptest.com for evaluation of your speeds.

Download a 20MB or so from an Irish server to get a better idea of your true speed as 2/3/4mbit lines take longer than 512k lines to reach max velocity.

Think about it....1mbyte can be downloaded now in 5 seconds with a 2mbit line.
A 4mbit connection will download it in 2.5 seconds.

Most hard drives arent even spinning fast even in 3 seconds to give a correct reading.

I'm not.....

I was downloading from the Heanet sourceforge mirror, and debian.ie
We're definitley seeing an upper limit of around 250 KB/sec.
I let it download about 50 megs from each server to confirm this.

Gav

rsynnott

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

Wait till they start selling 8Mb to the consumer market - this summer I think. I wonder if €ircon's lines support such speeds

That's ADSL2. Eircom's LINES certainly support it; it's designed to run over normal phone lines after all. Whether their EQUIPMENT supports it may be another question. I'm fairly sure their client stuff, at least, doesn't. Smart support it.

GavinJCD

ro2 wrote:

240-250KB/s is what you'd get from a 2Mb leased line. The DSLAM in your exchange is connected back to the main ADSL POPs (Summerhill, Dolphins Barn etc) over an ATM PVC which is obviously still at 2Mb/s.

Upgrading the connections between the end user and the exchange is a disruptive process as every end users modem has to adjust to the new speed - which is why the upgrade was done on a Saturday night. However upgrading a PVC isn't, as the ATM links are much bigger than the size of the PVC (it's probably a 2Mb PVC on a 45Mb ATM link) so they just need to allocate more bandwidth to each PVC on their ATM switches.

Eircom should be able to increase the size of the PVCs at any time over the next few days.



The good news is that if your modem is connected to the exchange at 2, 3 or 4Mb/s then your phone line is capable of that speed and you will get that speed when they've finished the upgrade.

Yeh that makes a lot of sense, although 250 KB/sec is actually above 2 megabit if you factor in TCP overhead. Hopefully those of us on 3 and 4 megabit will see better performance come Monday.

Gav

GavinJCD

rsynnott wrote:

That's ADSL2. Eircom's LINES certainly support it; it's designed to run over normal phone lines after all. Whether their EQUIPMENT supports it may be another question. I'm fairly sure their client stuff, at least, doesn't. Smart support it.

Plain old DSL has a theoretical Limit of either 2.3 megabit in bothe directions (synchronous), or 1 megabit upstream, and 8 downstream (Asynchronous).

Gav

jd

GavinJCD wrote:

Plain old DSL has a theoretical Limit of either 2.3 megabit in bothe directions (synchronous), or 1 megabit upstream, and 8 downstream (Asynchronous).

Gav

you mean symmetric and asymmetric..

kaizersoze

Test results from NUMION
I'm impressed if they're accurate


Date/time Throughput

1 03 April 2005 16:35:46 20,764 Bps 166 kbps
2 03 April 2005 16:34:31 14,961 Bps 120 kbps
3 03 April 2005 16:32:15 14,671 Bps 117 kbps

Average: 16,799 Bps 134 kbps
Middle: 14,961 Bps 120 kbps

diarmo

Syremetric 2048/2048
Asymetric 2048/128

Willymuncher

Got upgraded last night, spent the night downloading at 215kb per second, now it seems the connection is choked, its slow as hell, anyone else having the same problem?

GavinJCD

jd wrote:

you mean symmetric and asymmetric..

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zafa

ok whats the craic with these upgrades?

im with netsource the last 2 years or so, on a 512 connection, now i wake up this morning and ive got a 2meg connection with 220k downloads that i never asked for, or was told id be getting

it also seems loads of other people have been upgraded, but some only to 1meg, and some of them paid for their 2 meg upgrade

whats goin on?

ando

yack, I hope this aint permanent

fightin irish

not sure if this exchange was posted yet..Summerhill, im in Clonee

http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=849.4&downloadtime=10.64&KB=1103.25&recorded=1

flamegrill

hi all,

i've put some "big" files up on irishisptest.com for testing your new connections with.

http://www.irishisptest.com/files/

should keep some of the more pedantic people quiet

Paul/flame/shortword

Basq

For anyone still having problems with speed on Eircom..

Try this: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2566593&postcount=58

mneylon

flamegrill wrote:

hi all,

i've put some "big" files up on irishisptest.com for testing your new connections with.

http://www.irishisptest.com/files/

should keep some of the more pedantic people quiet

Paul/flame/shortword

I've also added some notes about Opera which will NOT work with the test (or vice-versa - you choose )

chopperbyrne

Although speeds and caps are being upgraded, every dsl package is now changing to Rate Adaptive DSL.

This means:

RADSL (Rate Adaptive DSL) is an asymmetric DSL variant which can adjust the speed of the DSL connection depending on the distance from the Central Office (CO) and the quality of the connection

Basically dont all expect to get the full speed increase all of the time.

mang87

je, sometimes it goes faster sometimes it goes slower
but tbh anything above 150k/sec is alright with me! 8)

Obo

blacknight wrote:

I've also added some notes about Opera which will NOT work with the test (or vice-versa - you choose )

Opera on Windows seems to work fine, but on Linux it reports the speed at about half of what it should be.

bambam

On netsource SoHo in Rush. went from 512 to 2 Mb. Pings to jolt around 33, downloading at around 216k

Fenster

WTF



Your current bandwidth reading is:

444.70kbps

which means you can download at 55.59 KB/sec. from our servers.

Galway city centre, here.

Basq

Fenster... did you try restarting your router?

And if not.. see here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2566593&postcount=58

Also, that ISP Test is not an accurate measure of your speed. Try downloading the ISO from the link in my post indicated above.

mneylon

basquille wrote:

Also, that ISP Test is not an accurate measure of your speed.

What's wrong with it?

Fenster

Worked a charm. Downloading at 237 kps

Basq

blacknight wrote:

What's wrong with it?

As many people have pointed out... it's just not accurate enough.

Better to download something from Microsoft / Heanet than use it.

A couple have people have tricked it to show they're downloading at 28MB/sec.

Fenster wrote:

Worked a charm. Downloading at 237 kps

Good news! Enjoy it.. still at 150KB or so here on a promised 2MB connection.

diarmo

chopperbyrne wrote:

Although speeds and caps are being upgraded, every dsl package is now changing to Rate Adaptive DSL.

This means:

RADSL (Rate Adaptive DSL) is an asymmetric DSL variant which can adjust the speed of the DSL connection depending on the distance from the Central Office (CO) and the quality of the connection

Basically dont all expect to get the full speed increase all of the time.

Eircom bitstream home DSl has always been RADSL AFAIK.

mneylon

Try the new version at http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/

I changed the test to use a Java based applet.