Bandwidth Upgrades

ro2

DC wrote:

Giblet....
I've noticed that I get nearly 20% less than the maximum on Eircom business bb, no matter what the time of day as you mention. I cannot understand why. How do you know about this 20% overhead?

I have wireless broadband at home and get the full 64KB/s. And I used to have Esat Business DSL and always got my 64KB/s.

The overhead is from the ATM links that eircom use.

ceejay

IOLBB+, Dolphin's Barn exchange, < 1km from the exchange.

Router says: 2048/128

adslguide.org.uk says:

Your Connection Direction Actual Speed True Speed (estimated)
Downstream 1652 Kbps (206.5 KB/sec) 1784 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 104 Kbps (13.0 KB/sec) 112 Kbps (inc. overheads)


'Actual Speed' is the amount of useful data that your connection can transmit/receive per second. The 'True Speed' figure includes an approximation of data overheads (non-useful data) and is estimated to be around 8%. 'True Speed' is for informational purposes only and is not used in any ISP rankings.

http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed says

Your download speed is 1.71 Mbps
Your upload speed is 104 kbps
Quality of Service 99%
Round trip time 33ms
Max Pause 30ms

Ciarán.

redzer007

Are people still seeing consistant upgraded speeds?

I was getting decent speeds this afternoon around 5, but now I seem to be down to pre upgrade speeds.

Everyone still happy out there?

R

BigO

redzer007 wrote:

Are people still seeing consistant upgraded speeds?

I dunno what to call it but my connection acts weird, ok I do a speed test and a get arround 220kB/sec (both on Adslguide.org.uk and the irish one) - which I think is brilliant, however if I go to download say drivers from ATI max I seem to get is 100kB/sec.
In general it only seems to go fast for the speed test and not for all traffic, also file sharing is a still at pre upgrade speeds regardless of what client I use.
Rarely it will peak above 120kB/sec.
To me its like the connection is fast but just can't ramp up to the full 200kB/sec for some reason, I guess theres a more technical way of saying it
Has anyone else had this kind of thing or is it only me, (ballyboden exchange)?
anyway i guess a jump from 512 to 2mbps is great and shouldn't be sniffed at no matter how effective it is or isn't, Hooray for eircom!

Willymuncher

redzer007 wrote:

Are people still seeing consistant upgraded speeds?

I was getting decent speeds this afternoon around 5, but now I seem to be down to pre upgrade speeds.

Everyone still happy out there?

R

I have the same problem, from 3 - 6 today i had constant 215kb downloads...then from 6 onwards, my connection was VERY slow, taking ages to download webpages and speeds were around 30kb when downloading files, is everyone having these problems? i wonder is it because of the upgrade or is it because its off peak and more people would be on, i hope this will be fixed soon

CorkMan

I have Eircom plus and should be soon upgraded to 2MB.

The connection varies ATM, one moment 125kbs, next moment 1.8MB.It outta be fixed by the 8th anyway.

HAIL EIRCOM!

kleefarr

These are my last 12 tests to uk sites...

It's safe to say that the connection is not very steady yet, but it has only been a day or so and I will give it time to settle down. At least ten days as Esat have stated.

1 05 April 2005 10:07:57 29,152 Bps 233 kbps
2 04 April 2005 22:08:25 25,849 Bps 207 kbps
3 04 April 2005 22:06:20 24,321 Bps 195 kbps
4 04 April 2005 22:04:14 0 Bps 0 kbps :eek: What happened here!
5 03 April 2005 20:52:24 18,466 Bps 148 kbps
6 03 April 2005 20:51:32 14,724 Bps 118 kbps :eek:
7 03 April 2005 14:12:53 56,179 Bps 449 kbps :eek: Wow.
8 03 April 2005 14:12:04 23,874 Bps 191 kbps
9 03 April 2005 13:18:33 32,029 Bps 256 kbps
10 03 April 2005 13:17:31 33,067 Bps 265 kbps
11 03 April 2005 13:16:40 39,682 Bps 317 kbps
12 03 April 2005 02:11:12 19,468 Bps 156 kbps

Average: 26,401 Bps 211 kbps
Middle: 25,085 Bps 201 kbps

kleefarr

basquille wrote:

It's probably more accurate than the old one though!

I don't think it allows enough timie for your speed to attain it's peak.

CorkMan

anyone else have a 2MB line displayed on their modem homepage, but the top speed is around 1716kbs? I tried to trick by going into expert mode in my modem home page and restarting my modem, but this is still the case.

Is this normal? Or will it reach it's full 2MB staus only after all the upgrades are done?

TinCool

On Home Plus Eircom package and on the Ballyboden exchange. Was delighted to find that I was getting transfer rates of around 210k/sec last night. Unfortunately I won't be able to enjoy it for the next few weeks as I'm over in Copenhagen for work ... bah !!

kleefarr

:eek: I've just done another test. This is the record so far. :eek: :eek:

Bet it doesn't stay that way for long. :rolleyes:

Willymuncher

Dammit, same story again today, as soon as the evening kicks in...the speeds go crappy, this better be temporary, its annoying as hell

Tusky

Mine seems to be staying at 2mb now. Is a steady 212k decent for 2mb ?

TerrorFirmer

Mine seems to be staying at 2mb now. Is a steady 212k decent for 2mb ?

Yep.

I have actually gotten WORSE. I get download speeds at about 25kb/s, no matter what website I use, and online, my ping has jumped to about 400 in most games, even in my clan server where it is normally 140 or so.

I mean, wtf? Anyone got any problems like this?

Tusky

I spoke too soon, a steady 50k from microsoft.com.

Giblet

The MS servers are crap though

Tusky

Giblet wrote:

The MS servers are crap though

You're crap, care to suggest a file to download to test the speed?

aphex™

Tusky wrote:

You're crap, care to suggest a file to download to test the speed?

This maxed out my connection anyway *click* . It's big, so don't forget to cancel it after a while

JNive

Definitely exchange related, i get a full 220 from MS servers, at any time of day

Sparky

aphex&#8482 wrote:

This maxed out my connection anyway *click* . It's big, so don't forget to cancel it after a while

I get 210- 223kps for that so my connection is grand.

kleefarr

aphex&#8482 wrote:

This maxed out my connection anyway *click* . It's big, so don't forget to cancel it after a while

How fast is their upload though? Surely if it is only a 2Mb upload you won't be able to download any faster?

julius

kleefarr wrote:

How fast is their upload though? Surely if it is only a 2Mb upload you won't be able to download any faster?

I downloaded a linux distro from them at 3.5MBytes last year.

3.5 x 8 = 28mbit/s!!!!

kleefarr

julius wrote:

I downloaded a linux distro from them at 3.5MBytes last year.

3.5 x 8 = 28mbit/s!!!!

So this one's uploading at 28Mb/s? Nice.
Has anyone managed to get any higher than 2Mb download on this yet?

Clover

aphex&#8482 wrote:

This maxed out my connection anyway *click* . It's big, so don't forget to cancel it after a while

got updated to 2 meg today and i'm getting a good 210kps from that and other sites

L5

Clover wrote:

got updated to 2 meg today and i'm getting a good 210kps from that and other sites

got updated to 1mb today, now downloading at 100-110 from that link.

julius

Are your connections constant 210/100..etc depending on your service or do they increase/decrease like a sine wave???

Going from 210-to-150 and back up again...continueing throughout the download???

Gonzo

after a bit of unstabability yesterday today has been silky smooth for me on eircom broadband from this speed test http://specials.zdnet.co.uk/misc/band-test/speedtest50.html
im getting 1863 Kbps at 228.3 K bytes/sec for my 2mb line and when downloading stuff off websites its pretty similar, also my pings have settled back down again and are better than ever...

Pinging www.boards.ie [82.195.144.58] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=59

Ping statistics for 82.195.144.58:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 21ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 21ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>ping www.jolt.co.uk

Pinging www.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=59
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=59

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 34ms, Average = 32ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>ping www.uk2.net

Pinging uk2.net [213.239.57.2] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 213.239.57.2: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=59
Reply from 213.239.57.2: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=59
Reply from 213.239.57.2: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=59
Reply from 213.239.57.2: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=59

Ping statistics for 213.239.57.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 30ms, Maximum = 32ms, Average = 31ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>ping www.bbc.co.uk

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.126] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.126: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=250
Reply from 212.58.224.126: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=250
Reply from 212.58.224.126: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=250
Reply from 212.58.224.126: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=250

Ping statistics for 212.58.224.126:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 35ms, Average = 32ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>

job

Seems much better today here 2 !

Digiweb 1M/256 - Upgraded To - 3M/256

Getting a constant 315.2kb/s from newsleecher :eek:


IrishISP Speed Test:

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Download Speed: 2.57Mbps
Upload: 204kbps
Quality Of Service: 98%
Round Trip Time: 4574 ms
Max Pause: 47ms


Needless to say i'm a happy camper !

vibe666

anyone finding torrents are staying at the pre-upgrade speeds?

not getting the most out of it at all.

if I download a couple of linux distro's from esat's ftp server then it's maxing out just past 200kB/sec, but torrents are still hovering around 50-80kB/sec, which isn't much of an improvement.

does anyone have a good legal torrent that I could use to test that's running at full 2mbps speeds on their machine?

thnx.

Gonzo

job wrote:

Seems much better today here 2 !

Digiweb 1M/256 - Upgraded To - 3M/256

Getting a constant 315.2kb/s from newsleecher :eek:


IrishISP Speed Test:

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Download Speed: 2.57Mbps
Upload: 204kbps
Quality Of Service: 98%
Round Trip Time: 4574 ms
Max Pause: 47ms


Needless to say i'm a happy camper !

nice one, hopefully the same joy is happening to others.. anyone on the 4mb packages getting their proper speeds now?

Another thing i dont know if this has been asked already but since most of us are getting these much faster speeds even within a couple of km from the exchanges has the overall distance to which you can receive broadband been extended? now that people are getting 1mb/2mb from 4.5km away surely people can get 512k up to 6km? it may not be the full speed but at least it will give alot more people far away broadband who are currently stuck on dial up?