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'broadband' at 16.7kbps... only in Ireland, only from Eircon

moshpit77 · 2005-05-10 20:59:00

I've noticed my web pages were taking forever to load tonight so after double checking all my equipment I ran the Irish ISP test and heres what I got... download speed 16.7kbs upload speed 50.3 kbps WHAT A ****ING JOKE

10-05-2005 9:59pm

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moshpit77

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I've noticed my web pages were taking forever to load tonight so after double checking all my equipment I ran the Irish ISP test and heres what I got...

download speed 16.7kbs

upload speed 50.3 kbps

WHAT A ****ING JOKE

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#2 10-05-2005 10:03pm

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Check out the ireland ofline forum under the 'hosted' tab. Mabye you'd like to get involved, and help get a better standard of broadband for everybody.

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#3 10-05-2005 10:11pm

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moshpit77 wrote:

I've noticed my web pages were taking forever to load tonight so after double checking all my equipment I ran the Irish ISP test and heres what I got...

download speed 16.7kbs

upload speed 50.3 kbps

WHAT A ****ING JOKE

Unbelieveable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#4 10-05-2005 11:32pm

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Now that is F**king weak.

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#5 10-05-2005 11:34pm

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Thats just plain unnacceptable. Ring them, and shout and then shout some more.

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#6 10-05-2005 11:42pm

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& what have eircon got to say about it????

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#7 10-05-2005 11:48pm

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My conn was pratically non existent tonight till now , pings ahve been growing around peak time for the last few weeks .

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#8 11-05-2005 8:57am

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Infini wrote:

Now that is F**king weak.

Infini, The 180Kb/s you were getting (NTL) dont seem so bad now !! BTW MS rate limit downloads based on the number of people downloading from any area ( In particular Technet areas ) so the 180 is probably due to B end limitiation.

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#9 11-05-2005 9:09am

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Very true, the worst possible line test is to download a service pack from Windows Update. These do not come from MS 'direct' but from a throttled Akamai cache 'somewhere' and normally never at full line speed save about 3am - 6am ....which is when I run SUS server anyway

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#10 11-05-2005 10:27am

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I'm on eircom home plus, its totally f\/cked. 1500m/sec ping times, this reply took 10 mins to load/post, worse result than the thread starter on the irish speedtest page (upload non-existant). Couple of others on irc are having the same problem as well. :mad:

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#11 11-05-2005 10:36am

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=254908

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#12 11-05-2005 11:10am

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well mine is back to normal speeds this morning, must have been just a temporary fault. i sure hope it doesnt become a regular occurance

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#13 11-05-2005 6:49pm

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A few people on different exchanges were having the problem bud.

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#14 11-05-2005 7:29pm

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I'm on Business IP here, and its going well below rated speed today.

This line is sold UNCONTENDED. Bastards.

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#15 11-05-2005 7:31pm

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Arabel wrote:

Thats just plain unnacceptable. Ring them, and shout and then shout some more.

I know connection is crap and all but what the hell is that going to achieve?

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#16 11-05-2005 8:08pm

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it's called venting

and by the way, about 10 minutes after I posted that this morning my speed was down below dialup speeds again and has been ever since

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#17 11-05-2005 8:31pm

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moshpit77 wrote:

it's called venting

and by the way, about 10 minutes after I posted that this morning my speed was down below dialup speeds again and has been ever since

Still in that boat with you , it has to be exchange related .

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#18 11-05-2005 8:39pm

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TomTom wrote:

I know connection is crap and all but what the hell is that going to achieve?

moral satisfaction?

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#19 11-05-2005 8:57pm

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MYOB wrote:

I'm on Business IP here, and its going well below rated speed today.

This line is sold UNCONTENDED. Bastards.

I would like to row in on this also. We have 256k BIP with a SLA ffs.
We are definatly seeing below par service at peak times.

Where the hell is the level of service we are paying through the damn nose for?? (four figure sum)

Our 2mb DSL is also operating around ISDN levels at peak hours

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