Internet Connection Poll

DaSilva

My friend put up a poll, its probably been done before a million times but we just wanna see the result. Thanks

/edit: the poll is quite anoying as it open's up your vote in another window!

ednwireland

your friend missed the point the important thing isn't the speed of your modem which is what you seem to be measuring but the actual speed of connection. i live in the north west 2 miles from the town exchange but i am lucky to connect at 20k (Esat 9.6k, eircom 14.4k, indigo usually 24k) i know the local eircom guys and they reckon 16 lines are muxed up to my house on 1 cable ! tried complaining buy the engineers beer in the pub usually works !!
anyway the rest of my complaints would have to go elsewhere

ando

did you try getting a new modem ?

I used to connect at 24kbps.... since i got a new modem, i'm connecting at between 35-45 kbps

JaneDoe

love to know who the 2 people are on this poll who have xDSL - and where they got it!

dahamsta

Probably people on the trials JaneDoe. Some people on this board had it, may even still have it. I didn't. *sob*

adam

Boston

Originally posted by ednwireland
your friend missed the point the important thing isn't the speed of your modem which is what you seem to be measuring but the actual speed of connection. i live in the north west 2 miles from the town exchange but i am lucky to connect at 20k (Esat 9.6k, eircom 14.4k, indigo usually 24k) i know the local eircom guys and they reckon 16 lines are muxed up to my house on 1 cable ! tried complaining buy the engineers beer in the pub usually works !!
anyway the rest of my complaints would have to go elsewhere

cut the line, seriously cut it. when they come to repair it tell them you want your own line

NB of course wait untill a storm or something, and dont tell them it was you

ednwireland

I think cutting the line is a bit drastic and seeing i'm the only house for miles might be a bit obvious !!!

have 4 systems 3 different modems some new some old no difference between them

thanks for the comment though

GoneShootin

get that sorted ednwireland !! I cant connect at anything over 33.6 because of (1) last house on phone network (2) poor local exhange

get eircom onto it. once i did and they came down and gave me a new line. didnt get my speed up BUT it was nice that they went to the trouble

ednwireland

beleive me gone shootin i've complained everywhere i can think of but i beleive that eircom have no regulatory obligation but to provide a working VOICE line - its not in their interest to fix it as the call cahrges i pay a month would half
anyway thats my halfpenny worth i have a house gym and sauna for hardly any mortgage so i shouldn't complain compared to people in dublin galway cork etc.