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Broadband in Mervue,Galway

  • 30-05-2003 10:09am
    #1
    dwayneburke
    Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    With all these horror stories flowing around, has anyone been setup with BB in the Mervue/Shantalla exchange.

    What are the ping/Contention like?? and who seems to be the better company to go for. I have chosen Netsource for the time being but I am still waiting to get Connected.

    Tks,

    Dwayne


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  • #2
    MoSeS_.
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭MoSeS_.


    I've been on the mervue exchange since november with Esat
    paying through the nose but it's top quality.
    You should probably be able to subscribe to the 49.50 offer where they resell Eircom's wholesale offering.

    I went early, couldn't wait, and got the 512k unbundled loop offer.

    I have never yet had an issue with the connection.
    I have always been able to download at ~64KB/s depending on the capability of the site I'm downloading from.


    pings are always good as far as I've seen.

    Pinging www.boards.ie [217.114.166.147] with 32 bytes of data:

    Reply from 217.114.166.147: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=55
    Reply from 217.114.166.147: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=55
    Reply from 217.114.166.147: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=55
    Reply from 217.114.166.147: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=55

    Ping statistics for 217.114.166.147:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 20ms, Average = 17ms



    Pinging www.netsource.ie [212.17.32.48] with 32 bytes of data:

    Reply from 212.17.32.48: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=121
    Reply from 212.17.32.48: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=121
    Reply from 212.17.32.48: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=121
    Reply from 212.17.32.48: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=121

    Ping statistics for 212.17.32.48:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 20ms, Average = 17ms


    Pinging games2.iol.ie [193.120.201.112] with 32 bytes of

    Reply from 193.120.201.112: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=252
    Reply from 193.120.201.112: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=252
    Reply from 193.120.201.112: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=252
    Reply from 193.120.201.112: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=252

    Ping statistics for 193.120.201.112:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 20ms, Average = 15ms



    I can't talk about the (much cheaper) wholesale offer though as it's probably through eircom's equipment and stuff. I asked if I could switch but I was told I was in a year contract and it would involve a re-install with all the costs that involves.


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