irish broadband?

proteus

Has anyone tried their wireless broadband service?

How good is the connections quality?

Is the instalation straight-forward?

biker

I got my connection a few weeks ago and everything is working ok. Installation was quite simple and took less than two hours.

they gave me a fixed ip address and i'm running a small network behind a router.

Quality seems to be ok as i haven't noticed any outages though i'not online 24/7 ;-)

Serbian

Has anyone tried their wireless broadband service?

Yes I am a subscriber

How good is the connections quality?

Depends on which mast you are subscribing to, but generally, connection quality is piss. For me, pings of 500+ are a regularity and download speeds of greater than 30k are folklore and hearsay. Very rarely do they have outages however, and usually if they are going to pull the plug for a while, they are kind enough to call me.

I think you'll find that many many people have cancelled IBB and moved to Leap, which, from what I hear, is a lot more stable.

Is the instalation straight-forward?

For me it was anyway. Oddly, it took about 10 people to do it though . Some mention of training new contractors etc was mentioned...

Sangre

Me, Im on the Sandyford tower, and God I love ibb so much!

I LOVE j00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

Great ping and great download rates, and real friendly service too.

They are a god-send. Uncapped too.

Also read other ibb threads tbh, also called wireless etc.

rob1891

I've had it a nearly 2 and very happy. One thing I notice is from time to time the connection goes dead for 5 seconds or so. Not great for games, but I'm on a brand new node in Leapardstown so I guess they might take a while to get it spick and span.

Installation was very quick, but very expensive!!

I'm regularly getting 60KB/sec though that could have a lot to do with being on a less busy node and I'd expect it to change as they get more people hooked up.

Rob

Silent Assasin

Ive literally just got it installed today and for half the price...
Its great so far everything is bang on...

Im not a Gamer so latency is not a problem
its cool

Sangre

Where do you live in Leopardstown?
I just live opposite the Reservoir gates, it seems we were destined to have great bb.

rob1891

who me? I'm not really in leopardstown, that was probably a bad way to describe the area.

I'm connected to the new node (using the old 350 install technology) on belmont nursing home, I guess that's galloping green (do you name areas after pubs or pubs after areas?) ... not really stillorgan, not really leopardstown ...


rob

BKtje

They've stuck a node onto belmont nursing home?

It's not great for games cos of the dropping connection you say tho, pity. Anychance you could ping www.jolt.co.uk for me plz?

if i were to go with IBB id be on that node i imagine.

rob1891

Yep, the node on Belmont is going (they're not so great at advertising such things), but you are to bugger off to eircom because I want it all to myself!!! :P

Pings to jolt .....

--- clarity.jolt.co.uk ping statistics ---
100 packets transmitted, 100 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 33.652/44.465/156.892/20.425 ms

A little erratic, that is caused by the wireless link, but not bad at all.

I don't know why I'm losing connections in games, might run a ping for a little longer and see if I experience the few seconds of total loss of connection that I have done.

regards,

Rob

Sangre

Pinging clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 45ms, Average = 36ms


My connection doesn't drop and the ping is steady.

proteus

Ok, I'm getting IBB out to do a site survey.

Are there any questions I should ask the technicians when they come out?

Do they supply any special software, I use a dual-boot win XP pro and linux mdk9.1?

Kevok

IBB pings on 3-rock:

Pinging clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 34ms, Average = 33ms

All you need is an ethernet card, there is no software needed, other of course than the firewall you're going to need.

Mutant_Fruit

i have the most unstable pings imaginable:
to jolt.co.uk
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=138ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=176ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=241ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=175ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=174ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=219ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=79ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=356ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=57

and its like that every, sometimes worse. I get lag spikes in games! i never got that on 56k, and i could get stable ping of 150 on it. I was very dissapointed with this, as i had been told by them that pings were "low and stable" which is obviously not the case. They say its because i use the frequency hopping hardware... but this is very annoying. Unfotunately they only garuntee download speeds not pings :-(

But most times i can download at 50k+ , except at peak hours. then its pitiful.

Does anyone know how to solve/help witht the bad pings?