Netsource say no to home user?

El_MUERkO

A friend of mine tried to order Netsource RADSL a few minutes ago and was told Netsourse dont do home users any more.

Anyone know if thats true & does it effect people already on Netsource?

Serbian

They stopped taking home customers a while back. There was a thread about it either here or on the Ireland Offline forums. I don't think they could take the slating they were getting for limiting downstream on a bunch of people's connections.

This doesn't affect people who are already on Netsource as far as I know.

ixoy

Well I've heard nothing so I assume I'm still fine. I'm still not a disgruntled customer either - I feel so abnormal

ando

Originally posted by ixoy
I'm still not a disgruntled customer either - I feel so abnormal

has the performace of netsource changed at all over the last 4 or 5 weeks? or is it the same as usual

Tazzle

C:\Documents and Settings\Kevin Deasy>ping clarity.jolt.co.uk

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

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=43ms 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 = 42ms, Maximum = 52ms, Average = 45ms

It'll probably get worse later
Downloads seem perfect. I don't play games anymore so netsource does the job perfect for me.

Lockup

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

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=175ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=130ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=122ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 122ms, Maximum = 195ms, Average = 155ms

Its getting worse already m8:D .5 weeks till I finally finish with Netsource for good but there has being no improvement in online gaming pings. Even though an email I got from a Netsource employee claiming Vast improvements in gaming pings never happpened. Come to think of it Monday week ago i nearly threw the router out the window Netsource was so poor ie. I had a dial-up service that evening. No broadband for a few weeks the downside but looking forward to a reliable service from IOL please god:p

Zascar

Just say you have your own business and work from home. You'll have to take the Domina name for €10 a months though

halenger

The now require a Company Number when registering. A friend of mine tried to register it for working from home but his company isn't registered yet so he didn't have a company number for them.

They allow multiple accounts but need a different company number for each I think I heard. I'd assume they'd bill the company's registered office too so no just plucking a random company number!!

I had intended getting Netsource DSL but with this ridiculous domain reg fee (almost twice the cheapest rate I've seen) I'm thinking twice on it. They still seem to be selling SOHO though-though not to private individuals obvisouly.

ixoy

Just tried my pinging now:

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

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=82ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 35ms, Maximum = 82ms, Average = 55ms

... 'salright. I mostly use it for downloading anyway...

MrPinK

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

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=56
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=39ms 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 = 37ms, Maximum = 39ms, Average = 38ms

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

Reply from 217.114.166.147: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=58
Reply from 217.114.166.147: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=58
Reply from 217.114.166.147: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=58
Reply from 217.114.166.147: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 217.114.166.147:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 23ms, Maximum = 26ms, Average = 24ms

Don't play games online so I haven't been monitoring them much. Good enough for my SSH sessions though

MrB

It's been pretty good for the last few weeks for me, mind you I've not played any games in the last 4 days so you never know it could have gone crap again.

LumoColor

Netsource has been as bad as usual, started trying to play last night and was getting 250+ all the time.

Got an e-mail from thier support last week (nearly died of shock!) stating that they will be upgrading routers this week. I guess the :blameitoneircom: excuse has been run into the ground, now its back to blaming the routers.

ando

Originally posted by LumoColor
Netsource has been as bad as usual, started trying to play last night and was getting 250+ all the time.

Got an e-mail from thier support last week (nearly died of shock!) stating that they will be upgrading routers this week.

nice, I would like to see the result of this upgrade

Lockup

http://www.netsource.ie/html/servicestatus.html

Lets see this evening if the tides have turned for Netsource and online gaming.;)

Tazzle

This must be the hundreth router 'upgrade' I wouldn't hold my breath.

ando

I dunno what 'upgrading the router' means? Upgrading the firmware... changing the routing table? ..... changing the whole physical router units?

JohnK

hmmm. dont know if its a result of the upgrades or not, but my pings to clarity.jolt.co.uk have been between 40 ~ 50ms all day - including just now while I'm downloading from another netsource user at aprox 12.7k/sec