Eircom net?

m1RV

Does anyone experience bad connects to vishnu on a dublin eircom net dialup?
I get a 46k connect, and my ping is 98 to 110 in dos, but 180 to 450 when I goto the server in Q3.
Even SNL gives me a better connect, a 140 to 160 ping.
Help?
Eek.

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m1RV

Oh btw, in CA its fine too, a 100 ping to slosh.ign.ie in qw :P.

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Cake Fiend

Try Unison altho that's not usually much better...

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clanludo

[This message has been edited by Sico (edited 16-04-2000).]

TwoShedsJackson

Get ISDN.

Sonic

and a pipe

amp

I'm waiting for cable

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DeVore

There seems to be something wrong with the Eircom network (no sh|t!).

I'm going to try and talk to them about it but its a much bigger problem then just us I expect. Who knows but there is a lot to talk about with them...

Until then, bear with us. You know I want decent connects as much as anyone else

DeV.

Guinnessman

ye my pl is spiken past 1

SantaHoe

Yeah, I've noticed it on the Half-Life end of things, I get ping spikes and 30%+ packetloss.
Eircom used to rock, but now I just have to use indigo for a decent game.

PS. Any news on cable?

havok*

Ye my connection sux too.
any1 know what to do about noisy lines?
my ping's never lower than 400.
it usually around the 600-700 mark.
verging on unplayable.
any advise is much obliged.

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Kali

ring them up and complain.
its free to get checked/fixed.

Jak

Aye .. for the last week Pings have been unplayable for me on Eircom - 300/350 spiking to 'Disconnected'. Seems like it must be a pretty broad scale problem though.

JAK.

Meantime .. which ISP is offerin the next best atm?

Shinji

I'm finding at the moment that Eircom gives the most solid connection (I don't think I've been bumped off Eircom once) so it's great for downloading, IRCing or general mucking about online.

For games, though, it's more than a bit pants; BuyAndSell.net is a much more worthwhile option here - although pings from it to Wireplay now suck quite hard, that isn't their fault - Wireplay is b0rked at the moment. Pings to BW, Demon and GamesInferno are still good. Unfortunately, BnS.net seem to have a trained monkey handling the technical end, and while the dialup does some nice things (like supporting STAC compression, which drops about 30-40 off an ISDN ping) it has a nasty tendancy to bump you offline occasionally, and goes quiet an odd time - Q3/UT/CS spikes to a silly ping and almost total packetloss for about 5-10 seconds, although it only happens about 2 or 3 times an hour.

Ja,
Rob

m1RV

NTL are laying down fibre optic lines in my area 8) 8) 8)

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FutureQuakeDood

Im taking a look at some very promising ISDN internet machines next thursday. Does anyone still know which machine works best from a country line. Something to do with farmers eletric wire I hear??? Thats what the TELECOM EIREAN say tho isnt it??? Maybe its time to move to ENGLAND for cable???

elexes

where u from ?

Canaboid

I doubt it M1RV. More likely they are adding an upstream channel to the existing (cablelink) cable which currently only works in one direction.
Where abouts are you ?