Is Everything Slllllllooooooooow Again Today?

swoofer

I am finding access to various sites slow again today. I am with IOLBB.

GB--

Placebo

same here !
pics are even loading slow and recently some pics dont even load, red x come sup.

swoofer

thank goodness for that, lets hope things improve from Monday, at least I am not alone!!

gb--

Placebo

well boards.ie is working fast now, so are others.
but l;ast night it was quite VERY slow.

swoofer

I was out last night but this board is not too bad but others are very slow.

gb-

Paul007

How slow are we talking about?

I'm currently on dial-up and thinking about signing up with IOLBB or Clicksilver. I have to say I'm in two minds at the moment after reading a lot of the posts on these forums.

How reliable is the service as a rule?

swoofer

Paul I got IOLBB last Sept and it has been fantastic. It is only these past 2 weeks I have noticed one or 2 hiccupps but there is so much muck flying around at the mo I am not surprised. It is just becuase it has been so good that when things go wrong one tends to blame their own kit initially but this is not the case. I am in Clare.

It is defenitely worth getting and new offers are out from 8th March.

This is just a blip!
gb--

Paul007

Cheers gb, that's reassuring.

Looks like I'll be signing up shortly so.

Xcellor

Broadband rocks....

No doubt about it, kick that dialup connection if you can...

Broadband might be dodgy sometimes but when it works (which is often) it's a treat....

Downloads... online gaming... mp3 downloading... if of course you are one of those damn evil accursed pirates that are sucking the life blood out of the recording industry.. cough cough.. yeah right...

But be warned. If you make the jump up to broadband you will never be able to cope with dialup again. It's a change for life... no going back...

X

Placebo

VERY SLOW now, my website wont even load.

ffs.

swoofer

I'm ok here in CLARE on some boards but others are crawling and I am switching browers.

GB--

Aepos

UTV clicksilver has been slow since yesterday, they told me Eircon had or has a problem. Still very poor 8.00pm Sat

Xcellor

I haven't experienced any slow down... must be region specific... I'm in Longford area. (midlands to all you dubs )

X

BigEejit

I'm with Netsource and my page loads have gone to hell ... firefox isnt loading some pages at all because it has a lower timeout setting .. I had to go back to IE to see some of my usual pages .... luckily boards isnt too bad...

I can ping the sites ok ... just web browsing is cat slow

actually it seems to be american sites that are suffering worst

Aepos

Clicksilver still slow today downloads between 20-30 kps

Valentia

Getting 440 on Giganews here on Clicksilver, which is as fast as it's ever been. Mabye your suffering from contention blues.

Aepos

Dont think its a contention issue as the download speed has been steadily slow ie not much variation from around half normal speeds (around 440ish) since Saturday am. It just went off alltogether a minute ago.....

I hope this isnt a ruse to get us to go for the 24/1 package...

Its more likely to be an Eircon issue in the Terenure/Knocklyon area..

Aepos

Just tested on Giganews 240 is my number (total rubbish) Thats a very usefull link thanks!!

Chad ghostal

im on iolbb and its been far slower than usual all day
im in cork .

BigEejit

I'm on netsource in Cork and getting 420 now ... wish I checked when it was slow .... [kiss of death]seems alright so far[/kiss of death]

Chad ghostal

i just tested and got 162..
this have anything to do with the "big change" ?..
this is like browsing on56k .. :dunno:

Phibsboro

118 here - IBB pointing to the Guinness mast. Its been slow all weekend. I just rang and left a message for IBB.

Interestingly, I've just done a test downloading from one the heanet mirrors (try http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-10.0-rc1-CD1.i586.iso )and I'm getting a steady 53 KBs transfer rate (this is the equivalent of 424 in the giganews test) so it defo seems to be a backbone issue somewhere rather than a connection issue. IBB is wireless obviously so it isn't an Eircom exchange issue (not to say it ain't an Eircom backbone issue of course).

I'll let you know if IBB can shed any light on it. Do IOL/UTV/Eircom have any support sites where they post known issues that might give us a clue as to whats going on?


Cheers,
Colm

Aepos

Its very poor with me now 10kbps to 24kbps D16 area

Rang utv yesterday and again this evening.

havn't had this problem before always 54kbps very rarely 40-45kbps.

Still I suppose its a little better than dial up!!!

DMT

Originally posted by Aepos
Its very poor with me now 10kbps to 24kbps D16 area

Rang utv yesterday and again this evening.

havn't had this problem before always 54kbps very rarely 40-45kbps.

Still I suppose its a little better than dial up!!!

Please tell me you mean KB/s not kbps...

ando

Originally posted by Phibsboro
Do IOL/UTV/Eircom have any support sites where they post known issues that might give us a clue as to whats going on?

eircom never have any issues

Aepos

yes of course you are correct kb/s, my mistrake!

Phibsboro

just to follow up on this - I am getting 468 tonite from the giganews test site ( http://www.giganews.com/comps/test_connect.mhtml ) which is fine - its the equivalent of 58 KBs. For those who haven't worked it out yet, you divide the Kbps (bits per second) number by 8 to get the KBps number (Bytes per second). The Kbps number is what the ISP's quote (56k, 512k etc) while the KBps is the transfer rate you see when you download in window.


Anyways, looks like the slow down is over - yeah

Colm

Aepos

I was getting 54Kbs at around 6pm but its gone to hell again now up anddown like a yo-yo 2-40kbs using giganews

DMT

Originally posted by Phibsboro
For those who haven't worked it out yet, you divide the Kbps (bits per second) number by 8 to get the KBps number (Bytes per second).

You actual have to divide by 8.192 because 1 kbit = 1000 bits whereas 1 KB = 1024 bytes....

And the correct units are:
kilobits per second = kbits/s or kbps
kilobytes per second = KB/s

Phibsboro

8.192! Yikes! - you're right Its all so confusing.

What I should have said of course is that Kibibits/sec divded by 8 gives KibiBytes/sec :eek:


http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

Colm

DMT

Originally posted by Phibsboro
What I should have said of course is that Kibibits/sec divded by 8 gives KibiBytes/sec :eek:

A good example of engineers being too anal as usual.
In communications engineering, which is what is relevant here, kilobit = 1000 bits and kilobyte = 1024 bytes = 8192 bits.

To confuse things a little bit more, communications engineers also use the term octet (as well as byte) to mean 8 bits.

There are no kilo-octets however....

Placebo

DEJAVo - its happening aGa!n.

Tusky

Originally posted by Placebo
DEJAVo - its happening aGa!n.

aye really slow today

rymus

utv speed is all over the place today. Getting 50k one sec, 350 the next, back to 30k, 180k, etc... real pain in the ass.

Aepos

I have been away for a week, the speed was all over the place early last week 1k to 40k. Reported problem by Phone and e-mail. Got back from UK today and system is still total rubbish 1K to 54k. I am strongly thinking of dumping UTV because I have only really had one month of reliable service (18 Dec to 17 Jan ) since I joined in December. I was also promised a rebate of €8.00 compensation for lack of service in January but still have not got that.... because of all this I can't recommend UTV Clicksilver even at €29.99. This is a pity as the service was very good for the first month. What has gone wrong??

dub45

Where are you? The Clicksilver speed has been pretty good for me recently and there have been no general reports here or in the support group of poor speeds AFAIK. (When I posted something similar before I had soon had speed problems so heres hoping!!)

Gonzo

the utv network has never really been reliable ever, I used their 56kdialup for a while a few years ago and it was awfull to say the least, on isdn it was even worse, for broadband I would highly recommend either eircom or esatbt/iol because their services are stable, good quality networks for both downloaders, surfers and gamers alike. I wouldnt recommend utv clicksilver to my worst enemy for the time being (awfull pings, low unpredictable download/surfing speeds, frequent blackouts/disconnections) , the amount of complaints on these boards over past several months regarding utv clicksilver proves this. UTV need to seriously take a look at their network and fix it fast if they are to be taken seriously anymore, I really hope they do get on top of it because this country needs more high quality competitors to eircom. Btw is the UTV clicksilver service in Northern Ireland also suffering the same problems or is it just the southern version?

Aepos

Hi I'm in Dublin 16 (Knocklyon area)

I've been on to UTV again just now and they are going to do a line test (This was supposed to have been done last week) It Takes Eircon 5 wkg days to do that so the whole thing is a bit of a joke. A line test can be done by BT in NI within a few hours. It is most unfortunate that NTL won't bring cable across the road to my house because this whole UTV thing is a real pain in the Ar*e..

dub45

Btw is the UTV clicksilver service in Northern Ireland also suffering the same problems or is it just the southern version?

There are rarely any contributors to the support group from NI so I suppose that means they never have any problems up there!! and besides the Clicksilver in NI would be a totally different product.

Gonzo

reason for very few complaints in northern ireland cud be that they got loads of choices in the north with superior dsl networks like Freeserve, nildram, btyahoo, jolt, telewest and many more just as any other part of the uk, i doubt very much that clicksilver would be the first isp of choice for many broadband users there, I would imagine utv clicksilver have a greater grib of the broadband market down here in southern Ireland as we really only have 2 other main providers excluding netsource.

Valentia

i doubt very much that clicksilver would be the first isp of choice for many broadband users there

Why? & BTW your other posts are full of inaccuracies and sweeping statements too. Are you an eircon muppet?

Aepos

The whole system seems to have died again between 7:30 and 8:40pm seems ok now but will it still be there in an hours time so my sprog can get her coursework pdf's down? maybe or maybe not!!