IOL BB - Slow as a snail today???

TheC0CK

Im on Dun L exchange and my IOL BB is really bad today. Anyone else experiencing this annoyance?

Zefren

Nope. Currently downloading latest version of kde from ftp.esat.net and getting a constant 52kB/sec.

Xcellor

I am in Longford area. No probs here... Been downloading since this morning and have got over 1 gigabyte of Sims Online! A little bit more to go Average speed 45-50 but fluctuates down to 15 then bumps back up again. That may be due to someone else using the connection too

X

halenger

Speeds ok as far as I can tell but I can't get websites a lot. Having to refresh for a few minutes to get them.

I'm not getting disconnected though. It's happenening to both of my machines so tis nothing to do with them and I see nothing mentioned in my router's error logs.

K!LL!@N

I'm in dun laoghaire and it's noticeably slower.

Killian

radiospan

Originally posted by halenger
Speeds ok as far as I can tell but I can't get websites a lot. Having to refresh for a few minutes to get them.

Tusky

Ok speeds but websites are being all crappy, alot of the time I cant get any

bizmark

mine cut out 2 times last night for 1 hour each time :dunno:

Cal

Yep IOLBB is crawling for me today (Stillorgan). Slow page load etc.

Funny but there was no problems prior to the contention ratio reduction.

Cal

SantaHoe

IOL has been brutal for me for about the last week... guys try doing a tracert to www.boards.ie

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [82.195.131.128]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 31 ms 31 ms 16 ms lo3.bas501.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.175]
2 16 ms 31 ms 31 ms vlan500.rt501.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.124]
3 16 ms 31 ms 31 ms vlan51.rt001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.130.137]
4 15 ms 32 ms 31 ms ge1-0.core002.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.2]
5 281 ms 250 ms 250 ms pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.95.131.6]
6 16 ms 31 ms 31 ms rt001inx.netsource.ie [193.1.208.199]
7 15 ms 32 ms 31 ms suez.hosting365.ie [212.17.63.4]
8 15 ms 31 ms 32 ms sneezy.hosting365.ie [82.195.133.195]
9 47 ms 31 ms 31 ms boards.ie [82.195.131.128]

Trace complete.

Now that's arseways.
Net performance is rotten, loads of packetloss and ping spikes.

bizmark

i get 240ms to pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.95.131.6]

Unexpected

I am having awful trouble on it too today and yesterday. Experience the same as you Bizmark. It really sucks.

Gonzo

even on eircom pinging that esat server its bad as well, everywhere else is fine as usuall.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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Pinging 193.95.131.6 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 193.95.131.6: bytes=32 time=223ms TTL=251
Reply from 193.95.131.6: bytes=32 time=85ms TTL=251
Reply from 193.95.131.6: bytes=32 time=185ms TTL=251
Reply from 193.95.131.6: bytes=32 time=292ms TTL=251

Ping statistics for 193.95.131.6:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 85ms, Maximum = 292ms, Average = 196ms

Pinging www.boards.ie [82.195.131.128] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 82.195.131.128:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 25ms, Maximum = 27ms, Average = 26ms

Unexpected

Can not even download things now. Really bad. Is this as a result of contention? I never had it this bad before.

EDIT: Must have been contention. Its perfect now. Better not happen again. It was really pants tonight.

Richard Dower

It can't be contention, this problem only started last Thursday when the Esat sever exploaded. Why all of a sudden did we encounter contention?

I am experiencing bad speeds ALL the time now, if contention was an issue it would be at certain times of the day. This has to be an issue with the ISP's

I very much doubt that contention is an issue, since it never was before when we were all on 48:1...none of us had problems then?

Has anyone rang up to complain?

Davey Devil

My d/l speeds are most definatly being caused by contention. 7pm to 11pm my speeds are crap and the rest of the time they are fine. They should never have brought in the 16gb cap, people are downloading the whole internet now for christ sake. 24:1 ratio me arse :mad:

Unexpected

They should never have brought in the 16gb cap, people are downloading the whole internet now for christ sake. 24:1 ratio me arse

Exactly my thoughts. What the **** is going on? My pings are perfect 27ms to boards but i still have spiking issues. :dunno:

OfflerCrocGod

Originally posted by Unexpected
Exactly my thoughts. What the **** is going on? My pings are perfect 27ms to boards but i still have spiking issues. :dunno:

Double cap half contention - do the math - its not contention its to do with Esats stupid BAS blowing up.

Unexpected

Seriously? Something blew up? :dunno:

Richard Dower

Same problem again, and WORSE. The last two hours i could not login nor downloading anything. Just now things started to move.

These problems are NOT contention issues, it's an issue with Esat and their servers. Isin't it strange all these problems started AFTER the sever problem last Thursday?

It was certain times of the day, now it's all the time and things are getting worse.
If no one experience contention issues at 48:1 we're not gonna see it on 24:1.

There aren't enough people on the system yet to even come close to contention issues, the issue IS with Esat and the Eircom hardware.

ondafly

On Friday I was downloading updates , and was getting speeds of 17KB - Friend was updating his xbox at the same time so I presumed that was the reason.

Later on - using just one PC online - I downloaded media player 9 for a PC again speeds were 17KB. This time no Xbox was connected.

Didn't download anything until Sunday, and speeds were back to normal.

Started playing xbox live that night - and strange thing is all voice communication is choppy as hell , no lag in game though. Last night, same again, choppy voice communication and no lag.


Something is screwed up somewhere !

Snaga

Originally posted by SantaHoe
IOL has been brutal for me for about the last week... guys try doing a tracert to www.boards.ie
1 31 ms 31 ms 16 ms lo3.bas501.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.175]
2 16 ms 31 ms 31 ms vlan500.rt501.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.124]
3 16 ms 31 ms 31 ms vlan51.rt001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.130.137]
4 15 ms 32 ms 31 ms ge1-0.core002.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.2]
5 281 ms 250 ms 250 ms pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.95.131.6]
6 16 ms 31 ms 31 ms rt001inx.netsource.ie [193.1.208.199]
7 15 ms 32 ms 31 ms suez.hosting365.ie [212.17.63.4]
8 15 ms 31 ms 32 ms sneezy.hosting365.ie [82.195.133.195]
9 47 ms 31 ms 31 ms boards.ie [82.195.131.128]


Now that's arseways.
Net performance is rotten, loads of packetloss and ping spikes.

I doubt thats a ping spike, the 193.95.131.6 router appears to be in INEX, so its primary job is to handle a whack load of data coming in and out of different isps in the exchange, ICMP (ping) requests I would guess are simply deprioritised so you get the reply when the router 'gets around to it' as opposed to straight away with the other routers.

HelterSkelter

Is everyone having the same problems???

I was going to order IOL today!! Think I'll hold off and see if things improve. :-/

Chad ghostal

it was only a temporary problem (for me anyway) everything was back to normal after the one night.

Xcellor

I've not really experienced any noticeable slow down or major probs with my IOL BB plus package. No downtime at all over the last 10 days... Keep it up

X

markyboy

Terrible last night. Kept dropping out of winmx and the like only to reconnect 2 minutes later. Ping responses were all over the place

SantaHoe

I swear to God, IOL-BB right now is so slow that webpages would load faster on a 56K modem with 3 downloads in the background.

Pinging www.boards.ie [82.195.131.128] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=156ms TTL=56
Request timed out.
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=56
Request timed out.

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [82.195.131.128]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 750 ms 125 ms 94 ms lo3.bas501.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.175]
2 219 ms 109 ms 47 ms vlan501.rt502.cwt.esat.net [193.95.137.125]
3 344 ms 156 ms 78 ms vlan54.rt002.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.130.161]
4 15 ms 47 ms 31 ms ge0-0.core002.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.18]
5 140 ms 375 ms 188 ms pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.95.131.6]
6 78 ms 32 ms 47 ms rt001inx.netsource.ie [193.1.208.199]
7 62 ms 63 ms 47 ms suez.hosting365.ie [212.17.63.4]
8 640 ms 266 ms 47 ms sneezy.hosting365.ie [82.195.128.8]
9 * 469 ms 156 ms boards.ie [82.195.131.128]

Trace complete.

I'm also getting sub-modem download speeds from ftp.esat.net, which usualy gives me between 40 and 50K.
This is more like crappy flat rate dial-up.

Richard Dower

So...ring and complain!!

Only way things get fixed is make them aware and cause a stir.

Iago

like Xcellor, I haven't experienced any real problems over the last week or so...

on thursday last it was a bit slow alright, but apart from that it was fine.

Last night I was downloading some information and gaming online at the same time with no lag or speed issues, and this morning before I left I had some downloads running at a total speed of 36kbps.....

seems ok to me, maybe I'm just the lucky one!!

I'm on the dunlaoire exchnage btw

Richard Dower

I'm on Roaches St. exchange, i feel this is limited to certain exchanges and users connected to certain servers at those exchanges.

I have suggested same to Esat and called Eircom about any technical issues at my local exchange.

No word yet...gotta keep these guys under pressure!

:dunno:

Lex_Diamonds

Mines fecked, im on Nutley exchange. Cant even use cam in MSN :dunno:

Xcellor

There is nothing more I would like to do than eat the head off Esat IOL BT whatever they call themselves... but presently I can't coz there isnt anything to complain about.. Sub 30 pings to boards... 50+kB/ps. No downtime.

You could call me a satisfied customer... Although I'm a bit concerned if I say that it might go terribly wrong...

X

Cal

Just been down for about 20 mins. There is something going on. Lets hope it is in an effort to correct things.

Cal

Richard Dower

Originally posted by Lex_Diamonds
Mines fecked, im on Nutley exchange. Cant even use cam in MSN :dunno:

I had the same thing!...i was online at 4am, to check and see of problems are in fact contention issues.

It's not...why?, i am currently downloading as i type the Far Cry demo, 551 megs...my speed is constant at 51.1K downstream, not bad at all.

But last night i could not login, username/password refused...took 2 hours for it to accept, then ALL Microsoft websites were gone. MSN was the same.

It just seems to me that there is some issue with a server or some exchanges, do you guys remember around July last year, remember when we had problems downloading web pages?

It seems to be that issue again, did someone say it was backhaul at the exchanges?

SantaHoe

Haven't been able to connect since my last post ~50mins ago... still laggy and slow.

So...ring and complain!!

Only way things get fixed is make them aware and cause a stir.

Yeah I tried to ring them up on Sunday, but the lines were closed, and I'm not exactly thrilled at the prospect of waiting a half hour on hold before I get to speak with someone who doesn't know whats going on. :mad:
Anyone moaned at comreg?

greys

Just been down for about 20 mins. There is something going on. Lets hope it is in an effort to correct things.

Cal

So it's up again then? Good then. I sure hope they fixed what they wanted.

SantaHoe

Well it's still only giving me a 4KB/sec download

Töpher

Down for me for past hour. On 56k now. Does the error everyone gets fir this something about username/pw? (Just to be sure!) Stupid crap! I've clan wars in a bit! Pants!

kmurph

Down for me currently too.

Ba$tard

Cannot get on either in Cork.

Isnt it great that the company for which are we customers do not have the balls to let us know what is actually going on?

Do they think, emm maybe they wont notice???!
Silence from our supplier is bad.

Anyone got an inside track as to what is going on?

Iago

Just got back home and my connection is fine

d/l from kazaa lite at the moment, 5 downloads running, total speed 31kbps...

not fantastic but still quite good...

cregser

I'm ping pretty high too. It's strange, I can download reasonably fast but ping like crap. Packet loss ain't a problem either.

I use IOLBB for gaming mainly. I can't play CoD with high pings...I think I'll fire up HaloPC.

Pinging www.boards.ie [82.195.131.128] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=154ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=150ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 82.195.131.128:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 150ms, Maximum = 172ms, Average = 160ms

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

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=184ms TTL=58
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=157ms TTL=58
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=170ms TTL=58
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=178ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 157ms, Maximum = 184ms, Average = 172ms

I don't know about boards.ie, but I know I usually ping jolt at around 55.

Xcellor

My little brother reported to me that multiplayer games lagging..

Pings seemed to be a bit crazy.. Downloads not effected too much.

X

Arsemonger

Things are absolutely pathetic here in Co.Wexford at the moment.The dial up connection I'm currently using is even faster!

:mad: :mad: :mad:

atheist

I can play a game of patience in the time it takes for pages to come up here in Shankill / Loughlinstown:mad:

Unexpected

Dun Laoighre - Same bull****

Any news on a fix?

Töpher

Suddenly back to normal for me. I figure it was people milking their caps slowing it down, for me anyways. Back to pinging boards.ie at 27ms instead of 190 odd!

Unexpected

My pings are 27 to boards too. But it still is a load of bollox opening web pages and downloading...dont even go there.

Lex_Diamonds

If nobody in Esat actually knows what the problem is then I guess we can look forward to this being the norm. I wish Eircom didnt sabotage competitors

dub45

Originally posted by Lex_Diamonds
If nobody in Esat actually knows what the problem is then I guess we can look forward to this being the norm. I wish Eircom didnt sabotage competitors

Can you prove that Eircom are sabotaging their competitors? If you cannot stop making wild alleagations. They take the heat off (in this case anyways) UTV and IOL.
If you can prove it they by all means post the evidence and let the companies concerned take it to the regulator.

I am no fan of eircom by the way but wild allegations do not help clarify what is going on. And in this case it appears to have been equipment shared somewhere along the line by UTV/Esat.

Lex_Diamonds

I have no direct proof regarding this, only eircoms previous track record over the years. It would seem the most likely explanation though, seeing as not a single Eircom customer is affected.