Clicksilver Speeds

kin9pin

Anyone tested Clicksilver/IOL download speeds/pings yet this morning?

Richard Dower

Communications: 419.9 kilobits per second
Storage: 51.3 kilobytes per second
1MB file download: 20 seconds
Subjective rating: Not bad


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Richard Dower

I get 436Kbps from Giganews.com

kin9pin

not looking too bad then. Will be interesting to see what happens this evening.

daveyjoe

Getting 230kbps from Giganews on Clicksilver
Pings are around 70ms to www.jolt.co.uk .
Come on sort this out UTV/Esat/Eircom/Whoever's to blame.

Booster

Richards looks promising....

12 noon 236kbps

now 303.1kbps

Getting better but 6pm-11pm will be the big test, especially at 24:1.

Booster

Changed settings from UK to Europe

Communications 343.9 kilobits per second
Storage 42 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 24.4 seconds
Subjective rating Not bad

rymus

147.9 kilobits per second

woot! \o/

pinging about 70ms to boards, 200ms to u.tv and 54ms to jolt.

Mutor_CS

I'm playing DoD on work connection on a 4u UK server and a guy is playing via IOLBB, pings never below 160. This isn't fixed and tbh I've no faith in IOL at all. I guess no DoD for me when I get home tonight.

Squall

196 kilobits per second

Communications 196 kilobits per second
Storage 23.9 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 42.8 seconds
Subjective rating Mediocre

This is getting very frustrating

Aepos

More or less the same as squall 170kbps. at 5:15pm

Indeed this is very frustrating ok. I thought there was a "BIG FIX" due today.

Maybee Tuesday but I'm not holding my breath.

Ae

Nyum Nyum

Communications 140.2 kilobits per second
Storage 17.1 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 59.8 seconds
Subjective rating Mediocre

RuggieBear

Communications 169.6 kilobits per second
Storage 20.7 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 49.5 seconds
Subjective rating Mediocre


5.40pm

Nyum Nyum

Giganews.com 193kbps

mickger

giganews test= 247kbps

bloody awful:mad:

Stephen

UTV speed test: 392kbit

Booster

I'm getting a constant 45k from an ET ftp server.

mickger

giganews test= 172kbps

and it get's worse

Hobbes

I'm getting 56k modem speeds.. woo ****ing hoo. -_-

jonski

I'm getting sub 56k pings

Booster

Gone to absolute ****e now.

153 from utv's own speedtest.

geecee

Will attempt to post it.....
But have a feeling my "ligntening fast" internet will time out before then!

u.tv Speed Test:

948592 bytes transferred in 231.834 secs

32 kbit

All I can say is that UTV are going to have some serious explaining to do when we all end up in the small claims courts with claims against them!

I believe that even the 5 days allowed for in any SLA with ANY telecoms provider has now passed.

c'mon UTV sort it out

PS UTV users I'd be interested in hearing what the rest of you intend doing when you get your bill from thme next Monday.... I feel that a mass boycott of payment is required at this stage

Kramer

Lucky buggers, I'm getting:

Communications: 72 kilobits per second
Storage : 8.8 kilobytes per second
1MB file download: 1.9 minutes
Subjective rating: Slow

& averaging 64kbps from Giganews

Pings are good though NOT.

Pinging clarity.jolt.co.uk

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=184ms TTL=55
Request timed out.
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=240ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=177ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% lo
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 177ms, Maximum = 240ms, Average = 200ms

&

Pinging www.boards.ie

Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=217ms TTL=53
Request timed out.
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=211ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=195ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 82.195.131.128:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% lo
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 195ms, Maximum = 217ms, Average = 207ms

They were among the better results :eek:

What a joke :mad: All the while still paying €47.50 to UTV for this crap. Glad I didn't resign & I think it's pretty obvious why UTV FORCED people to commit for another 12 months.

:rolleyes:

Richard Dower

Communications 174.1 kilobits per second
Storage 21.2 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 48.2 seconds
Subjective rating Mediocre

It's gone to crap again...sigh.

Aepos

Latest from Martin UTV Newsgroup

"Again, sorry for the delays, but am spending a lot of time on the phone to
Esat
and really not getting much information back. On the plus side they seem to
be
in the same boat with Eircom.

The most recent piece of news I have is that Eircom have said that they are
putting
this issue at the top of their list, expediting it etc etc. What they are
not committing to
at this stage is a date to complete the work, although they have stated that
they will
make all best efforts to get this done tonight or tomorrow. I know this
might sound a
bit confusing and perhaps contradictory, but I'm really passing along the
message exactly
as Esat have received it. In their own words, they don't think that Eircom
could have
phrased the message any more politically.

I'm waiting for a few more calls/texts to be returned tonight.

In answer to somebodys previous question about pings, and what this should
solve, the
answer is all speed/ping issues.

Martin."

Cheers

Ae

Couch Potato

Are the users going to be compensated in any way as they have admitted that the service is not up to scratch ??

I guess there will be 2 hopes of that !!!

Richard Dower

You'll just have to ring and request.

TheGreatOne

Was trying to play Battlefield Vietnam earlier, about 22.30, the best ping i saw was 221, absolutely pathetic!! Getting disconnected from the server every few mins as well. This is really becoming a joke, whoever is to blame!

Squall

I agree tryed a bit of UT earlier. Oh what fun!!!

Really needs sorting soon

Stephen

Anyone know if the upgrades/repairs they were talking about are going ahead today? I can't check the UTV support newsgroup as I am at work at the moment.

dub45

Given whats beeen reported in the Esat thread I think this will take a few days at least before everything is back to normal.

kin9pin

Originally posted by dub45
Given whats beeen reported in the Esat thread I think this will take a few days at least before everything is back to normal.

Noooooooooooooooooooo this IS normal

rymus

Originally posted by dub45
this will take a few days at least before everything is back to normal.

oscarBravo

Originally posted by Kramer
I think it's pretty obvious why UTV FORCED people to commit for another 12 months.

You were FORCED into a new contract, were you?

All the while still paying €47.50 to UTV for this crap.

Evidently not.

Subc

Everytime i try to download something on DC++, like at 35kb it just goes down to 0kb/sec. This is for every single download with every file is anybody else having this problem not necessarily with DC++

Harry2001

pucking Abysmal!!!!!!!!!!


Bandwith Place


101.5 kilobits per second

Communications 101.5 kilobits per second
Storage 12.4 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.4 minutes
Subjective rating Mediocre

Squall

Just about 56k standard right now. Really hope this gets sorted soon.

Kramer

Originally posted by oscarBravo
You were FORCED into a new contract, were you? Evidently not.

Did I say I was forced into a new contract? Evidently not .

The choice was:

1. Recommit for another 12 months (of this fantastic service ) for a lower rate or,

2. Continue to pay an exorbitant monthly fee untill the end of my current contract (again, for this fantastic "10 times faster than dialup, always on" broadband connection).

I chose the latter.

I can't really complain though. €47.50 for 4.5KB download speed, pings measured in seconds (rather than miliseconds), 25% packet loss & constant disconnects.

All in all, a great service & well worth the monthly payment.

NOT.

Subc

Kramer they all suck, every ISP stinks, if it's bad service or just the speed and cap.
Not also are the speeds lame compared to other ISPs in Europe but it also doesn't work correctly.

rymus

Originally posted by Subc
Kramer they all suck, every ISP stinks, if it's bad service or just the speed and cap.

I see no complaints from Esat Business or Eircom users... Eircom seem to have a fantastic DSL offering despite the cap & price. Big surprise that is

oscarBravo

Originally posted by Kramer
Did I say I was forced into a new contract? Evidently not .

Can you name anyone who was?

The choice was: [...] I chose the latter.

I'm aware of what the choices were. Everyone was offered a choice, and everyone chose one or the other. I don't recall hearing about anyone who was forced to choose a new contract.

Subc

Rymus fantastic here is when it works, when u pay every month its for a product thats supposed to work now working or not that has nothing to do with it what does it the speeds we are getting and the cap and the price. But what tops it all off is it just doesn't work good enough so thats just bad broadband service

hairball

geecee : I agree with you about holding back on paying the monthly fee for clicksilver.
I just ran a giganews test: 205 kbps....not good enough!
I've suffered a whole month of pings ranging from 65kbps to 403kbps with apparently no rhyme or reason(time of day etc_).

I'm heartily sick of this now...what ARE we paying for!

daveyjoe

Originally posted by oscarBravo
Can you name anyone who was? I'm aware of what the choices were. Everyone was offered a choice, and everyone chose one or the other. I don't recall hearing about anyone who was forced to choose a new contract.

I think the point he's making is that unlike IOL and Eircom, UTV are forcing their customers to commit to a new contract if they want the savings that UTV are making at wholesale level to be passed onto the UTV subscribers.

Kramer

Originally posted by oscarBravo
I don't recall hearing about anyone who was forced to choose a new contract.

What would you call charging someone €17.50 per month (me for instance) more that they should for not recommiting?

Pay 58% more for our service unless you recommit.

IMO, that's basically "forcing" people to recommit.

Why haven't Eircom & others done this? In fact, UTV are the only ISP to adopt this policy.

If they were confident people would stay with them because of their quality of service & support, they could have just applied the new charges (same as everyone else).

Nope, I think you're onto a looser here.

I congradulate everyone with 200kb download speeds & sub 200ms pings. I'm struggling with 4kBs & pings are now 450-800ms. That's of course calculated from the returned packets. Currently averaging 25% packet loss.

Direct debit now being cancelled (if I can do this).

Kramer

Originally posted by daveyjoe
unlike IOL and Eircom, UTV are forcing their customers to commit to a new contract if they want the savings that UTV are making at wholesale level to be passed onto the UTV subscribers.

That's it, in a nutshell.

Hobbes

You only commited a new contract if you took the high speed option.

Kramer

Originally posted by Hobbes
You only commited a new contract if you took the high speed option.

Incorrect.

"Migrating" (what UTV claim) to either "new" package means a new 12 month contract.

daveyjoe

Originally posted by Hobbes
You only commited a new contract if you took the high speed option.

emmm? High-speed? I presume you mean the lower contention (higher cap) package.
Whichever package you choose, you are automatically signing up for another 12 months.

Mork

"Migrating" hummm, yes I think so.... To a different ISP!!!

I've had enough of UTV, not really bothered who's fault it is anymore, be it Esat, Eircom or whoever I've had enough of all the excuses, I've paid for a service and I'm not getting what I paid for, so I am voting with my feet... Sorry UTV

-Mork

BTW: My contract is to run until October this year so I will have to engage in some debate with UTV before bailing out.

oscarBravo

Originally posted by Kramer
What would you call charging someone €17.50 per month (me for instance) more that they should for not recommiting?

The same thing you already called it - a choice.

Pay 58% more for our service unless you recommit.

Or, more accurately, pay what you already agreed to pay, or recommit and get a cheaper service.

IMO, that's basically "forcing" people to recommit.

IMO, that's basically "encouraging" people to recommit.

Why haven't Eircom & others done this? In fact, UTV are the only ISP to adopt this policy.

They're also the only ISP to offer DSL for under €30/month.

If they were confident people would stay with them because of their quality of service & support, they could have just applied the new charges (same as everyone else).

I think they're confident people will stay with them because they're cheaper than everyone else.

Nope, I think you're onto a looser here.

Me? I don't care either way.