Excellent Speed and Pings on Clicksilver

dub45 · 16-04-2004 9:18pm #1

Just so as it wont get lost in the midst of the other thread on speed I wanted to confirm that Clicksilver has improved out of all recognition in the past two nights (Please dont let that be tempting fate!!!) so let's hope it will keep up now.

mike65 · 16-04-2004 10:43pm

Yeah theres been a fair ammount of discussion on the newsgroup. The techies have been working overtime.

Mike.

paddy · 16-04-2004 11:04pm

Flying along here too, steady 52KB/sec, hope its here to stay.

Páid · 16-04-2004 11:55pm

Wert thou more fickle than the restless sea,
Still should I love thee, UTV.

William Morris (1834-1896)

tomk · 17-04-2004 12:08am

Nice one dub. I've stayed away from most of the UTV threads here, simply because I have not experienced the level of disruption you and others have reported. Apart from the Easter difficulties, I have had consistently good service from UTV, and it's good to hear that it's improved for you as well.

My experience would suggest that you are not tempting fate by starting a complimentary thread. I expect the service will maintain the high standard that I am accustomed to.

dub45 · 17-04-2004 12:23am

Originally posted by tomk
Nice one dub. I've stayed away from most of the UTV threads here, simply because I have not experienced the level of disruption you and others have reported. Apart from the Easter difficulties, I have had consistently good service from UTV, and it's good to hear that it's improved for you as well.

My experience would suggest that you are not tempting fate by starting a complimentary thread. I expect the service will maintain the high standard that I am accustomed to.

I sincerely hope so UTV have a lot of ground to make up in restoring their reputation as far as I am concerned and I am sure a lot of others. Bear in mind that as recently as last Wednesday one user in the support group was describing it as the worst night ever on Clicksilver so it is early days yet......

jonski · 17-04-2004 12:32am

/me echo's all the above .

ArthurG · 17-04-2004 7:23am

Originally posted by jonski
/me echo's all the above .

Ditto!

Hurrah at last for UTV etc etc.

DMT · 17-04-2004 9:46am

ping -n 10 www.boards.ie

Pinging [url]www.boards.ie[/url] [82.195.131.128] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 82.195.131.128:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 58ms, Maximum = 86ms, Average = 63ms

ping -n 10 [url]www.jolt.co.uk[/url]

Pinging clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=55
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 43ms, Maximum = 45ms, Average = 43ms

ping -n 10 [url]www.whitehouse.gov[/url]

Pinging a1289.g.akamai.net [80.15.236.54] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 80.15.236.54: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=57
Reply from 80.15.236.54: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=57
Reply from 80.15.236.54: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=57
Reply from 80.15.236.54: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=57
Reply from 80.15.236.54: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=57
Reply from 80.15.236.54: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=57
Reply from 80.15.236.54: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=57
Reply from 80.15.236.54: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=57
Reply from 80.15.236.54: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=57
Reply from 80.15.236.54: bytes=32 time=48ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 80.15.236.54:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 40ms, Maximum = 48ms, Average = 43ms

DMT · 17-04-2004 9:47am

tracert [url]www.boards.ie[/url]

Tracing route to [url]www.boards.ie[/url] [82.195.131.128]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    32 ms    30 ms    32 ms  195.218.116.25
  2    33 ms    33 ms    35 ms  UTV-DUB-fastethernet0-0.116.218.195.in-addr.arpa [195.218.116.1]
  3    40 ms    33 ms    39 ms  195.218.126.178
  4    36 ms    37 ms    36 ms  195.218.112.195
  5    46 ms    47 ms    45 ms  pos0-1.cnr-1.r18.telh.as5388.net [195.92.55.134]
  6    49 ms    50 ms    47 ms  195.50.116.121
  7    45 ms    46 ms    49 ms  so-1-3-0.gar2.London1.Level3.net [212.113.3.29]
  8    48 ms    50 ms    47 ms  ge-9-0.ipcolo1.London1.Level3.net [212.187.131.147]
  9    69 ms    64 ms    66 ms  80.253.124.22
 10    70 ms    65 ms    64 ms  sneezy.hosting365.ie [82.195.133.195]
 11    66 ms    61 ms    62 ms  boards.ie [82.195.131.128]

Trace complete.

tracert [url]www.jolt.co.uk[/url]

Tracing route to clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    35 ms    33 ms    34 ms  195.218.116.25
  2    34 ms    33 ms    33 ms  UTV-DUB-fastethernet0-0.116.218.195.in-addr.arpa [195.218.116.1]
  3    38 ms    37 ms    37 ms  195.218.126.178
  4    32 ms    34 ms    35 ms  195.218.112.195
  5    45 ms    48 ms    47 ms  pos0-1.cnr-1.r18.telh.as5388.net [195.92.55.134]
  6    47 ms    54 ms    52 ms  195.92.55.156
  7    47 ms    48 ms    49 ms  lon1-9.nildram.net [195.66.224.59]
  8    44 ms    45 ms    47 ms  jolt-gw.nildram.net [195.149.20.126]
  9    42 ms    42 ms    44 ms  clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]

Trace complete.

DMT · 17-04-2004 9:48am

Pings for me are still around 60ms to boards.ie but have improved to around 45ms to jolt.co.uk, which is good.

jonski · 17-04-2004 11:15am

Originally posted by DMT
Pings for me are still around 60ms to boards.ie but have improved to around 45ms to jolt.co.uk, which is good.

I can never get it that good , never could either , my first hop is in the 45ish range , just wondering what your setup is ?

Also I never had a problem with d/l speeds ( counting out the obvious times ) , mine are always in the 51/52 KB/s , always . Anyone able to say why my pings and d/l speeds differ in quality , or is that just the way it is with radsl ?

John.

mickger · 17-04-2004 3:24pm

well done utv. the service is damn hot

Stephen · 17-04-2004 4:35pm

They must have finally gone and started hurting people in energis to get them to fix their poxy network.

Boston · 17-04-2004 4:41pm

Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Utvclicksilver is da best.

Stephen · 17-04-2004 5:05pm

:rolleyes:

Kramer · 17-04-2004 5:28pm

I'm glad it's better for many but unfortunately not so for me

Pinging www.utvinternet.com [194.46.8.120] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 194.46.8.120: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=60
Reply from 194.46.8.120: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=60
Request timed out.
Reply from 194.46.8.120: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=60

Ping statistics for 194.46.8.120:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 35ms, Maximum = 59ms, Average = 49ms

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

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=54
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=72ms TTL=54
Request timed out.
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 43ms, Maximum = 72ms, Average = 59ms

The one "perfect" ping test:

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

Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=76ms TTL=54
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=65ms TTL=54
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=54
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 61ms, Maximum = 76ms, Average = 65ms

Download speed is still up |& down for me but maxes at 370/380kbps.

I've had serious packet loss issues now for weeks & have heaps of corrupted (i.e. useless) downloaded files

Just ran those ping tests now & had only 1 result without packet loss from 8 runs.

Goosey · 17-04-2004 7:34pm

Just as info. I got BB from Eircom on thursday just gone. Here is my pings.

C:\>ping -n 10 www.boards.ie

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

Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 82.195.131.128:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 22ms, Maximum = 27ms, Average = 24ms

C:\>ping -n 10 www.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=30ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=57
Reply from 195.149.21.11: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 195.149.21.11:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 30ms, Maximum = 34ms, Average = 32ms

C:\>ping -n 10 www.whitehouse.gov

Pinging a1289.g.akamai.net [159.134.196.104] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 159.134.196.104: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.196.104: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.196.104: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.196.104: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.196.104: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.196.104: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.196.104: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.196.104: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.196.104: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.196.104: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=60

Ping statistics for 159.134.196.104:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 19ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 21ms

I dumped UTV as my ISP which I had with my ISDN line. I just had enough and getting BB was cheaper any who :-/

Regards,

Goosey

Aepos · 17-04-2004 8:01pm

Fair dues to the UTV crew.

The service has improved beyond all recognition in the past few days. D/L speeds, Pings etc. all as good as one could expect.

Hopefully it will stay good and recover any lost ground re. reputation.

All the moaning and ranting was worth it....

Thanks a lot Martin, Malcom et al.

Ae

rymus · 17-04-2004 9:31pm

Hardly worth mentioning.. but quite an improvement here too.. I wonder if it'll last until Monday morning, or maybe even... *gasp* Tuesday!?!

Aepos · 18-04-2004 3:02pm

Oops,

here we go again d/l speeds way way down again (4:00pm) below 200 on giganews and ADSL Guide. Pings to Jolt & UTV are OK but Boards around 60-70ms.

Hows things elsewhere?

AE

dub45 · 18-04-2004 3:29pm

Speed is still ok for me over 400ish on giganews.

Aepos · 18-04-2004 4:29pm

Interesting info re. bad D/L speeds, My router logged a disconnection lunchtime today and the speeds were V poor after that.

I did a reboot of the router ( Netgear 834G ) just now and the problems have gone away...

Downstream 427 Kbps (53.4 KB/sec) 461 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 104 Kbps (13.0 KB/sec) 112 Kbps (inc. overheads)

So I dont know what to make of all that however things are good again...

Cheers

Ae

Mutant_Fruit · 18-04-2004 5:34pm

Originally posted by Boston
Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Utvclicksilver is da best.

I wish my ISP was that good, UTV, i take my hat off to you. You are the best ISP ever...

when reading the above, please read my sig, and take that into account.

kin9pin · 19-04-2004 2:01pm

Originally posted by Mutant_Fruit
I wish my ISP was that good, UTV, i take my hat off to you. You are the best ISP ever...

when reading the above, please read my sig, and take that into account.

Mutant, just read the sarcasm thread on your sig. excellent

Wonder if he's bothered posting since??

Suosan · 20-04-2004 12:30pm

Maybe this is not the right place for this question and if not I apologise.

I have just signed on for Clicksilver (on Good Friday) and am waiting while my line is checked out.

Can you guys tell me a bit about the modem provided. My machine only has USB 1.1 and I would like to know if this will be sufficient ?

dub45 · 20-04-2004 1:32pm

Originally posted by Suosan
Maybe this is not the right place for this question and if not I apologise.

I have just signed on for Clicksilver (on Good Friday) and am waiting while my line is checked out.

Can you guys tell me a bit about the modem provided. My machine only has USB 1.1 and I would like to know if this will be sufficient ?

It looks like the modem that UTV supply is only USB1.1 anyways. I have not seen any reporting any problems with it so far so you should be fine. More here.

Gonzo · 20-04-2004 1:37pm

not sure if this was mentioned before but i just noticed that on the All Seeing Eye there is a UTVi gaming server for Counterstrike. It pings bad for me on eircom (60-120ms) shud be more like 30ms, anyway perhaps it would give very good pings to UTV Clicksilver users, the address is 194.46.26.150:28015

Gonzo · 20-04-2004 1:41pm

did a tracert there and its one of the servers that was owned by previous owners dna internet.

tracert 194.46.26.150

Tracing route to lancaster.dnagames.net [194.46.26.150]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 24 ms 22 ms 22 ms 83-70-64-1.bas2.srl.dublin.eircom.net [83.70.64.
1]
3 23 ms 22 ms 24 ms ge0-1.edge1.srl.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.155.6
5]
4 35 ms 32 ms 34 ms pos0-0.corea.thn.london.eircom.net [159.134.191.
234]
5 35 ms 37 ms 34 ms 195.66.224.177
6 33 ms 37 ms 34 ms 195.92.55.157
7 35 ms 34 ms 34 ms pos6-0.cnr-1.r18.telh.as5388.net [195.92.55.106]

8 45 ms 44 ms 44 ms pos7-0.bnr-2.dub.as5388.net [195.92.55.135]
9 46 ms 45 ms 47 ms 195.218.112.209
10 47 ms 52 ms 52 ms bel-bgp1-s4-16.nevadatele.com [195.218.126.226]

11 48 ms 49 ms 47 ms BEL-BGP-7200-01-FE10.nevadatele.com [213.185.196
.129]
12 78 ms 77 ms 79 ms 213.185.211.226
13 75 ms 64 ms 69 ms gateway.dnagames.net [194.46.8.111]
14 62 ms 79 ms 107 ms lancaster.dnagames.net [194.46.26.150]

Trace complete.

dub45 · 20-04-2004 1:46pm

Originally posted by Gonzo
not sure if this was mentioned before but i just noticed that on the All Seeing Eye there is a UTVi gaming server for Counterstrike. It pings bad for me on eircom (60-120ms) shud be more like 30ms, anyway perhaps it would give very good pings to UTV Clicksilver users, the address is 194.46.26.150:28015

It has only been set up in the past few days.

Stephen · 20-04-2004 2:32pm

Yeah, Charles from UTV support set it up at the request of people in the utv.support newsgroup. Too many cs servers around already I tells ya!

jonski · 20-04-2004 5:15pm

Originally posted by Stephen
Too many cs servers around already I tells ya!

No ! , it was me that told ye .:D

Ripwave · 21-04-2004 11:55am

Originally posted by Suosan
Can you guys tell me a bit about the modem provided. My machine only has USB 1.1 and I would like to know if this will be sufficient ?

USB 1.1 offers 12mbps throughput, which is over 20 times faster than the 512K DSL offerings, so you won't have any problems on that score.

Suosan · 21-04-2004 12:49pm

I just recieved my modem and began setting it up. Everything was going fine until I got to the bit where it says ;-
Enter the Clicksilver User name and Password that have been provided to you by Clicksilver

I don't seem to have recieved one. Where should it be ?

Stephen · 21-04-2004 1:48pm

You should have gotten it by email if you upgraded from some other UTV product. I dunno how else they distribute them - check and see if there's a page in the box with the modem with it, failing that, ring the helpdesk.
The username takes the form csxxxxxx@adsl.utvinternet.com (i think), where the X's are numbers.
the password is randomly generated.

Wanton · 21-04-2004 2:24pm

connecting at 432 at gignews, havent gotten that since i got it last nov.

Squall · 21-04-2004 2:47pm

csxxxxxx@adsl.utvinternet.com

Isnt it csxxxxxx@adsl.utvinternet.ie? Or is that just me?

Stephen · 21-04-2004 3:08pm

You're probably right. Note the (i think) in my post!

bush · 21-04-2004 3:36pm

Does the utv modem only work by usb??

Ripwave · 21-04-2004 5:57pm

Originally posted by bush
Does the utv modem only work by usb??

UTV only supply a USB modem by default. A number of people have posted that they will supply an ethernet modem instead for an additional fee of €30 or €50.

Suosan · 21-04-2004 8:32pm

I finally got my Clicksilver broadband working his afternoon and already I have almost 300 Mb downloaded according to my Bandwidth Monitor.

I had to reinstall windows on another partition as I have VPN software installed to access the network where I have been contracting for the last year and updating windows and my anti-virus software caused a large download and its worring me.

If I start using my Clicksilver boadband today, is the 8 Gb cap to the end of the month or to this time next month ?

Stephen · 21-04-2004 8:45pm

They reset caps on the first of the month.

dub45 · 21-04-2004 10:27pm

Originally posted by Suosan
I finally got my Clicksilver broadband working his afternoon and already I have almost 300 Mb downloaded according to my Bandwidth Monitor.

I had to reinstall windows on another partition as I have VPN software installed to access the network where I have been contracting for the last year and updating windows and my anti-virus software caused a large download and its worring me.

If I start using my Clicksilver boadband today, is the 8 Gb cap to the end of the month or to this time next month ?

I have not yet heard of anyone exceeding the cap being charged and UTV stated in the newsgroup a while ago that they will contact people who are nearing the cap to give them a warning.

120_Minutes · 22-04-2004 11:46am

432 kbit/sec on giganews just now, speed looks good today.

If i'd known you could get an ethernet modem with utv, i would have asked for it , is it too late to upgrade to it now that i have clicksilver almost a month?

PowerHouseDan · 22-04-2004 12:19pm

nope as far as i no you can still upgrade to it,but i could be wrong i think i remember charles saying that

dub45 · 22-04-2004 2:56pm

Originally posted by 120_Minutes
432 kbit/sec on giganews just now, speed looks good today.

If i'd known you could get an ethernet modem with utv, i would have asked for it , is it too late to upgrade to it now that i have clicksilver almost a month?

Give support a call or email them or ask in the utv support newsgroup.

bush · 22-04-2004 5:54pm

Does anyone know what ethernet modem they supply for the extra money?
Does it have a built in router?

120_Minutes · 22-04-2004 7:08pm

forgive me for asking, but where does one find the utv newsgroup? i'm not really au fait with newsgroups at all....

dub45 · 22-04-2004 7:59pm

Originally posted by 120_Minutes
forgive me for asking, but where does one find the utv newsgroup? i'm not really au fait with newsgroups at all....

If you have outlook express (look under tools and then accounts) add news.utvinternet.com as a newserver and then it will download the various newsgroups which are on the server - utv.support is the one you are looking for.

Excellent Speed and Pings on Clicksilver

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