IBB 1 meg just installed

Tony

Hi Guys, just got upgraded from 512 to 1 meg on IBB and have to say the difference in speed is huge . I was on 8.1 contention on 512 and now averaging 800 kbps ( from an average of 40) with a contention of 20:1.

Big difference and as you can imagime i'm well pleased, would recommend anyone on 512 to upgrade ASAP , musc smaller and neater ant too.

mobile04

in the uk there on 2mg broadband from a few months ago with ntl.
im dying to get a bit of that.....
speeds of light lol

carrotcake

mobile04 wrote:

in the uk there on 2mg broadband from a few months ago with ntl.
im dying to get a bit of that.....
speeds of light lol

1.5mb is the fastest ntl:home have in the uk. same as here

sharkman

Tony , Where you based ?

Tony

sharkman wrote:

Tony , Where you based ?

Very close to citywest in tallaght

sharkman

OK. Thanks Tony , Just had a reply from IBB and it looks like I'll have to wait until March for it out here in Swords .

zoro

Any Killester-Mast IBB users in here? I did a search, and rather than drag up old posts I'll just post here
Tony - I assume you're getting very low pings on the Breeze service?

I'm in Coolock, and my IOL broadband is up at the end of this month, and I want a 1meg line

Tony

zoro wrote:

Any Killester-Mast IBB users in here? I did a search, and rather than drag up old posts I'll just post here
Tony - I assume you're getting very low pings on the Breeze service?

I'm in Coolock, and my IOL broadband is up at the end of this month, and I want a 1meg line

yeah really low, averaging 2 ms to the high site

zoro

2ms?! Jesus H Christ!!

Tony

zoro wrote:

2ms?! Jesus H Christ!!

thats just to the high site, if you like I could do a ping test for you if you have a known site for comparison. TBH i'm not that well up on this technology

Blaster99

Before you count your IP packets, wait until the evening. That's when the fun starts.

Tony

boards.ie averages 7ms

uteotw

Tony, can you keep us updated about the quality of the your connection over the next few weeks. Especially if the pings start to degrade. This seems to be a recuring symptom of IBB after someone gets a fresh install.

Ta

Tony

uteotw wrote:

Tony, can you keep us updated about the quality of the your connection over the next few weeks. Especially if the pings start to degrade. This seems to be a recuring symptom of IBB after someone gets a fresh install.

Ta

sure, you can also pm me if you like with some sites to check if you wish

zoro

I think we'd all appreciate you keeping those figures out of PM's ... it'd be valuable info for anyone condisdering getting IBB!

Tony

zoro wrote:

I think we'd all appreciate you keeping those figures out of PM's ... it'd be valuable info for anyone condisdering getting IBB!

i asked for pm's for some sites to check, i have no intention of keeping the results private

Tony did they replace the equipment for you or did they just up you to the 1meg package? how long did it take for the upgrade to take place?

Tony

Deleted User wrote:

Tony did they replace the equipment for you or did they just up you to the 1meg package? how long did it take for the upgrade to take place?

well it was a month from time of order and I had to chase them about it
They changed the dish from the wire to a plate ant and changed the power supply and patch cable, took about an hour, longest delay for the guys was trying to get thru to IBB to sign off on the job

Tony

boards.ie pings are 6ms at 21.33

Red Alert

Just wondering do IBB test the connection to your network? Just thinking that i've got a complex enough network setup here so would it be advisable to maybe have a laptop on hand with a standard ethernet port just to check it's all working without having to mess with the router etc. at that stage?

carbsy

Yup Red Alert, I got the 1mb installed last Friday.The engineer tested the cnx with his centrino laptop and left me to hook it up to my network then as I saw fit... getting pings of about 14ms to boards.ie although downloads are all over the place.I'm told they are having capacity problems here in Cork and it should be sorted out soon (???) hmmmm

Tony

Red Alert wrote:

Just wondering do IBB test the connection to your network? Just thinking that i've got a complex enough network setup here so would it be advisable to maybe have a laptop on hand with a standard ethernet port just to check it's all working without having to mess with the router etc. at that stage?

they check with their own laptop first, al I had to do was change the tcp/ip settings

Cheers for the quick reply tony. Is it the VL/business equipment they put in for you?

Tony

Deleted User wrote:

Cheers for the quick reply tony. Is it the VL/business equipment they put in for you?

sorry dont understand

ah nevermind, think ill go with the upgrade anyway

gline

Yeh the 1 meg sounds cool, a mate of mine just get the exact same upgrade from 512k to 1meg in rathfarnam, i saw it in action, its **** quick. Im still waiting for mine, now about 6 weeks waiting for an installer to ring me :mad: i cant wait though

Tony

gline wrote:

Yeh the 1 meg sounds cool, a mate of mine just get the exact same upgrade from 512k to 1meg in rathfarnam, i saw it in action, its **** quick. Im still waiting for mine, now about 6 weeks waiting for an installer to ring me :mad: i cant wait though

Ring them up and hassle them, they told me at one point I had asked for a postponement which I had not

gline

I have hassled them, i ring once or twice a week, same story everytime, they said there is a backlog that they are trying to finish off, they keep telling me it will be 1-2 weeks for installation