Who/where hasnt been upgraded yet?

alastair_doom

exchange: dennehys cross (cork)
package/provider: BT basic


someone last night posted this exchange had been upgraded??? but im still only getting the normal speeds (1mb down)...

and yes i have tried:
http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/
downloading a file from heanet
reseting modem
power cycling modem
bypassing router
resetting line
praying

how many other people are still waiting? just so we can get an idea...
please post provider, exchange etc.. and edit your post when (if )you get upgraded...

Trotter

Provider: BT
Exchange: Ferrybank Waterford

No upgrade yet.. still at 869Kbps down.

TerrorFirmer

Still at 440kps down....ffs.....missed out the previous upgrade as well as you can see.

Strange thing is though I normally only ever got 68kps upload for the last age - thats now jumped to what it more or less should have always been - 140kps. Tried tests all last night and this morning, keep getting the same consistant upload. I know it's not much but considering I was on about 70kps on a good day previous to this....

Provider: BT
Exchange: Oranmore

Daemonic

MobileInfantry wrote:

Still at 440kps down....ffs.....missed out the previous upgrade as well as you can see.

Strange thing is though I normally only ever got 68kps upload for the last age - thats now jumped to what it more or less should have always been - 140kps. Tried tests all last night and this morning, keep getting the same consistant upload. I know it's not much but considering I was on about 70kps on a good day previous to this....

Provider: BT
Exchange: Oranmore

Since the upload speed has increased you may be getting the d/l speed you do because thats all your line can handle. Eircom, BT etc are providing RADSL (Rate Adaptive DSL) so the minimum d/l they guarentee is 256k.
Check your modem/router settings and it will probably tell you the theoretical speed of your line, then you'll know for sure if the upgrade has taken place.

Sarunas

exchange: bettystown
provider: bt

spartacus93

Trotter wrote:

Provider: BT
Exchange: Ferrybank Waterford

No upgrade yet.. still at 869Kbps down.

I'm on Digiweb from the Ferrybank exchange and i've been upgraded.

mukki

i was still on 1024 and 128up at 10pm last night, guess the skipped athboy, will check again when i get home from work

do i have to reboot the modem before checking, hate doing it cause it take 2-3 mins to get working again, and i do get a bit excited when it comes to doubling my bb speed

Willymuncher

MobileInfantry wrote:

Still at 440kps down....ffs.....missed out the previous upgrade as well as you can see.

Strange thing is though I normally only ever got 68kps upload for the last age - thats now jumped to what it more or less should have always been - 140kps. Tried tests all last night and this morning, keep getting the same consistant upload. I know it's not much but considering I was on about 70kps on a good day previous to this....

Provider: BT
Exchange: Oranmore

Just looked on Eircoms broadband support page and they are due to be carrying out some work on the Oranmore exchange on the 31st

http://dsl-support.eircom.net/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/&/?St=57&E=0000000000008950600&K=8018&SXI=5&case=8439&branch=4

Suppose you could live in hope that its your exchange thats at fault and not your line.

Trotter

#Elites wrote:

Guys check your ROUTER page, it probaly says the stock speed (mine does..) mabey its just the tests are wrong!

Ive checked the router configuration statistics and its giving me a Downstream Speed of 1024 kbps.

This is the result of the irishisptest.com/myspeed test.




So.. Im feelin left out here.

Trotter

spartacus93 wrote:

I'm on Digiweb from the Ferrybank exchange and i've been upgraded.

Would there be any reason why the BT Service wouldnt have been upgraded off the same exchange?

TerrorFirmer

Daemonic wrote:

Since the upload speed has increased you may be getting the d/l speed you do because thats all your line can handle. Eircom, BT etc are providing RADSL (Rate Adaptive DSL) so the minimum d/l they guarentee is 256k.
Check your modem/router settings and it will probably tell you the theoretical speed of your line, then you'll know for sure if the upgrade has taken place.

Nah, I live practically right on an exchange and its a pretty new line so there's no reason why shouldn't be the full whack. My friend who lives very close to me has 2mb bb no problem.

It's really quite annoying. Perhaps, hopefully, the reason mentioned above about work being carried out on the exchange will shed some light

mukki

still no upgrade, in fact its slower then ever

i am on btbb 1mb line in athboy

Valentia

hate doing it cause it take 2-3 mins to get working again

:eek::rolleyes::eek:

roo_photo

I used to get around 850kbs with Esat, but now its around 430!?:( I'm on the ROCHESTOWN exchange in Killiney.

Mysteriously my modems downstream speed claims to be only 512kbps...

gaui3d0pnbz86o

my dl is still 1024 but my ul is 256, maybe im too far out

keno-daytrader

Hey MobileInfantry, Im on the Oranmore exchange and I've been upgraded 3072/384

getting

2.69 down
310 up

Im with Eircom though, not sure if that would help you.

When I moved in I had to bypass the internal wiring in the house and just hook up to the line that was coming in from the street, somthing inside the house was making me fail, after that i was fine.

CrowdedHouse

keno-daytrader wrote:

Hey MobileInfantry, Im on the Oranmore exchange and I've been upgraded 3072/384

Yea I was in Oranmore for the weekend and where I was the new speeds were up 2048/256 -also an eircom line

TerrorFirmer

Fcuk sake.....I got an email back today form BT, fair play to them they were fast about it, but they just told me....you should be on 2048....please ring bb tech help....etc.

And yeah, I used to have crappy problems with stuff like sky digi in the house interfering with modem but all that was sorted ages ago....

Borderfox

Dunshaughlin, done last night 2mbps down 256kbps up YAY

TerrorFirmer

Downloaded now reduced to 320kps..not even dsl at this stage...upload increased again to 160....

Dunno what to think of the whole thing seeing as everyone else in my area is happily blasting away on 2048

Shane O' Malley

Blanchardstown here on BT

Still on 1024. Seems there is a problem with a piece of equipment at the exchange.

I mailed BT and they rang back and said Eircom are looking into it.

Just have to wait.

Anyone else in Blanchardstown in the same boat.?

kleefarr

Kilkenny IOLBB (BT)

Upstream Speed: 384 kbps
Downstream Speed: 3072 kbps

Was on 128 up and 2024 down or something like that.

Shane O' Malley

kleefarr wrote:

Kilkenny IOLBB (BT)

Upstream Speed: 384 kbps
Downstream Speed: 3072 kbps

Was on 128 up and 2024 down or something like that.

This thread is for us poor feckers who have not been upgraded.

Quit rubbing it in. :eek:

FakePlasticMan

Hi,

I'm in the Blanch area..and mysteriously, my upload speed has doubled, at least according to the settings in my router(D-Link G604T) ...and since I don't game online, not much use to me..BUT ..my download speeds have halved!! from 1mb per sec to 512k!! have done the speed test online and this confirmed the speeds.

What gives?

Shane O' Malley

Well i would not worry about the download spped measurement to much.

May want to do the test late at night or try downloading from ftp.heanet.ie

See what happens then.

Then again, could be the faulty equipment in the exchange.

Who knows what Eircom are doing to us

kleefarr

Shane O' Malley wrote:

This thread is for us poor feckers who have not been upgraded.

Quit rubbing it in. :eek:

Ah jeez, sorry.

I was just reading the thread and saw that someone had posted about their upgrade and followed suit.
It may all change of course. It could be down to 512 and 64 for me tomorrow.;)

TerrorFirmer

FakePlasticMan wrote:

Hi,

I'm in the Blanch area..and mysteriously, my upload speed has doubled, at least according to the settings in my router(D-Link G604T) ...and since I don't game online, not much use to me..BUT ..my download speeds have halved!! from 1mb per sec to 512k!! have done the speed test online and this confirmed the speeds.

What gives?

Exact same here. Since yesterday my Dl has been decreasing to a measly 320kps....whilst uploading is creeping towards 200kbps! Not a clue what's happening.

FakePlasticMan

Yep..is very annoying!!

methinks a mail to BT is in order. I've looked thru the threads here and cant find any others bar us who are having this prob.

Is typical tho... i don't really care about the upload..and that works fine..

well... give it another day or so and then get angry...

Trotter

Still stuck on 1 Meg, so I rang BT. They said basically they'll look into it but they suspect its an eircom problem in that my line will only take 1meg.

BUT.. Ive already had a pal of mine in eircom check the line and its capable of 5meg. BT wouldnt believe me so they're contacting the eircom engineers....

who will then check the same system and tell them its capable of a 5meg connection.

Can you see my frustration growing here?? :mad:

TerrorFirmer

I have to ring their tech support tomorrow....see where it gets me. Playing Battlefield 2 tonight, lovely pings of about 25 - unfortunately not so lovely downloads about 22kb/s.

Frustration....

Although I rarely download anything really....so in theory makes no odds....but when I'm getting LESS then a quarter almost of what I should be getting I feel really mad about it!

ps - and BT got back to me via email to confirm I am capable of the full 2megs so....I honestly can't believe for the fuppin SECOND time i've been passed over with upgrades. Am I really that unlucky?

alastair_doom

can i please get the email address for customer care at BT?

Plasmoid

exchange: Dennehy's Cross
package/provider: Esat was there basic 1mb... 2mb now i dont know, they dont know.

I got upgraded smoothly sometime saturday... its definitly 2mb down 256 k up so i guess its not the exchange.

alastair_doom

thanks for the confirmation plasmoid

mtyrrell

Has anybody any idea if the Dun Laoghaire exchange is supposed to have been upgraded?

Scruff

From the BT website:

New speeds will become effective for exisiting and new Residential Broadband customers from Monday 23rd January 2006

will check mine this evening.

FakePlasticMan

Okay,

Not sure if this will help anyone who is having the same prob I described above, but I rang BT's tech support and to cut a long story short the tech suggested I disconnect anything connected into our telephone line, including my broadband router, telephone's, Sky digiboxes etc and leave it for 15 mins.

So..did that ..then re-connected my telephone extension lead that my router is plugged into back into the eircom socket. I didn't plug any of the other stuff in at this stage. and low and behold I am getting the correct download and upload speeds. great.

But, when I plugged all the other leads and adaptors (is like spaghetti junction...not ideal I know) I am back down to 400k.

So, I fiddled around with the connectors, and unplugged one of the phone line double adaptors. We actually had one double adaptor plugged into another one..I know...sounds messy..but it had never caused a prob before.....so I disconnected this one extra adaptor and everything is now fine.

I know this might not be related to any of the other issues, but strangely enough my neighbour is having exactly the same problem as I was but he isn't using any double adaptors. So he's gonna try disconnecting everything from the eircom socket and see if it works for him.

Can't make any sense of thew whole thing myself, and sorry if it sounds garbled, but it's now working at least.

So I'm not really sure now if disconnecting everything from the phone line did anything or if it was just that extra double phone socket adaptor all along. As long as it keeps working...don't care :-)

FakePlasticMan

Update:

It now appears that if I plug anything else into the main eircom socket apart from the ext. lead that my router is connected to my speed drops back down to 512k again. When I posted earlier hadn't realised that the sky digibox was disconnected in the sitting room. As soon as we re-connected it the speed drops from 1.7Mb/sec to 430k or so.

Also I think Eircom are doing work on the exchange up here in Blanch cos a couple of times the DSL signal just disappeared. Just to add to the confusion.

TerrorFirmer

I had previously had problems with digi box so plugged it out. Just after plugging out a dual adapter and voila - shot up to 1.2 megs. Still a bit off 2megs but....better

Thanks for the advice plastic, didn't even cross my mind as a cause of possible interference.

FakePlasticMan

No probs. Glad to help. I don't actually think it's the digibox in particular, cos the same happened when the digital hands free phone was plugged in. Right now have both plugged out until Esat or Eircom sort the problem out. Just have to remember to plug the digibox in when I go to bed..otherwise be getting snotty letter from Sky.

Cheers

TerrorFirmer

My problem still hasn't been solved.

When i disconnect everything else, I get great pings and faster downloads - but can't play online without getting disconnected after 5 minutes! Tried 5 times on different servers on BF2 - lost connection to each one after in and around 5 minutes.

Went back to the old way of slow speeds, played online in two of the same servers for 15 minutes each and no problems whatsoever.

Christ, really getting on my nerves now!

OfflerCrocGod

MobileInfantry, FakePlasticMan your lines (like mine) seem to be incapable of handling high speed BB. When you unplug everything but the router from your phone system you reduce the load on your line so that the SnR on your line is good enough to support the new speeds. Of course as soon as you plug them back in the load is increased and your SnR drops like a stone - your router is then incapable of syncing at those new higher speeds so it syncs at a lower speed. Or if your router is like mine and mentally retarded it keeps trying to sync at the high speed meaning you keep losing your connection and suffer constant disconnects. This makes games and streaming impossible. I know, I'm living with it €ircon will never bother upgrading the physical network therefore you will never get better speeds until ADSL2+ is rolled out. Even then your speeds will be limited.

Sarunas

Just called bt' technical support, they said my exchange has not been upgraded yet, eircom suspects all exchanges to be upgraded by 6 feb... if i'm still not upgraded by then, i should call tech support and they will try to "troubleshout it".

Seems kinda fishy, since there is nothing on eircom announcement page... gonna try to call eircom.

TerrorFirmer

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

MobileInfantry, FakePlasticMan your lines (like mine) seem to be incapable of handling high speed BB. When you unplug everything but the router from your phone system you reduce the load on your line so that the SnR on your line is good enough to support the new speeds. Of course as soon as you plug them back in the load is increased and your SnR drops like a stone - your router is then incapable of syncing at those new higher speeds so it syncs at a lower speed. Or if your router is like mine and mentally retarded it keeps trying to sync at the high speed meaning you keep losing your connection and suffer constant disconnects. This makes games and streaming impossible. I know, I'm living with it €ircon will never bother upgrading the physical network therefore you will never get better speeds until ADSL2+ is rolled out. Even then your speeds will be limited.

That would be the answer.....if it weren't for the fact people living a few meters away from me get the full 2048/256 no problems!

Thanks for the explanation though.

i57dwun4yb1pt8

tried it last night and im still on 1meg down / 128 up

im on bt normal - cant see why thay can advertise it will be done on the 24th yet not be done ?


comreg anyone ? lol

Scruff

upgraded to 3072\364.

federerfan

In Dungarvan, on BT BB.

Still on 1024 down, 128 up....

I'm not holding my breath..

Fedfan

OfflerCrocGod

MobileInfantry wrote:

That would be the answer.....if it weren't for the fact people living a few meters away from me get the full 2048/256 no problems!

Thanks for the explanation though.

Sorry it's not a certainty; but based on the information provided that appears to be the case. If your close neighbor can get the full speed then maybe they have less load on their line, better interior wiring or a more capable router (mine is brain damaged and wont sync at a lower speed)

ro2

DaDumTish wrote:

tried it last night and im still on 1meg down / 128 up

im on bt normal - cant see why thay can advertise it will be done on the 24th yet not be done ?


comreg anyone ? lol

Dolphins Barn exchange is done.

i57dwun4yb1pt8

really ? cant understand why my speeds havent changed then

JDxtra

BT - Leixlip, Still on 1024/128.

Neighbours in the same estate on Eircom are on 2048. Any ideas/suggestions?

I don't use the original BT router (using a Linsys Wireless device).

alastair_doom

jdempsey,
you got any products listed in your 'my orders' -> 'my products' in your BT online account...?