Eircom probs tday?

Dcully

Im on 3072/384 connection and its crawling today,anyone else having issues?

Monasterevin exchange.

Gonzo

mine has been crawling most of the time since the upgrade on the 21st, its not too bad during the morning, early afternoon and late at night but from about 3pm till nearly midnight it goes really bad and pings are through the roof.

Dcully

I guess we are the only ones

mang87

not just today, the past few days mines been crawling just above 1mb speeds

the upload is fine though


lucan ballydowd

Darth Maul

Yeah same for me on the Belcamp exchange (coolock), upload fine but download speed measuring as 56k - 200k in the evenings this week, pure **** since upgrade

dubhthach

Today and yesterday i've seen 20% packet loss between 6 and 8 pm off the Shantalla exchange here in Galway.

Result is basically unusable net connection grrr

dubhthach

Ping statistics for 66.102.9.99:

Packets: Sent = 924, Received = 781, Lost = 143 (15% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 57ms, Maximum = 158ms, Average = 60ms

Dcully

Ok im on 3mb/384
Still no improvement here.
After upgrade i was getting

dload 270 mbps
upload 355kbps

but all this week im getting the following

dload 1.67mbps
upload 324kbps

Speed test here http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/

My router page says 3mb/384 so like wtf am i not getting what im paying for?

Gonzo

ive a feeling its contention kicking in, everyone on this 2mb and 3mb connections downloading everything in sight. - I reckon this is as good as it gets untill eircom upgrade their backhaul.

today is the first day of stable internet access Ive had since Saturday 21st of January but I dont expect it to last with another 5/6 hours of peaktime internet useage ahead. Im still on 2mb after being downgraded from 3mb last week, eircom told me on tuesday evening that it wiill take them a few days to reupgrade me to 3mb, does it normally take that long?

Gonzo

my internet once again has been a pile of crap since about 7.30pm this evening and theres no letup init, ive done everything to try and fix it - ive ran virus checkers from 3 different programmes, ran spyware from 4 different programmes, ive reinstalled my modem and software, cleared the temporary internet folders and its still bad, yet my friend just 3 houses away from me gets no problems whatsoever. Its not my line because it works fine after midnight and during the morning till early afternoon before taking a fit around 5pm and this all started the day the upgrades were done. Im currently getting 450k down and 34k up and pings are rotten. Im 2km from my exchange had broadband for past 2 years and not a single problem till the day of the upgrade 2 weeks ago.

my line stats are pretty good so im at a loss why my internet is so ****e in the evening:

Downstream Upstream

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SNR Margin: 16.52 23. 0 dB
Line Attenuation: 37.47 20. 0 dB
Errored Seconds: 0 0
Loss of Signal: 0 0
Loss of Frame: 0 0
FEC Errors: 0 0
CRC Errors: 0 13
Data Rate: 2048 256


and heres my lovely pings:(

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>tracert www.eircom.net

Tracing route to home.eircom.net [159.134.198.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 513 ms 472 ms 530 ms b-ras1.srl.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.155.27]
3 409 ms 385 ms 432 ms 83.71.112.161
4 482 ms 470 ms 422 ms 159.134.125.46
5 538 ms 495 ms 460 ms 159.134.198.138

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>

dubhthach

Gonzo wrote:

my internet once again has been a pile of crap since about 7.30pm this evening and theres no letup init, ive done everything to try and fix it - ive ran virus checkers from 3 different programmes, ran spyware from 4 different programmes, ive reinstalled my modem and software, cleared the temporary internet folders and its still bad, yet my friend just 3 houses away from me gets no problems whatsoever. Its not my line because it works fine after midnight and during the morning till early afternoon before taking a fit around 5pm and this all started the day the upgrades were done. Im currently getting 450k down and 34k up and pings are rotten. Im 2km from my exchange had broadband for past 2 years and not a single problem till the day of the upgrade 2 weeks ago.

my line stats are pretty good so im at a loss why my internet is so ****e in the evening:

Downstream Upstream

---

---

SNR Margin: 16.52 23. 0 dB
Line Attenuation: 37.47 20. 0 dB
Errored Seconds: 0 0
Loss of Signal: 0 0
Loss of Frame: 0 0
FEC Errors: 0 0
CRC Errors: 0 13
Data Rate: 2048 256


and heres my lovely pings:(

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>tracert www.eircom.net

Tracing route to home.eircom.net [159.134.198.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 513 ms 472 ms 530 ms b-ras1.srl.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.155.27]
3 409 ms 385 ms 432 ms 83.71.112.161
4 482 ms 470 ms 422 ms 159.134.125.46
5 538 ms 495 ms 460 ms 159.134.198.138

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>

What sorta packet loss were you getting on a ping? From what i can see the level of Congestion on Eircom DSL has gone way up. I know i sent them a email with 3 separate pings all showing packet loss of 15-18%. Last night was alot better but i was still averaging between 1 and 3% packet loss.

Gonzo

thats the weird thing with all the high pings and awfull download rates I have not got packet loss once even at the worst of times.

right now my connection is fine coz its the morning but come 6pm this evening it will be useless, pings remain over 500ms between about 5pm and midnight every night without fail - since the day of the upgrade.

ping www.eircom.net

Pinging home.eircom.net [159.134.198.138] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=60

Ping statistics for 159.134.198.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 18ms, Average = 15ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>

Gonzo

oh well didnt take long for my connection to go tits up today:(

C:\Documents and Settings\Barry>ping www.eircom.net

Pinging home.eircom.net [159.134.198.138] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=429ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=551ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=541ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=564ms TTL=60

Ping statistics for 159.134.198.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 429ms, Maximum = 564ms, Average = 521ms

Gonzo

just after checking all my settings with my friends (his works perfectly) and the only difference between his and mine is under DSL statistics his path is set to interleved and mine is set to fastpath, would that make a difference?

Dcully

According to blackknight speed test my speeds are 1.4 mbpsdload and 312 upload.

Rang eircom done their speedtest and got 299 kbps which is about right.

Tried downloading from gamershell which i normally gauge download speeds from and was getting about 270 kbps,not what i was getting lastweek which was 330 kbps but its not as low as blackknight suggests.
Maybe that test is getting hammered or acting up.
My ingame pings are normal since upgrade but still not as good as most reported pings ive seen here even though im less than quarter of a mile from exchange.