God damn eircom.

Dcully

Approaching 9 weeks now of major slowdown at peak times for me and my neighbours.
Well over 25 support calls logged,numerous promises that a tech guy will ring me and still nothing.:mad:
Here is some testing ive done just now.
Pings are allover the place
I really dont know what to do next.

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

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>traceroute www.google.com
'traceroute' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>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=212ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=184ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=197ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=235ms 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 = 184ms, Maximum = 235ms, Average = 207ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>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=133ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=127ms 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 = 23ms, Maximum = 133ms, Average = 81ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>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=19ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=37ms 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 = 19ms, Maximum = 37ms, Average = 25ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>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=128ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=236ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=204ms TTL=60
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=217ms 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 = 128ms, Maximum = 236ms, Average = 196ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>tracert google.com

Tracing route to google.com [72.14.207.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 237 ms 286 ms 287 ms b-ras1.lmk.limerick.eircom.net [159.134.155.24]

3 222 ms 161 ms 122 ms ge15-2.corea.lmk.limerick.eircom.net [83.71.114.
97]
4 213 ms 164 ms 176 ms 83.71.112.198
5 236 ms 229 ms 228 ms sl-gw22-lon-2-3.sprintlink.net [213.206.156.209]

6 268 ms 277 ms 293 ms 213.206.128.105
7 276 ms 256 ms 241 ms sl-gw23-lon-15-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.128.63]

8 232 ms 220 ms 195 ms sle-eurogoogle-1-0.sprintlink.net [82.195.189.18
6]
9 278 ms 259 ms 371 ms 72.14.238.242
10 203 ms 209 ms 203 ms 66.249.95.146
11 255 ms 276 ms 260 ms 72.14.236.213
12 225 ms 246 ms 270 ms 72.14.233.113
13 217 ms 231 ms 262 ms 66.249.94.92
14 326 ms 260 ms 287 ms 66.249.94.50
15 374 ms 324 ms 364 ms 72.14.207.99

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>

KilOit

i get the same with ntl from morning to about 4-5 in the afternoon i get a nice 50ms or so when 6 o'clock arrives till about 10 at night i get about 200ms
this is from pinging google,

so not just eircom as a whole ireland seems to have crappy latency in alot of areas,
how the hell do i see some people get 20 or lower pings damn i wish i had there isp

Spear

KilOit wrote:

i get the same with ntl from morning to about 4-5 in the afternoon i get a nice 50ms or so when 6 o'clock arrives till about 10 at night i get about 200ms
this is from pinging google,

so not just eircom as a whole ireland seems to have crappy latency in alot of areas,
how the hell do i see some people get 20 or lower pings damn i wish i had there isp

I haven't been seeing any of this on Smart, despite the free 3 meg upgrade everyone got.

JNive

to be honest, if you have a resonable line and are in an area with reltaively modern construction / layout, such as having the telephone lines from your exchange under ground as opposed to traversing poles lol, then smart and magnet are a very good deal with a good stable service.

now there will be some bad connections and experiences with even them but if you compared the average on them with the average on the likes of eircom and resellers, id imagine the price to average megabit ratio would be far better :-)