Eircom Broadband being odd for anyone else?

Gerard_Smith · 10-07-2007 5:06pm #1

Eircom Broadband seems to have been acting odd all day. Many websites (including Gmail and Boards.ie) have been taking an age to load or just plain timing out then all or a sudden they load perfectly again. Also Emails from my Eircom account are taking an unusually large amount of time to send. Anyone else noticed anything? I'm in the Stillorgan area of Dublin.

PhoenixRising · 10-07-2007 5:08pm

Yep. Exactly the same here.

Asok · 10-07-2007 5:13pm

Eircom are having some issues at INEX today, Stuff is intermittantly working for them.

PhoenixRising · 10-07-2007 5:14pm

All .ie websites are working fine for me, anything else is hit and miss.

Thrill · 10-07-2007 5:15pm

Same here. It's incredibly slow. Even the Google.com or .ie home page wont load for me.

Gerard_Smith · 10-07-2007 5:16pm

Well at least its not just me!

Any ideas on when it will be fixed?

PhoenixRising · 10-07-2007 5:20pm

Think I found a workaround.

Use the following DNS's:

Primary : 159.134.237.6
Secondary : 159.134.248.17

Deception217 · 10-07-2007 5:32pm

PhoenixRising wrote:

Think I found a workaround.

Use the following DNS's:

Primary : 159.134.237.6
Secondary : 159.134.248.17

I'm awful at this type of stuff, how or where do I enter them?

sideshowsue · 10-07-2007 5:34pm

Same here. Changed DNS addresses and things have improved somewhat.

supervixen · 10-07-2007 5:53pm

Deception217 wrote:

I'm awful at this type of stuff, how or where do I enter them?

Here is a manual http://www.opendns.com/start/windows.php, the addresses are up to you

Shanegggg · 10-07-2007 5:54pm

Cheers back up to normal for now.

Was wondering what the problem was. Shud i revert to the old one once things settle down r does it really matter?

jimogr · 10-07-2007 6:56pm

Same problems here. Perhaps the strike has started early.

Macker1 · 10-07-2007 7:05pm

Thanks for that. Working fine now.:)

PhoenixRising wrote:

Think I found a workaround.

Use the following DNS's:

Primary : 159.134.237.6
Secondary : 159.134.248.17

Cionnfhaolaidh · 10-07-2007 7:15pm

Very odd. Lots of sites loading without pulling down the CSS stylesheet.

Jonny Arson · 10-07-2007 7:17pm

Eircom being horrible for me too during the past hour or so.

chalkitdown1 · 10-07-2007 7:18pm

Same problem for me down here in the south. I thought there was something wrong with my computer. Thankfully not.

rc28 · 10-07-2007 7:19pm

Yup, same here. In the last half an hour I am finding lots of sites are acting really slow or dont load at all.

meathman 007 · 10-07-2007 7:23pm

yea i have had the same problems for the last few weeks, that dns fix has improved things - is their any danger to doing it?

hobie · 10-07-2007 7:25pm

rc28 wrote:

Yup, same here. In the last half an hour I am finding lots of sites are acting really slow or dont load at all.

exactly same for me ....

Cionnfhaolaidh · 10-07-2007 7:28pm

Working fine now using a new DNS.

Just change your primary DNS to 159.134.237.6 instead of your router.

Change it back to your router after Eircom have sorted the prob.

(sorry, it's all in Irish, but you should recognise the windows)

yayamark · 10-07-2007 7:29pm

ya same prob here in killarney with eircom

Robertr · 10-07-2007 7:36pm

PhoenixRising wrote:

Think I found a workaround.

Use the following DNS's:

Primary : 159.134.237.6
Secondary : 159.134.248.17

Good man!!

Worked a treat.

highlydebased · 10-07-2007 7:40pm

I was having same problem up to 10 minutes ago, nothing worked except MSN Messenger did the diagnostics test on the router and it said the "IP Failed".

I slapped the router around and it works grand now

meathman 007 · 10-07-2007 7:41pm

is there anything wrong using the following:

Preferred DNS server address for Open DNS is:

208.67.222.222
Alternate DNS server address for Open DNS is:

208.67.220.220

Like it says to in this link:
http://www.opendns.com/start/windows_xp.php

Ive changed it to that and it has improved things.....

johnny_ultimate · 10-07-2007 7:42pm

Having alot of errors with Eircom up here in Bray too.
Works, but very slow, and lots of pages wont load at all.
Ill try some of those work arounds now

Gerard_Smith · 10-07-2007 8:19pm

Going to stick this out without trying a fix to see how long it lasts.

Its now ranging bad to unusable.

Thrill · 10-07-2007 8:26pm

I switched to open dns and it's flying.

http://www.opendns.com/start/windows_xp.php

It must use red bull.:)

rc28 · 10-07-2007 8:42pm

thrill wrote:

I switched to open dns and it's flying.

http://www.opendns.com/start/windows_xp.php

It must use red bull.:)

I've read that site and I'm intrigued, does it really make things faster (than when eircom is working properly)? I'm using my laptop over the wifi at the moment, will I have to go to the desktop to change the dns settings or is it different for each pc? Does it have side effects, will I have to change back to the original dns to use some websites?

Does it improve download speeds?Thanks in advance.

Gerard_Smith · 10-07-2007 8:48pm

Yes and do changes have to be made to the router?

jos28 · 10-07-2007 8:52pm

I was having problems with Eircom in work all day. Slow downloads, unable to open webpages etc. Got the same problems at home now !

jos28 · 10-07-2007 8:53pm

I was having problems with Eircom in work all day. Slow downloads, unable to open webpages etc. Got the same problems at home now ! I'm afraid to change the DNS settings in case I mess up.

Cionnfhaolaidh · 10-07-2007 9:03pm

Gerard_Smith wrote:

Yes and do changes have to be made to the router?

No. Just change the DNS settings in Windows and it will bypass the router.

Gerard_Smith · 10-07-2007 9:08pm

On a Mac. Same thing?

rc28 · 10-07-2007 9:10pm

Is there any reason why I should store my existing dns somewhere? How do I find out my current dns? Should I look in my router's settings page?

Thrill · 10-07-2007 9:12pm

Gerard_Smith wrote:

Yes and do changes have to be made to the router?

No changes have to be made to the router.

If you are afraid to go near these settings then either leave then alone or write them down and change them back later.

Put the numbers in like so.......

highlydebased · 10-07-2007 9:14pm

That OpenDNS works a treat. That coupled with me switching browsers to Safari, im much impressed!

rc28 · 10-07-2007 9:31pm

Ok I've switched to open dns and havn't noticed any changes in page loading times at all. I'm using firefox with the "fasterfox" add on, would this affect it?

Thrill · 10-07-2007 9:46pm

rc28 wrote:

Ok I've switched to open dns and havn't noticed any changes in page loading times at all. I'm using firefox with the "fasterfox" add on, would this affect it?

Can you see the "Welcome to OpenDNS" page from this link?

http://www.opendns.com/welcome/

Scram · 10-07-2007 9:48pm

yeah im getting the same. this site for example has taken 10 mins to login post this. google takes ages to load somesites need to bre reloaded till they appear.

Had problems with World of Warcraft logging in and teamspeak. Glad to see its not just me.

EDIT nice post about open DNS. i made a change to my router settings from

Domain Name Server (DNS) Address
Get Automatically From ISP
Use These DNS Servers
Primary DNS ...
Secondary DNS ...

Eircom Primary and secondary DNS Server IP's

Primary DNS:
213.94.190.194
Secondary DNS:
213.94.190.236

Seems to have fixed it.

rc28 · 10-07-2007 9:51pm

thrill wrote:

Can you see the "Welcome to OpenDNS" page from this link?

http://www.opendns.com/welcome/

Yup.

It has cured todays eircom problem but it's certainly not faster than when eircom is working normally anyway.

Thrill · 10-07-2007 9:58pm

rc28 wrote:

Yup.

It has cured todays eircom problem but it's certainly not faster than when eircom is working normally anyway.

It appears to be faster for me. I dont know why that is. Eircom was fast for me also.

Lets hope they can fix whatever is wrong asap.:)

hobie · 10-07-2007 10:13pm

I think Eircom is ok now .....

everything seems to be working normal now for me ... :rolleyes:

Gerard_Smith · 10-07-2007 10:52pm

Its certainly better than it was but downloads still seem slow.

Thrill · 10-07-2007 11:20pm

I'm getting my max download speeds. Seems to be different for other people.

Thecageyone · 10-07-2007 11:29pm

I've only just re-connected to eircom BB a week ago (unpaid bills = cut off .. bastards) ... anyway, I found my 2mb connection was suffering major slow down too, I thought they'd punished me for not paying my bill on time

or downgraded me! At least I know it was a general problem.

That DNS thing, would it be ok to use in the long run? Is it a static IP? or does it work like one? Would it help boost torrent speeds? Explain to me as if I were a 4 year old ... thanks.

The Volt · 11-07-2007 11:18pm

I also need four yr old explainations. My connection keeps diappearing and reappearing now

Cionnfhaolaidh · 12-07-2007 12:17am

Out in Shankill here - connection is very bad. Probably been asked before, but does this have anything to do with the Eircom strike?

Gerard_Smith · 13-07-2007 10:46am

Not as bad as Tuesday but its being a bit pokey here again.

Tchocky · 13-07-2007 10:52am

Reloading a lot of things twice

boo-urns

CuLT · 13-07-2007 1:04pm

Same here, does appear to be DNS.

Gerard_Smith · 25-07-2007 11:42am

Anyone else had problems this morning? Internet became unusable around 12AM. Then ranged from slow to usable for the next half hour. Back to normal at 12:30AM.

Got onto Eircom support but again about as helpful as being hit on the head repeatedly with a hammer (and just as much fun).

Anyone else had a problem?

Eircom Broadband being odd for anyone else?

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