Eircom Broadband down again tonight?

Gu3rr1lla

Keep getting 'Page Load Errors'. anyone else having this problem?

psycho-hope

yep getting them here too :mad:

Rebel021

This is a joke
speeds are all over the place, took ages to get here

greatgoal

same here,getting a regular thing now,getting really pissed off at this stage.

Gonzo

same crap as last week:( websites either not working or responding and the ones that do work take about 4 refresh's to appear and take forever to load.

PhoenixRising

Me too. The service has been really ****ty lately but it's completely down now. Using O2 Edge/3G via my phone to my laptop to post this now.

Doodlebug

Yeah happening here in Limerick too - seems like a gateway/proxy server issue I think? Because Boards.ie is OK (although it's adserver cannot be reached) but can't get to Google half the time!

CrowdedHouse

Might be causing a DNS problem too.

I changed my router to opendns settings 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

Improved things greatly although I couldn't get onto eircom sites

Fuzzy Clam

Using DNS server 159.134.237.6 works as well.

Rickard

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Using DNS server 159.134.237.6 works as well.

Thank you, much better.

€irCON still rubbish I see..

robinph

Cannot get online at all this evening myself. Well the router claims that it is connected, but that is about it.

Yakuza

Yep, having similar issues here (Dublin). Couldn't access my emails on eircom's servers earlier, and now web browsing is very slow.

Darthirishguy

Same prob, time to say farewell to Eircom I think

dreamers75

Address Not Found











Firefox can't find the server at www.eircom.net.

Dingatron

Diagnostics
Running this test will help locate problems with your Internet Connection.
Diagnostics
DSL

Pass
ATM

Pass
Ethernet

Pass
Authentication

Pass
IP

Fail
Cannot access home.eircom.net. Please try a different address by using the field labeled "Web Address" and clicking the [Test] button. If problem persists, go to Home link and press the [Restart Connection] button. After connection restarts, return to Diagnostics page and try tests again. If trouble is still present, please contact the help desk.

robinph

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

I changed my router to opendns settings 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

...then I went and changed to these and I'm on again.

Thank you, and thanks to Three as well for giving me an alternative way of finding these things out when eircom brakes stuff.

Yakuza

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Might be causing a DNS problem too.

I changed my router to opendns settings 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

Improved things greatly although I couldn't get onto eircom sites

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Using DNS server 159.134.237.6 works as well.

I set my DNS on my 3347 to 159.134.237.6 and 208.67.222.222 and it seems to be much better now.

Ourlad

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Using DNS server 159.134.237.6 works as well.

Thanks for that, i was having a nightmare tonight, its much better now.

I Love Tea

Yep its all over the shop in south tipp aswell. they really should get the finger out as its happening on and off since last week

PaddyTheNth

Same here in north cork, utter ****e. suspected it was their DNS servers, glad to see changing DNS helps. They had the same rubbish last week.

mukki

stopped working in meath for about 30mins, back now


not sure what people are so peeved, first problem i've had in 3 years

i'd still prefer eircom to all the other dsl or any 3g provider

There website is unresponsive.


Im on UPC but wanted check my emails.


Get out of that sinking ship people.

chalkitdown1

Ourlad wrote: »

Thanks for that

Ditto. At least it's working now.

Dingatron

2-3 problems in the last 3 years I've been with them. Things happen and I'm sure they'll be taking steps to ensure it is fixed properly. Working in support I could easily live with those stats.

MagicMarker

I thought it was only me!!!

How long has this been happening for everyone else? I've been having problems intermittently for weeks!! Seriously thinking of moving!

Gu3rr1lla

mukki wrote: »

stopped working in meath for about 30mins, back now


not sure what people are so peeved, first problem i've had in 3 years

i'd still prefer eircom to all the other dsl or any 3g provider

because this has been going on for weeks

jazzy_jeff

I turned it off and on again... could have been just a coincidence though

mukki

Gu3rr1lla wrote: »

because this has been going on for weeks

most only be in certain areas, i use my broadband for about 4 hrs a day, and torrents 24x7

bloody internet addiction

ambman

Thanks Guys

Saved me getting the hammer. Having terrible trouble of late was only getting 267kbs on on 7.5m a few weeks ago and they told me i must have spyware:eek:

Anyway seems a bit better now;)

Max Power1

Still out... also cant get onto the eircom site either!

YourName

Thank God, I thought it was just me, and I was going mad, I just restarted my laptop and seems to be going ok now, but I bet not for long

MagicMarker

Mine connection seems okay now. But I can't get on to the UPC website!! How can that be a coincidence?

seamus

My parents broadband has been fvcked since last week. It's probably all to do with this:
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/12126/comms/dangerous-storm-wreaks-havoc-across-eircoms-network

www.eircom.ie has an update from last Friday saying they'd half the faults fixed, so I imagine that this will go on for another week or so.

Can't access www.eircom.net at all from outside eircom's network. From within the network, one node in particular has 500ms latencies - 86.43.242.62 - though I'd say that's a symptom more than a cause.

You think they'd put an update on the eircom.net website or something.

dyl10

I thought it was my laptop taking taking the piss over the last few weeks, that was until I realised my Xbox Live was down aswell...

Saved me a serious headache

Ah-Watch

hi guys, my broadband keeps timing out too and its frying my brains... anyhow how do I go about changing the settings for better performance? I'm cracking up here. Thanks

CrowdedHouse

Ah-Watch wrote: »

. anyhow how do I go about changing the settings for better performance? I'm cracking up here. Thanks

Have a look through this,might help

https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start/

robwoods68

Thanks to boards.ie and contributors for very helpful information about opendns. I phoned eircom a couple of days ago about outages. A sympathetic lady commiserated and said she'd had the same problem. I asked why they didn't give information about outages on their website, to save people thinking the problem was with their computers or modems. She thought that was a good idea and would suggest it to her supervisor - but was unable to give me the name of someone to write to. I wonder how widespread the problem is, and why it hasn't been mentioned in the papers or on the radio.
robwoods

Vertakill

That's odd because I rang yesterday about an interleaving query and before I got talking to any agent, I had to listen to a prerecorded message saying something like "We are aware of technical issues involving certain websites not loading and are trying to resolve it. Apologies for the inconvenience.".

Must be only in specific areas that people are having these problems because I haven't seen anything wrong.

seamus

Still screwed yeah?

Fatloss08

i had it aswell lastnight

i have people renting rooms and its no good when it goes on the blink like that

whats the best broadband provider ???????

chalkitdown1

Seems to be back to normal tonight for me, thank god.









So far, anyway.......

Dunnie1982

Fatloss08 wrote: »

i had it aswell lastnight

i have people renting rooms and its no good when it goes on the blink like that

whats the best broadband provider ???????

Eircom is usually the best, in 2 1/2 years I've only had 2 or 3 problems, last night being one of them. Other providers have lots of hidden charges, such as billing you for going slightly over your dl limit, which has never happened anyone i know with eircom. It seems ok today again, for the moment anyway.

MagicMarker

How is this going for people?

Mine is acting up again tonight!! When I sit forward on my bed it works, but when I bring the laptop back onto my lap, it doesn't!!!

This is seriously pissing me off, it's been weeks ffs, surely they would have fixed whatever problem there was by now?

ossi

dam it happening again eircom keeps crashing or are they updating broadband without telling anyone as usuall:mad::mad::mad:

Grommet

ossi wrote: »

dam it happening again eircom keeps crashing or are they updating broadband without telling anyone as usuall:mad::mad::mad:

What do you mean Ossi? "keeps crashing" - you mean that you cannot get onto web sites (as per the earlier thread) or your connection keeps losing synch?

Some more information would be helpful.

Gummy Panda

Well I came home to no broadband. It keeps losing sync. I'm on santry exchange I believe.

Really annoying since I bought dawn of war 2 and it requires a net connection to activate

Kenno90

was happening to me last night , it's like the problems just travel in waves across the country

Fuzzy Clam

Well its obviously not wide spread or there would be dozens of posts about it here. Too many people complain about their broadband when its a more local problem, like their wireless connection etc. You should check out all other possibilities first.

Gummy Panda

Could someone post the eircom broadband support number?

I'm using a iPhone that is only picking up edge to post and the eircom site is really slow. Need to ring these guys and log a ticket about the DSL sync loss

Fuzzy Clam

1890 260 260

paddyb125

It doesn't look very widespread looking at the ammount of posts but its definately something Eircom need to sort, or else they'll start to build up a reputation