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Slow speeds with BT tonight ??

[Deleted User] · 2009-02-03 22:34:47

Anyone experiencing slow speeds with BT tonight ? I've an 7.6MB connection and this is all I can get out of it, download speeds won't go any higher than 50kb/s

03-02-2009 10:34pm

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Anyone experiencing slow speeds with BT tonight ?

I've an 7.6MB connection and this is all I can get out of it, download speeds won't go any higher than 50kb/s

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#2 03-02-2009 10:43pm

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Not too bad here, syncing at 8217 up and 571 down..

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#3 03-02-2009 10:44pm

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Yes you're not the only one. I have the pelletstown exchange and things are the same with my 7.6mb connection, can't get higher download speeds than around 80kb/s. It used to be 800kb/s

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055476471

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#4 03-02-2009 10:45pm

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kleefarr wrote: »

Not too bad here

You're ping is pretty awful

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#5 03-02-2009 10:47pm

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My sync is the same as always, 7616 Kbps up & 672 Kbps down, NM & LA dB are the same as always too, ping is usually 20 - 40ms and I'm not over my cap either

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#6 03-02-2009 10:49pm

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JoeyD wrote: »

Yes you're not the only one. I have the pelletstown exchange and things are the same with my 7.6mb connection, can't get higher download speeds than around 80kb/s. It used to be 800kb/s

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055476471

Maybe it's the weather.

JoeyD wrote: »

You're ping is pretty awful

Even at 68ms my speeds were fine.

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#7 03-02-2009 10:51pm

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Dont complain, I never get more than 200 kb/s on BT. I have just installed eircom on another line and am getting 3 Meg. BT support - WOEFUL!!!

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#8 03-02-2009 10:52pm

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ken90 wrote: »

BT support - WOEFUL!!!

I've always found them very helpful.

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#9 04-02-2009 12:37am

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Near enough back to normal by the looks of it, probably the weather.

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#10 04-02-2009 12:59am

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my bt broadband is down at the moment. I'm using 3g mobile phone as a backup. Anyone know what the story is??

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#11 04-02-2009 1:58pm

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Jesus H. Christ when will BT fix this problem?:mad: Almost a week now, their customer service is a joke too. After pressing nearly every goddamn number on the phone this asian guy just told me to take off the filter and give it another go. Did that, it worked for about 3 minutes and now its ****ed again. :mad::mad::mad:

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#12 12-02-2009 9:39pm

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Speeds are gone again, couldn't even use the net at all yesterday it was that slow.

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#13 12-02-2009 9:43pm

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i read in one of the threads here that bt arent happy with the market share tehy have and want to pull out.... could the **** net and this be connected, log in next time, disgruntled bt customers, same url , same protocal!

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#14 12-02-2009 9:49pm

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kaahooters wrote: »

i read in one of the threads here that bt arent happy with the market share tehy have and want to pull out.... could the **** net and this be connected, log in next time, disgruntled bt customers, same url , same protocal!

Ah great :rolleyes:, well i'm not going back to Eircom, you have a link for it ?

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#15 12-02-2009 9:52pm

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Not great here either....

Status: Up
Downstream Rate: 7687 Kbps
Upstream Rate: 507 Kbps

Dublin

Limerick

Galway

Network trace shows where it fails again.

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#16 12-02-2009 10:29pm

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Why is my network trace showing Los Angeles

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#17 13-02-2009 12:14am

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055476471

there it si, alrdy linked by somone better than i

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#18 13-02-2009 12:56am

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Just seen this on TimesOnline

BT’s profits fell by 80 per cent in the third quarter to £113 million, with Global Services making an operating loss of £501 million. Last month the group was forced to take a £336 million write-down after admitting that executives had overstated profits of the division.

article here:

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article5720981.ece

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#19 13-02-2009 9:30pm

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I am getting atrocious download speeds at the moment, and while sites like boards.ie are fast - US based sites are very slow to load!!!!

This has been occurring at weekends on and off for weeks now, its a disgrace!

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#20 15-02-2009 9:10pm

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We've been having very on and off BT broadband since Dec08. It was off for most of the xmas hols. It would be mega slow one evening (as in way slower than dialup), effectively cut off. It would be normal speed (2 Mb) other nights - I could get around 180 kb/s download speed on a good night. I was on to them over the past few weeks, and they eventually found and fixed a line fault. Or so I thought, until it went off again all day yesterday.

Question is: would we be better off with EIRCOM or UTV internet? Or is it a line / contention / exchane issue, and not BTs fault?
We're on the Malahide exchange, and I think we're stuck with the landline ADSL.

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#21 15-02-2009 9:26pm

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hellboy99 wrote: »

Why is my network trace showing Los Angeles

Thats because the website you are using (easynews.com) are doing a trace route from their connection to your IP address.

If you wanted to test your connection, you would be better off opening a command prompt in windows, terminal in unix or network utility in OSX.

Then run a trace route from your connection to somewhere a little closer to home such as www.rte.ie, www.bbc.co.uk or your primary DNS. Think it is 192.111.39.1 for BT.

This should get you a more acurate result.

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