Line "upgrade" checker ?

Duiske

My parents line was recently removed from "carrier", and they can now order broadband. While checking the BT site for BB packages I came across this.
When checking the number, it says my parents line will be upgraded on the weekend of 9th August. I'm a bit curious about what this means. Is the exchange just being upgraded for higher speed ? Or was August 9th the target date for removing the carrier ? And a more unlikely scenario, have Eircom decided to remove all carrier lines, and set dates for their removal ?

Like I say, just curious about this.

Calebmcd

Just checked mine too(with eircom) says the same thing.

fifth

Your line will be upgraded post September

Eh?? (Currently waiting my eircom broadband to be connected in county wexford)

CutzEr

That is when your exchange will be upgraded for a higher useage. (I.e, if your max speed is 7mb, this would upgrade it to 24mb)

To check if you can get it right NOW, then use the line checker, not the upgrade checker.

fifth

Great, hopefully I'll see an increase then.

kaizersoze

That BT page is redundant now. They were using it when Eircom were upgrading the speeds on a phased basis last year.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055228131

pistolpetes11

kaizersoze wrote: »

That BT page is redundant now. They were using it when Eircom were upgrading the speeds on a phased basis last year.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055228131

Ah please dont say that to me ! its says on the BT page that I am due for an upgrade the weekend of the 9th of August , Im supposed to have an achievable speed of 5 mb (7.6mb,package) but my line sync has been completely down all week :

Line Mode G.DMT Line State Show Time
Latency Type Interleave Line Up Time 00:07:51:34
Line Coding Trellis On Line Up Count 7

Statistics Downstream Upstream
Line Rate 1568 Kbps 512 Kbps
Noise Margin 18.7 dB 12.0 dB
Line Attenuation 52.0 dB 26.0 dB
Output Power 3.4 dBm 17.6 dBm


I am really hoping its because they are working on the lines, I was driving through Atgarvan last week and there was a load of eircom vans and trucks in the town working away on something , I am in Newbridge myself .

pistolpetes11

Strange mine has come back up to around where it should be today ,

As I said I am hoping there doing work on the lines !!!


Line Mode G.DMT Line State Show Time
Latency Type Interleave Line Up Time 00:11:36:02
Line Coding Trellis On Line Up Count 1

Statistics Downstream Upstream
Line Rate 4000 Kbps 512 Kbps
Noise Margin 5.6 dB 13.0 dB
Line Attenuation 51.0 dB 26.0 dB
Output Power 2.9 dBm 19.2 dBm
K (number of bytes in DMT frame) 126 17
R (number of check bytes in RS code word) 12 16
S (RS code word size in DMT frame) 1 8
D (interleaver depth) 64 8
Super Frames 2456581 2456600
Super Frame Errors 226 0
RS Words 167047574 20880097
RS Correctable Errors 7770207 0
RS Uncorrectable Errors 277 0
HEC Errors 157 0
OCD Errors 0 0
LCD Errors 0 0
ES Errors 0 0

TouchingVirus

I believe it's taking the Micheal, apparently I'm due an upgrade on August 9th too. The thing is I've not got broadband, never have and apparently never will.

kaizersoze

It means August 2008 not next week.:P

TouchingVirus

kaizersoze wrote: »

It means August 2008 not next week.:P

Further Proof!

*Rubs two RJ45 connections in the hope of magic-ing some internets*

pistolpetes11

kaizersoze wrote: »

It means August 2008 not next week.:P

I hope your messing !

babaloushka

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I hope your messing !

Unfortunately not - I was waiting on this last year (9th August weekend) and it never happened in our area The page is OLD for sure.

kaizersoze

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

I hope your messing !

Nope ....sorry.:(

pistolpetes11

babaloushka wrote: »

Unfortunately not - I was waiting on this last year (9th August weekend) and it never happened in our area The page is OLD for sure.

Well that has ruined my weekend (weekend of the 9th of August) Is there any way of getting an indication when line speeds in your area will be upgraded ?

I have gone from using 20MB with UPC to BT and paying nearly €15 extra a month and the service and speed is complete rubbish.

I realize there are some out there without BB at the moment and I should not be complaining , I guess for me its a case of "you never know what you had , till you loose it"