My Eircom connections gone to crap again

PogMoThoin

My connection has gone to shít this evening, its also happened before and last time when I rang to complain some muppet told me there was nothing wrong cos he could ping me from an eircom.net address fine. As You can see my pings to eircom.net are fine. Can anyone make sense of where the problem lies, marked in red, they're both eircom ip's

C:\Users\Colm>ping www.boards.ie

Pinging www.boards.ie [89.234.66.107] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=213ms TTL=58
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=204ms TTL=58
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=209ms TTL=58
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=201ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 89.234.66.107:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 201ms, Maximum = 213ms, Average = 206ms

C:\Users\Colm>ping www.inex.ie

Pinging www.inex.ie [193.242.111.162] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 193.242.111.162: bytes=32 time=199ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.242.111.162: bytes=32 time=194ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.242.111.162: bytes=32 time=193ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.242.111.162: bytes=32 time=206ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 193.242.111.162:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 193ms, Maximum = 206ms, Average = 198ms

C:\Users\Colm>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=36ms TTL=59
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=59
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=59
Reply from 159.134.198.138: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=59

Ping statistics for 159.134.198.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 36ms, Maximum = 50ms, Average = 44ms

C:\Users\Colm>tracert www.inex.ie

Tracing route to www.inex.ie [193.242.111.162]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.10.1
3 28 ms 29 ms 30 ms b-ras3.mvw.galway.eircom.net [159.134.155.12]
4 28 ms 30 ms 30 ms 86.43.244.225
5 178 ms 180 ms 179 ms 86.43.244.153
6 199 ms 204 ms 228 ms f0-0.gw1.inex.ie [193.242.111.2]
7 192 ms 197 ms 191 ms pixiedust.inex.ie [193.242.111.162]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Colm>tracert www.eircom.net

Tracing route to home.eircom.net [159.134.198.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.10.1
3 * 31 ms 28 ms b-ras3.mvw.galway.eircom.net [159.134.155.12]
4 28 ms 31 ms 29 ms 86.43.244.225
5 36 ms 34 ms 35 ms 159.134.125.46
6 38 ms 43 ms 35 ms 159.134.198.138

Trace complete.

Matt Simis

Would seem to be an issue across the country with Eircom and anyone using an Eircom resellers service (see other threads).

Here is my trace to Inex:

traceroute to www.inex.ie (193.242.111.162), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  DD-WRT (192.168.1.1)  2.081 ms  2.069 ms  2.064 ms
 2  192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254)  3.314 ms  3.311 ms  3.307 ms
 3  * * *
 4  86.43.245.78 (86.43.245.78)  421.389 ms  423.004 ms  425.249 ms
 5   (86.43.244.153)  426.985 ms  428.730 ms  430.102 ms
 6  * * *
 7  pixiedust.inex.ie (193.242.111.162)  434.858 ms * *

Not exactly the same IP it chokes at, which is a bad thing, it means more and more of Eircoms network is blocked up. Im in the Trim area btw.

I too can ping www.eircom.net just fine. Can you confirm you dont have any issue during the day.. the rest of the threads here (mine included) state the problem only appears at about 4:30 (16:30) when residential usage picks up.

PogMoThoin

Yeah its absolutely fine off peak.

lynchie

I have the same issue with eircom. Its fine during the day then hits around 300-400 ms on some of their 86.* routers. Its died off again now to around 200ms but seems to be a congestion issue as its only in the evenings its happening.

bigpaddy2004

I can see Eircom en-forcing their caps if this keeps up to stabilise their network.

Xcellor

Phone Eircom and lodge an official complaint. Then contact comreg and give them the complaint reference.

Eircom will not bother their holes doing anything unless enough people complain about it.

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