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Broadband Seriously Slow Today (Christmas Day)

  • 25-12-2013 8:44pm
    #1
    Strawberry HillBilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭


    Is it just our ISP or is anyone else got really slow BB today.

    Could it just be half the country getting new on line devices ?


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  • #2
    mightybashful
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭mightybashful


    Strawberry HillBilly wrote: »
    Is it just our ISP or is anyone else got really slow BB today.

    Could it just be half the country getting new on line devices ?

    Who u with and where are you?


  • #3
    Strawberry HillBilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭Strawberry HillBilly


    Ripplecom in Co.Offaly.

    Normally get about 4Mb/s on an 8Mb/s connection but today has been hopeless, barely 0.5 down


  • #4
    mightybashful
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭mightybashful


    Strawberry HillBilly wrote: »
    Ripplecom in Co.Offaly.

    Normally get about 4Mb/s on an 8Mb/s connection but today has been hopeless, barely 0.5 down

    Doing alright here in Kildare on 8mb. But using VF


  • #5
    mightybashful
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭mightybashful


    mightybashful wrote: »
    Doing alright here in Kildare on 8mb. But using VF

    Actually it's showing 3.9mb so meh


  • #6
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Everyone's at home, lots of new consoles etc going online and needing massive firmware updates before they'll let you proceed, kids getting games that use Steam/Origin and need a rake of updates, etc etc. Happens every year and is likely to only get worse going forward.

    Luckily for me, my entire road is mostly 60+ and as a result the local UPC node is very under-loaded anyway!


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  • #7
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,861 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Ripplecom has been down here (Lahinch, Co. Clare) since the storm on 26th. Amazing how much you rely on it for lots of things. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.

    Back up mobile bb is very poor by comparison.


  • #8
    Strawberry HillBilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭Strawberry HillBilly


    All back to normal here. Good speeds (6-8Mbps). Must just have been volume of traffic with all the new devices !


  • #9
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,861 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Henry Ford III wrote: »
    Ripplecom has been down here (Lahinch, Co. Clare) since the storm on 26th. Amazing how much you rely on it for lots of things. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.

    Back up mobile bb is very poor by comparison.

    Still down. I'm now extremely frustrated as a customer. Thinking of calling it quits with Ripplecom.

    Vodafone appear to offer a decent offering, they'll contract Eircom to fit a brand new land line, and pick up the contract from day 1.


  • #10
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,861 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    It got fixed, eventually. Radio got fried.


  • #11
    Strawberry HillBilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭Strawberry HillBilly


    Good for you Henry...amazing how you miss it when it's gone. I have been talking to them in the last week and seems as if their network got a pasting from the storms but TBF we are still getting good speeds in the morning and a bit laggy in the evening but firm commitment to have resolved by this weekend.


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