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eFibre Slow In Evenings

  • 10-10-2014 9:24pm
    #1
    Topbike77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 792 ✭✭✭


    I thought this evening slowdown thing has a thing of the past with dsl but apparently not.
    I average 80meg down during the day and its great but after 8pm it seems to drop completely to the point where a 360p youtube video keeps buffering.

    Anyone else on efibre experiencing this? It seems to only have started in the last few weeks.


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  • #2
    wheresmybeaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭wheresmybeaver


    Ronan14 wrote: »
    I thought this evening slowdown thing has a thing of the past with dsl but apparently not.
    I average 80meg down during the day and its great but after 8pm it seems to drop completely to the point where a 360p youtube video keeps buffering.

    Anyone else on efibre experiencing this? It seems to only have started in the last few weeks.

    I've noticed this too, there was definitely a backhaul issue with efibre a few weeks back but its mostly sorted, apart from youtube that is. Last night for example I had a half dozen youtube 720p vids buffering constantly. Other video sites were fine, as were speed tests, ftp downloads etc. But then one or two random youtube vids would stream fine. I think its something to do with how youtube serves videos to Ireland - something somewhere is going wrong.


  • #3
    Nutmeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭Nutmeg


    I'm having problems in the evenings for the last couple of nights. Seems to happen mainly with Twitch.tv. I can't watch anything other than medium quality or else the video buffers every 3 seconds or else the video just won't load at all. It's strange as I can load a VPN and watch with zero problems but when I switch back to my normal connection, it goes back to being terrible. This happens for all devices on my network too.

    I have no problems anywhere else with Netflix, YouTube or Steam etc; Pretty annoying as it seems to clear up after peak hours at around 11.30 or midnight. Anyone else have similar problems on eFibre?


  • #4
    therealwillie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭therealwillie


    Yes, Having these problems pretty much all the time, going through a vpn works, just tested uploading to twitch there and its ****e, upload through a vpn and its perfect, also tried hitbox streaming and the same thing, performance is better through a vpn, though I need to get the ping down so going through a vpn isn't the best solution, that and i would need to pay for a better vpn for more bandwith and why would i do that when i should be getting this service! It seems like obvious throttling? speedtest.net shows 50 mb down and 20 up. Have been putting off customer support as I cannot bare talking to them. Has anyone had a solution from eircom or a non bull**** answer from them?


  • #5
    darrenw5094
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭darrenw5094


    I joined eFibre a few days ago on the 18 month contract. I have noticed from sveral random speedtests, that the download speed is all over the place, sometimes 30+ and then 5 mins later it dips under 5. Yesterday i even got less than 1 on the speedtest.


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