irishbroadband woe

Narj

anybody else suffering with Irishbroadband.ie at the mo:

--- 62.231.32.10 ping statistics ---
68 packets transmitted, 37 packets received, 45.6% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 39.499/264.477/544.325/128.451 ms

billy3sheets

Yep. Got Ripwave yesterday. It's going back.
Signal Quality only going to 4 orange bands in the evening. During the day it's all over the place. No steady connectivity.
Even with 4 orange steady, ping stats are intermittent.
May just be geographical, but they say I should be within range of 2 transmitters.
Whatever it is, it just aint giving me a broadband experience. It is WORSE than 56K dialup.
It is certainly going back within the 14 day cooling off period.


--- google.ie ping statistics ---
56 packets transmitted, 34 received, 39% packet loss, time 55192ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 192.254/711.095/4308.693/992.608 ms, pipe 6

Narj

what are your ping times to ns1.irishbroadband.ie.? That would point to specific probs with their net ( which hopefully should be fixed before tomorrow ) rather than ripwave itself. Might just be a blip....

wrafter

Also slow in Beaumont looking at Ballymun. I'm on Breeze 1MB

Ping statistics for ns1.irishbroadband.ie:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 151ms, Maximum = 303ms, Average = 240ms


Ping statistics for google.ie:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 248ms, Maximum = 251ms, Average = 249ms

Shiny

wrafter wrote:

Also slow in Beaumont looking at Ballymun. I'm on Breeze 1MB

Ping statistics for ns1.irishbroadband.ie:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 151ms, Maximum = 303ms, Average = 240ms


Ping statistics for google.ie:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 248ms, Maximum = 251ms, Average = 249ms

Yeah Im on ballymun too and i can tell you the exact times it was bad at

12am
1am
2am
1pm

and the last 3 hours too.

Every other time i was getting full speed.

wrafter

Shiny - when you say "full speed", what's full speed for you?

Narj

this is me at ballymun ( back to normal) : at last voip works again...

--- 62.231.32.10 ping statistics ---
25 packets transmitted, 25 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 9.276/24.092/96.698/17.654 ms

wrafter

Narj, I was having probs with VOIP too. What do you normally use for your VOIP calls? Me: Skype for landlines, and MSN all other voice comms.

billy3sheets

--- ns1.irishbroadband.ie ping statistics ---
28 packets transmitted, 24 received, 14% packet loss, time 27027ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 111.155/263.071/762.025/159.266 ms, pipe 2

--- google.ie ping statistics ---
17 packets transmitted, 14 received, 17% packet loss, time 16000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 199.517/381.519/629.103/159.361 ms, pipe 2

this just after 6pm on Thur.

I am also running on Linux Fedora Core 3. This has been performing reasonably well - a bandwidth test on Mozilla Firefox giving results of about 110 - 120Kbits/sec throughout the day. Last night after 10pm it was giving me even faster download speeds.

However on Windws (2000 & XP) I get absolutely awful results. No connectivity at all during the day & intermittent at night. IBB support recommended upgrading the modem software to 4.1.9 from it's current 4.1.5. They promised to do this over the air yesterday & by emailing me the file today - neither has happened.

I haven't delved into this in depth yet, but the problem must lie somewhere with the windows N/W stack. When I look at the ethernet traffic, there are a lot of repeated IP level packets. I am probably not on the latest Windows patch levels, but as you need to be connected to Microsoft using Windows to upgrade, I am in a catch-22 situation.

NB - the Linux & XP system is dual-boot so it's same hardware, same Ripwave position etc...

If anybody has any helpful info here, I'd like ot hear it. I am in the Donnycarney area & so am picking up Ballymun & Odlums in Clontarf transmitters.

TheDoc

If you lot are on the satelitte broadband, I am just gonna laugh my socks off to you. That technology is nowhere enar steady and consitent enough to be of any use and is merely a marketing gimmick. You lot shoulda got the lines. They cover the fact its so ****ing unsteady with the fact they promise faster download speeds.

Ciaran500

They are all on wireless broadband


www.irishboradband.ie

TheDoc

I am on eircom dsl but split it over two computers. my main pc i use a wireless modem. I dl at consistent 50k/s, anyone got any ebtter. But recently my ping has been shooting up and i cant pinpoint the problemo, i think eircom doing maintanance cause it aint my machine.

billy3sheets

Well, I don't think anybody referred to satellite here. AFAIK Irish Broadband are just wireless to various transmitters. Their Breeze products are line-of-sight & Ripwave is wireless but not line-of-sight.

I'm on Ripwave...

Narj

--- 62.231.32.10 ping statistics ---
1463 packets transmitted, 1300 packets received, 11.1% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 19.937/117.358/413.191/36.149 ms

maybe it is a congestion issue ..... Maybe I am just experiencing the 20:1 congestion as advertised. At least it is better than last nights 50% packet loss.

The problem seems to be on their net and not my link to my default gateway.

# ping -q -c 50 `cat /etc/mygate`
PING 62.231.57.65 (62.231.57.65): 56 data bytes
--- 62.231.57.65 ping statistics ---
50 packets transmitted, 50 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 0.703/4.193/10.005/2.261 ms

Just hope it does not lead to crappy VoIP or I will have to give up on blueface.ie and go back to giving Eircom €20+ just to lift a reciever.

Shiny

wrafter wrote:

Shiny - when you say "full speed", what's full speed for you?

full speed = 400 megs per hour

billy3sheets

Ooops.
Some further analysis on Win XP with an ethernet packet analyser reveals somthing flooding out packets on port 135. Main culprit is usually the Blaster worm or similar.
Need to do a big cleanup & get firewall & antivirus up to date. Silly me for doing even a brief connection to Internet without a firewall.
Linux performance is still OK.