Got connected to IBB today

humaxf1

Hi all,

Got connected to IBB today in Dun Laoghaire area.

Subscribed to Breeze Lite 1Mb, 20:1 contention.

Install went well. Have an existing pole on the roof for the panel antenna so lashed it up quick enough and straight into the signal test, which is currently at 4 bars beaming to Killiney Hill. Fished the CAT5 down the chimney into the bedroom so no drilling holes.

The setup and configuration is slow & tedious which is done through telnet. A bit like doing FDISK, only with a heap more menus.

Web browsing is very quick and file downloading ain't bad. Slowest so far is approx 40KBytes/sec and the most is 100-120KBytes/sec while downloading XP SP2.

SO, happy so far...better than crap dial-up anyday.

Cheers,
Dara.

Hows your ping?

humaxf1

hmmm...I have heard of ping etc, but never got the hang of it. give me a few numbers to ping and i will let you know the results.

start>run>type cmd> ping www.boards.ie
That will ping boards 4 times. If you want to keep it going type ping www.boards.ie -t. That will give you a better indication of how you are pinging. Itll usually be between 9-15ms if all is working well.

humaxf1

i am averaging 7ms

min is 6, max is 8.

with the -t switch, went from 5 upto about 9.

Random

As opposed to netsource who currently gimme 25ms to boards.ie and 23ms to netsource.ie ....

humaxf1

Here are the results of the Dun Laoghaire jury

Pinging www.netsource.ie [212.17.32.48] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.17.32.48: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.17.32.48: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.17.32.48: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.17.32.48: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=122

Ping statistics for 212.17.32.48:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 6ms, Maximum = 8ms, Average = 7ms

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Pinging www.boards.ie [82.195.144.58] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=58
Reply from 82.195.144.58: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 82.195.144.58:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 6ms, Maximum = 7ms, Average = 6ms


SO, everything is going well for my connection.

Any recommended to test the download speed?

Random

Netsource should be ashamed of themselves then I reckon


As for testing your download speeds, try some of the bigger files from http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyondergames/ ?

humaxf1

in the utils section, im dloading 180MB file, at 120KB/s at the mo. it has a burst of a couple hundrend KBps, then evens off.

humaxf1

pings to boards.ie has gone upto 500 odd while downloading

Random

Hardly unexpected

Akula

well im getting ping times of over 30 on digiweb wireless.

Ah well.