Anyone who is on 1mb but should be on 2mb, post here

daveyjoe

I noticed that a few people on boards said they are now on 1mb although they were on the enhanced package and should be getting 2mb. The conspiracy theorist in me says that it's because your ISP left you on the lower package but changed your cap (You would have no way of knowing).

I know that the chances of this are pretty low, but it's something that is worth looking into anyway.

Basq

Good point...!

But then again.. it did say that Home Plus (on Eircom) would be upgraded from 8GB to the 16GB package, didn't it?

philologos

im on 2mbit according to connection and my drivers but im getting 512k like speeds

Basq

Jakkass wrote:

im on 2mbit according to connection and my drivers but im getting 512k like speeds

Join the club!....

Am meant to be getting a 2MB connection. Router is showing 1.3Mbps and getting 512K speeds still.

FFS... can Eircom do anything right? :mad:

Winters

At the moment my modem is saying I'm connected at '1024 kbps'. I am on the IOLBB+ package so hopefully I shall be upgraded to 2MB now on Monday. If not there shall be a lot of phonecalls being made on Monday. A hellova' lot.

Placebo

what reading should 1mb people have ?
www.irishisptest.com

i take it less than 1mb and a download speed off less than 150kb or so

pH

Yep - I'm on Home Plus - My router is saying 2048/128 but the d/l speed on giganews and irishisptest is 427.50kbps

Newlands cross exchange.

Maybe everything is busy this morning.

Eye

yeah i'm in tht club too, saw a few post in the other thread with other people and was wondering what was going on.

at abou 1:45am last night they upgraded the Carrick-on-Suir exchange (south tipp) i'm on IOLBB Plus so should have gotten 2meg but have been stuck on 1 meg since the upgrade, was thinking about ringing today but i'll leave it until tomoorw and ring if it's not sorted then, jsut incase it's a phased upgrade or something.

speeds from hat test on 1 meg should be around 850kbps or 105-110kBps, mine are anyway

halkar

Winters wrote:

At the moment my modem is saying I'm connected at '1024 kbps'. I am on the IOLBB+ package so hopefully I shall be upgraded to 2MB now on Monday. If not there shall be a lot of phonecalls being made on Monday. A hellova' lot.

Same, no 2MB yet router showing 1024. IOLBB+.

diarmo

Just download a 20MB file segment of a Windows Service Pack from the microsoft website if you are getting terrible download speeds inconsistent with what you were expecting.

Speed tests are of no use to you when you want an actual real-life speed evaluation?!?!

BTW.
I think last night was the "big push".
They may do some tweaking today but nothing much will change with your download speed if they are incrooectly set at 1024 instead of 2048 unless you complain to tech support.
There was going to be problems anyway as no database is perfect.

MrPinK

Speed tests are of no use to you when you want an actual real-life speed evaluation?!?!

Agreed. Bandwidth tests have placed my connection between 900Kbs and 1.7Mbs. If you want to measure it accurately, start downloading a file from heatnet (such as this) and see what speed you get.

dub45

diarmo wrote:

Just download a 20MB file segment of a Windows Service Pack from the microsoft website if you are getting terrible download speeds inconsistent with what you were expecting.

Speed tests are of no use to you when you want an actual real-life speed evaluation?!?!

BTW.
I think last night was the "big push".
They may do some tweaking today but nothing much will change with your download speed if they are incrooectly set at 1024 instead of 2048 unless you complain to tech support.
There was going to be problems anyway as no database is perfect.

Its not enough to say 'no database is perfect'. People pay considerably more per month for the plus product no matter which isp you are on. And apart from the increased cap they were supposed to be benefitting from a lower contention rate as well.

monomaniac

The netopia says downstream of 2048 but my download speed seems to have halved. I'm not getting any more than 25 kb/s. Anyone else in the same boat?

Winters

I am able to download at 106kb/s constant. I tested it out with a 50mb file from EA.

I game them a call on their 1800 number [1800 923 923] but they are closed until tomorrow morning.

Basq

Tried downloading that file on Heanet.

Am getting around the 56KB-57KB mark.. slightly better than previous download speeds on 512K.

Sully

Aint got a clue what im supposed to be at since UTV never said.

Im at 1Mbps.

- Sully

Frank Grimes

I'm on IOLBB Plus and my download speeds actually seem worse than yesterday, it's synched at 2 megs down but the actual download speed seems to be sub 512.

philologos

basquille wrote:

Tried downloading that file on Heanet.

Am getting around the 56KB-57KB mark.. slightly better than previous download speeds on 512K.

getting 29.9KB lol

diarmo

Winters
You are currently on 1024k..ring them and complain(demand credit as well!)

basquille
Very bad speed.
Can you tell me your line attenuation(PM me if you have a ZyXEL 623 and I'll talk you through it) as a level of over 60 will not allow 1024k and above 45 will make if difficult for 2048k

Bodan

im on Iol BB Plus . I got upgraded to the 1 mb line so im a little disappointed was really looking forward to the 2mb . I guess its a mistake on there part so first thing tommorrow im ringing them up and getting it sorted.

Winters

diarmo wrote:

Winters
You are currently on 1024k..ring them and complain(demand credit as well!)

I already explained i rang their number and they are closed today apparently. Unless you have another number that may be working today.

pH

Tried Heanet, I'm getting a steady 55.0 - 58.0 K/BS. A little better than the old 512 service.

ADSL Link 	Downstream 	Upstream
Connection Speed 	2048 kbps 	128 kbps
Line Attenuation 	32 db 	19 db
Noise Margin 	31 db 	31 db

NóMur

I'm in the same position as Winters. I'm on the IOLBB+ package but my modem shows me as being connected as follows:
Upstream Speed: 128kbps
Downstream Speed: 1024kbps

With the current 1meg connection I was getting download speeds of about 88-90kB/sec on the file posted here, previously I was getting around 55-57kB/sec for downloads.

My downstream attenuation is 51.5dB & upstream 31dB - are these above average?

Giblet

I'm getting 1mb speeds on PLUS.


Is everybody still in their trial periods?

decob

I'm on iolbb+, router showing 2048/128.. and getting 208.5KB/s on that heanet download...

Frank Grimes

Giblet wrote:

Is everybody still in their trial periods?

Nope, I'm paying for it now.

NóMur

Is everybody still in their trial periods?

No, I'm gone past 12 months at this stage.

Winters

Giblet wrote:

Is everybody still in their trial periods?

Eh, no, been paying for it for a while now.

monomaniac

Anyone know how to find out line attenuation on the netopia 3341?

Basq

monomaniac wrote:

Anyone know how to find out line attenuation on the netopia 3341?

I'm trying to find out the same thing, mate!

monomaniac

Ok if you telnet 192.168.1.254 then the command

show dsl

gives line attenuation.

Mine is 53.11 Downstream and 31.0dB Upstream. So i guess this means I'm may have a problem with 2048.

diarmo - can u give me more info on what this means?

dubmick

pH wrote:

Tried Heanet, I'm getting a steady 55.0 - 58.0 K/BS. A little better than the old 512 service.

ADSL Link 	Downstream 	Upstream
Connection Speed 	2048 kbps 	128 kbps
Line Attenuation 	32 db 	19 db
Noise Margin 	31 db 	31 db

Exact same for me. Was getting better speeds last night. I'm on Eircom Plus.

kleefarr

Just tried that HEANET download and got 213KB/sec.
I'm on IOL BB in Kilkenny.

Basq

monomaniac wrote:

Ok if you telnet 192.168.1.254 then the command

show dsl

gives line attenuation.

Mine is 53.11 Downstream and 31.0dB Upstream. So i guess this means I'm may have a problem with 2048.

Cheers for that monomaniac.

Mine is worse:

Downstream: 43.56
Upstream: 27.00dB

Maddzy

I should be up to 1Mb and looks like I'm nearly there: http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=863.3&downloadtime=10.079&KB=1062.125&recorded=1

Shows 863.3 kb/s

I downloaded a file from an American server at a steady 85kb/s a few minutes ago, so I'm happy enough.

In Glasnevan, btw, dunno what the nearest exchange is...

Maddzy

lmao irishiptest.com is so easy to fool http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=1369100&downloadtime=10.079&KB=1062.125&recorded=1

diarmo

Bt has set standard for line attenuation and possible speeds you will get.
They are as follows

From memory(so dont take it as 100% correct)

Line Attenuation is a resistance.
Too hight and DSL becomes unstable.

Line attenuation above 60 db will get you a fail in your DSL test for 512k(mabye 1024 cant remember).
If you want 2048 then your line meeds to be about 45 db or lower.

These are for BT lines in the UK and as we use similar technology to them then they are probable implemented here also.

For transmission purposes the UK mainly use PPPoA whereas we use PPPoE....so we have a higher tolerance to errors but get a slightly reduced speed...(blame eircom for their sh!tty lines)

When BT rolled out their upgrades they said that a lot of people wont reach 2048(60% I think!) but they will try their best but if all else fails then they will get 1024.
From what Im reading here if you failed 2048k tests then you were bumped down to 1024k.

My line for comparison is:
relative capacity occupation: 19%
noise margin downstream: 44.5 db
output power upstream: 12.5 dbm
attenuation downstream: 14.5 db

And I have 2048 with no probs and was getting 210-215KBytes/s from a microsoft server(will try out heatnet later).

I think we need to create tutorials on completing diagnostics on peoples DSL lines for modem manufacturers used here and sticky it.

JNive

doing it like that, then yeah lol.
http://www.irishisptest.com/bandtest/results.php?kbps=106784080&downloadtime=10.079&KB=1062.125&recorded=1

aint too hard there :-)

dlofnep

It's 60db for 1meg lines. Not 512.

Also..

Downstream: 43.56
Upstream: 27.00dB

There is nothing wrong with that.. It's not worse, infact it's lower than the previous guy. The lower the local/remote attentuation, the better.

Basq

dlofnep wrote:

There is nothing wrong with that.. It's not worse, infact it's lower than the previous guy. The lower the local/remote attentuation, the better.

Ah right... got confused with that! Cheers for the clarification!

Still feckin' screwed with a downstream speed of 1312 (ironically enough, my birthday - December 13th) and a top download speed of about 56KB! :mad:

diarmo

monomaniac

I think 53 db attenuation is too high for 2048k
Im afraid with current technology you will never get any faster than 1mbit/s unless you get a new line or mabye ADSL2/2+ comes out.

monomaniac

Cheers for the info diarmo. Planning on upgrading to Smart when they are available.

Do you think then that line attentuation is related to the fact that my download speeds have halved since the upgrade? Not seeing any faster than 20-30kb/s.

OfflerCrocGod

diarmo wrote:

as a level of over 60 will not allow 1024k and above 45 will make if difficult for 2048k

ADSL Link Speed 2048 kbps 128 kbps
SNR 2.5 dB 0.0 dB
ATEN 52 dB 31 dB

I'm getting ~205k dowload speeds from my line with aten of 52 are you certain 45 is the limit?

Giblet

Here's my stats:

I'm on 1024/128 according to the router, im on the trial period with IOLBB PLUS.

Relative Capacity Occupation: 11%
Noise Margin Downstream: 45.5dB
Output power Upstream: 2dB
Attenutation Downstream : 17.5 dB


I live right beside my exchange, and I've always had good lines.

IS ANYONE STILL ON THE TRIAL PERIOD AND HAVE 2MB!!!

Tusky

Im IOL plus.

Should be 2mb but seem to be only 1mb however that file is downloading at a steady 213 kb/sec.

diarmo

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

ADSL Link Speed 2048 kbps 128 kbps
SNR 2.5 dB 0.0 dB
ATEN 52 dB 31 dB

I'm getting ~205k dowload speeds from my line with aten of 52 are you certain 45 is the limit?

From what I was reading, BT had set limits that over ~45-46 db attenuation they would not allow 2mbit on it.

Mabye it could be the slightly diferent transmission system (UK is mostly PPPoA which has lower data integrity checking and slighty higher speeds) while we use PPPoE.

If you could find more accurate info or track down a DSL technician for eircom limits I would be v.happy indeed.

You must remember thought that the DSL testing by eircom is FAR stricter than BT...which means that eircom DSL customers are going to be far more successfull than BT customers.

N.B.
When I say eircom I refer to their bitstream products for ISP's and the same for references to BT.

Redshift

I'm getting the very low and unstable download speeds on a 3Mbit connection
My line data is as follows
Eircom> wan adsl linedata near

relative capacity occupation: 38%
noise margin downstream: 23.5 db
output power upstream: 0.5 dbm
attenuation downstream: 33.0 db

I logged a fault with DSL support who said eircom are aware of the problem and are working on it, he said it should be full speed by tomorrow.

monomaniac

Redshift wrote:

I'm getting the very low and unstable download speeds on a 3Mbit connection

I logged a fault with DSL support who said eircom are aware of the problem and are working on it, he said it should be full speed by tomorrow.

Fantastic - not gonna worry bout this till tomorrow then.

Basq

Redshift wrote:

II logged a fault with DSL support who said eircom are aware of the problem and are working on it, he said it should be full speed by tomorrow.

Brillant news Redshift!

Thanks for that!

bizmark

Im getting 1.5 meg out of my 2 meg line not to bad i suppose

Tusky

bizmark wrote:

Im getting 1.5 meg out of my 2 meg line not to bad i suppose

same.