DSL Really slow since upgrade

TCP/IP

Hi everybody,

since the other day when dsl went down for the speed upgrade to take place since it came back from router says it is upgraded to 1mb but my download speeds have droped to less than 30kb has anybody else had this problem. I have rebooted my server and router but still terrible speeds, this never happened when I was on 512kb..

philologos

m8 same here my modem Prestige 630 series is giving me terrible speed after it says its capable for 2Mbit

Your current bandwidth reading is:

321.70kbps

which means you can download at 40.21 KB/sec. from our servers

carbsy

Sounds like everyone is leeching like a mofo on their new lines.

philologos

sounds like a pile of b**ls to me

rsynnott

If it's just those testing sites giving funny results, it's possible they're just under too much load from the update. Alternatively, everyone may just be trying out their faster lines at the same time

Peanut

Same here, it's currently about 256k down for what was a 2mbit line (before upgrade).

TCP/IP

could be wait and see over the coming days i suppose i do my tests from microsoft ftp severs by the way

DiscoStu

i'm having the same problems to. router reports 2048/128 yet pings are through the roof and downloads are around 225k/s.

on the lucan/balydowd exchange and about 500meters away from it

dub45

DiscoStu wrote:

i'm having the same problems to. router reports 2048/128 yet pings are through the roof and downloads are around 225k/s.

on the lucan/balydowd exchange and about 500meters away from it

Same here am on Clicksilver plus and usually get about 420 at best but this today my speed seems to be getting worse each time I check last time was 149.70kbps from Irish Isp.

monomaniac

Same here. Netopia reporting 2048 down. max download speed I've got today is 30kb/s.

On eircom Homeplus on the dbn1 pop (Crown Alley). What exchange is everyone else on?

Has anyone logged a fault with broadband support?

snappieT

I'm OK - Esat 1meg on Whitehall Exchange:

710.4 kilobits per second
Communications 710.4 kilobits per second
Storage 86.7 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 11.8 seconds
Subjective rating Good

Maddzy

I've noticed since around thursday that sites have been loading a lot slower and they still are today (despite my line now being 1Mb).

File downloads however are better, so Im guessing it is due to heavy useage and they are probably still doing upgrade stuff to the lines.

monomaniac

Ok - based on what I've been reading on
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=241532&page=2

high line attentuation may be to blame for our speed probs. Can some of the peeps with the slow speeds find out what their line attentuation is?

I only know how to find it out on the netopia 33xx models.
telnet 192.168.1.254
show dsl

diarmo

ZyXEL DSL/Router Modems:

Type 192.168.1.1 into browser and press return,
Enter Username/Passwors as admin/1234 <-These are the defaults!
You will see Main Menu,
Click Maintenance,
then Diagnostics,
then DSL Line,
then choose "Downstream Noise Margin".

You will get results like this:

relative capacity occupation: 19% 
noise margin downstream: 44.5 db
output power upstream: 12.5 dbm
attenuation downstream: 14.5 db
carrier load: number of bits per symbol(tone)
tone   0- 31: 00 00 00 00 00 02 23 34 04 44 44 33 32 22 22 00 
tone  32- 63: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 22 23 33 34 44 
tone  64- 95: 04 44 45 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 
tone  96-127: 55 45 44 44 44 44 44 44 54 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 
tone 128-159: 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 43 44 43 43 43 33 
tone 160-191: 43 34 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 
tone 192-223: 33 33 33 33 32 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 
tone 224-255: 22 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 

This is the most important line IMHO:
noise margin downstream: 44.5 db

TCP/IP

This is my info

Statistics Downstream Upstream
Line Rate 1024 Kbps 128 Kbps
Noise Margin 28.7 dB 28.0 dB
Line Attenuation 29.5 dB 21.0 dB
Output Power 6.3 dBm 2.9 dBm
K 33 5
R 8 8
S 4 8
D 1 1
Super Frames 560474 560472
Super Frame Errors 1 0
RS Words 9528066 4764012
RS Correctable Errors 4 0
RS Uncorrectable Errors 2 0
HEC Errors 1 0
OCD Errors 0 0
LCD Errors 0 0
ES Errors 0 0

philologos

Throughput
7026 Bps
bytes per second

Throughput
56 kbps
kilobits per secon

I HAVE THE SAME SPEED ON 2MBit Broadband as a 56k modem
This is a damned joke

RobertFoster

Teething problems perhaps? My connection keeps dropping (DSL and ACT lights go off) and I can only download at ~25KB/s when it was ~170KB/s at 4:30 this morning...

ai ing

Been getting dialup sppeds here in Celbridge since the upgrade. Around 50 - 70 kbps all day. but the router is reporting 1024 down, from another thread im not the only one in this area getting this.

Webmonkey

It depends on the server you are downloading from. There are many bandwidth tests online to check your bandwidth speeds. It is doubtful that this is the speed you'll reach max on every site/download. Try downloading a file from a fast server, example www.microsoft.com , they generally fast downloads.

Peanut

I don't think that's the problem Webmonkey, this is happening to a number of people around Lucan/Celbridge so I guess Eircom are working on it.

TCP/IP

I just rang eircom tech support and there is a server problem but they are aware of it. By the way I am on the Newlands Cross exchange

Webmonkey

Don't expect them to be working on it. i would ring them up, they'd ignore you for ever otherwise. Goodluck with it

Basq

I think someone mentioned that they switched off their router / modem and when it restarted.. they were on top speed.

Anyone else try this yet? Am away from the router right now... well, when i say away.. it's all the way downstairs!

I am MAN

Yeah ring eircom because then a magical button will be pressed and all will be ok.

It's obviously teething problems so be patient until tomorrow.

Peanut

Webmonkey wrote:

Don't expect them to be working on it. i would ring them up, they'd ignore you for ever otherwise. Goodluck with it

Have done already, they didn't seem to have much information about it though.

chopperbyrne

Eircom are working on this. It is affecting users connected to the Cellbridge and Lucan exchanges. It is being looked in to.

ArthurG

Awful performance on Lucan/Ballydowd exchange as well. Router reporting 1024 down, i'm getting about 70kbps from IrishISP test. UTV customer BTW.

OfflerCrocGod

I've also been losing my connection every now and then and the speeds don't stay rock steady but I can still hit 195 to 200 over the long haul (eventhough the tests all say 205 to 210)

Subc

man wutever its normal, just came out couple of hours ago, needs to be stabalised etc...
wait for a few days should be stable

xonencentral

We are a company in Mayo and we use UTV Broadband for €29.99 inc vat and its mega fast. The irony is that our friends in a printing company next door who use Eircom broadband have asked us to download big files on their behalf as their speed is questionable and it takes us about 25% of the time.

We both use eircom phone lines, so it has to be the servers in eircom which are either stuffed with users and bandwidth issues or they just don't care about providing adequate services and think that people will just accept it.

Well, we didn't and are we are so glad we stuffed them, and we even get free off-peak phone calls to Irl and UK as well.

the_syco

Few problems yesterday, Eircom restarted the server, and about an hour or two I'm back. I'm in Leixlip.

Know any big files on heanet, that I can check my speed with, by downloading?

jimmeh

i was getting dirt slow speeds until i rebooted my router, BAM 220Kbytes a second.

donoghmacfadden

Here's a file off heanet, should be big enough....
Regards,
D.

ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-disc4.iso

Basq

Did have 1312 downstream with about 56KB/sec downloading

Restarted the router there and now getting 1504 downstream and getting 150K a second now.

Still not 2MB but an improvement.

Everyone's who's having problems.. restart their router / modem, and post back!

EDIT: It actually levelled out at about 100KB/sec on that ISO file. Still far from the 2MB i want... but like i said, definantly an improvement!

clearz

Holy sh1t. I tried that iso file and yep 210 Kb/s constant. Hello 2048/128 broadband

dubdvd

crazy im getting the same and im with netsource the line went down last night and this morning im getting 210kps when i treid that download above from heanet im getting 210kps wwwwwwwwwooooooowwwwwww
and the best thing is that ive been looking on there homepage and there seems to be a price drop "im not sure" ill ring tomorrow ....2mb ????i hope

the_syco

Just checked it there. 256K/sec, more or less, at the moment. Nice :cool:

DiscoStu

multiple restarts later its still slow as ****.

mang87

where abouts in lucan are ye jakass? we're both on the ballydowd exchange iirc, and I've had no problems...

fred funk }{

OK lads sorry for being a retard but im getting 107KB download speed from the above download so is that a 1m connection speed? I should be 2m.

I am MAN

Silver Knight wrote:

OK lads sorry for being a retard but im getting 107KB download speed from the above download so is that a 1m connection speed? I should be 2m.

Yes that is 1mb speed but if you read the post titled "Broadband upgrade" that will tell you about rate adaptive dsl.

philologos

mang87 wrote:

where abouts in lucan are ye jakass? we're both on the ballydowd exchange iirc, and I've had no problems...

im in Ballyowen Lane,
and the service has been giving me speeds of 56kbps and its not got any better even after i installed SP2 on my system *actually it got even worse*

mang87

Jesus christ, did I speak too soon? I'm getting 17.00kbps atm!
well they're probably slowing me down atm to fix yours

jonnybadd

I'm on the ballydowd exchange and i'm getting slow speeds also. Around 56kish

mang87

actualy I just resarted my router and im getting 2mb again.. try doing the same?

Basq

mang87 wrote:

actualy I just resarted my router and im getting 2mb again.. try doing the same?

Yeah.. like i said IN BOLD on the first page.. this seems to be the way to go!

jonnybadd

Tried that two or three times and no luck

Moriarty

Merged both threads.

kaizersoze

Speed test results from today.
Was fine earlier, now it down.
UTV basic package 1024/128

1 03 April 2005 18:59:59 10,691 Bps 86 kbps
2 03 April 2005 18:15:03 10,571 Bps 85 kbps
3 03 April 2005 18:13:24 10,469 Bps 84 kbps
4 03 April 2005 16:35:46 20,764 Bps 166 kbps
5 03 April 2005 16:34:31 14,961 Bps 120 kbps
6 03 April 2005 16:32:15 14,671 Bps 117 kbps

Average: 13,688 Bps 110 kbps
Middle: 12,681 Bps 101 kbps

Just teething problems I hope :cool:

ai ing

From Eircom : a server has died in west Dublin and seems to have fcked up the whole area.

halenger

The whole area being the whole of Dublin?

I'm on the Northside on the Belcamp exchange and it's pretty bad. I rebooted the router and it gave me proper speeds on the speed test but it's just not stable. Messy messy. I'll take my 512 back in the meantime, thanks.