IrishBroadband Speeds gone to hell lately?

PaddyofNine

Mine certainly are.


I'm on the RTE transmitter. Especially annoying since I got the damned thing mainly for college, and now in the middle of my finals it takes me two damned minutes to download a PDF! Which I do a LOT! Grrr... :mad:

gline

yes i have definitly noticed this, i am also on RTE mast. Any reason for this?? are they limiting downloading?? as i notice on their site they now say there is a 30gig a month download cap

irlrobins

Are you on breeze or ripwave?

R

R Ramirez

Mine certainly are.


I'm on the RTE transmitter. Especially annoying since I got the damned thing mainly for college, and now in the middle of my finals it takes me two damned minutes to download a PDF! Which I do a LOT! Grrr... :mad

PaddyofNine wrote:

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I was with Irishbroadband for 6 months (November 03 to May 04). I was on the transmitter in James Gate. My connection was slower than a dial up from day one.. I'm not one to go complaining without checking out the issue first so I performed a alot of tests.. I re-installed my OS, got more RAM, tested it on my wok laptop.. I even carried my mates machine (which he had just built about 3 weeks before and was a savage oul machine) round from his house to mine and tried his machine on my connection.. Nothing made a difference.

I eventually called them up and I had on of there guys run some tests.. He was scratching his head so he sent a 'technician' out on Christmas Eve.. I wasn't there to meet him but there was some to let him in. He was gone about 5 minutes later and he called me and told me he had 'fixed' the issue.
As it was Christmas I didnt go near my machine till 3 days after Christmas.. It was exactly the same as it was before the 'technician' came out.

I rarely use my computer and left it for some months until I got tired of it and had some words with them.. The came out and took it away and cancelled my contract without term fees.. I am with Netsource now and they are absolutely brilliant.. Not one issue so far.

I was far too pateint with Irishbroadband. They are, giving my experience, terrible. I'd steer well clear of them

gline

irlrobins wrote:

Are you on breeze or ripwave?

R

im on breeze and have been for about 6-9 months, never had a problem ever before, so i am soory to see them have issues now as i am a loyal customer, i hope it will be fixed soon, i want to upgrade to the 2 meg buisness line anyway, but i doont know wether they will let me, being a normal home-user and all

R Ramirez

im on breeze and have been for about 6-9 months, never had a problem ever before, so i am soory to see them have issues now as i am a loyal customer, i hope it will be fixed soon, i want to upgrade to the 2 meg buisness line anyway, but i doont know wether they will let me, being a normal home-user and all

Netsource upgraded my line from 512k to 2mb for no extra charge about 5 weeks ago. Think it was something to do with Smart Telecom offering that service for same price or less.

Shiny

I'm on the Ballymun mast.

Speeds are all over the place for me too.

IBB had me limited to 100k/sec for the last few weeks.

This morning I was getting speeds of around 230k a second
and now they are maxing out at 30ksec.

Will be giving them a call (again) if this keeps up for too long.

gline

Shiny wrote:

I'm on the Ballymun mast.

Speeds are all over the place for me too.

IBB had me limited to 100k/sec for the last few weeks.

This morning I was getting speeds of around 230k a second
and now they are maxing out at 30ksec.

Will be giving them a call (again) if this keeps up for too long.

mine seem to just be really low ALL the time for about a week. Is the upgrade to 2 meg confirmed or just rumours??

R Ramirez

I'm on the Ballymun mast.

Speeds are all over the place for me too.

IBB had me limited to 100k/sec for the last few weeks.

This morning I was getting speeds of around 230k a second
and now they are maxing out at 30ksec.

Will be giving them a call (again) if this keeps up for too long

I wouldnt leave it too long.. However, as it is wireless your bound experience some interuption with service.. Much like a mobile phone. At least your getting some service.. I wasnt getting anything near 30k.. IBB obviously do provide good service to some customers but they dont provide to them all and thats what lets them down

Blaster99

FWA is much unlike a mobile phone.

Shaney Seanie

i just got IBB a few weeks ago, couldnt get any of the phoneline or NTL broadband. it seemed to be fine so far but has really slowed down terribly today and yesterday. i tried that http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/ thing today (never used it before) and got 19kbs this morning, right now its 215 which seems great! can i expect this sort of slowdown regularly? how accurate a representation is the speed test? and does anyone know for sire what the deal is with this 30gig download limit? is everyone getting that now?

statto

I am on 3 rock and speeds are all over the place. One minute 1 meg plus the next it's below 100 kpbs. In particular my upload speed is dreadful - never above download and struggle to make past 400 kpbs. I am on an upgraded 1 meg breeze connection.

Is there a automated speed testing utility out there that logs the test results - I want to build a profile of my speed. Have done a quick google but found nothing.

irlrobins

damn, just ordered IBB for my parents. Hope I don't have the probs you guys are having.

R

gline

i rang IBB, they will upgrade all the lines to 2meg soon, so i ordered the buisness 2meg line which will be upgraded to 3meg soon and its the same price as what i pay now. NICE

Bannor

I'm on the Ballymun mast and there was a serious outage last night about 2.45am - I know because myself and a friend were installing Gentoo on a new pc and were downloading the source at the time. The connection returned at 3.55am for about 2 minutes and disappeared again. For over an hour prior to the outage the connection was being limited to 48~51kb/s which is 512k speeds.

gline

Bannor wrote:

I'm on the Ballymun mast and there was a serious outage last night about 2.45am - I know because myself and a friend were installing Gentoo on a new pc and were downloading the source at the time. The connection returned at 3.55am for about 2 minutes and disappeared again. For over an hour prior to the outage the connection was being limited to 48~51kb/s which is 512k speeds.

aparently it is because of the upgrades happening, i will give them a few weeks to sort that, if it is still the same in 2-3 weeks i will consider going to ntl or something, problem is i REALLY need the high upload speeds.

spooky donkey

Im on the Atrium in D15 and ive been getting bad pings since Sunday night. I kept getting kicked off our BFV server for high pings , if you ping over 150 for more than 1 min youre kicked. My download speeds are back at the 25k/25k. IM with IBB 6 months and this seems like a regular thing every 6-8 weeks they go belly up. Last time it was 2 months before it was fixed.

How long for this one. We have a Clan match for friday night I may have to cancel it.

G|N|T

I'm off RTE:

Reply from 82.195.136.36: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.195.136.36: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.195.136.36: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.195.136.36: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=57

127k/bytes sec downloads

Doesnt seem all of us are suffering

gline

G|N|T wrote:

I'm off RTE:

Reply from 82.195.136.36: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.195.136.36: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.195.136.36: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=57
Reply from 82.195.136.36: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=57

127k/bytes sec downloads

Doesnt seem all of us are suffering

thats like my usual pings

Mutant_Fruit

Yup, looks like they've either turned on traffic limiting (again) or they're doing work and traffic is temporarily gone to ****. I'm maxing out at about 60kB/sec on my 2meg line. Tis very annoying, i was hoping to get something downloaded by 6, but looks like its not going to happen any time soon

Red Alert

I think i have an LOS issue at the minute with tree in bloom. But i'm worried about this 30Gig a month cap. Can they apply it retrospectively to people as i've signed up for a no-cap contract?

PowerHouseDan

I was having the same issue as you Multant rang a few times they tried to blame my router apparently they are gettin more bandwidth so speeds shouldnt drop as much during the day. Mine is grand now today though 160k downloads

spooky donkey

mine are bad since Sunday. Somthing tells me this is going to be one of these mad long IBB threads till they eventually pay it some notice.

gline

just did a broadband speed test, 40k-50k downloads (512k connection speeds) :mad:

PowerHouseDan

Mine has gone crap now again 500kbits 512k speeds.

flywheel

PaddyofNine wrote:

I'm on the RTE transmitter.

hi, yeah i'm off the RTE transmitter too, mine went really bad a few weeks ago, but I spotted this thread last month:
Any issues with IBB Breeze Access please post here. Help is always at hand

PMed The Wise man and he arranged for someone to sort it out, been with IBB over 2 years now so was still on the original kit, they upgraded it and upped the connection speed... been behaving itself better ever since

might be worth dropping him a PM too...

PowerHouseDan

19kbs ha this is a joke, they said that its within the ratio and prob due to heavy downloaders.

enigma_b17

i am sad to say it......but

ibb is the single worst isp i have ever had, and that is including dialup.

From having talked to support they say that the connection is fine, yet dloads are no greater then 20k/s. Still they say its fine and the problem is because of contention.

Ill be leavin em at the end of the summer for the only reason that no1 else covers my area yet.

Drapper

enigma_b17 wrote:

i am sad to say it......but

ibb is the single worst isp i have ever had, and that is including dialup.

From having talked to support they say that the connection is fine, yet dloads are no greater then 20k/s. Still they say its fine and the problem is because of contention.

Ill be leavin em at the end of the summer for the only reason that no1 else covers my area yet.

Latency has been bad since SUday too for me !!

I'm off Ballycoolin !

(state your mast plz, IBB do read Boards.ie)

enigma_b17

well this has been an ongoing problem for about 2 months now.

when i had the 1 meg i rarely got anywhere near 50k/s and now im on 2 meg I dont get over 20-30. Ive tried it at day and at night, and im just at the end of my string

im on three rock by the by, 2mb breeze (so im told anyway, if u ask me ive been shafted down onto a dialup one)

Drapper

And it goes on ! 12 month contract almost up ! think I'll be moving ! who needs good uploads when you pings are soooooo pooooooooorrr!!!

Even if they mailed and said, we are doing considerable works and dont expect a consistant service for a few weeks we can bare with it but a rollercoaster of sppeds is unaceptable !

The irony is that I have NTL and IBB, I live in D15 and both dont work right ! some people on boards cant even get one BB provider!

NTL is oversubscrided in the area and the connection is at 25 %
IBB is "good" at weekends, however I've spend on average an additonal €50 on telephone calls each month to sort out !

gsand

yah ive been limited to 120k download for the last few days so i duno if thats a qos thing or whats going on. but admittedly i had a heavy week last week but i always downloaded after 6 and never maxed out usually around 50k so plenty of bw for others but looks like they wernt happy. im on 2meg 48euro package and would be very dissapointed to find they are enforcing some sort of cap if that is the case as 48euro and a cap=ibb in the bin as im out of contract