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  • #7532
    DanRocksOn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭DanRocksOn


    The ducting I am seeing is different. Its like a white ish ducting running up the pole and left with a loop.
    I will post a picture later.
    The ducting in the picture above is appears on poles further up the road


  • #7533
    tsue921i8wljb3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    DanRocksOn wrote: »
    The ducting I am seeing is different. Its like a white ish ducting running up the pole and left with a loop.
    I will post a picture later.
    The ducting in the picture above is appears on poles further up the road

    That sounds like the ducting they use when blowing the fibre with compressed air.


  • #7534
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,049 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    DanRocksOn wrote: »
    The ducting I am seeing is different. Its like a white ish ducting running up the pole and left with a loop.

    Local here, they recently rolled out ducting from the exchange to the first poles on the fibre routes and the ducting appears to be a lighter colour.


  • #7535
    tsue921i8wljb3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    Dan is this similar to the ducting?

    p7nrU7w_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=high


  • #7536
    DanRocksOn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭DanRocksOn


    Yes. that looks like but without the black fibre.
    Assume they will blow the fibre thru the ducting as they work down the road.
    Or maybe go so far and wait for the NBP to pay for it :-(


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  • #7537
    tsue921i8wljb3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    DanRocksOn wrote: »
    Yes. that looks like but without the black fibre.
    Assume they will blow the fibre thru the ducting as they work down the road.
    Or maybe go so far and wait for the NBP to pay for it :-(

    Hopefully you get covered. If you get a chance try speaking to some of the guys doing the work. Any of them I have spoken to have been very helpful and they could give you more concrete information.


  • #7538
    KOR101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭KOR101


    DanRocksOn wrote: »
    Yes. that looks like but without the black fibre.
    Assume they will blow the fibre thru the ducting as they work down the road.
    Or maybe go so far and wait for the NBP to pay for it :-(
    You never know what's happening behind the scenes. I know someone in Eir and am planning to ask him to extend the route to my house. I've no idea whether it will work but he's local and senior enough.


  • #7539
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,049 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Allison Puny Appetite wrote: »
    Dan is this similar to the ducting?

    That looks like the ducting from my exchange to the start of the fibre routes.


  • #7540
    tsue921i8wljb3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    The Cush wrote: »
    That looks like the ducting from my exchange to the start of the fibre routes.

    I assume the distance is too far to pull or push manually so they blow it instead.


  • #7541
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,049 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Allison Puny Appetite wrote: »
    I assume the distance is too far to pull or push manually so they blow it instead.

    That would be correct, the hydrodare is used on the shorter run between poles.


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  • #7542
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,049 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=104518507#post104518507

    Open-eir wholesale promotion in effect since July 1st for a period of 6 months. Each existing copper-line telephone subscriber that a retailer migrates over to VoIP/VoBB is worth €100 wholesale credit plus the relevant connection/migration fee that is applicable at the time of the order for each line migrated.


  • #7543
    raydator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭raydator


    Well, I had mine installed last Saturday.

    Got the 1000mb Extreme connection. So running speed test every 4 hours since then with mixed results.

    Downstream
    Min Speed - 120 Mb/s
    Max Speed - 820 Mb/s (seen only once)
    Avg Speed - 410 Mb/s

    Upstream
    Min Speed - 89 Mb/s
    Max Speed - 99 Mb/s
    Avg Speed - 92 Mb/s

    I have Cat6e cables running to and from Eir Router and PC.

    Why would I be seen fluctuating speeds?

    The area only went live last week, so it can't be contention, could it?

    Unhappy paying for 1000mb and on avg never getting over half the speed expected.


  • #7544
    raydator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭raydator


    Test results from the last hour.


  • #7545
    HairySalmon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭HairySalmon


    I've been looking up the roll out maps and my house falls just out of eir's fibre range by literally metres. I'm not far from the main road yet I can see houses much far can avail of it.

    Is there any contact that can be made to discuss the issue?


  • #7546
    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    raydator wrote: »
    Well, I had mine installed last Saturday.

    Got the 1000mb Extreme connection. So running speed test every 4 hours since then with mixed results.

    Downstream
    Min Speed - 120 Mb/s
    Max Speed - 820 Mb/s (seen only once)
    Avg Speed - 410 Mb/s

    Upstream
    Min Speed - 89 Mb/s
    Max Speed - 99 Mb/s
    Avg Speed - 92 Mb/s

    I have Cat6e cables running to and from Eir Router and PC.

    Why would I be seen fluctuating speeds?

    The area only went live last week, so it can't be contention, could it?

    Unhappy paying for 1000mb and on avg never getting over half the speed expected.

    There is no Cat6e, but presumably you're using Cat5e or Cat6 so should be well able to support the Gigabit connection. Have you used a different cable (in case the first one is faulty)?
    raydator wrote: »
    Test results from the last hour.

    I don't recognise that speed tester. Most on here use speedtest.net so try a few of those and share the results.


  • #7547
    rob808
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭rob808


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    HairySalmon wrote: »
    I've been looking up the roll out maps and my house falls just out of eir's fibre range by literally metres. I'm not far from the main road yet I can see houses much far can avail of it.

    Is there any contact that can be made to discuss the issue?
    http://fibrerollout.ie put your Eircode and number see what result you get.


  • #7548
    BarryM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 837 ✭✭✭BarryM


    Interesting posts re the QOS, and the ideas of changing cables etc. I mentioned a while back that it might be useful to indicate the price being paid. Maybe people are reluctant but it could be interesting to try to evaluate the value? OK, "value" is subjective but could be useful.


  • #7549
    raydator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭raydator


    ItHurtsWhenIP wrote: »
    There is no Cat6e, but presumably you're using Cat5e or Cat6 so should be well able to support the Gigabit connection. Have you used a different cable (in case the first one is faulty)?

    It cost a bit more but I have cat6E running around my house.

    Category 6 Enhanced (6e) is an augmented specification designed to double transmission frequency to 500 MHz. By wrapping Category 6e in grounded foil shielding, full 10-Gigabit Ethernet speeds can be reached without sacrificing the max cable length of 100 meters.

    I have also switched to a cat5e cable run from the Eir router directly to my PC which sits no more than 12 feet away from the router and i still get between 400-500.

    ItHurtsWhenIP wrote: »
    I don't recognise that speed tester. Most on here use speedtest.net so try a few of those and share the results.

    The KN engineer told me to keep away from speedtest.net (Ookla) and any site that uses the Ookla test engine.
    He pointed me to https://www.measurementlab.net/tests/ndt/


  • #7550
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    can you get the proper speeds on speedtest.net just to rule out it being anything to do with your pc etc?


  • #7551
    raydator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭raydator


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    can you get the proper speeds on speedtest.net just to rule out it being anything to do with your pc etc?

    Just done one now and it's very slow this morning.

    I have also tried a laptop with an Intel Gigabit network card. Same results.


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  • #7552
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    that's very poor have you done the old turn it off and on again of the router?

    other than that it looks like it's not a fault on your side of the equation


  • #7553
    raydator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭raydator


    So I called Eir tech. I should be receiving 1000mb or close too (950 or above).

    As my order was only installed on Saturday it's still showing as "post complete" and therefore not completed.

    So I will have to wait until tomorrow and then they will be able to fault check the connection and test the speed to the router.

    They are happy with the current setup i.e. cable type, cable length and network card speeds.


  • #7554
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    raydator wrote: »
    So I called Eir tech. I should be receiving 1000mb or close too (950 or above).

    As my order was only installed on Saturday it's still showing as "post complete" and therefore not completed.

    So I will have to wait until tomorrow and then they will be able to fault check the connection and test the speed to the router.

    They are happy with the current setup i.e. cable type, cable length and network card speeds.


    You should use iPerf to test your own cabling. Just because its 5e/6 doesnt mean its actually crimped sufficiently.


  • #7555
    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    raydator wrote: »
    It cost a bit more but I have cat6E running around my house.

    Category 6 Enhanced (6e) is an augmented specification designed to double transmission frequency to 500 MHz. By wrapping Category 6e in grounded foil shielding, full 10-Gigabit Ethernet speeds can be reached without sacrificing the max cable length of 100 meters.

    I have also switched to a cat5e cable run from the Eir router directly to my PC which sits no more than 12 feet away from the router and i still get between 400-500.




    The KN engineer told me to keep away from speedtest.net (Ookla) and any site that uses the Ookla test engine.
    He pointed me to https://www.measurementlab.net/tests/ndt/


    According to this:
    Category 6e is not a standard, and is frequently misused because category 5 followed with 5e as an enhancement on category 5.

    But there is Cat 6A, which is what it sounds like you have been wired with. ;)

    Use iPerf as ED E suggested.


  • #7556
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,582 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Captureuy.jpg

    Have the 150m plus free uk and Irish calls.

    Should be as above,first bill came in today
    171.46
    WTF


  • #7557
    raydator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭raydator


    ED E wrote: »
    You should use iPerf to test your own cabling. Just because its 5e/6 doesnt mean its actually crimped sufficiently.

    Can you suggest the test to run as I have never used iPerf before?

    I have iPerf sitting on my laptop with iperf3 -s, and on my computer waiting to perform the test but I have never used it.


  • #7558
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Have the 150m plus free uk and Irish calls.

    Should be as above,first bill came in today
    171.46
    WTF

    does your bill state what the extra charge was? you could have gone over your 'unlimited' data


  • #7559
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    raydator wrote: »
    Can you suggest the test to run as I have never used iPerf before?

    I have iPerf sitting on my laptop with iperf3 -s, and on my computer waiting to perform the test but I have never used it.

    -s on one and -c 192.168.1.3 on the other

    replace that ip with the ip of the pc running the iperf server


  • #7560
    raydator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭raydator


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    -s on one and -c 192.168.1.3 on the other

    replace that ip with the ip of the pc running the iperf server
    D:\iperf>iperf3 -c 192.168.1.10
Connecting to host 192.168.1.10, port 5201
[  4] local 192.168.1.2 port 56230 connected to 192.168.1.10 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec
[  4]   1.00-2.00   sec   110 MBytes   924 Mbits/sec
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec   111 MBytes   933 Mbits/sec
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec   111 MBytes   929 Mbits/sec
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec   111 MBytes   933 Mbits/sec
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   935 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   935 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

    Can you decode what it telling me?


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  • #7561
    rob808
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭rob808


    raydator wrote: »
    D:\iperf>iperf3 -c 192.168.1.10
Connecting to host 192.168.1.10, port 5201
[  4] local 192.168.1.2 port 56230 connected to 192.168.1.10 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec
[  4]   1.00-2.00   sec   110 MBytes   924 Mbits/sec
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec   111 MBytes   933 Mbits/sec
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec   111 MBytes   929 Mbits/sec
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec   111 MBytes   933 Mbits/sec
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   935 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   935 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.

    Can you decode what it telling me?
    well going by that your get close to your 1Gb your never get your full speed usually 940 mbits is about right.


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