[Eircom & Resellers..BT, UTV etc] ADSL Speed upgrade to 8MB discussion...ongoing

kaizersoze wrote: »

Thats basically how the last 2 upgrades happened. Almost all were done in the space of 3 hours in the wee hours of Sunday morning, between 12 and 3am.

Yea unlike the business connections that they have been upgrading first they won't have to go through the time consuming process of contacting you to make sure your prepared for some possible downtime or anything.


I think I must be the only person on this board that isn't really bothered by the upgrade even though I'm what you would consider a very heavy user, when it comes I'll enjoy it but not going to be counting the days or anything of the like.

kaizersoze wrote: »

Easy tiger.:D

It looks like nothing is going to happen anytime soon.
I visited 5 of my customers today and all of them are on 4 meg business connections. NONE of them have been upgraded yet.

If it were me I'd give them a ring at this stage and see what they say, even if they weren't in any great rush to get upped to 10 I wouldn't mind seeing what Eircom would say.

DECEiFER wrote: »

For those of you who are eagerly awaiting a speed upgrade:

When checking your connection's speed, always use a domestic server. This is due to needing a low latency in order to deliver accurate results. It also helps to use a reliable server, one that isn't bogged down and won't lie to you. Speedtest.net has 3 Irish servers, last I checked. Each of them has lied to me many times. I know of a much better one...

http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed.php - always a source of truth.

i'd say i'll be going by what my router shows its syncing at..

actually, will I have to reset my router for the router to re-synch or will it just drop and do it itself?

I cant for the life of me remember how this went down at the last upgrade, but do eircom tend to roll out upgrades at individual exchanges or just enable them all in one go?

if its a rollout method they use, maybe starting a thread to keep track of the ones being upgraded might be useful?

But we get those / will get those anyway. On all the forums. It's the Internet.

Too true.

I'm using IBB Ripwave Plus at the moment. It's killing me, it's so slow, jittery, and unreliable. I just moved house on Thursday night, and my first order of business on Friday morning was to order ADSL again from UTV Internet (cheapest without line rental, and they have some good promos going). Since they're still selling a re-branded eircom product, I assume the speed increases will be effective to UTV Internet and all the other eircom bitstream re-sellers? If so, will it happen at the same time as for the eircom customers on the exchanges, or will there be a longer wait?

kaizersoze wrote: »

Same time.

That's grand, because I remember when the first speed increases occurred in March/April 2005 from 512Kb/s to 1024Kb/s and 2048Kb/s, I was on UTV and people who were on eircom had told me they were going faster whilst I was still on 512Kb/s. A week or so later, my connection went up in speed.

Does anyone know if there will be Cap increases on Eircom's end coming with the new speed increases, like there have been with UPC? I'm sure if Eircom make increases, other ISP's will follow accordingly (if not exactly).

Praetorian wrote: »

No official info on caps yet. No unofficial info on the caps yet either. It's like a web of secrecy, where are all the Eircom employees with insider intel!

You really would wonder if all the major ISP's do have anonymous accounts on these boards and regularly monitor them.

Rex Comb, you're a jackass!

Is it going to happen in the future that all exchanges in Ireland will be LLU? I mean, we're the only country in Western Europe at least that are being held up progress wise by one ignorant company; Eircom. Clearly BT are far more progressive, and would offer a lot more for less than Eircom, if they had the means to do so.

I call eircom ignorant because it doesn't make much sense to me why we're paying over-the-top prices for lines that have been in-place for decades. BT in the UK charge under £11 a month (about €14). Eircom charge over €25 a month. Is there something special about renting an eircom line that we're not being made aware of, over renting a BT line in the UK?

Not only that, but they are charging €48.50 a month for a 3Mb broadband connection that is capped. BT have an unlimited option, where you can obtain up to 8Mb broadband, depending on your distance. So you may not get 8, but you'll more than likely get more than 3, unless you're on the outer boundary of where you can avail of DSL. The price? £25 (about €32) a month after the first 3 month promotional period of £15 (about €19) a month. BT have been offering that since 2006. To us, it isn't even a novelty, because we don't have it yet!

Does anyone have any other explanation for this, besides that Eircom are a bunch of ignorant greedy *******? Because, if it was only a little bit more expensive here, a few euros a month in the difference, fine. But this is a big gap.