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Broadband in Drogheda Dublin Rd area.

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  • #32
    ssmith6287
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭ssmith6287


    1. Eircom, Signed up for 3mb. Get between 5 and 7.5mb depending on time of the day.

    2. Nah the broadband is plenty fast,Download 3 or 4 movies a night and play xbox or browse simultaneously

    3. Once or twice when the NGB was been installed we were left dry but no recent problems

    4. Im in wheaton Hall


  • #33
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,564 ✭✭✭positron


    ssmith6287 wrote: »
    4. Im in wheaton Hall

    Wow, that's amazing. Where in WH, if I may ask, are you at the front of the estate, or at the very back? I am in WH too, but my experience is nothing like yours.


  • #34
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    positron wrote: »
    Wow, that's amazing. Where in WH, if I may ask, are you at the front of the estate, or at the very back? I am in WH too, but my experience is nothing like yours.


    from what he/she said above i would guess avondale.:D


  • #35
    ssmith6287
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭ssmith6287


    Woodford, beside the shops


  • #36
    Dartarded
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Dartarded


    1. 3Mb

    2. I am currently paying Digiweb 50 Euro a month for a 3Mb connection + phone.

    3. Terrible , Huge latencies , persistent dropped packets , constant DSL resynchs

    4. five oaks

    I sometimes depend on broadband for my job , if i VPN in to the office i am guaranteed that i will have to re-establish the connection at least every 20 minutes. I have never experienced such a terrible broadband service.
    At this stage i default to the 3G dongle as the speeds i get are much faster and the connection more stable.


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  • #37
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    If you want better broadband, move away from five oaks:o

    It's too far from the current exchange, indeed lines in five oaks used to fail until eircom started increasing the range limit about 4 years ago. Moving to eircom or anyone else wouldn't increase speeds. The best bet is to call Digiweb and ask for the speed to be reduced to 2 mbps instead of 3 mbps. At least reliability would be restored. Also, if you had a special filtered socket installed then it would solve problems. I don't know how you'd go about it as Digiweb probably won't want to know or else will threaten to charge money for the luxury. If you see an eircom linesman somewhere around town, ask him for a broadband filtered socket because your signal's a bit weak and the modem loses the connection sometimes.

    There's also probably no wireless alternatives as I think Digiweb Metro has no coverage there either.


  • #38
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,809 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    You should check the next generation broadband map on the eircom site. It looks like most of the dublin road area will get the upgrade soon, while here in grange rath we'll be left out in the cold. So the tables could change soon enough.


  • #39
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,564 ✭✭✭positron


    Would be great if true. If it's indeed possible to get faster than the current 2 MBPS in parts of Wheaton Hall (which is the hardware / line limit according to eircom engineer), all I would then want is for Harvey Norman to rerun their PS3 deal..! :)


  • #40
    ssmith6287
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭ssmith6287


    like i said at least 5mbps with eircom, in woodford


  • #41
    KoKane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭KoKane


    ingen wrote: »
    please only post here if you are in the dublin Rd Drogheda area
    ( five oaks, stameen, roschoill, longwood, beaubec, wheaton hall, dublin rd area , railway terrance and mcgraths lane) and you have DSL broadband.


    1.please indicate what DSL speed you have currently if you have DSL and list provider.

    2. would you be interested in having a faster DSL connection? and paying more €?

    3. how stable is your current connection?

    4. your location (optional)

    I will gather results posted and forward to eircom, and local TD's , the more info we get here the better, and so we can get a good picture of what speeds people have.

    (mods please leave this thread here as it will get more hits, i rekon thanks)



    Hmm I missed this thread.

    I'm in the Beaubec area. The back half of the estate (built more recently than the front half but still years ago).

    Currently on Eircom and just got knocked down to 2mb as part of next generation technology................................



    The story is, for fckin years we were on 3mb BT (at the time 3mb was the bees knees that you could get).

    Later we switched to Eircom for price reasons with the phone lines.

    Still we were on 3mb with no problems and actually had a good service.

    Then when the nations first rollout of 'up to' 6mb went live, my pings went up with the interleaving changes but still we were on 3mb.
    So I phoned and requested that we be put on an official 3mb package so as to have good pings.

    Anyway, in the past 2 months or more, we've been knocked down to 2mb.

    I've phoned now and asked whats going on, can they just put me back on to 3mb cheers.

    I got the usual about UP TO 8mb, meaning that I might not get the full whack. I explained I didnt care for that and I've been on 3mb for donkeys years and its what I want.

    They replied and said its Next Generation Technology and I'm now down to 2mb and theres nothing that can be done.



    Fúckin raging is an understatement. Such a píss take to be honest.
    They actually managed to shaft someone completely who was happy with a little 3mb line, not looking for big mega internet.


    So, ingen, I'm in beaubec on eircom, 2mb.

    For the love of god tell me what I can do.

    I fear we're in a 'black hole' for internet at the moment and it wont matter if I change ISP?


    I'm also aware that because of our House Alarm setup (its connected to a HQ for the alarm company and uses the phone lines if the alarm goes off - and also every night at the same time causing the internet to drop)
    So I know we couldnt get more than 3mb because of it. I assume thats why. But we never needed more so not complaining.


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  • #42
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    Your house phone wiring is supposed to be changed to include a master filter for the house, if there's an alarm present. This is to stop precisely the above kinds of issues. You'd have to get it fitted by your alarm provider so that the alarm remains certified, I'd say.

    You should lodge an official complaint with eircom, saying that your speeds were deliberetely reduced for no good reason as you had a perfectly good line before hand. Also post your current "DSL statistics" info here, which is found somewhere on your router's webpage. It's very important to get a complaint reference number so you can forward it on to ComReg if and when eircom are unwilling to take your complaint seriously.

    Probably sending it through letter to the CEO of eircom is the most sure-fire way of lodging a complaint but a complaint through the phone is still useful if you're impatient and if you get a complaint reference number off them during the call.

    In any case, I wouldn't tolerate that nonsense. The more people who complain about eircom's cack-handed approach to line infrastructure in a town as large as Drogheda, the more likely something will be done about it for everyone.


  • #43
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,564 ✭✭✭positron


    To_be_confirmed wrote: »
    Your house phone wiring is supposed to be changed to include a master filter for the house, if there's an alarm present. This is to stop precisely the above kinds of issues.

    When I was having regular disconnection issues with BT/Vodafone and logged a complaint, eircom engineer came along and installed a master filter on the wall, but unfortunately it didn't make any difference what so ever to the connection dropping issue. This was with 3 mbps BT, and they had to drop it down to 2 mb to get a stable connection. This was working reasonably okay for a while, but recently this has gone tits up again. The speedtest.net is now showing 2.6mb, so I am guessing they have somehow changed the profile back to 3 mb or may be more, which has made things worse. It's just depressing that in this day and age I can't get a basic stable broadband access in Western Europe!!


  • #44
    ssmith6287
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭ssmith6287


    Used to deal with eircom reps the whole time, you need to have a few people complaining about lines. Financially it doesn't make much sense for them to fiddle with the lines if its just to suit 1 customer. Hence cedarfield has broadband but the laneway across the way with 4 or 5 houses doesn't. NTL work on the same basis, Hope they come to drog soon


  • #45
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    positron wrote: »
    When I was having regular disconnection issues with BT/Vodafone and logged a complaint, eircom engineer came along and installed a master filter on the wall, but unfortunately it didn't make any difference what so ever to the connection dropping issue. This was with 3 mbps BT, and they had to drop it down to 2 mb to get a stable connection. This was working reasonably okay for a while, but recently this has gone tits up again. The speedtest.net is now showing 2.6mb, so I am guessing they have somehow changed the profile back to 3 mb or may be more, which has made things worse. It's just depressing that in this day and age I can't get a basic stable broadband access in Western Europe!!
    It won't work for everyone but they are specifically used for people with alarms so that the alarm is filtered while still maintaining a constant connection to the telephone line. As it stands the alarm is unfiltered and is causing disconnects so it will clearly make a difference for him/her. What didn't work for you may work for other situations, especially when an alarm's involved.

    The only thing is, the likes of eircom phonewatch charge something like €90 to fit such a master socket filter but at least the alarm system remains certified for use.


  • #46
    KoKane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭KoKane


    To_be_confirmed wrote: »
    Your house phone wiring is supposed to be changed to include a master filter for the house, if there's an alarm present. This is to stop precisely the above kinds of issues. You'd have to get it fitted by your alarm provider so that the alarm remains certified, I'd say.

    You should lodge an official complaint with eircom, saying that your speeds were deliberetely reduced for no good reason as you had a perfectly good line before hand. Also post your current "DSL statistics" info here, which is found somewhere on your router's webpage. It's very important to get a complaint reference number so you can forward it on to ComReg if and when eircom are unwilling to take your complaint seriously.

    Probably sending it through letter to the CEO of eircom is the most sure-fire way of lodging a complaint but a complaint through the phone is still useful if you're impatient and if you get a complaint reference number off them during the call.

    In any case, I wouldn't tolerate that nonsense. The more people who complain about eircom's cack-handed approach to line infrastructure in a town as large as Drogheda, the more likely something will be done about it for everyone.


    I guess they never stuck one in, and I think its because we didnt have broadband back then - I'll give them the benefit of the doubt :D
    So its a Engineer job then, get someone from the Alarm company out and stick it in?
    Do you think it would effect us never being able to get more than 3mb, or do you think thats just a seperate issue.
    Type  	 Interleave  	 	
 Status 	No Defect 	

	
[B]Downstream    [/B]	          [B]Upstream[/B]
 Data Rate(Kbps) 	
         2048          	         256
 Noise margin (dB) 	
         8.7          	                27.0
 Output power (dBm) 	
         18.1          	         11.8
			
 Attenuation (dB) 	
         57.0          	         31.5

    looks like it randomly drops from 2.4 to 2.0
    great :(

    And one last, do any of you think it would change if I changed ISP (which is inevitably coming). Also what is on the horizon for Drogheda. Any cable like NTL coming?
    I'll put it on the list to Santa anyway


  • #47
    KoKane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭KoKane


    Its so stupid to have such a great connection for literally years, and slowly it gets worse and worse and might aswell be gone half the time now. Most of all the fact that nothing has changed within the house to cause those effects.


  • #48
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 43,004 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    While I see a topic about broadband in Grange Rath, I've got a question. Does the internet cut out every day bang on 4 o clock for anyone else around the area?

    I'm in GR with Eircom and every day, bang on 4 o clock, I lose my connection for about 30 seconds. Quite annoying....


  • #49
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    Teamshadowclan wrote: »
    While I see a topic about broadband in Grange Rath, I've got a question. Does the internet cut out every day bang on 4 o clock for anyone else around the area?

    I'm in GR with Eircom and every day, bang on 4 o clock, I lose my connection for about 30 seconds. Quite annoying....

    what speed are you getting on DSL in GR?


  • #50
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    folks as an update to this thread, I have had it confirmed to me by eircom that nothing will change in the south Drogheda area, Dublin Road area in relation to the phone line length issue, and will remain connected to the patrick street exchange.


  • #51
    KoKane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭KoKane


    So Dublin Rd is pretty much a black hole for good internet connection or what?


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  • #52
    ssmith6287
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭ssmith6287


    In woodford, front of wheaton hall and ive a great connection


  • #53
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    over the last 24 hours my dsl went down and line degraded in quality, and i called eircom support, who put me back down from 5mb to 4mb dsl speed, as my SN margin was very low at 5mb.

    my line seems to have degraded over the last 24 hours .... low SN margin...

    in Drogheda, for real decent reliable broadband on the dublin road area, appears to be a monopoly!!

    cant even get a decent speed dsl connection......:mad: ie above 4mb. im paying them €65 a month for NGB Advanced 250gb download, and line rental.

    eircom are a joke!


  • #54
    KoKane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭KoKane


    bah
    Thats ****.

    Did they tell you it cant ever change?


    Next generation technology.... bam, enjoy your reduced speeds sir thank you please come again. Keep paying us.


  • #55
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    KoKane wrote: »
    bah
    Thats ****.

    Did they tell you it cant ever change?


    Next generation technology.... bam, enjoy your reduced speeds sir thank you please come again. Keep paying us.

    nothing will change in the near term, i gather 1-3 years.

    i think i will switch back to mobile broadband and save a packet.

    I made eircoms major shareholder aware too, of the issues, and they dont seem to give a F**ck either.
    so basically where stuck in a broadband black hole!!


  • #56
    KoKane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭KoKane


    Well this is a turn of events for me.

    I rang today again.. I explained quicky that I had 3mb for 7 years or so. Now with NGB I got nerfed to 2mb... please put it back up.


    "yeh no bother I'll stick that back up to 3mb for you"

    Some chap named barry.

    Last time (not to be racist or anything) I got a person who... didnt have great english. When I think about it, he was repeating something he was reading infront of him I'd say. Not even knowing he could 'break protocol' or something and just put me back up to 3mb... I dunno.


  • #57
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    what alternatives for broadband do we have apart from DSL broadband from eircom or vodafone?


    digiweb metro is out as there is no line of sight to dublin road area.


    so are we stuck with either vodafone or eircom?

    ( i purposely didnt mention wimax :D)


  • #58
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    folks i have a thread open here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056068303



    with eircom, please feel free to post there too,


  • #59
    szines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭szines


    I ordered Imagine Wimax two weeks ago. (Dublin Road, Woodford corner). It's fantastic. I ordered 7 megabit, usually I get 8-10 megabit. Allways perfect, don't slower in rain or peek time.

    Great service!


  • #60
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    szines wrote: »
    I ordered Imagine Wimax two weeks ago. (Dublin Road, Woodford corner). It's fantastic. I ordered 7 megabit, usually I get 8-10 megabit. Allways perfect, don't slower in rain or peek time.

    Great service!

    have you got the outside antenna? is the connection reliable during peak hours? how long do you have it?


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  • #61
    szines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭szines


    ingen wrote: »
    have you got the outside antenna? is the connection reliable during peak hours? how long do you have it?

    I walked around with modem in the flat as a voodoo sorcerer, and I tried in every windows, every corner. I found a place, top corner of one window, where I get 4 bar strong signal. I have fixed the modem there with sticky tape. After that I called support to set up the maximum speed and it is working now... finger cross...


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