Eircom eFibre VDSL/FTTC rollout – plans to reach 1.6m premises by mid 2016

smelly sock · 12-01-2014 06:23PM

smelly sock wrote: »

That's not just you tdonegan or eircom

Can anyone tell me why the enniskillen server is always quicker

eg:

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http://www.speedtest.net/result/3226828226.png

Apologies,

This is the dundalk server

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3226832334.png

Mr Cumulonimbus · 12-01-2014 06:27PM

tdonegan1990 wrote: »

My Efibre speed via Manchester server!!

Manchester for me just now. Poor result this early in the evening.

smelly sock · 12-01-2014 06:29PM

Do eircom have their own speedtest on their efibre site?

Mr Cumulonimbus · 12-01-2014 06:31PM

smelly sock wrote: »

Do eircom have their own speedtest on their efibre site?

There's this:

http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/speedtest/?id=1

smelly sock · 12-01-2014 06:51PM

Mr Cumulonimbus wrote: »

There's this:

http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/speedtest/?id=1

That's brutal.

12-01-2014 07:01PM

Same old same old:

dxhound2005 · 12-01-2014 07:05PM

This is Manchester

But this is London (Ealing)

Leeds

Newcastle upon Tyne

Birmingham

An Manchester again. What does it all mean?

ED E · 12-01-2014 07:07PM

Congestion over certain links. Maybe load balancing issues.

dxhound2005 · 12-01-2014 07:17PM

ED E wrote: »

Congestion over certain links. Maybe load balancing issues.

But Manchester is the only one that is poor. All the other UK tests are close to what I get on the Dublin server. Is the Manchester result Eircom's fault?

12-01-2014 07:18PM

Manchester is the only accurate one is what I take from your results.

dxhound2005 · 12-01-2014 07:21PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Manchester is the only accurate one is what I take from your results.

How can you tell?

Mr Cumulonimbus · 12-01-2014 07:30PM

Test from local server. Speed dropping now. Normally after 9 when this starts happening........

Mr Cumulonimbus · 12-01-2014 07:50PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

But Manchester is the only one that is poor. All the other UK tests are close to what I get on the Dublin server. Is the Manchester result Eircom's fault?

How are your speeds now?

dxhound2005 · 12-01-2014 08:19PM

Mr Cumulonimbus wrote: »

How are your speeds now?

All over the place.

Dundalk

Liverpool

But when I tested on this other UK test service I get my "normal" speeds. I did it three times. Also surfing the net does not seem any slower.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

Mr Cumulonimbus · 12-01-2014 11:13PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Also surfing the net does not seem any slower.

True. "Average" surfing doesn't seem much different. However it's when you're downloading an actual file of a decent size is where you start to notice it.

jca · 12-01-2014 11:37PM

Mr Cumulonimbus wrote: »

True. "Average" surfing doesn't seem much different. However it's when you're downloading an actual file of a decent size is where you start to notice it.

Just home on my break. Speeds are terrible, starting to affect general browsing at this stage.

tdonegan1990 · 13-01-2014 12:25AM

Done a test on the Manchester server. My speed is back to what it should be. 47 down 18 up.
Also got a decent ping of 47ms.

13-01-2014 12:32AM

yup it's back to normal:

O'Prez · 13-01-2014 12:56AM

Mine came back to normal just after 12.30am too and I'm with Sky and on normal broadband. There's a bigger picture here lads.

red_bairn · 13-01-2014 01:01AM

O'Prez wrote: »

Mine came back to normal just after 12.30am too and I'm with Sky and on normal broadband. There's a bigger picture here lads.

How about you guys put up some tracerts?

seanp_25 · 13-01-2014 11:46AM

red_bairn wrote: »

How about you guys put up some tracerts?

A comparison of traceroute to Dublin vs Manchester would be interesting alright.

Aside: How often is the eircom line checker updated with newly commissioned cabs?

Gonzo · 13-01-2014 02:37PM

im experiencing same here on adsl2, getting full speeds up to about 2pm then drops to not much more than 2meg till about 1am. Been like this for 4 to 5 weeks now. Friends using other providers on same exchange reporting exactly the same.

tdonegan1990 · 13-01-2014 08:28PM

Even worse again tonight lads!

lemon_remon · 13-01-2014 08:43PM

Yeah, worst yet tonight... Was getting a 170ms ping in WoW as well:

red_bairn · 13-01-2014 08:46PM

Edit: I'm on ADSL2+ and get 10Mb on our modem.

tsue921i8wljb3 · 13-01-2014 08:53PM

Why is this Manchester server being held up as a bastion of connection reliability? According to speedtest.net it is hosted by tnp.net.uk. Are they a well known, reliable company? Perhaps people could also test a few different servers from http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=143 to ensure that it is not the Manchester server at fault.

lemon_remon · 13-01-2014 08:56PM

Jedidiah Billions Caricature wrote: »

Why is this Manchester server being held up as a bastion of connection reliability? According to speedtest.net it is hosted by tnp.net.uk. Are they a well known, reliable company? Perhaps people could also test a few different servers from http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=143 to ensure that it is not the Manchester server at fault.

Most of those are hosted on educational and research networks. They are on a completely separate network to the "rest of the world" and wouldn't be reliable for diagnosing these types of issues.

tsue921i8wljb3 · 13-01-2014 08:59PM

lemon_remon wrote: »

Most of those are hosted on educational and research networks. They are on a completely separate network to the "rest of the world" and wouldn't be reliable for diagnosing these types of issues.

I am pretty sure that Eircom are not going to pay much attention to a speedtest result from a little known UK company so people are going to have to provide more concrete examples of this slowdown.

ED E · 13-01-2014 09:05PM

Manchester was just an example I threw out there.

Trying out UPC as a comparison.

Manchester:

Voda in Dublin: Repeatable

Digi in Dublin:

(This is what my connection should be doing)

That suggests inbound has problems too. Vodafone/Eircom/Sky presumably join the net through the same link at INEX but at a guess Digiweb have separate backhaul/peering.

HellboundIRL · 13-01-2014 09:36PM

Efibre.

An hour ago it was 47/17.

Eircom eFibre VDSL/FTTC rollout – plans to reach 1.6m premises by mid 2016

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