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Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
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Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.
Imagine LTE Rural Broadband
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irishchris wrote: »Thanks for updating us. Let us know how you get on as hope it is an isolated tech issue and not over subscription to the mast
Got a callback first thing this morning. To cut a long story short, turns out there is some interference in my area which they will further investigate (apparently they had similar issues in other areas and switched frequencies accordingly).
In the meantime, they will send out an engineer to improve speeds on my end (visit now scheduled for later this afternoon).
And while chatting with the really nice guy, we came to talk about IP address resets on power cuts or work on their side, and I will be getting a static IP
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They are still trying to remote tweak the receiving unit to up the speeds.
They rang me beforehand to be prepared for short outages.
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Got a callback first thing this morning. To cut a long story short, turns out there is some interference in my area which they will further investigate (apparently they had similar issues in other areas and switched frequencies accordingly).
In the meantime, they will send out an engineer to improve speeds on my end.
And while chatting with the really nice guy, we came to talk about IP address resets on power cuts or work on their side, and I will be getting a static IP.
They are still trying to remote tweak the receiving unit to up the speeds.
They rang me beforehand to be prepared for short outages.
Can't fault their CS.
It really is such a difference in quality of service, simply keeping the customer informed is a huge benefit. I've had a nightmare with Net1, Eir and UPC/Virgin over the years who all required multiple calls and who missed appointments without a single word to tell me.0 -
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Happy to update: Engineers just have been, issue was mainly a faulty outdoor antenna. It contains 2 antennas inside and one of them was blown causing the drop in speeds. Antenna replaced, result!
Some interesting titbids: Imagine plans to have many more masts live by the end of the year (staying ahead of the curve re NBP). And they wont connect anyone below 30 Mpbs (even if they would be willing to accept this for that reason).0 -
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That's more like it!Happy to update: Engineers just have been, issue was mainly a faulty outdoor antenna. It contains 2 antennas inside and one of them was blown causing the drop in speeds. Antenna replaced, result!
Some interesting titbids: Imagine plans to have many more masts live by the end of the year (staying ahead of the curve re NBP). And they wont connect anyone below 30 Mpbs (even if they would be willing to accept this for that reason). .. We are having ours installed next Wednesday (I think they forgot about us as we have been waiting 4/5 weeks). We are at the Dromahane side of Bweeng with a direct line of sight so hopefully we can get the sort of numbers you are getting. 0 -
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Have a read of the criteria for changing the map. The government won't let them sign a commitment contract unless these are met. The deployment criteria alone require a big company with a track record of rolling out large scale projects.Reyansh Little Bandage wrote: »I think that Imagine would be delighted to sign such an agreement if it guaranteed them the NBP. However up until now the department has been dismissive of Imagine and it's claims, rightly so in my opinion as their solution is not future proof.
Was future proofing part of the EU targets for broadband? If not, Imagine may well have a case that the intervention goes beyond EU objectives.
http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/communications/Lists/Consultations%20Documents/NBP%20Process%20for%20Updating%20the%20High%20Speed%20Map%20Consultation/Annex%202%20-%20PwC%20oct%202015%20Report%20Assessment%20Criteria%20Investment%20Plans.pdf
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Another good ping test is from the command line. Type in "ping -n 400 8.8.8.8" and let it run until it completes, which takes 7 to 10 minutes. As it runs over several minutes, it will catch fluctuations that pingtest.net will miss in its few seconds of testing.
When it completes, the figures worth checking are the average, maximum and packets lost as highlighted in red below (this example is from my Three connection):
If a packet is lost, it must be retransmitted, not good when you've pulled the trigger and there's a retransmission delay, similarly also for a high maximum figure. For example, if let's say the maximum is 500ms, then if you happened to pull the trigger at that time the 500ms ping response took place, the server would have picked up that a half a second later.
For example, with my previous ISP NWE Bluebox, I've seen many occasions where pingtest.net returned an 'A' grade with 0% packet loss where the command line was returning pings in the 1000's of ms along with lost packets intermittently every minute or two.0 -
TireeTerror wrote: »Im an online racer and FPS gamer, the FPS quality of connection is really the difference between life and death.
If you dont mind, could you post up a result from pingtest.net as that can be helpful when considering gaming.
Yea I know FPSs are way more sensitive to pings than MMOs although you don't want any lag in boss fights either :P.
It can't test packet loss (but I have a monitoring app running all the time, and, provided there are no outages, packet loss (pinging the nearest hub outside my network) over the day is 0 %0 -
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Yea I know FPSs are way more sensitive to pings than MMOs although you don't want any lag in boss fights either :P.
It can't test packet loss (but I have a monitoring app running all the time, and, provided there are no outages, packet loss (pinging the nearest hub outside my network) over the day is 0 %
Packet loss might be a browser issue. Check for any pop-ups when running Pingtest.net.0
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