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    eircom broadband

    Anyone having any difficulties with it lately? From around 10pm on it's on and off with me- next thing it stops then all of a sudden stops working again. Only ever lasts 30 seconds or so. It's not as bad when I use Firefox opposed to using IE.

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    I always having problems with connection, goes for about 15-30 secs, then and comes back with a couple of refreshes on the page. I heard they upgrading the 2mb line for a 3mb line, may help a bit then.

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    There's always problems with it whenever someone's on the phone. The broadband dies for about 30 seconds either side of picking up and hanging up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBoss View Post
    I always having problems with connection, goes for about 15-30 secs, then and comes back with a couple of refreshes on the page. I heard they upgrading the 2mb line for a 3mb line, may help a bit then.
    In practice, that means you'll be paying for 3mb and getting 2mb, rather than paying for 2mb and getting less...

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    There's always problems with it whenever someone's on the phone. The broadband dies for about 30 seconds either side of picking up and hanging up.
    I'd imagine that would be straightforward attenuation. Extensions and cable splitters are generally bad news.
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    I see on my connection, it has been upgraded to 3084mb from 2056mb, anyone else have the upgrade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBoss View Post
    I see on my connection, it has been upgraded to 3084mb from 2056mb, anyone else have the upgrade.
    I presume that's the same as Mbps. Mine is 100 and always has been.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sheridan View Post
    In practice, that means you'll be paying for 3mb and getting 2mb, rather than paying for 2mb and getting less....

    Not true. Its a special their doing to get people to buy the 2 meg (extra €5 over the 1 meg) However, in res lines in non dublin areas you may not get the 3 meg but just over 2.2 to 2.5meg.

    Eircom are targetting the bb sector as the telephone charges are regulated heavily in favour of the other operators (eg if eircom intends to cut prices they have to notify all the other competition months in advance) in order that some small companies dont get wiped out over night. Then just before eircom launces these new deals the opposition bombs in with pre range counter products. Its aimed at maintaining competion but i think does the oppoisite as smaller companies never have to come up with any great deals.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge View Post
    I presume that's the same as Mbps. Mine is 100 and always has been.
    That is Ethernet Cable connection, the broadband speed can be seen with the router stats page.

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    I'm with UTV and my speeds have gone to sh1t since eircom's network upgrade. Apparently it's affected all the other ISPs.
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    You can see why the Broadband speeds in Ireland are the worst in Europe so

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBoss View Post
    You can see why the Broadband speeds in Ireland are the worst in Europe so
    Its unreal, 10mb is the lowest in Germany i heard. Ireland will never be able to compete with that. Fianna Fail have completely failed to tackle this issue with any conviction over the last 10-15 years. A complete disaster
    The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.

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    Apparently the "upgrades" Eircom have done have actually increased ping times significantly. The gaming community are up in arms. Long and tedious discussions over on boards.ie

    My service is certainly noticeably no better after the free upgrade from 2 to 3mb, if anything, webpages seem to be slower. I'm sure there's some kind of benefit for large file downloads but I don't do any peer-peer stuff so thats not really that important to me.

    They have improved the upstream speed (allegedly) and I'm looking forward to testing the Slingbox on that as previously it was too slow to be of any use.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBoss View Post
    That is Ethernet Cable connection, the broadband speed can be seen with the router stats page.
    How do you view that?

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    Log into your router. Or try Blacknight's speed test. YMMV.

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