Comments on: eircom announce speed iterations

By: Peter Cunning

Peter Cunning — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:29:06 +0000

Any idea when the 3MB –> 7.6MB upgrade will happen ?

By: So that’s where the money comes from…

So that’s where the money comes from… — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:41:41 +0000

[...] Perhaps that’s how they can afford to increase their customers download speeds… [...]

By: dax

dax — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:46:53 +0000

I agree more speed is good,

Sorry for ranting , but here goes

altho there prices are still way too expensive for the qos we get here , And speeds here with eircom are “rate adaptive” which means even tho you pay for a 3mb etc. line you don’t nessarly get 3mb as opposed to what I signed up for when I first got broadband from eircom it was adsl ( asymmetrical digital subscriber line) guarrented 3mb

Would this be false advertising ? ( They recently added the “rate adaptive technology” to the website information, Think I said to much on the phone )

Eircom switched with out informing me ( us mer customers ) , I would have liked to know before … great PR I have to say.

Its been down all day too , 8:45am ( short connection at lunch ) to about 11:59 pm , rang tech support hadent been notified of an outage all day till 5:30 where they confirmed it was out ( no supprize to me ) Tried to tell me it was my firewall ( pfft ).

I wonder do outages get deducted from our bills? suppose 99% uptime covers that …

By: Evert Bopp

Evert Bopp — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:49:37 +0000

Upgrading equipment in the exchange and closer to the NOC means sweet FA when the copper in the ground is still rotten….
spin, spin, spin me round, round, baby….

By: robert

robert — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:09:21 +0000

Has anyone actually been charged for exceeding their cap?

I certainly haven’t. For January it was approx 12GB. More no doubt since not all traffic goes through my proxy.

From the 23rd to the 31st of Dec. I hit 6.5GB alone.

Screenshot here.

By: John Handelaar

John Handelaar — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:55:33 +0000

Nobody cares unless they’re dropping the caps.

Eircom’s standard 10GB / month will just be chewed up more quickly, enabling them under their contract terms to bill you by the Mb at a punitive rate or cut you off when you hit your monthly quota.

at 1Mbps: 22 hours and 46 minutes
at 3Mbps: 7 hours and 36 minutes
at 7.6Mbps: 3 hours
at 10Mbps: 2 hours 19 minutes
at 12Mbps: 1 hour 54 minutes

Only in this third world backwater could upping line speed just be another way of fucking your customers.

By: John Prendergast

John Prendergast — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:25:24 +0000

OK Damien, now your really rubbing salt in the wound - our 3Mb connection is currently delivering a blistering 14.4k connection down here in the sticks!

@ Caoimhin - I’d love to be getting dialup speeds!

By: keith bohanna

keith bohanna — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:17:00 +0000

PS - I suspect the answer to my question lies in this somewhere

http://blog.siliconrepublic.com/2008/eircom-launches-12mb-broadband-service/

keith

By: keith bohanna

keith bohanna — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:07:14 +0000

Thanks Damien.

And just to ask a really basic question - I have to assume that the reference to wholesale customers means that the bump up in speeds automatically passes through to the various packages from the likes of BT?

keith

By: robert

robert — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:20:11 +0000

Looks like those of us that will be getting over 8Mb will all need new modems/routers too. The Netopias (33xx series) only support DSL up to 8Mb.

No doubt we will have to pay for the new ones.