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yeah same here: 1.7Mb dwn / 210K up rarely changes only at about 6pm or so otherwise alway fast. Bout 1.2 kilometers from local exchange.
Sounds like you could actually be on a 1Mbps/128Kbps package even if they ostensibly have you on the 2Mbps/256Kbps package. Has happened to somebody I know on UTV!
OK - probably due to contention ratio and more users being on at the time or something?
finally up and running with the 2mpbs package from eircom. My speed tests are ranging from 1.02 to 1.6 upload and 40 kbps to 200 kbps upload. Those lower end figures strike me as being fairly low...but the line attenuation figure is as high as 50db
tests this morning showing download of 897, upload of 70. on the 2 megs down/256 up.....that is not so good
The DSL router browser based admin control panel (possibly in the advanced section) should give such details if I recall correctly.How do you know that it's 50db attenuation?
On DSL? Doesn't sound plausible to me to be honest.For me rain and wind & especially Frost seems to affect the sync speed.
One of my favourites (and one I used myself for a long time) was "The solar flares are pretty bad at the moment, there must be a major inbound solar wave at the moment. This would be reversing the polarity on the wire and causing the slowness. Please contact Jodrell Bank and ask them to confirm when the wave is due to pass. After that time network service should be back to normal." I paraphrase somewhat.
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On DSL? Doesn't sound plausible to me to be honest.
On DSL? Doesn't sound plausible to me to be honest.
snakebite - in fairness, I'm not sure I would qualify the cable sitting in a puddle of water as being directly weather related. If you leave anything electrical in water you will find performance diminishes.
I'm not saying the slowness experienced isn't necessarily weather related, but there are some more obvious potential reasons that would spring to mind first. I know it has been mentioned before but shared bandwidth can explain a lot. All you need is a few peers downloading a couple of movies or something from fast feeds on the internet and available bandwidth through any of the possible bottlenecks on the link between you and eircom and eircom and their upstream links will be reduced. Internet performance is transient and one thing I learned long ago is that taking snapshots of performance is really only of use in the medium term.
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Those answers relate to things like satellite/wireless broadband and not wired (DSL or cable) broadband by the way.If you look here http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070207131207AAjh5WM at answerers 2 & 5 they complain about wind, wet etc.. (probably more down the post)
And that's probably what happened to me.
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