I'm in Co Meath and until last Wed have had reasonable service from UTV (been with them 3yrs+). However, service went tits up on Wed evening and I was unable to play online games as usual.
My latency peaked at 5K ms - bloody wonderful! :P
Following discussion with them, my information is as stated above. Eircom is doing upgrading work on exchanges and this is affecting all ISP services in the state. My argument is that as a customer of Eircom, they shouldn't be forced to accept this from a provider (even if its the only one) no more that we should have to pay for what we get as result. UTV should demand a rebate from Eircom imo.
Anyhoo, service improved on Friday and has been reasonable until this morning when I got the following reading:
Speed test statistics
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Download speed: 333080 bps
Upload speed: 137408 bps
Quality of service: 59 %
Download test type: socket
Upload test type: socket
Maximum download pause: 576 ms
Average download pause: 41 ms
Minimum round trip time to server: 251 ms
Average round trip time to server: 254 ms
Not good for a 3MB connection with 24/1 contention ration, eh?