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Originally Posted by howfast  Hi hellboy99
Have you tried testing your DL speed early in the morning say before 8am. Do you get the full 300KBps or so at that time. If you do then the Eircom engineer is correct, there is no problem with your the phoneline nor is it likely that its with your hardware either. The issue is oversubscription on the exchange.
Personally I get 326KBps between 1am and 8am but some days I'm lucky to reach dialup speeds between 5pm and midnight. I've met the local Eircom engineer who showed me the line test results and according to him my line is as near perfect as you could get.
I also test on Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test, they have a server in Dublin now so it's a good confirmation of the results on this site or using BT's testfile.
If you have an option to get another isp that does not use DSL then this may solve your problem but choose carefully as it appears all isp's in Ireland have their own difficulties in supplying the service advertised.
Howfast |
I've tried all of the above and still getting the same speeds no matter what time of day it is. As for switching provider I really don't know who to go with, if I go wireless then it will have to be Digiweb Metro.