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Originally Posted by jjjtuohy  I can sympathize and only now realize that interleaving is ruining my online gaming experience.
I'm with Eircom 500metres from the Nenagh Exchange.
The packageis 2MB Home Plus but the QOS & bandwidth dropped drastically when I upgraded from the 1MB Home Starter. Average bandwidth is now 30K to 100K.
This is barely acceptable for simple downloads & surfing. What is totally unacceptable is the QoS ranging from 5-30%.
What use is this when online gaming??? The ping averages 40-50ms which is substandard. To aggravate the situation, constant dropouts of 500ms to 1500ms ruin the response times required.
There seems to be no decent data-rate management and if Eircom are in the 21st century they should understand that a 40K minimum guaranteed uninterrupted data-rate is essential to the gaming community; a 100K average is useless if it includes 1.5 second dropouts.
To add insult to injury, the service drops out completely every few hours. I have to run a continuous 1bit ping in the background to maintain service. Surprisingly enough, this also tends to maintain the data-rate at a reasonable level. It looks like Eircom are using some kind of hybrid on demand DSL with basic unmanaged 48-port switches at the exchange and a high level of interleaving to compensate for bad lines.
Multiple calls to support only result in temporary performance improvements. Currently I am so frustrated with this service that I have been advising everyone to shift to a more progressive service.
Can anyone advise on this???
LONG LIVE LLU !!!!!! |
Aha! So that's why I wasn't able to play StarCraft despite a decent upload rate. I noticed that whenever I test my Eircom connection through Windows, it would upload quickly, then stop for a couple of seconds, then continue for a few seconds, then stop, etc. Using a different speed test site that used longer duration tests, I'd get 200kbps upload (pretty decent), but on Irish ISP Test it would say about 100kbps with 220kbps burst, which is useless for gaming. As to why it only happens in Windows and not in Linux, I don't know. Maybe Linux constantly pings the connection automatically?
Interesting, though…
Just a question - how do you run the continuous background ping? Maybe it might help my connection to Battle.net along too!