pings

[crazychris]

im on the breeze 1mb in kilkenny, my download speeds are not as bad as most people here, i'm getting a max of 500kb, but my ping is a totally dfferent matter, when i ping my mast i get a minimum time of 33ms and a max of 207ms over 100 pings i get an average of 58ms with no losses. shouldn't pings to the mast be far lower, more like 10ms max. i'm no more than 10 miles from the mast, i sent them an angry email complaining but they havn't answered. is there any way to get them to improve pings?

[anoble66]

I am sorry to say I have been in the exact same position you are in. BTW - A ping of under 100ms to the mast is pretty good going for IBB! I had the 2MB service and i was always getting 50-60% packet loss and latency was a joke.

They do not have the infrastructure for the amount of users...dont kid yourself by thinking it will improve - it wont!

I am now on BT, and my ping RTT is 21ms !!

If i can offer you any advice at all, its to go with a different provider.

[crazychris]

well this is all i can get for now, as soon as an alternative is available i'm ditching ibb! they don't even reply to my angry emails anymore. but would a different wireless company like digiweb be better or is the whole wireless system a joke, mabye dsl is the way to go, in about 20 years eircom will have enabled my exchange, altho at the moment they can bearly provide a phone service here. is there any good telecomunications company in this country or are they all out to rib us?

[blacknight]

Isn't Clearwire available in your area?

[crazychris]

i think its comming soon if not here already, but don;t they block online gaming and p2p downloading, digi web are here also i think. ibb is not really bad enough yet for me to cancel my contract, i'll wait till it gets worse or the end of the year which ever comes first.

[skinner75]

I am in South Dublin, connected to Three Rock with the 2mb Breeze Home package. Below are the results I am getting using the speedtest on this site:

Date Download Speed Upload Speed Qos RTT Maxpause
24/05/2006 18:55 276 kbps (35 KB/s) 336 kbps (42 KB/s) 62 % 7 ms 178 ms
24/05/2006 18:50 234 kbps (30 KB/s) 365 kbps (46 KB/s) 72 % 7 ms 74 ms
24/05/2006 18:49 278 kbps (35 KB/s) 318 kbps (40 KB/s) 83 % 7 ms 72 ms
23/05/2006 23:32 447 kbps (56 KB/s) 493 kbps (62 KB/s) 73 % 7 ms 181 ms
23/05/2006 21:19 186 kbps (24 KB/s) 240 kbps (30 KB/s) 75 % 7 ms 86 ms
21/05/2006 23:10 373 kbps (47 KB/s) 352 kbps (44 KB/s) 78 % 8 ms 110 ms
21/05/2006 22:21 228 kbps (29 KB/s) 307 kbps (39 KB/s) 80 % 6 ms 84 ms
21/05/2006 14:32 184 kbps (23 KB/s) 375 kbps (47 KB/s) 41 % 7 ms 1650 ms
20/05/2006 19:23 368 kbps (46 KB/s) 730 kbps (92 KB/s) 52 % 12 ms 368 ms
20/05/2006 03:42 679 kbps (85 KB/s) 1392 kbps (174 KB/s) 83 % 16 ms 533 ms
Total Averages:
325 kbps (41 KB/s) 491kbps (62KB/s) 70 % 9 ms 334 ms

[johnbrett]

im from kilkenny two....im on a IBB 2MB(or what it should be)line......yeah i get the same speeds...at night i get about 1Mb upload speads but generaly im getting 300kbps upload and download which is a bascailly a load of bollocks. i play online games and the ping evens out at about 100ms which isnt so bad but still it should be much better...my only advise is to switch.. I think im going to go with BT

[crazychris]

well i can't switch yet this is all i can get and its a lot better than dial up tho its not quite broadband, i will switch as soon as a better alternitave is available