Magnet Entertainment triple-play 8Mb

[wimmy]

Just got a new connection with tv-phone-internet and after having to deal
with irish broadband (oh god don't start...) and Smart (wich was good ) I
really have to say that they're the best. The line installation / unbundling
from eircom was real fast and I was online in two/three weeks.
Speeds are very good too; This is what i got today:

Total Averages:
d/l: 4170 kbps (509 KB/s)
u/l: 657kbps (81KB/s)

PING boards.ie - Now Ye're Talkin' (82.195.136.250): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=39.168 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=46.589 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=34.416 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=35.201 ms
64 bytes from 82.195.136.250: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=91.5 ms

Anywhere from 4170kbps to 6150kbps this morning.
Maybe because the exchange is not too far I dunnow
(Bus depot Cork / Infirmary Road / Douglas Street )

The downside is the price... But in Ireland that's what you
get I guess (Same in France is about 30/35 euro and you
can ring landlines for free in the whole of europe )

Anyway that's it for me thought i'd give me opinion.

[oneill.dav]

That's not great. If you're paying for 8mbit, you should be getting anything upward of 7,000kbps. You can't blame contention, because apparently ADSL2+ doesn't have any! It's supposed to be a 1:1 connection.

I'm using Esat BT's 3mbit package and it's quite good, for me. Some have it bad, some have it good. My connection is most likely at 24:1, and sometimes I experience slumps in the service during peak times, but nothing major to affect what I'm doing. Overall I can expect to get a 2,560kbps reading off the speed test here.

I just can't get over how if you have an 8mbit connection, that you're satisfied with 4-6mbit readings you've been getting. You're paying O.T.T. fees, compared to those in the rest of Europe, especially Sweden (the best broadband in Europe; possibly the world). You should consider questioning Magnet about this.

Sorry for sounding off, but I just couldn't help myself.


Seifer.

[Jimigiller]

I agree, at worst I get 2.4Mbps on 3 MBps package from DIGIWEB on a 36:1 contention. If I got 1.5MBps I'd be screaming....

[wimmy]

Yeah I would agree with you but forgot to mention that the
line is split in two with 4 megs kept for the TV and 4 megs
for the internet.
So then it's good.

[oneill.dav]

That changes things lol.

Yeah, if it's split in two, then you're grand out there.


Seifer.