Back on Broadband
November 4th, 2006
No offence to my Irish Broadband 1meg which has done the web browsing job nicely, but I’m delighted to say that I have got my Eircom DSL installed - and it was relatively painless. Slightly disappointed that I’m only getting 128k upload on the 2meg/256k package, which means that I can’t use cl_maxpackets 125. Vincent, from Ballymore Eustace, just upgraded to this package specifically to avail of the greater upload speeds, but he is also stuck on 128k up. I’m sure they’ll blame the line atten, but I have a feeling that this is part of a sinister conspiracy by Eircom.
Still, this is the first time I’ve used DSL in Ireland since they reduced the interleaving on the residential packages. Latency is slightly higher than other people I checked with in Dublin - I’m getting 19ms to Irish servers, while others will be around the 11ms mark, but the main thing is that its consistent. I will never leave the house again.
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November 6th, 2006 at 15:54 pm
I agree, Eircom is now on the warpath to the distruction of competition from BT and others. Their goal is to shake up the network, which they control and bring home the customers. Like shaking a tree to get the apples to fall.