Thread: Eircom Line Quality

The opposite?? The opposite of what I said would be that they're installing more pairgains in various places around Ireland than before. And I never said that everyone who asked for its removal would get it. I merely gave praise to the changed attitude in eircom (and indeed eircom's attitude to previous ComReg judgements) regarding pairgains, and how thousands more lines around Ireland can get rid of that blighted technology with...

Quote: Originally Posted by Berkut normally takes about 4-5 working days for the router to arrive. You could be lucky and get it by Thursday. Could be. So cani wait because the current broadband i have is wireless. its 1mb but u only get 110kbps tops from it.

See this Line distance roughly converts to attenuation (and vice versa) Older eircom DSL enabled exchanges are DSL with eircom and ADSL2+ if LLU. Recently enabled eircom exchanges are mostly ADSL2+ even without LLU, eircom or other companies' Bitstream. Green line is newer eircom ADSL2+ exchanges (or some Smart or Magnet or BT). Blue Line is original eircom ADSL exchanges and original bitstream. In practice there is no advantage more than...

eircom engineers on the ground have become quite ingenious at swapping pairgains off lines as DSL rolled out , in fairness to them . You say you want DSL and they will generally do their best. The old denial of service policies of the McRedmond/Nolan/O'Reilly era are gone . Underinvestment is still a huge issue of course and the urban VDSL plan announced by Danon 3 years ago is dead in the water . Once UPC roll out Docsis 3 in the cities...

Quote: Originally Posted by To_be_confirmed In my experience, and I've seen a lot of Ireland in the last couple of years, carrier lines are being removed from a lot of lines. Not all of them, I've seen the opposite...usually when there are no spare pairs available carriers are left in situ and customers are told "sorry" Quote: Distance is the main enemy on the PSTN network for higher speeds. Agreed on the distance...

Quote: Originally Posted by markmcg I currently can only get 1MB from Eircom. My telephone line was put in over 10 years ago. I heard its the line quality is the reason i cani get more than 1MB. A house near me has 7MB. there line was all replaced with new copper. Much will it cost to get eircom to change the line? I'm going to do a petition because there is also 4 other houses want it but we are on the same line going to broadband. The...

normally takes about 4-5 working days for the router to arrive. You could be lucky and get it by Thursday.

We upgraded to 3mb eircom bb over 3 months ago...and the speed is ridiculously slow. we contacted eircom tech support 4- 5 times, each time doin the usual plugging out the router and doin line checks. They said an engineer may have to call out. they gave me a reference number and all- nothing changed. i called them again, and they said 'on monday' they have to sort cables out. i asked what did he mean? and he couldnt tell me. this...

Yes indeed, Eircom is now selling itself on its customer service.