MindPhuck
Eric Mooney
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| for the last month ive had the eircom dsl in work. oooh, i hear you say. i even got it free as part of the dsl trials! ooooh! well, its not so oooh!. in fact, its terrible from a gamers point of view.
i had the dsl installed nice and fast (when they said they were gonna install it, they did). the dsl terminal adapter you get is a speed touch usb from alcatel. software installs within minutes and works a treat.
you get lovely fast downloads from 48kps to 100+kps. the lowest was a 20kps download. so where is the problem? the problem is the ping. the very first hop you get to its own server is 60+ and it slowly gets worse as you ping further away (as per normal). here's how it looks from its first hop to a server on the same backbone.
tracing route to kali.ign.ie
62 ms c104-1.bas1.prp.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.104.1]
62 ms fa0-0.edge1.prp.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.155.97]
62 ms pos1-0.btr1.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.155.145]
62 ms 159.134.125.10
62 ms fa0-0.service2.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.191.71]
63 ms kali.ign.ie [159.134.244.150]
and tracert to barrysworld, you get 78 ping, which, in q3 is about 90. i happen to get 40 ping on eircom isdn going to 55+ in q3.
anyway, the point being, eircom have a long way to go before id bother my arse getting dsl to compete in gaming. great for downloads and other stuff, for gaming.. forget it.
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