[ILUG] OT - Measure broadband speed

[Conor Wynne]

On 23 Jan 2008, at 23:14, Conor McDermottroe wrote:

> Conor Wynne wrote:
>> Anyone use IBB's business packages?
>
> Yes, we use their 4MB Breeze service. When it's up it's excellent,  
> no sign of contention most of the time and the latency is pretty low  
> (~5ms to Irish sites, ~15-20ms to the UK and so on). It has had a  
> couple of major outages (multiple hours, one > 24 hours) and a small  
> number of minor ones (usually fixed by power-cycling the antenna).
>

Cheers, I see they have a dsl service too, bit pricey but then again,  
I'm not paying.
Cannot remember if I mentioned, but I am supposed to be on eircom  
business enhanced, which is a heady €169 ex.vat, they have a similar  
offerring, so I may go with that and keep my breeze 2Mbit as well for  
backup.

I hate the dual monitor thingy (the mouse changing screen annoys me),  
I prefer two machines, one for remote connections -- we have to use  
webex for connecting to customer sites -- legal reasons (it is  
recorded) and all that. So if two machines, why not two ISP's? :-)

> Support is... OK. The longest outage we had was eventually diagnosed  
> by me, but they're usually good about figuring it out themselves.  
> When the phone monkeys* do bump issues to the guys who can actually  
> fix things the resolution is usually pretty quick.
>
>> Would I also get a phone line? I need one...
> No idea. We didn't get one from them.

OK, not for breeze as it would be the same as mine, but DSL I would  
assume so. I must enquire...

I could always add a second "line" to my blueface account I suppose...

Cheers I have my answer.
Conor.