Broadband Advice

[Harrisolo]

My office is using Eircoms Broadband Enhanced that's a 4MB Download 256KB Upload with a contention ratio of 24:1.
We backup all data over the internet but it takes too long with the 256KB upload. Can anyone advise me of other providers that offer a higher upload capacity without costing too much more that the €169+vat that Eircom charge.

Thanks!

[kon]

My office is using Eircoms Broadband Enhanced that's a 4MB Download 256KB Upload with a contention ratio of 24:1.
We backup all data over the internet but it takes too long with the 256KB upload. Can anyone advise me of other providers that offer a higher upload capacity without costing too much more that the €169+vat that Eircom charge.

Thanks!

change* the contention ratio, and get a bit to get more upload speed?

[Bob's Me Uncle]

irish broadband have some really good offers you should check them out, amacom are another provider also

[Harrisolo]

change* the contention ratio, and get a bit to get more upload speed?

Can Eircom reduce the contention ratio?

[kon]

Can Eircom reduce the contention ratio?

They should be able to adjust it or at least give you a better rate, cause 4MB down and 256 up is not so good with all the uploads. If you can some how get through to their tech department (not their call center folk who arent told anything). Perchance somebody here knows how to change this manually?

[shamalive]

irish broadband have some really good offers you should check them out, amacom are another provider also


No, you should not.
Have a look at what Irish Broadband's customers say:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=283 969

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=317 375

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=318 724

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=317 145

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=309 002

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=317 203

[Aul Reekie feen]

scribeth KON: "change* the contention ratio, and get a bit to get more upload speed?"

methinks not. Contention ratio is the max number of users per server side modem
The problem is the Asymmetric in ADSL (Asymmetric DSL) which gives 4M down
but only 256k upload max. You need an ISP with a different micx or with SDSL.
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ARF

[shamalive]

They should be able to adjust it or at least give you a better rate, cause 4MB down and 256 up is not so good with all the uploads. If you can some how get through to their tech department (not their call center folk who arent told anything). Perchance somebody here knows how to change this manually?


You'll have to move to a better package and pay more to get a better
contention ratio. It's not something that'll be done over the phone.

[kon]

http://www.plus.net/support/adsl/upgrade_guide.shtml? pn_session=155ee232d 2a1b4917e0bcca5dc56a 405#q2

2. What are the benefits of upgrading speed or contention?
Upgrading your speed lets you download large files faster. You will also be able to view sites with multimedia content such as BBCi.

Contention at your local telephone exchange is important if your exchange is used heavily. If you experience slowdowns during peak times on a 50:1 broadband product, upgrading to 20:1 is one way to improve your speeds. Before doing this you can check your exchanges current capacity status and find out if BT have plans to upgrade your exchange.

This is from a non related site to Ireland, but does refer to contention ratio changes.

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[kon]

another idea, just split up all the backups and transfer them at night...?

[Harrisolo]

another idea, just split up all the backups and transfer them at night...?

That's what's supposed to happen but there were problems excluding certain file types so they fixed that but started it from scratch so we have approx 90GB being compressed to 45GB and uploaded but it could take up to 8 weeks meanwhile anything done between the start of the backup and when it finishes won't be backed up until it's finished.
Should be sorted now, the company providing the backup are coming out to copy the files on to a hard drive and upload them on to the offsite backup server.

Thanks for your suggestions.