Comments on: Eircom woes

By: John Nightingale

John Nightingale — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:53:12 +0000

I watch and listen to a debate which has not properly started about Irelands’ shit broadband service. It’s shit because the infrastructure is in place to have a half decent service but nobody thinks it’s worth their money to connect it all up and so we have the consolation of lightning fast 2mb (if you’re lucky) broadband. Why are the going to build a communications centre for example what’s the point if you’re not going to upgrade peoples’ basic broadband options. In a nutshell Eircom are SHIT!!!! and this government just doesn’t care that it’s shit.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:33:43 +0000

Wednesday night, 15th. July … Eircom tits up again by the look of it.

By: evan

evan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:43:02 +0000

For two years with eircom in dublin 8 city centre 2004-05 they insisted we couldnt get broadband only dial up. Went with smart telecom 3 days later we had 4mb uncontended from the same exchange.

Best move ever.

By: Scawgeen

Scawgeen — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:50:25 +0000

After alienating my entire family last night after accusing them of ‘fuvking up ‘my’ computer’ by them accessing ebay, bebo, facebook etc. I spent four hours ‘fixing’ my computer, downloading this and tweaking that, I’ve changed settings I didn’t even know I had, it fixed itself after midnight. Today I’m eating humble pie. Would it be too much trouble for Eircom to have sent me a text message telling me not to tamper with any settings ? It’s not like I don’t pay them. My broadband has always seemed slower than the dial-up system.
When I went to bed last night I wondered what would happen if the Internet failed all over the world, if mobile phones stopped working and landlines failed, if TV and radio stations couldn’t tranmit a signal……probably chaos.

By: ajbroome

ajbroome — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:30:26 +0000

Mmmm… B*Witched…

By: A Lister

A Lister — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:32:04 +0000

I used to work for indigo, eircom, IOL and Esat. And I can’t really remember if it was at the same time or not…
There all the same, when I was in eircom back in the dialup daze they were hacked and a team of 10 or 15 people had to ring every customer in the country to give them a new password, it took about 4 days. When I was in IOL (at the time when IOL was being wound down)the network went down for about 3 days because a cleaner had mistakingly unplugged a cable and the only guy in the company that knew about the IOL network at the time, was on holidays, and when I was in Esat builders cut through a backbone cable out at citywest, there was no resilience, so the whole network was down for best part of 2 days, in fairness to the engineers they had it fixed in 4 hours but it had taken them a day and a half to find the break, not to mention the other little anecdotes such as a customer being hit with a huge ISDN bill because there IP line had been down for 6 months and nobody had noticed, they were using ISDN as backup…oh them were and are the daze its great to see nothings changed!!

By: Lorcan the Lion

Lorcan the Lion — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:41:05 +0000

I heard that Nonny went off the join the Sacred Heart Nuns of Muff.

By: netwhizkid

netwhizkid — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:03:31 +0000

I heard they have taken the Souper Douper router to the holy stump of Rathkeale for a miracle cure and the IT staff are reciting the rosary in Citywest to resolve the problem.

By: morgor

morgor — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:32:23 +0000

Where’s Nonny?

By: johnnypiles

johnnypiles — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:09:47 +0000

Eircom had same problem last week,but did issue an acknowledgement and apology….on their website,….now that worked I’m sure