Eircom Hacked?

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: July 19th, 2009 | 5 Comments

My internet service provider (ISP) is Eircom. I always notice that my c0nnection is really slow, and apparently that is to be expected with Eircom.

However last Monday my broadband was actually cutting out now and again and was becoming slow at loading pages every so often. I thought nothing of it, I just put it down to the fact that Eircom's broadband was always that slow.

Then on Wednesday of this week I was reading the newspaper (The Argus) and found an article saying that Eircom had been in fact hacked on the Monday night that I had experienced the really slow page load speed!

Apparently a lot of unwanted traffic was directed to the Eircom servers, which caused a strain on the servers and by chain reaction caused a lot of users to experience either really slow speeds or to lose their internet connection completely.

I then went over to Eircom's tech support page and saw a customer notice explaining the problem that occurred, the article below is the notice they published to their site which was put up the day after the problem was fixed.

I was also reading an article about how Eircom are fully aware that there network is slow at times, and apparently they say they have no intention in the near future of upgrading their networks. You would think that since they are one of the most popular Internet Service Provider's in Ireland that they would want to have the best service available.

We currently subscribe to a package for our landline and our broadband to be in one bundle. When you sign up to Eircom you must take out a one year contract with them, it is a clause they have built in to keep their customers.

However our one year contract is up and we have begun to look at other providers to see what they have to offer. Recently Vodafone have started to offer a bundle for your landline and broadband and are giving it at a much better price.

My current broadband speed it 3mb however I could change to Vodafone and upgrade my broadband to 7.6mb and still save money!

The only thing stopping me at the moment from changing is that I have to find out more about their broadband.

First I want to see if it is actually good and second is they say they have a 30gb download limit, I want to know if they actually enforce this limit or do they let you away with going over it because I know with Eircom they have the same limit however they do not enforce any penalties if you go over it.

Bad Internet Connection Lately

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: June 4th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Over the past few weeks i have noticed that my broadband connection has become very prone to turning on and off. It is really beginning to get on my nerves. I could load a web-page and then read the page or watch a video that is on that page, but then i would go to click onto another page and then get the 'Page cannot be found' message which indicated my bloody internet has gone down!

I would then have to wait for the router to reboot which takes a few minutes and then hope that it will stay connected for a while, but most of the time it will disconnect within the next hour!

I have tried so many different things to get this fixed and nothing has worked, i have phoned up Eircom many times to try and get it fixed but they say they dont know what causes it to happen and once before when i rang up the man said sure why would you want the internet to be working at 2am! And i kind of just thought, first of all it is none of your business why i want to be on the internet at that time, and secondly i am paying for a service and it is not being provided the way it should be, and they wont even offer a discount on the months broadband because of the inconvience that they cause by not having the broadband working all the time :(

I replaced the router at one stage and still had the same problem so i am out of ideas! I know other people are expierencing problems with eircoms broadband lately, i think it is time i ring them up again and keep doing it until they do something about it!

Take That ISP

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments

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The pirate bay have fought back now against the isp's that decide to begin to ban people that are downloading illegal files from sites such as the pirate bay, this will most likely annoy the IRMA (the Irish Recorded Music Association) here in ireland as they intended on using people's ip address to ban them.

The new service is called IPREDator, basically this service will cloak your ip address by putting it through a virtual server and then you will be able to download anonymously, the service is currently in BETA and you can go to there site to sign up for a beta pass. When it is finally launched it will cost about €5 a month, now that really cheap!

The great thing is that IPREDator will not store any of your information in log files and it will make the task of your isp trying to block you a lot harder.

Take that IRMA and Eircom!