Irish Broadband to increase bandwidth

rob1891

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Ailish O'Hora
IRISH Broadband, the fast internet arm of National Toll Roads (NTR), is to increase its bandwidth offering for SMEs without raising its prices.

The company is raising the entry level to 1Mbps downstream, with the same level upstream at the same price of €45 per month.

The current status in the market is that the entry level bandwidth of 512kbps with 128kbps is no longer sufficient for many small and medium-sized business users, according to the company.

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thing is there is no 45 euro business package that I know of, closest thing is home plus. I've emailed them to ask what the story his, hopefully they will respond quickly.


if anyone wants to phone them about this please do, I can't at the moment (abroad).

Rob

Chaz

The package is called SOHO. Its been available for months.

rob1891

According to the website soho is 75 euro a month. What are the real numbers?

Mutant_Fruit

they better get their act together before they start increasing bandwidths!

Current pings:
Ping statistics for 82.195.131.128:
Packets: Sent = 2528, Received = 1948, Lost = 580 (22% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3ms, Maximum = 3485ms, Average = 10ms
Control-Break

Browsing next to impossible, but gaming seems practically unaffected strangely enough...

EDIT: After about 2 hours of this... everything has returned to normal! I'll still give em an e-mail, i want to know what was happening... In the 2 minutes following when i posted, everything just fixed itself.

rob1891

it will be a while before they do it for us home customers.

kinda new it was a independent typo anyways

thanks for clearing it chaz, no one bothered to reply to my email.

Chaz

C:\Documents and Settings\Chaz>ping 82.195.131.128

Pinging 82.195.131.128 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=55
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=55
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=55
Reply from 82.195.131.128: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 82.195.131.128:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 12ms, Maximum = 17ms, Average = 14ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Chaz>

Fixed now - as of 15 mins ago.

The SOHO for E45 has been around for some time.

rob1891

The SOHO for E45 has been around for some time.

oi! What am I paying 40euro+vat for home plus when I could get solo for another 5euro+vat??

Are there plans to move home plus up to a meg? It seems silly that we will soon be or are already paying a few percent less for 50% less bandwidth. What is the contention ration on SOHO, website says 1:20 but it seems it is in dire need of an update!

Mutant_Fruit

5euro, double the speed.... why wait!

Is there any reason why a residential user couldn't get the SOHO for the extra 5euro?

EDIT: What was the cause of the terrible packet loss? Was work being done and everyone being crammed onto one section of your network?

Chaz

Im not sure what the res market is going to get out of the business upgrades. We are hoping for news soon on that.
There was a new traffic manager installed - it didnt work well (duly noted as even my decent connection came to a standstil) - it has been removed.

Mutant_Fruit

Ok, thanks for the info. I'll be eagerly awaiting further news. It'd be great if we got a speed boost. Also, i saw an ad for IBB in the paper today. I hear you're live in cork now! My uncle has been looking for some cheap broadband, and i'll definately point him out to you.

Not sure how well you know cork, but is the area around the "Lough" covered? (the big pond in cork )

Chaz

The Lough area is covered - well - most of it.

Cork has been live since around Mid February - with first clients coming online around end March.

Cabaal

Originally posted by rob1891
thing is there is no 45 euro business package that I know of, closest thing is home plus. I've emailed them to ask what the story his, hopefully they will respond quickly.

Esat Business 512k/256k, unlimited downloads/uploads and a static IP and free modem - €45 a month
http://www.esatbt.com/ie/broadband/offer.html

Mutant_Fruit

thing is there is no 45 euro business package that I know of, closest thing is home plus. I've emailed them to ask what the story his, hopefully they will respond quickly.

He was referring to IBB's packages, not EsatBT's

Co33iE

whats ibb pings like around 8pm to 10pm
could one of you ping this ip? 195.22.129.22

just wonna see what the pings are like for when they hit this area

Mutant_Fruit

Ping statistics for 195.22.129.22:
Packets: Sent = 14, Received = 14, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 16ms, Maximum = 18ms, Average = 17ms
Control-Break

Thats pretty consistant all the time (except when they try traffic managers ). There is no usage spike on the 5.8ghz that results in bad speeds/pings at any time of day.

CivilServant

Originally posted by Cabaal
Esat Business 512k/256k, unlimited downloads/uploads and a static IP and free modem - €45 a month
http://www.esatbt.com/ie/broadband/offer.html

Sounds like a good deal, but the 2 years minimum contract doesn't sound so enticing. Probably be something a lot better in 2 years time. Maybe even next year this will seem a bad deal.

Co33iE

which package are you on with ibb Mutant_Fruit?

Cabaal

Originally posted by CivilServant
Sounds like a good deal, but the 2 years minimum contract doesn't sound so enticing. Probably be something a lot better in 2 years time. Maybe even next year this will seem a bad deal.

Agreed, but its still a decent enough deal