satellite broadband by eircom

invincibleirish

i live in a rural area and thought i could not get broadband,however i rang eircom customer services and they say i can get satellite broadband subject to a site survey or something,its E350 for installation,my question is do people have satellite broadband and is it good/bad

spongebob

See http://www.irishwan.org/ there may be a better alternative in your area already

ANYTHING is better than satellite which is only really usable for browsing the web and file downloads.

M

thegills

eircom have a FWA product also available in some areas depending on how rural you are.

Blaster99

You may want to check out Digiweb.ie as well for satellite. They do two-way, I seem to recall Eircom's is just one way (dial-up in the other direction). And I think there are cheaper one-way providers out there.

Tony

Muck wrote:

See http://www.irishwan.org/ there may be a better alternative in your area already

ANYTHING is better than satellite which is only really usable for browsing the web and file downloads.

M

That site is down today apparently after an attack

Webmonkey

Also if your a light web surfer try www.europeonline.com

Ripwave

Tony wrote:

That site is down today apparently after an attack

That page has been there for a couple of days now. (It was last modified on the 28th of July).

invincibleirish

just to show dreams can come true,today is the day i got broadband,thank you eircom!

Sponge Bob

what ???

it took eircom 3 years to install a satellite dish did it ???

rymus

I'm amazed it didn't take longer tbh

invincibleirish

my apoligies i should clarify,i didnt get satellite broadband as it was too expensive ,but eircom left the tantalysing prospect that i may be able to get broadband,the village ilived near got it after a campaign,then the line status went from red to yellow, then my uncle got it down the road,then a few weeks ago they said i could get it!! got the broadband pack on friday and got online today!hooray!

lucernarian

It can happen. attenuation fluctuates a bit depending on when the engineers test it. Could be any reason why.

Nice one! Don't get addicted to the much faster internet:)

It's good to see that eircom did what they should have done as soon as the exchange was enabled.

I estimate there's a hundred thousand people or so who don't have a whiff of either DSL or a local FWA company. Count yourself lucky that eircom did their job.

Sponge Bob

To_be_confirmed wrote:

I estimate there's a hundred thousand people or so who don't have a whiff of either DSL or a local FWA company. Count yourself lucky that eircom did their job.

Its more like half a million. It would be 100,000 in Connacht alone .Most coverage maps are complete BS .

Some of those can get 3g BB .

invincibleirish

To_be_confirmed wrote:

It can happen. attenuation fluctuates a bit depending on when the engineers test it. Could be any reason why.

Nice one! Don't get addicted to the much faster internet:)

It's good to see that eircom did what they should have done as soon as the exchange was enabled.

I estimate there's a hundred thousand people or so who don't have a whiff of either DSL or a local FWA company. Count yourself lucky that eircom did their job.

already too late!its 2:37am and ive been online all day...goodbye friends,gf and job!

watty

Is 3G really BB? The ping (latency) is high.

My experiences:
3G: Up = 70k, down 300k, ping 170ms
Satellite: Up= 74k to 90k, Down 720k to 920k, ping 670ms (During rain)

(all approximate). I expect the 2 way satellite to become cheaper than 3G services this year as the price of 2 way sat has fallen a lot over the last 5 years and is still dropping. One way sat + dialup + line rental is potentially already more expensive than 3G data or 2 way satellite.

The 3G/HSDPA is fine for mobile, I suppose but speed is anything between 56k and 3400kbps and ping never seems to go below 170ms.

lucernarian

Sponge Bob wrote:

Its more like half a million. It would be 100,000 in Connacht alone .Most coverage maps are complete BS .

Some of those can get 3g BB .

There's loads of companies out there with local wireless services. Though if they all use low-latency backhaul might be a different matter. Half a million is the amount of people who only can't get DSL as it stands, and I think that's slightly overestimating at that.

towel401

with satellite anything below 1 second lag is good. usually hangs around 1200ms