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Broadband in Balbriggan?

  • 06-10-2004 7:04pm
    #1
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭


    Is broadband available from any provider in Balbriggan? I see the exchange in a list here as being broadband enabled, but I'm told that broadband actually isn't available in BB.


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  • #2
    thetrickykid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭thetrickykid


    You can definitely get B'band in Balbriggan through all the usual suspects - Eircon, UTV, Esat.


  • #3
    PcP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭PcP


    Who told you it wasn't available? It's been enabled for over a year in Balbriggan.


  • #4
    Praetorian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    I have broadband since Aug 03 afair


  • #5
    rgfuller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭rgfuller


    I'm in Balbriggan and can't get Broadband either - line unsuitable.
    There's no wireless broadband coverage too.


  • #6
    acunning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭acunning


    Check out net1.ie they might cover your part of balbriggan.


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  • #7
    rgfuller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭rgfuller


    I had heard about net1.ie and have been in contact with them however this is what they say:

    "We have service on the north and west side of balbriggan, but we have not
    installed a base station in the town due to the presence of eircoms dsl
    product there."

    A straw pole of Balbriggan business's numbers (looked up via Golden Pages and checked on the Eircom(n) Broadband website) indicated quite a proportion of numbers ~30% that were unsuitable for their Broadband.
    I let net1 know that - but no response from them.

    I'm in the Northern end of town and have asked if they would survey for a signal. I'll post any reply.

    Thanks.


  • #8
    rogue.goofball
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭rogue.goofball


    I'm from Balbriggan and have broadband for over a year now. I live not too far from the new industrial estate that's going up on the inner-relief road. When I was getting BB in I asked the Eircom bloke and he reckoned the lines around the area were all being upgraded due to the growth of the town (residential/commercial/industrial). If you are in one of the many new estates going up I'd be really surprised if the line wasn't BB ready. Oh and don't expect Eircom to tell you! I had registered to be told, used their online checker many a time, before I found out for myself that it was enabled in my area.


  • #9
    rgfuller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭rgfuller


    I know someone else who's in one of the newish estates (4 years) and he has BB, unfortunatly I'm not in one of the new ones, I reckon I got added to some old infrastructure when I got my phone line. Hence the Unsuitable.
    I've asked for line checks, line repairs, and have had a check done from the service center - all failed.

    As a phone line it seems ok.
    33.6k connection (56k modem) upload 14mb download 28mb (CS 1.6 session)and no errors over 3 hrs. Mind you I used to get 40k+ connections. But it could be my ISP.


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