Best Broadband?

Redegg

North Dublin for a student.

I have seen so many different offers online and I just can't pick. Any recommend anything. Anything to avoid?
oh I have no landline.

Cheers.

Creamy Goodness

ntl if you can.

stay away from wireless it's just a pain. (wireless being Irish broadband).

elexes

depends what you want to do .

also get this moved to the broadband section

Khannie

Moving to bb....

ghostdancer

alright colin

get either digiweb metro or ntl if you can, ntl preferably, but digiweb should be pretty good aslong as you've got a decent line of sight to the antenna.
clearwire do wireless aswell but they've a long contract i think, and don't allow p2p.
irish broadband have loads of problems but you can get their ripwave thingy now for 20quid a month with no contract so if you're having problems with that you could just send it back straight away, and if you're one of the lucky ones who it works ok for, it should do the job...

Orionetheus

irish BB is the best here IMO and in my year of being with them ive only had it go out twice.

unlimited download and upload at 100 KB/s thats better than what I had in the states........(4 megabit down 256k up)

sisyphus

Irish Broadband Fowever!!

Redegg

cheers for all the advice.

Guy I live with had the ripwave thing. We were thinking of getting a cable that could split it to the two machince but we were thinknig this would just mean really slow broadband? His speed is deifinitely not broadband speeds. Its grand I suppose. So everyone is recommending the ripwave?

Does splitting it between to computers slow the connection down and is this even possible?

RangeR

You need router. You can pick a sheap one up in most shops. The speed will stay the same on the connection but if two of you are downloading at the same time, you are sharing the connection.

Freddie59

Orionetheus wrote:

irish BB is the best here IMO and in my year of being with them ive only had it go out twice.

unlimited download and upload at 100 KB/s thats better than what I had in the states........(4 megabit down 256k up)

Ha ha ha!! And it isn't even April 1st!:D

Drapper

Redegg wrote:

cheers for all the advice.

Guy I live with had the ripwave thing. We were thinking of getting a cable that could split it to the two machince but we were thinknig this would just mean really slow broadband? His speed is deifinitely not broadband speeds. Its grand I suppose. So everyone is recommending the ripwave?

Does splitting it between to computers slow the connection down and is this even possible?

Ripwave is pure sh1t!

get NTL !!

DingChavez

Redegg wrote:

cheers for all the advice.

Guy I live with had the ripwave thing. We were thinking of getting a cable that could split it to the two machince but we were thinknig this would just mean really slow broadband? His speed is deifinitely not broadband speeds. Its grand I suppose. So everyone is recommending the ripwave?

Does splitting it between to computers slow the connection down and is this even possible?

No......WTF?

zuma

All you need is a couple of people with good IBB connections and the other 90% pay the price of a sh!te connection!!!

StickyMcGinty

if your up near DCU, get IBB Breeze, i'm on it and its class! full meg up/down every day!

Redegg

VinnyL wrote:

if your up near DCU, get IBB Breeze, i'm on it and its class! full meg up/down every day!

and links ? may look into this.. live on collins av

StickyMcGinty

http://www.irishbroadband.ie/products_display.php?id=83

the IBB mast is actually on collins avenue where it meets the ballymun road. the engineer told me he got a signal even when the box was lying down in the garden, great signal when your that close!

Roen

Just incase everyone has gone temporarily insane or blind, or the search function has stopped working on boards I'll let you in on a little secret.
IBB = ****e

StickyMcGinty

Roen wrote:

Just incase everyone has gone temporarily insane or blind, or the search function has stopped working on boards I'll let you in on a little secret.
IBB = ****e

in your opinion, for me it does the job brilliant, and since the OP lives right beside me i take it it'll be thew same for him too!

Redegg

hmm sounds great. 35 is possible a bit steep. No? Im not sure.
Ok my choices are


NTL

25.00 euro
Free Installation
First 3 months free
Download Speed (Kbps) 1000
Upload Speed (Kbps) 100
Free technical Support
12 month contract

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or
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35.00 euro
Free installation
Fisrt 3 months free
Download Speed (Kbps) 2000
Upload Speed (Kbps) 200
Free Technical Support
12 month contract

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or
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IBB
35.00 euro
Free installation
Download Speed 1Mb
Upload Speed 1Mb
12 month contract


I'm thinking the 3 months free sounds good, but is this actually part of the 12 months contract?

byte

I'd go for the NTL offer myself. Better speeds.

StickyMcGinty

i'd prob go for the ntl too, i tryed them first, but i couldnt get em'

Blaster99

I would seriously question somebody's mental health if they chose Irish Broadband over NTL. IBB's service may work if you're lucky, but if it doesn't you will get more help calling the talking clock than Irish Broadband's support dept. There's incidently no guarantee that they will stick you on the same sector as VinnyL or that that sector is not going to oversubscribed in a month's time. Irish Broadband is just hassle you don't want.

Baldie

I take i that everyone is located in or around Dublin?

So what about Limerick, what's the way to go down here?

StickyMcGinty

Blaster99 wrote:

I would seriously question somebody's mental health if they chose Irish Broadband over NTL. IBB's service may work if you're lucky, but if it doesn't you will get more help calling the talking clock than Irish Broadband's support dept. There's incidently no guarantee that they will stick you on the same sector as VinnyL or that that sector is not going to oversubscribed in a month's time. Irish Broadband is just hassle you don't want.

i suppose i'm lucky, but living in rented accomodation with no landline left me with IBB as the cheapest option. ring NTL redegg and if you cant get them, then think about other options