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Broadband

tosh_thedude · 2006-01-10 12:07:54

Anyone use RIPWAVE or BREEZE (Irish Broadband service from Eircom) within Dublin city area. Thinking of getting it as it seems cheep with no contracts hanging over the head. Any info would be appricated. cheers! thanks.

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10-01-2006 1:07pm

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tosh_thedude

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Anyone use RIPWAVE or BREEZE (Irish Broadband service from Eircom) within Dublin city area. Thinking of getting it as it seems cheep with no contracts hanging over the head. Any info would be appricated. cheers! thanks.

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#2 10-01-2006 1:13pm
Battlejuice

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used to use them. Not for me due to shocking support if anything goes wrong. There are a good few threads in here on woeful experiences with IBB.
Their marketing team are certainly very good but be prepared for a minimum of a 30 minute wait for some monkey in "tech support" to tell you something you already know (ie: after forcing you to reboot, unplug they will state the internet is down and they haven't a clue when it'll be back up. Sorry, have a nice day).
Personally i'd go for anyone but IBB. They're a world of pain.

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#3 10-01-2006 1:17pm
ecodub

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tosh_thedude wrote:

Anyone use RIPWAVE or BREEZE (Irish Broadband service from Eircom) within Dublin city area. Thinking of getting it as it seems cheep with no contracts hanging over the head. Any info would be appricated. cheers! thanks.

I live near the city centre and have Ripwave, it's dreadfully slow, I get on average 20-50kbps - just checked it now download speed = 28.9kbps

When I got it first it was pretty good with speeds up to 300kbps but the network as slowed right down now with more users joining up.

It is cheap and OK for email but it should not be sold as a Broadband service.

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#4 10-01-2006 1:17pm
kippy

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Check out the broadband forum.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=259
There are numerous posts in there about the hell that is IBB.
Make up your mind after reading a few threads.
There are also many discussions on alternatives.
You are lucky in that you are in Dublin City where there are many options for broadband providers.
I dont think that this warrants a new topic int he Dublin City Forum when it has already been covered to death in the broadband forum.
Kippy

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#5 10-01-2006 1:18pm
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There's no end of threads about Irish Broadband on the Broadband forum.

Comp > Nets/Comms > Broadband

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#6 10-01-2006 2:16pm
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I'm on Breeze in Raheny and I think it is great, great, great!! :cool:

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#7 10-01-2006 3:17pm
tosh_thedude

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Great, thanks everyone for the mails, I'll check those suggested threads out, Any ideas as what IP i should get if I wanted to do alot of file transfering??

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