Irish Broadband or not

jayo2004

A friend has no phone line and wants to get Irish Broadband in ( even though i have told him they are suppose to be a very bad service). Here is the package he wants

Breeze is a wireless Internet product which provides superior "always on, high speed" Internet access that does not utilise the phone line, and provides fast uploads as well as downloads and is quick to install, reaching speeds of up to 1Mb, all this for €35.99 a month.
( ripwave not available in the area)

Eircom have given him a price of

Line Rental €24.18 ( he does not need a phone in the house)
Broadband €29.99

Are Irish Broadband really that bad or should he fork out and pay eircom??

I have eircom myself and i know its costly but i never had any major problems and am happy.

Any Suggestions on his options would be great!!!

gordonnet

yes, they are WORSE in fact.

thegills

I have IBB in Killaloe and have had few problems with the service since last September when it was installed. I'm on Breeze 1M and I'm currently getting 779k Down / 331k Up (irishisptest.com)
thegills (No complaints here)

jayo2004

Anybody using it in Carlow area or is their problems nationwide??

Irishpimpdude

Well im on breeze 2mb 1.89Mbps/9.54Mbps lol... they seem to have really cleaned up there act!

anoble66

i am also on the killaloe mast since Jan 06, had the 2mb service. Was getting 60% packet loss, 200ms latency and on average around 500kbps down and 50-80kbps UP...i am waiting for them to come and remove the aerial which should be any day now..

dont do it to yourself, its complete luck if you end up with a decent connection and god help ya if you need any support, they think that packet loss is quite acceptable as long as your within contention..

Jokah

Stay away from Ripwave (speeds were worse than dialup).

I bowed to Eircom finally and got a 2mb line in(now granted its shared between 3 so individual cost is low). I had Ripwave for two years and it got worse and worse.

Not sure about IBB's better products, but I will never use them again. I prefer to have a solid line in my house now, rather than relying on wireless.

I am happy with Eircom now.

Sam Vimes

the options are not eircom and ibb. tell him to get what he can in this order:

ntl, smart, bt, possibly digiweb but i have no personal experience of them

tell him to take a look at these packages: http://home.btireland.ie/echannel/res.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=res_products&residentialProducts_actionOverride=%2Fpageflows%2FresidentialContent%2Fproducts%2Fbroadband

the same service as eircom but cheaper

Jokah

granted, BT etc are cheaper..

But 2 months to go through the hassle of getting your line changed? unless of course your friend is not renting accomodation. If it is his own house, then worth the hassle..

Drapper

not

dub45

Drapper wrote:

not

I was just thinking the same but never heard of them beforre - is their billing department ok?

Hal1

They are ok when they work, but playing bf2 lately is carp lots of packet loss. I did manage to play for an hour last night though :P

edunon

I used Ripwave for a while and it's terrible, slower than dial-up. Told my bank to stop paying them, not even then they care, they continued sending me invoices as paid... Moved to Magnet a couple of months ago, very happy with them. Still have the ripwave modem and recieving IBB invoices every month...

Drapper

dub45 wrote:

I was just thinking the same but never heard of them beforre - is their billing department ok?

They are grand. Never had a problem with thier accounts but IIB bb was crap.