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24-04-2006 2:49pm#1Hi - just bought my first decent home pc and want to connect up the internet (yes.. starting at the basics!). Usage would be mainly for surfing, music & video downloads. (Evenings and weekends only). Location - Dingle Peninsula.
Looking for advice please as regards connection, line rentals etc etc.
In short:
there is an existing phone line in the house, just has to be connected.
Do I have to do this first with Eircom or are there other better companies out there? I'm aware of smarttelecom but believe you have to be an exisitng phone customer?
Irish broadband: I have been told (by a very unsure rep over the phone)that we can receive Ripwave from Irish broadband, approx €19 per month. No phone line necessary.
- Do they have a good reputation? Are there other competitors out there that I can use?
Apologies for the basic's - we all need to start somewhere I guess
All advice welcome.. thanks!0
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Plek Trum wrote:Hi - just bought my first decent home pc and want to connect up the internet (yes.. starting at the basics!). Usage would be mainly for surfing, music & video downloads. (Evenings and weekends only). Location - Dingle Peninsula.
Looking for advice please as regards connection, line rentals etc etc.
In short:
there is an existing phone line in the house, just has to be connected.
Do I have to do this first with Eircom or are there other better companies out there? I'm aware of smarttelecom but believe you have to be an exisitng phone customer?
Irish broadband: I have been told (by a very unsure rep over the phone)that we can receive Ripwave from Irish broadband, approx €19 per month. No phone line necessary.
- Do they have a good reputation? Are there other competitors out there that I can use?
Apologies for the basic's - we all need to start somewhere I guess
All advice welcome.. thanks!
As far as I know there's a bit of a catch 22 with the phone line, it has to be live to be tested, so after the paying the connection fee it still may fail.
if it does pass and smart is an option for you, they're probably your best bet.
You could also look at maybe NTL if it's an option or Magnet
If you search through the broadband forum you will see plenty of advice there.
There's a broadband forum where you'll get a better repsonse to this.
Irish broadband, have a bad reputation, poor service and a poor customer service, I use them personally haven't had many problems but the one I had was a nightmare.0 -
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TommyGun wrote:0
Fabio,
I had no phone line at all. It was a new house. I rang BT and they set everything up. (A Eircom man did come to the house to install the box).
I got Broadband last week, i got the wireless modem. It works fine with a wired connection, but it will not work correctly wirelessly. Still trying to get it working.
So you just paid the 40 connection fee and you get connected without any previous eircom line? That's cool.
I'll try to call BT, even if I have serious difficulties understanding irish people at the phone.. I'm in Irleland since just a month and talking at the phone it's always a nightmare...
Regarding your wireless connection, which kind of router do you have? Have you tried with different wireless adapters? Check also if they didn't put any WEP/WPA key that you may not know.
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rufio wrote:So you just paid the 40 connection fee and you get connected without any previous eircom line? That's cool.
I'll try to call BT, even if I have serious difficulties understanding Irish people at the phone.. I'm in Ireland since just a month and talking at the phone it's always a nightmare...
Regarding your wireless connection, which kind of router do you have? Have you tried with different wireless adaptors? Check also if they didn't put any WEP/WPA key that you may not know.
Fabio
Fabio,
I did have to pay 40 for connection and I paid an extra 40 for the wireless option. I think there is a standard connection fee E127 to set up a phone line from scratch, but i have not been charged that (yet).
The situation with the wireless working is getting complex.
XP pro is the OS.
Using the 802.11g
What modem/router/wireless cards (make and model)
ZyXEL Prestige 660HW - wireless router,
the 3 laptops are Centrino with Intel (R) PROWireless 2200BG wireless cards
What encryption do you have? I have switched this off
I am using the Intel PROWireless software to manage the wireless not the standard XP software. (I have try
How are you assigning ip address? Static or Dynamic?
The addresses are assigned each logon (IP address obtained automatically) so take it that is is Dynamic
Ye, its weird as it shows a full connection but the traffic is almost zero.
There was one thing that i noticed - The router would show as connected but the network would not show as available. The router works fine wired so the line is OK.
I will try a few things tonight, i will change to the 802.11b to see if it makes any differance0 -
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