Magnet Entertainment

Dub_Gunner

Hi guys im thinking of getting the Magnet Entertainment 8meg package but havent heard much about it yet does anyone have it and is it worth getting at present i have eircom bb 3meg.Should i just keep this or should i make the change?. As far as i know Magnet Entertainment is the fastest brodband package in dublin is this true?

watty

Try Broadband forum?

Dub_Gunner

yeah sorry m8 new to the fourms havent found my way around just yet

bk

It seems that if you just get BB, it works very well.

If you get BB and TV, it doesn't work so well as they share the bandwidth and there isn't always enough available.

cgarvey

Moved IoffL > BB

Bacchus

I'm thinking about getting the Magnet Entertainment package too down in Cork but I have reservations about how much bandwidth the TV will use. Does anyone have any info or experience with this package and how good is it?

bk

Bacchus wrote:

I'm thinking about getting the Magnet Entertainment package too down in Cork but I have reservations about how much bandwidth the TV will use. Does anyone have any info or experience with this package and how good is it?

From reports here on boards, it seems that if you just get the BB on it's own, it works very well. But if you get the BB and TV, the TV doesn't work very well.

The simple reason is that they share the same bandwidth. It seems to cause the TV to breakup, etc. and it slows down the broadband.

Also you won't be able to get two TV streams. This means you won't be able to watch one channel while recording another or watch a different channel in a different room.

Sponge Bob

Magnet may also sell the TV package on lines that are simply not suitable for it when they should be selling as little as a 2 Mbit DSL only package in reality .

Their 4Mbit DSL only package is one of the best ones around.