eircom to 25 meg next year??

Skatedude

For those who didnt see the irish times last week, eircom are planing to upgrade their broadband from 5mb to 25 mb sometime next year.
Somehow i dont really see it happening,considering that they dont even offer 5mg at the moment unless you go for their bussiness package which is 170 euro a month,

monkeyfudge

Skatedude wrote:

considering that they dont even offer 5mg at the moment unless you go for their bussiness package which is 170 euro a month,

And trust me that doesn't even come close to 5 megs either.

jimmycrackcorm

I'd say they are thinking of the ADSL2+ BB that magnet offers up to 24mb.

a line failure

25 meg eircom BB is 100% Irish guaranteed, by the clumsy grace of Noel Dempsey, not going to happen. If by divine or EU intervention it does, rural Ireland wont see a (binary) bit of it.:mad:

Cabaal

If it does happen, expect it to be very expensive and to only be available to people that live in their phone exchange

abelard

Cabaal wrote:

If it does happen, expect it to be very expensive and to only be available to people that live in their phone exchange

Made me laugh, but I feel bad for laughing, as it's at the utterly pathetic state of telecoms infrastructure in this country.

ethernet

How about making sure everyone can get 1-2 Mbps first. Then up the speeds, Mr. Dempsey.

qwertplaywert

no, ethernet is right,all country should be coverd for 1 to 3 mbs before speed upgrades begin

Sponge Bob

adsl2 (2+) only does 24mbits max and then at about 10ft from the exchange so it cannot be adsl2 can it.

qwertplaywert

maybe its an updated version?llmao

JNive

as said it would have to be some form of FTTC system for those speeds to get delivered to you via copper, since the copper needs to be very short.

Sponge Bob

qwertplaywert wrote:

maybe its an updated version?llmao

adsl2++ or adsl 2+rev2 or adsal2+ev2 or adsl3 , do tell us instead of lyao

qwertplaywert

jesas dont have a fit

Tar.Aldarion

I pay 40 a month for 2meg up and down. Lets see what price Eircom offer this 25meg...

DonalMcTavish

qwertplaywert wrote:

no, ethernet is right,all country should be coverd for 1 to 3 mbs before speed upgrades begin

i agree completely

Foxwood

DonalMcTavish wrote:

i agree completely

One of the reasons eircom took so long to roll out 512K ADSL was this attitude of complaining about the fact that some people could get it and others couldn't.

You can complain about eircom holding the country back, or you can complain about eircom introducing new technology in areas where it makes financial sense, when other areas can't economically support older technologies.

But you can't have it both ways - preventing the rollout of faster DSL speeds in built up areas until every last boreen has 1MB DSL will simply cause Ireland to fall further behind the rest of Europe.

qwertplaywert

so?it promotes equality among all citizens.......maybe the rest of europe would learn something

Foxwood

qwertplaywert wrote:

so?it promotes equality among all citizens.......maybe the rest of europe would learn something

Some equality - by your logic, eircom shouldn't have been allowed to roll out 512MB DSL until 2008.

Maybe the M50 shouldn't be widened to 3 lanes until every other road in the country has been widened to 2?

Prisoner6409

I thought the summer was the Silly Season for Newspapers when then print any old rubbish, true or not. They must have extended it into December.

elvis2002

Eircom is looking at IPTV at the moment as their next venture due to predicition in revenue losses in the coming years so it would make sense for them to be thinking about upgrading the access network at least.

Sponge Bob

Cabaal wrote:

If it does happen, expect it to be very expensive and to only be available to people that live ...

we were told by the eircom chairman last month that only the 5 main cities Galway Cork Waterford Limerick and Dublin were being upgraded to VDSL 25mbits and that there would be NO upgrades anywhere else.

CuLT

qwertplaywert wrote:

so?it promotes equality among all citizens.......maybe the rest of europe would learn something

What it does is make absolutely no economic sense whatsoever.

Oh Socialism, when will you learn?

shortys94

Shouldnt they just concentrate on getting 100% coverage. I mean there are people a mile down the road that can avail of broadband and I cannot, is thre anything I can do? Its a very rural area.

JNive

Its a very rural area.

Thats why, its too expensive for them to ensure such level of availibility to most rural areas since the investment per capita in such places is huge in comparison to urban areas and the larger cities

Peteee

shortys94 wrote:

Shouldnt they just concentrate on getting 100% coverage. I mean there are people a mile down the road that can avail of broadband and I cannot, is thre anything I can do? Its a very rural area.

Short of laying new lines, theres not much. Its a physical impossibility due to signal degradation etc over long distances.

dlofnep

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