Magnet 4 Meg synchronous broadband???

cramp

On Magnets Products page for BB, they have NO details of their BB package only "4/8 Meg synchronous broadband" What is this???

They used to have Full details like..speed up and down,download allowance, price per GB of overdownload limit...anyone any info on whats going on??

cramp

thebman

Seems kind of stupid if they are offering contention free broadband to not brag about it.

Although this might be them subtley changing their services.

matt-dublin

its not contention free...

its a synchronous line, ie you can download at a rate of 8mb while also uploading at 4mb.

its contention ratio i think is like 18:!

Boston

synchronous

I do not think that word means what you think it means. Symmetric maybe? and by the looks of your post actually means Asymmetric

Snaga

Boston wrote:

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Inconceivable!

Reg_hurley

Got an email with the business package details:
ADSL - No contention, 4Mb down, 512 up.
They can go up to 8Mb down and 1Mb up.

JNive

its not contention free...

its a synchronous line, ie you can download at a rate of 8mb while also uploading at 4mb.

its contention ratio i think is like 18:!

Incorrect. The 4mb/8mb packages they mention on their site are the FTTH packages ( Fibre-Connected Houses around dublin, not very widespread )

The unadvertised package is the ADSL2+ LLU Service, which is 4mbps/512kbps ( if you have a good line, expect this to be 6mbps/1mbps ) and 8mbps/512kbps ( again, if you have a good line the upload will be up to 1mbps ).

Also, the ADSL2+ is supposed to be uncontented.

fl4pj4ck

JNive wrote:

Incorrect. The 4mb/8mb packages they mention on their site are the FTTH packages ( Fibre-Connected Houses around dublin, not very widespread )

The unadvertised package is the ADSL2+ LLU Service, which is 4mbps/512kbps ( if you have a good line, expect this to be 6mbps/1mbps ) and 8mbps/512kbps ( again, if you have a good line the upload will be up to 1mbps ).

Also, the ADSL2+ is supposed to be uncontented.

it is. it's one of the best services in ROI

subway

im on their adsl2 top package.
its rated at 8mbps but i generally get in and around 12mbps downloads

dont upload much but uve seen it at 200kBps

Steffano2002

matt-dublin wrote:

its not contention free...

its a synchronous line, ie you can download at a rate of 8mb while also uploading at 4mb.

its contention ratio i think is like 18:!

Check before posting stupid stuff like that matt-dublin.

Magnet contention ratio is 1:1 for their ADSL2+ service. Best broadband I ever got!

JNive

me too :-)

and i used the word supposed, since there is no actual way of verifying it from an end-users view of it, other than testing out the theory lol. And in my experience it is uncontended ( Dennehys Cross Exchange in Cork )