mobile broadband Portarlington

kikel

Anyone using any of the 3G broadband solutions in Portarlington. I was thinking of signing up to the 3 service. Their is a 14 day money back guarantee, but i knew a particlular service worked means i wouldn't be without broadband when i move down that way

ChuckProphet

more than likely will sign up to the 3 service this week - i'll let u know what it's like

scaldybelt

I signed up to it last week, but I live 3 miles out of the town and it's not great - in fact it's useless! ....dialup speeds would be a luxury.:mad:
I popped back into the shop yesterday with my laptop and they were getting coverage in the town easy enough - so if you're going to be based around town it should be fine. I'm going to be giving it back and getting a vodafone modem this week I suspect. At least with Vodafone it will drop onto the 2G network if there's no 3G at the time.

kikel

scaldybelt wrote:

I signed up to it last week, but I live 3 miles out of the town and it's not great - in fact it's useless! ....dialup speeds would be a luxury.:mad:
I popped back into the shop yesterday with my laptop and they were getting coverage in the town easy enough - so if you're going to be based around town it should be fine. I'm going to be giving it back and getting a vodafone modem this week I suspect. At least with Vodafone it will drop onto the 2G network if there's no 3G at the time.

I just heard that today. Three only have the 3g signal. O2 and vodafone have GPRS (2G). I'll be in town so fingers crossed

ChuckProphet wrote:

more than likely will sign up to the 3 service this week - i'll let u know what it's like

I think i'll be signing up to 3 myself on Friday. Deal is very good if you have coverage. If you get it before Friday please do post about how you get on

ChuckProphet

picked up the modem today so will know this evening if it's a pile of crap or not

kikel

ChuckProphet wrote:

picked up the modem today so will know this evening if it's a pile of crap or not

Must be a pile of crap since you havn't posted back Or maybe you found the porn

ChuckProphet

kikel wrote:

Must be a pile of crap since you havn't posted back Or maybe you found the porn

hi. couldn't get connected the 1st night. rang tech support last night..they eventually got me "connected". speeds were pathetic...averaging 20kbps. was worse than dial-up i had years ago. needless to say it's going back.

apollodjs

i'm in Port and i have it, its slow. Bu ti'm onthe move a lot of the time so its cool for just surfing at gigs

scaldybelt

I dropped back my 3 modem last Friday and got the Vodafone equivalent.
At least I've getting something now on GPRS - but it's only on a par with dial up speeds.

If I was in town near a mast, I'd be unhappy with this, but as I'm 3 miles outside town in Offaly (where no one can hear you scream! :eek: ), I'm happy to make do with it for now as there's no other option - except Eircom (no thanks).

genie_us

I got the vodafone modem yesterday and it works pretty well. I'm in the south of the town and so far I'd say 90% of the time it stays in 3G coverage. I'd recommend it.
From researching it before I bought it, 02 have no coverage in Port and the 3 network doesn't support gprs.
If you buy the vodafone one and it doesn't work out you can return it within 14 days, otherwise you're stuck with an 18 month contract which for me is the only downside.

ChuckProphet

jergam wrote:

I got the vodafone modem yesterday and it works pretty well. I'm in the south of the town and so far I'd say 90% of the time it stays in 3G coverage. I'd recommend it.
From researching it before I bought it, 02 have no coverage in Port and the 3 network doesn't support gprs.
If you buy the vodafone one and it doesn't work out you can return it within 14 days, otherwise you're stuck with an 18 month contract which for me is the only downside.

what sort of speeds u getting in the evening/weekends?

genie_us

ChuckProphet wrote:

what sort of speeds u getting in the evening/weekends?

well it gives a speed of up to 1.4Mbps, but in english that means it is pretty good. Tonight it has stayed in 3g all night (i've been online for about 1 hour), pages take a few seconds to load, pretty much as good as DSL broadband. I'm happy with it so far anyway!

apparently 5gb allowance gives you over 100,000 plus pages a month to browse through before you even get near the limit. The only time you'd go over this is if you were downloading a load of movies