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Ice Broadband In Limerick

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  • 28-11-2007 11:36pm
    #1
    MURDO
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭


    Hi folks.

    I am currently using Digiweb (Metro), am am looking into a possible change to ICE Broadband.

    HOWEVER !!!!.....:rolleyes:

    After reading through some posts/threads in here, i am not so sure its a good idea.

    Does anyone in Limerick have ICE BROADBAND and is it anygood.

    Only reason i am looking to change is the unlimited download limit.

    Any help/advise would be great...

    Cheers and thanks for looking..;)


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    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    See the stupidly long stickied thread for the answers you seek.


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    #3
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Dialup, ISDN and Ripwave has unlimited download too.


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    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Seriously though, whats the point of an unlimited download limit if your speeds are too crap to utilise it.

    Ice will be oversubscribed and have all the torrent users on it if they can actually provide a service. That's why IBB started throttling torrents. The same crap was happening on their network.

    Nobody can do unlimited download, there is always a fair usage policy (hidden download amount before they limit you).


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    bigpaddy2004
    Registered Users Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭bigpaddy2004


    brim4brim wrote: »
    Seriously though, whats the point of an unlimited download limit if your speeds are too crap to utilise it.

    Ice will be oversubscribed and have all the torrent users on it if they can actually provide a service. That's why IBB started throttling torrents. The same crap was happening on their network.

    Nobody can do unlimited download, there is always a fair usage policy (hidden download amount before they limit you).

    I second that statement. Up to now metro has been massive in Portlaoise until Ice moved in some months ago. Now nearly every 3rd house in Portlaoise which has a metro antenna on it has an Ice antenna on it also. Obvious sign heavy users are switching over! Wont be long before their network is affected in Portlaoise also.


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    kaiser sauze
    Registered Users Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭kaiser sauze


    Not in your area, but I am a customer and a fairly happy one at that. Hopefully somebody in your area can give you more applicable feedback.


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    MURDO
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭MURDO


    kaiser sauze wrote: »
    Not in your area, but I am a customer and a fairly happy one at that. Hopefully somebody in your area can give you more applicable feedback.


    Cool.

    thanks


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    boomerang
    Registered Users Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭boomerang


    I got it installed in Murroe about three weeks ago. I knew the risk but decided it was worth taking as it's the only alternative to dial-up here...

    I'll let the speedtest results speak for themselves... As you can see, we've only gone over the 1mb mark on two occasions.


    Summary Last 10 Results:
    Date Download Speed Upload Speed Qos RTT Maxpause
    01/12/2007 21:00 450 kbps (55 KB/s) 61 kbps (8 KB/s) 21 % 34 ms 844 ms
    29/11/2007 19:57 224 kbps (28 KB/s) 21 kbps (3 KB/s) 21 % 41 ms 1645 ms
    28/11/2007 00:11 284 kbps (35 KB/s) 5 kbps (1 KB/s) 55 % 34 ms 799 ms
    24/11/2007 17:31 624 kbps (77 KB/s) 113 kbps (14 KB/s) 13 % 34 ms 837 ms
    20/11/2007 22:14 745 kbps (91 KB/s) 48 kbps (6 KB/s) 62 % 33 ms 407 ms
    18/11/2007 12:03 1636 kbps (200 KB/s) 148 kbps (19 KB/s) 59 % 37 ms 161 ms
    17/11/2007 23:20 788 kbps (97 KB/s) 147 kbps (18 KB/s) 50 % 33 ms 335 ms
    13/11/2007 21:20 1959 kbps (240 KB/s) 72 kbps (9 KB/s) 59 % 30 ms 324 ms
    11/11/2007 19:47 403 kbps (50 KB/s) 126 kbps (16 KB/s) 6 % 28 ms 1653 ms
    10/11/2007 17:40 942 kbps (115 KB/s) 219 kbps (27 KB/s) 37 % 35 ms 331 ms

    Total Averages:
    806 kbps (99 KB/s) 96kbps (12KB/s) 39 % 34 ms 734 ms


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    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Still at least your getting above dial up speeds so its better than some wireless operators and better than 3 who can't even connect some of their users.


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