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any happy Irish Broadband Breeze customer?

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  • 08-07-2008 12:53pm
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    bittihuduga
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    Hi
    Are there any happy customers here for Irish Broadband Breeze?

    In my house, digiweb dont have signals due to trees
    eircom has no previous line and hence need 122euros (this is a rental house)
    dont want to go with ICE
    so left with irish broadband - breeze - 2mb fixed wireless for 36euros

    can any suggest about their service and speed?

    what speednet test results can I expect?

    FYI - I am based in Maynooth

    thanks in advance


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    ntlbell
    Registered Users Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    4 years happy but I'm in dublin, never any major problems.


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    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,213 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    Anyone that I know with a Breeze connection hasn't had any complaints. If you have a PS3 you might have some issues logging into the PSN but other than that their service seems ok.


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    bittihuduga
    Registered Users Posts: 1,888 ✭✭✭bittihuduga


    is IBB increasing their speed too like others are increasing?

    can anyone submit their speedtest results here
    considering to use their service for voip


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    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,213 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    If you're going to be using their service for VOIP I recommend calling them up and letting them know this in advance, that way they can flip a little switch on their end that will give you a more constant stream of data.


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    admol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭admol


    My brother has IBB Breeze in dublin and loves it. The speeds are consistent and it has never gone down. There should be no problem with voip IBB Breeze is symetrical 2mb down/2mb up.


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    bittihuduga
    Registered Users Posts: 1,888 ✭✭✭bittihuduga


    thanks for your replies...

    is IBB following others in upgrading their speed?
    are they doing any upgrade from 2mb to 4MB and 3mb to 6mb?


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    Irishpimpdude
    Registered Users Posts: 2,373 ✭✭✭Irishpimpdude


    Havent heard anything :( ill be switching to ntl soon hopefully...


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    Nevyn
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    The last year I have to say they have thier act together.


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    dunworth1
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    check here for infoabout ibb speed upgrades.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055265940&highlight=ibb+upgrade


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    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,213 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    admol wrote: »
    My brother has IBB Breeze in dublin and loves it. The speeds are consistent and it has never gone down. There should be no problem with voip IBB Breeze is symetrical 2mb down/2mb up.

    Yes... yes it is but it's not a constant stream of data as every sector on a highsite only communicates individually to a customer's radio on an interville of 5000 miliseconds. For a VOIP call to stream correctly they'd need to reduce it to at least 1000 miliseconds on their end.

    I've worked with Alvarion equipment in the past so I know that this can be an issue.


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    I had IBB Breeze for 2 years and it was ok for downloading and browsing the web. However it was useless for gaming...


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    ntlbell
    Registered Users Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Steffano2002 wrote: »
    I had IBB Breeze for 2 years and it was ok for downloading and browsing the web. However it was useless for gaming...

    Where are you on the north side?

    i normally get 20-30ms pings to most uk server's and 15-20ms to irish ones


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    ntlbell wrote: »
    Where are you on the north side?

    i normally get 20-30ms pings to most uk server's and 15-20ms to irish ones
    Was in Stoneybatter on the Guinness Brewery mast. Hated it... Ping was up and down like a whore's knickers! I just Magnet instead...

    But now I have NTL so obviously I'm happy! :D


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    ntlbell
    Registered Users Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Steffano2002 wrote: »
    Was in Stoneybatter on the Guinness Brewery mast. Hated it... Ping was up and down like a whore's knickers! I just Magnet instead...

    But now I have NTL so obviously I'm happy! :D

    yea I went through the Guiness mast too odd.

    are ntl still routing through amsterdam?


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    ntlbell wrote: »
    yea I went through the Guiness mast too odd.

    are ntl still routing through amsterdam?
    Amsterdam and New York for Ireland to UK Traffic*! Genius! [/Sarcasm]

    *For a handful of servers only thank God!


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    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,213 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    Bad routing tables on NTL's end I suspect.


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    ntlbell
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    Achilles wrote: »
    Bad routing tables on NTL's end I suspect.

    they just didn't buy capacity here when they bought out ntl they all ready had pops in the dam etc so I think it was a a financial desicion.

    but I would of thought at this stage they would have sorted that out


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    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,213 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    That is quite strange alright... does it increase latency by much? Got any test trace routes that I can see just outta curiosity?


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    admol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭admol


    Achilles wrote: »
    Yes... yes it is but it's not a constant stream of data as every sector on a highsite only communicates individually to a customer's radio on an interville of 5000 miliseconds. For a VOIP call to stream correctly they'd need to reduce it to at least 1000 miliseconds on their end.

    I've worked with Alvarion equipment in the past so I know that this can be an issue.

    I've talked to my brother on skype while he was using breeze and there was no problem at all.


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Achilles wrote: »
    That is quite strange alright... does it increase latency by much? Got any test trace routes that I can see just outta curiosity?
    Was getting 115ms in-game as opposed to the usual 35ms. Here's the Tracert.


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