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Cheapest broadband

Recon · 2008-09-05 15:28:41

Moving into new apartment and I want to get the cheapest broadband connection I can find. I just want something for basic browsing, email etc. There isn't a phone line and I don't think we'll bother getting one so I think the fixed wireless option is probably the most suitable. Are there any of these available for around…

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05-09-2008 4:28pm

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Recon

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Moving into new apartment and I want to get the cheapest broadband connection I can find. I just want something for basic browsing, email etc.

There isn't a phone line and I don't think we'll bother getting one so I think the fixed wireless option is probably the most suitable. Are there any of these available for around €15/month?

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#2 05-09-2008 6:21pm
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Smart have 1mb for 7 euro a month

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#3 06-09-2008 10:34am
Sam Kade

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barnicles wrote: »

Smart have 1mb for 7 euro a month

You need a phoneline for that and it's €15/month not €7. 3 broadband seems to be the cheapest for what you want €19.99/month.

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#4 06-09-2008 1:04pm
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Hey,
Just said id let WIT Students know about a nice broadband offer available from o2.

You pay €20 for the modem and it's €13 a month for 10gig limit. That's a 12 month contract.

There's also €15 a month with a 5gig limit with a 30 day contract.

Source: www.o2.ie/heanet

taken from WIT forum - posted by sully

it's just for students but may be of benefit to you

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#5 06-09-2008 2:40pm
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3, O2 and Vodaphone are Mobile Internet products. You may or may not get Broadband speed and you will never get Broadband latency. Sometimes if busy speed will be 100kbps or you might not connect at all, since it's really a high speed flat rate dialup and not "always on" Broadband.

Ripwave works a little like Mobile "Broadband" except more limited coverage and a bigger box. Often slower.

Other Fixed wireless products are much different. Some are as good as Cable or phone line DSL.

If we had decent Consumer Legislation/Protection they could only market 3G/HSDPA as Mobile Flat Rate Internet, not "Mobile Broadband". While Comreg likes to count it as part of Broadband pentration, The EU & OECD do not include it in Broadband figures. The speed is peak total for ALL users in a mast sector, not per user.

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#6 06-09-2008 2:42pm
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a small comparison here:
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=57169003#post57169003

Waterford, Summerhill area

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