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No Broadband for 12 months

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  • 06-10-2008 12:48pm
    #1
    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭


    I've just rung Eircom, and have been informed that they have a list were all the exchanges will be enabled in the next 12 months. And my local exchange for my work line is definitely not on it :mad: and told no chance of broadband in the next 12 months. The mobile broadband isn’t even an option.!!

    How backward is Ireland (and as I type this there’s an offer for Broadband for €9.99 just give them a ring, Whoopee!!). And with the current state of affairs I’m sure it could be 2-3 years but then I was excited when they gave the announcement that the local exchange would be enabled after 2007 in 2005.

    Have anyone any success with satellite broadband but I don’t appreciate having to pay €90 per month plus installation for a poor service when I could get a better service for €9.99 a month. My home line has broadband so I know how much of a disadvantage it is to Rural Ireland not having broadband is but, by not having it people are less inclined to complain as they don’t know what there missing. :mad:


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    #2
    Fogmatic
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Fogmatic


    Whatever responses you get here, surprise at your experience won't be one of them!

    I've seen useful threads here when searching for satellite broadband.

    I know what I'm missing all right, without having experienced broadband (unless you count the odd internet cafe). It's not hard to know; timed out downloading an email with a couple of photos, many websites impossible, Google Earth a dream.....

    I for one am complaining; to Eircom about connection speed for a start (just gathering the final ammunition). It's too slow for my new desktop and laptop to connect (and Eircom told me years ago I could get broadband - quite a Surrealist statement).


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    richardw001
    Registered Users Posts: 575 ✭✭✭richardw001


    What I would recommend is that you ring Eircom again ....
    - everytime that I've rung them over the last three years - I get told something different - so maybe if you ring again then while it won't make a difference they might tell you something to make you feel better !
    Have you checked is there any wireless providers around - or even a 3G signal from one of the mobile operators ?


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