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Irish Broadband - Breeze 2mb

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  • 09-12-2008 11:09pm
    #1
    Macers
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Looking to getting a non landline broadband service into my apartment..

    I will be using Skype on it also (mobile being my main point of contact)...

    I have 2 options (with Irish Broadband unless someone can recommend someone better?)

    1. Ripwave 2mb - http://www.irishbroadband.ie/products_display.php?id=8

    2. Breeze 2mb - http://www.irishbroadband.ie/products_display.php?id=1

    Only issues I see is the upload speed on the Ripwave option being 256kb because on using Skype?

    Can anyone shed some light on this for me please...?


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    daffy_duc
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭daffy_duc


    Go for the Breeze product. Thats a Fixed Wireless product.


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    dunworth1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,326 ✭✭✭dunworth1


    can you get upc


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


    Macers wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Looking to getting a non landline broadband service into my apartment..

    I will be using Skype on it also (mobile being my main point of contact)...

    I have 2 options (with Irish Broadband unless someone can recommend someone better?)

    1. Ripwave 2mb - http://www.irishbroadband.ie/products_display.php?id=8

    2. Breeze 2mb - http://www.irishbroadband.ie/products_display.php?id=1

    Only issues I see is the upload speed on the Ripwave option being 256kb because on using Skype?

    Can anyone shed some light on this for me please...?

    If you actually get 2Mbps on ripwave, I will pay you 20 euro a month to use the service.

    Go with the Breeze option if you don't want to end up canceling the service in the first week (you still might if your in an over contended Breeze area).


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    Moonbeam
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    Don't go with Ripwave for voip.
    It should work well over Breeze though.


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    Macers
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Macers


    Moonbeam wrote: »
    Don't go with Ripwave for voip.
    It should work well over Breeze though.

    Thanks for the replies lads - 1 more quick question - i want to use more than one laptop with it - can i connect a wireless router to it and get wireless to a few laptops? Sorry just don't know anyone who has used this service before...,


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


    Macers wrote: »
    Thanks for the replies lads - 1 more quick question - i want to use more than one laptop with it - can i connect a wireless router to it and get wireless to a few laptops? Sorry just don't know anyone who has used this service before...,

    You can use a wireless router with IBB Breeze. It doesn't come with it AFAIK.

    I used it for a year with a Linksys WRT54GS router. We also use a Linksys WRT54G router in work. I've never had a problem with either router and would recommend them. Just update the firmward when you get it and it fixes a UPNP problem it originally had and you can then use any games console too without worrying about port forwarding.

    The router also has options for QOS for gaming applications and many other features that would be useful if you were working from home etc...

    You are looking for an ethernet router not an ADSL router which eircom use and comes with a built in modem in many cases.

    Also if you go with IBB and have a problem, bypass the router and plug it into the laptop and prove the problem isn't the router first. If you don't do this they will just blame your router on any problems you have so this stops them doing that. You could always just say that you did this but I do it anyway just to make sure I'm not wasting peoples time (even though it was never the router) :)


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    Macers
    Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Macers


    brim4brim wrote: »
    You can use a wireless router with IBB Breeze. It doesn't come with it AFAIK.

    I used it for a year with a Linksys WRT54GS router. We also use a Linksys WRT54G router in work. I've never had a problem with either router and would recommend them. Just update the firmward when you get it and it fixes a UPNP problem it originally had and you can then use any games console too without worrying about port forwarding.

    The router also has options for QOS for gaming applications and many other features that would be useful if you were working from home etc...

    You are looking for an ethernet router not an ADSL router which eircom use and comes with a built in modem in many cases.

    Also if you go with IBB and have a problem, bypass the router and plug it into the laptop and prove the problem isn't the router first. If you don't do this they will just blame your router on any problems you have so this stops them doing that. You could always just say that you did this but I do it anyway just to make sure I'm not wasting peoples time (even though it was never the router) :)

    Cheers man


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