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What broadband in Navan
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23-04-2009 1:24pm#1
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They must have changed their prices since you took that screenshot. See below what's on their website now:Was ringing BT and one of my friend told me about this
no line required and €54 per month
is this better or BT is better?
Is this Digiweb "Metro" product a wireless product (i.e. like IBB)?
I'd personaly go with BT, especially since I play online games and wireless is useless for gaming...
Furthermore, their best pack (12Mb) is €60 EUR with a 50GB download cap. BT will give you 24Mb broadband for €56 EUR with no download cap. It will also be a better quality broadband than Digiweb Metro IMO...
To sum up, from a broadband only perspective, BT is by far the better product here. But then if you use your phone a lot, Digiweb might be cheaper for you... You'll have to crunch some numbers and weigh your options.0 -
Just FYI - smart can also do :-
7Mbps Broadband, no download limits, All local and national calls & line rental for €56.51 per month. (Just to add to your options dilemma!)
Only available by calling 1850 945 549 (new website later today)
and YES I work for Smart <- disclaimer I AM BIASED!!!
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How's Smart doing these days? Are they going to extend their network or has all the money dried up? They started so well! Pity...Just FYI - smart can also do :-
7Mbps Broadband, no download limits, All local and national calls & line rental for €56.51 per month. (Just to add to your options dilemma!)
Only available by calling 1850 945 549 (new website later today)
and YES I work for Smart <- disclaimer I AM BIASED!!!0 -
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just FYI, if you're on the kilcarn exchange (i.e. all of johnstown) you won't get the 24mbps off BT, just the 7.6mbps as the kilcarn exchange hasn't been unbundled yet, and from what i was told on the phone, it's not big enough an exchange to even make it onto the BT 24mbps roadmap at this stage in time. the only exchange they unbundled was the main navan one near the train station which serves navan town, not the surrounding areas like johnstown.
which means, if you want anything more than 7.6mbps, ntl/upc is your only option as digiweb's metro service is not available in navan either afaik.
i'm pretty sure, if you're in jonstown, you have 3 options.
1. eircom bitstream and their resellers (up to) 7.6mbps, i.e. eircom, utv, digiweb, bt etc.
2. digiweb metro, (up to 12mbps) but you'll need line of sight and johnstown is broken up with lots of trees, so i couldn't get it where i am, you'll need a survey off them (free) to check visibility to the mast.
3. ntl/upc cable broadband (up to) 20mbps.
EDIT: just checked digiweb's website and they're now calling the wireless service 'metro'. i thought that was just supposed to be the adsl2 and telly service in dublin that was called metro, or am i thinking of something else?
the only downside i've got with having ntl is they don't do a phone bundle with uk landline calls included and with family in the UK, it gets expensive to call them, so i have to use jajah to get free calls instead which means logging onto the pc to initiate the call which is a bit of a pain.0 -
(thanks for asking!)
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