best wireless broadband in Dungarvan?

lertsnim

How is it? Is it the same upload?

hotshot88

eeloe wrote: »

Getting Casey's new router installed at home tomorrow, and i've been assured it's a 250mb line.

We'll see how it goes, hopefully the wireless N is actually enabled in this model, so i can get some decent wifi speeds. He wasn't able to tell me over the phone how much upload is on the new line, but if it's pitiful i'll be getting rid of it and going with Eircom Fiber, done a speed test as at a friends house the other night and he's getting 45mb down and 20mb up, what more would you want really?

getting the same thing next Week

gonna see if the speed is really different (currently getting 17mbps D and 0.2mbps UP on wired lan from supposedly 120mbps D ), if i dont see a lot of difference, ill be giving eir fibre a serious look.

eeloe

Having a right pig of a time with this since it's been installed, the installer told me i'd never get more than 1.8 up until the lines have been upgraded to 10mb up. i showed him a speed test where was getting 3mb up on the old router and he looked genuinely shocked.


9am, do a speed test, and perfect, getting 190mb down and 6mb up, even tho he said i'd only get 1.8 up eh?

Come home after work, internet un-useable, do a speed test, 3mb down(but it's up and down, not constant) and .12 up.

Crazy...not even gonna bother ringing them, i'm just gonna ring Eircom. sick of this now. in the evenings i'm turning off wifi and tethering off my 4g instead.

hotshot88

eeloe wrote: »

Having a right pig of a time with this since it's been installed, the installer told me i'd never get more than 1.8 up until the lines have been upgraded to 10mb up. i showed him a speed test where was getting 3mb up on the old router and he looked genuinely shocked.


9am, do a speed test, and perfect, getting 190mb down and 6mb up, even tho he said i'd only get 1.8 up eh?

Come home after work, internet un-useable, do a speed test, 3mb down(but it's up and down, not constant) and .12 up.

Crazy...not even gonna bother ringing them, i'm just gonna ring Eircom. sick of this now. in the evenings i'm turning off wifi and tethering off my 4g instead.

that's chronic, im gonna give it a week and then see if its as bad, also make sure yer test is in megabytes and not megabits, gives a more accurate reading

eir also have a 2 week cooling off period so if yer not happy theyll uninstall

eeloe

I'd be completely overjoyed if they offered a CONSTANT 50mb down 10mb up...forget this "up to 250mb if there's no one else in the town online" ****e...

lertsnim

That's disappointing. Increasing the download speed but ignoring the upload speed is baffling. It's not as if they are even offering the fastest download speed in the country these days.

With regards to the installers, the ones I have spoken to are spoofers coming out with all kind of crazy excuses for poor speeds and connections.

eeloe

Called them last week to inform them of the connection issues, an engineer is coming out tomorrow, even tho i told them exactly what'll happen.

He'll call over tomorrow morning and do a speedtest and get 190mb download at 10am. say it's working perfectly, i'll come home tomorrow night after work and try the same thing and get 2-3mb download.

AAARGH!

eeloe

Had the engineer around again this morning, felt kinda bad cus i blew up on him a little bit when i got a bit frustrated trying to explain the issues.

Done a software update on the router, reset it, and done a speed test again and got over 190down and 6up, pretty happy with that.

At work now for the rest of the day so will test it all out again tonight and hopefully it stays stable.

eeloe

Had the engineer around again this morning, felt kinda bad cus i blew up on him a little bit when i got a bit frustrated trying to explain the issues.

Done a software update on the router, reset it, and done a speed test again and got over 190down and 6up, pretty happy with that.

At work now for the rest of the day so will test it all out again tonight and hopefully it stays stable.

XtraFalcon

Let us know how it works out later - Might be worth finding out if we can update the software for the rest of us.

As for last night I couldn't even watch a Youtube video in 144p without it stopping and stalling. Tried to do a speed test and it kept failing.

sleepyholland

Can anyone recommend the fastest, most consistent broadband provider in Dungarvan? Are the options Casey's, Sky, Eir?

I am going to be working at home and good speeds around the clock will be fairly crucial.

hotshot88

XtraFalcon wrote: »

Let us know how it works out later - Might be worth finding out if we can update the software for the rest of us.

As for last night I couldn't even watch a Youtube video in 144p without it stopping and stalling. Tried to do a speed test and it kept failing.

got the upgrade and havent noticed any difference. same speeds as before

hotshot88

anyone heard of any rumors of virgin media in dungarvan, saw a virgin media van parked outside a house in the abbeyside area recently. wondering if this means movement, hopefully

lertsnim

I've seen a UPC (now Virgin) van around for a long time. My guess is its an employee who works in Waterford but lives in Dungarvan or Abbeyside

XtraFalcon

According to the Virgin Media support "We have no plans for Fibre in Dungarvan for the foreseeable future" (6 months).

eeloe

Been having serious issues with the new router for the past couple of weeks.

Currently waiting to arrange a time for the engineer to call around and adjust some settings, they done some kind of test on the line, and there appears to be a lot of congestion around where i'm living, so hopefully they'll manage to sort it.

From 6pm Friday - 11pm Sunday night, no wifi in the house, no device would even connect to the router, it kept saying the WPA key was incorrect, even tho, every device in the house was previously connected using the same WPA key.

XtraFalcon

Mines been dreadful since Christmas week.

Always around the same time. I would be accepting if it was just one device but I have 3 devices on my router and all of them suddenly become shockingly slow around this "magic time". I wouldn't mind if it was every now and again but to have it happen every night is frustrating because it's my only time Mon - Fri to use it.

If Virgin Media or Eir Fiber ever get into gear I'll be swapping immediately. Cheaper price, faster speeds and assurance that'll work will suit me down to the ground.

jaytobe

We are using Alphawave off Mt.Stuart, very reliable 3MB.

eeloe

3mb, i wouldn't be able to handle that kinda speed....terrible IMO!

XtraFalcon

It would be fine for general web browsing.

There's a good chance it would be able to hold up YouTube.

It might be able to try and keep Netflix going at standard quality.

3MB download is livable to be completely honest it would take about 5 seconds to load a webpage. HOWEVER the thing that kills Alphawave for me is the 512KB upload.

The amount of things I have to do for work like remote logging in and uploading very large documents, it would actually be faster for me to put it on a USB drive and post it to myself.

(Mind you at the moment I'm only getting 1,514KB per second upload on my home connection)

Testing at Work with Eir Fibre:
50 MB download
43.4 MB Upload

eeloe

I'm seriously considering moving to Eir Fiber at home, seems to be pretty stable.

Celtarion

eeloe wrote: »

I'm seriously considering moving to Eir Fiber at home, seems to be pretty stable.

I would definitely not recommend to move to Eir Fiber at all, the customer service is absolutely the worse I've ever faced. Consider DIGIWEB for fiber but depends of your need anyway and if your area is covered. The speed is way faster than Eir Fiber.

Celtarion

jaytobe wrote: »

We are using Alphawave off Mt.Stuart, very reliable 3MB.

This is the weirdest company I ve seen so far when placing an order for one of my customer. They will get 4Mb for 32€ but that's the only thing they can get or Satellite. But so far it works, the only thing is the lack of communication as to know when, who, how long, etc...

I didn't enjoy placing the order, not a good experience, lack of follow up as well is a huge miss.

Anyway, it's now working but after installing the router, the guy asked the payment of the installation by cash only! I found it weird since Alphawave never mentioned anything about it (well they rarely give lots of detail about what they will do for you), so I refused and the guy handed over a paper for the Sepa that was the cost of... the installation! haha.

hotshot88

Celtarion wrote: »

I would definitely not recommend to move to Eir Fiber at all, the customer service is absolutely the worse I've ever faced. Consider DIGIWEB for fiber but depends of your need anyway and if your area is covered. The speed is way faster than Eir Fiber.

dont digiweb have a low fair usage limit? most of any offers i saw were 40 gb or 350 gb a month.

Celtarion

hotshot88 wrote: »

dont digiweb have a low fair usage limit? most of any offers i saw were 40 gb or 350 gb a month.

According to their website "unlimited data" for 49,95€

hotshot88

Celtarion wrote: »

According to their website "unlimited data" for 49,95€

from their website

"Unlimited Data: Digiweb operates an uncongested network and 350GB on this plan is considered fair use in any 30 day period prior to the 1st of the month. We do not throttle or cap service, however, if a customer exceeds the stated fair usage allowance for data on more than 2 occasions in any 90 day period, then Digiweb reserve the right to terminate or suspend the customer’s service. Digiweb will proactively contact customers in advance of any suspension or termination of service."

always read the small print, you'd be surprised what certain isp's tuck away in there

Celtarion

hotshot88 wrote: »

from their website

"Unlimited Data: Digiweb operates an uncongested network and 350GB on this plan is considered fair use in any 30 day period prior to the 1st of the month. We do not throttle or cap service, however, if a customer exceeds the stated fair usage allowance for data on more than 2 occasions in any 90 day period, then Digiweb reserve the right to terminate or suspend the customer’s service. Digiweb will proactively contact customers in advance of any suspension or termination of service."

always read the small print, you'd be surprised what certain isp's tuck away in there

Indeed! But in all fairness, I had a look at my traffic I hardly exceed 300GB a month...! I suppose that the number of people exceeding 350GB is quite low I think.

hotshot88

Celtarion wrote: »

Indeed! But in all fairness, I had a look at my traffic I hardly exceed 300GB a month...! I suppose that the number of people exceeding 350GB is quite low I think.

pherhaps, if you were living solo its prob enough,

but if theres two or three kids plus a partner browsing and streaming on a daily basis, thats where its falls short.depends on what you use the broadband for and how many devices with updates you use(laptops, phones, tv box, netflix,etc) all adds up. im not knocking the service, but when im paying for unlimited, thats what i like it to be

Celtarion

hotshot88 wrote: »

pherhaps, if you were living solo its prob enough,

but if theres two or three kids plus a partner browsing and streaming on a daily basis, thats where its falls short.depends on what you use the broadband for and how many devices with updates you use(laptops, phones, tv box, netflix,etc) all adds up. im not knocking the service, but when im paying for unlimited, thats what i like it to be

Yep I know what you mean! I share with someone else, but believe me, she is a countless gigabytes user, and we have lots of stuff connected via the router.

But do we watch 350 movies of 1GB?? no, never. We don't have TV either. But I agree unlimited means what it means.

Digiweb has a very good service, Sales and customer service. I had to switch with them as they bought SmartTelecom which was excellent. And I never encountered any problems at all.

Should anyone wants to switch to Digiwebm let me know they have a referral/customer incentives, they do offer 30€ off on the next bill for new customers and for the person who referred the new customer

hotshot88

anyone using caseys new routers figure out the login/password for them yet, the technicolor ones. cant seem to figure it out

XtraFalcon

hotshot88 wrote: »

anyone using caseys new routers figure out the login/password for them yet, the technicolor ones. cant seem to figure it out

I used to be able to login with username: Admin and blank password but it doesn't seem to be working anymore.

I've tried a few different of the usual combinations but doesn't seem to be working unless they changed it.

sleepyholland

Has anyone recently signed up to broadband in Dungarvan and been happy with their service. I'm looking for fast, reliable, consistent broadband up and down - does it exist? (moving there soon - to the Abbeyside area)

Bonkers.ie tells me these are the options.
http://postimg.org/image/e58048jan/

XtraFalcon

I'd say check with some of the larger companies first off like Eir to see if they can guarantee you decent speeds. If not I'd check with our most local provider Casey's Cablesurf.

I'm not sure about the total coverage in Abbeyside.

I have Cablesurf myself and over Christmas it wouldn't work from 19:00 until 00:00 but in the last 2 weeks or so the speed has started to hop off the walls (in a good way). At the moment it's fine but it could be a different story tomorrow.

My sister has Sky broadband and it's fine for her normal web browsing and Netflix.

I've heard lots of good things about Eir Fiber so they could be a good choice. If you enter your address into their website they should be able to tell you what speeds you can expect.

hotshot88

XtraFalcon wrote: »

I used to be able to login with username: Admin and blank password but it doesn't seem to be working anymore.

I've tried a few different of the usual combinations but doesn't seem to be working unless they changed it.

got it

for the technicolor routers

admin(all small caps)
W2402

lertsnim

Looks like Caseys has deemed us all to be worthy of the improved but still rather pathetic upload speed of 5 meg

XtraFalcon

hotshot88 wrote: »

admin(all small caps)
W2402

I actually just checked my saved passwords in Chrome and it's saved as Username: Admin
Password:

So that's strange as I'm sure I was checking ports in Jan/Feb

lertsnim wrote: »

Looks like Caseys has deemed us all to be worthy of the improved but still rather pathetic upload speed of 5 meg

The upload should be at least 20MBPS considering the current state of the download speeds. I'd even settle for 10 so I could upload some work projects from home.

sleepyholland

What kind of download speeds are you getting with Casey's these days?
I need to sign up with someone for broadband soon as really need the best provider. Is it Casey's?

lertsnim

60 - 70. People I know with the new modem get 200 +

XtraFalcon

sleepyholland wrote: »

What kind of download speeds are you getting with Casey's these days?
I need to sign up with someone for broadband soon as really need the best provider. Is it Casey's?

I have one of the *new* routers.

To Waterford:


To Dublin:


To London:

eeloe

Currently getting 198 down and 0.01 upload!

I hate my life right now! Tethering off my phone for the weekend it is.

lertsnim

After many complaints about my connection they begrudgingly changed the router but not until they blamed everything but them or the equipment for the problem. No surprises that it has been fine since they changed my router. The lads sent out to me are clueless and absolute spoofers.

XtraFalcon

eeloe wrote: »

Currently getting 198 down and 0.01 upload!

I hate my life right now! Tethering off my phone for the weekend it is.

I've just done this speedtest now.



I'm actually shocked the that Upload speed it that high however my Android TV Box is stopping and stalling like crazy.

On an unrelated note. Does anyone else have a 5G Router?

I originally had my phone hooked up due to the speed the phone could handle but as of late it can't be found when I search for Wi-Fi, only the 2G one can be located. Anyone know the story there?

lertsnim wrote: »

After many complaints about my connection they begrudgingly changed the router but not until they blamed everything but them or the equipment for the problem.

I had one of the lads here not too long ago and he blamed my phone for when I couldn't get a Wi-Fi signal (because when I can pick up Wi-Fi at work, downtown and the neighbour's Eir clearly it's my phone that's the issue), my brand new PC's network card was blamed as being faulty and my favourite one "You have too many devices connected to your router" (No I don't because I couldn't get a signal)

lertsnim

Their website says they offer 420 meg now. Anybody getting anywhere close to that?

eeloe

I'm giving them one more call this week.

If they can't sort it I'm going with Eir, slightly more expensive, but a friend of mine that lives a few doors away is getting 50down and 20up constantly!

XtraFalcon

lertsnim wrote: »

Their website says they offer 420 meg now. Anybody getting anywhere close to that?

Vodafone Speed tests always give the highest output and it's not even returning half of that.

I'd prefer consistency more than anything at this stage.

XtraFalcon

Last night and tonight the Internet has been downright unusable. Can't even access Speedtest to even try and get a reading. Using my Mobile 4G to get online, anyone else having issues?

lertsnim

No complaints here.

eeloe

Mines dodgy all evening too!

Absolute disaster

sleepyholland

I signed up with Caseys.
Very happy so far.

Wired, I am getting 350-430MBps download speeds 24/7, about 30MBps upload.
Wireless on the 5G I get around 300 down. 25 up.
The 5G doesn't reach other rooms in my house but the 2G isn't bad for that.
I also have 3 wired network points in the house, which helps.

XtraFalcon

sleepyholland wrote: »

I signed up with Caseys.
Very happy so far.

Wired, I am getting 350-430MBps download speeds 24/7, about 30MBps upload.
Wireless on the 5G I get around 300 down. 25 up.
The 5G doesn't reach other rooms in my house but the 2G isn't bad for that.
I also have 3 wired network points in the house, which helps.

The issue with mine is that during the day it's fine but I'm at work during the day so I can't take advantage of it.

This is the same issue I had at Christmas which lasted until March. During the evening time the speed and connectivity dies. I can't connect on any of my devices and when it does connect simple things like watching a Youtube video becomes a harrowing experience. It buffers after 4 seconds of play time even on 240p and once it buffers it won't play again because it returns a message that it can't connect to the internet.

Over Christmas I called Casey's a couple of times and I had screenshots to show the technician and when I went to show him he basically just scoffed them off and said they didn't matter. He then tests the line sees that it works and then off he goes.

Everything from the last time is also repeating, some have the issue and some don't. Some suffer no connectivity at all and some can barely connect.

I'm not trying to be difficult with anyone, I just want to be able to watch a Youtube video in peace which it was fully capable of doing last week and now it can barely stay connected. So if whatever has changed in the last week or so can be rolled back I'm guessing everything would be fine.

I heard that last time they were using some route through the UK which was overloaded and that was why it's as bad as it was. I can only assume that the exact same thing is happening and it's incredibly frustrating.