Internet Service Provider Popularity Poll

Reamer Fanny · 03-03-2011 7:47pm #1

I thought it would be interesting to find out which Internet Service Provider is most popular in Ireland, so I have created a poll to give us an idea.

Simple vote which ISP your currently with and (if you like) reply with what package you have with said ISP.

Captain Commie · 03-03-2011 7:49pm

nm, Im on UPC 30MB - great product tho their modem is crap

Reamer Fanny · 03-03-2011 7:50pm

Sorry just put it up now

BengaLover · 03-03-2011 7:51pm

I voted for my providor cos its my providor, but thats no indication of how i feel about it, im with eircom and not happy.

Reamer Fanny · 03-03-2011 7:54pm

I was with Eircom for many years, but switched to UPC about a year ago mainly because they already had the infrastructure in place for high-speed broadband

seanybiker · 03-03-2011 7:55pm

Eircom and no probs which seems to be strange

paddyk · 03-03-2011 8:14pm

I'm with Smart. 4Mb Package which is the most my Ceappy DSL line will take. Very happy with them, Just wish I could get better speeds. It is no reflection on them though that my speeds are slow.

UPC are currently upgrading my area to BB and Phone and will switch once it is up and running.

Freddie59 · 03-03-2011 10:06pm

UPC 20 Megs.:)

Aishae · 03-03-2011 10:12pm

was with clearwire house broadband for 3-4 years and never had any problems at all. seemed a grand enough speed, not great not bad either.
was with 02 prepay mobile broadband but was getting through the credit too fast.
so i tried 3 mobile broadband - absolute nightmare
have an eircom mobile broadband for 3 years now and its been good (we needed 2 in this house thats why we tried so many)
but we went back to eircom ngs house broadband recently and its been good. customner service was good.

Yo soy el burro · 03-03-2011 10:30pm

Have a mobile o2 thing cos wouldn't touch eircom, wimax are full no upc in my area and out of the three mobile options o2 seemed the best but am lucky to get over 1 mb. Considering handing it back and tell them if they want cancellation fees i'll see them in court!!!

7.2 mb my bottom

d22ontour · 03-03-2011 10:43pm

You include Imagine and Clearwire in your poll but no Smart or Digiweb ?

Smart 10 meg , flawless service. :cool:

watty · 03-03-2011 10:46pm

Clearwire doesn't exist

BT don't do retail anymore.

Vodafone = IOL, BT Retail, Perlico and Vodafone DSL as well as Vodafone Mobile

Digiweb is one of the big ones

Smart and Talk Talk are Digiweb Brands

Where is Permanet, Ripplecom, Airwire, Westnet?

Casey cable Surf

There used to be 85 Irish ISPs. Less now

Aishae · 03-03-2011 10:51pm

clearwire was bought by imagine yes. would be hard to include them all - hadnt even heard of some of the ones mentioned though....... are some of them pretty new?

used to be 85? flippin heck... when i started there was eircom and the odd mention of esat and oceanfree

John mac · 03-03-2011 10:53pm

I was using Westnet for 6 years up until recently, Great service.
on Vodafone now,

Yo soy el burro · 03-03-2011 11:20pm

Aishae wrote: »

used to be 85? flippin heck... when i started there was eircom and the odd mention of esat and oceanfree

You'd be suppressed how many there are in the country if you added in all the small regional ones (no where near 85 thou!).

Reamer Fanny · 03-03-2011 11:22pm

Aishae wrote: »

clearwire was bought by imagine yes. would be hard to include them all - hadnt even heard of some of the ones mentioned though....... are some of them pretty new?

used to be 85? flippin heck... when i started there was eircom and the odd mention of esat and oceanfree

I had oceanfree 56k dialup back in the day

DRice · 04-03-2011 2:06am

esat clear no limits for me

IR£20 a month unlimited connection time..unless you left it on all day then you got a letter

..internet was measured by time spent online back then

slave1 · 04-03-2011 10:25am

UPC 20mb, never an issue with modem, get 20mb connection and downloads at 2.3mb/sec constantly, phone glitch once/twice a year which doesn't bother me.

mickoneill30 · 04-03-2011 10:40am

UPC 30Mb. The modem isn't very sophisticated but I've no problems with it. Happy with the service.

04-03-2011 11:27am

UPC 100mb here, no issues & loving it.

Cabaal · 04-03-2011 12:38pm

I've edited the poll to correct some errors and also made it clearer

Reamer Fanny · 04-03-2011 2:08pm

I was wondering why nobody was voting Wimax since everybody loves a jingle

watty · 05-03-2011 2:26pm

Don't confuse WiMax and Imagine WiMax.
WiMax a collection of Mobile or Fixed technologies. Many Irish Companies using Fixed WiMax to give reliable Broadband.

Imagine WiMax: Only Imagine's Nomadic /Mobile 3.6GHz Motorola and Intel Promoted product and Service. Before Imagine took over IBB was already deploying some BreezeMax, which is high quality Fixed WiMax. Imagine WiMax isn't Broadband, but Midband.

See http://www.techtir.ie/forums/internet-faq

Reamer Fanny · 05-03-2011 2:50pm

Thanks for clearing that up

Lafortezza · 05-03-2011 9:35pm

Digiweb 7MB DSL here, rock solid service, pretty good customer service and they seem to be fairly lax with their enforcement of up/download allowances which is nice.