UPC 100meg dropping to €50pm???

TheZohanS

If you upgrade your package are you tied to another 12 month contract?

pm.

Thor wrote: »

YES an extra 20MB is everything!!!

You greedy FCuk I wish I had 10 lol 100mb I wish.... how long would it take to dl a 800mb file with that type of speed ?

vibe666

pm. wrote: »

You greedy FCuk I wish I had 10 lol 100mb I wish.... how long would it take to dl a 800mb file with that type of speed ?

comfortably less than 2 minutes (closer to 1 minute) if you were getting the full 100mbps and could find somewhere to download it that quickly from.

to be fair though, you're only talking 10-15 minutes for that kind of download on 10mbps.

vibe666

i was up early so i did a little test whilst i knew nobody else would be online and here's what the results were according to the stats on my router, downloading a random 638mb linux ISO from ftp.heanet.ie



it's about a minute anyway as you can see.

here's quick speedtest from the time i did the doswnload.



not too shabby.

Richard Dower

vibe666 wrote: »

i was up early so i did a little test whilst i knew nobody else would be online and here's what the results were according to the stats on my router, downloading a random 638mb linux ISO from ftp.heanet.ie



it's about a minute anyway as you can see.

here's quick speedtest from the time i did the doswnload.



not too shabby.

Jammy git :mad:

Anan1

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Does that mean that for existing 50mb customers it is worthwhile changing to 100mb?

I asked UPC this question today, and was told that I could upgrade my 50Mb package to 100Mb for €5/month from the 5th September.

aN.Droid

pm. wrote: »

You greedy FCuk I wish I had 10 lol 100mb I wish.... how long would it take to dl a 800mb file with that type of speed ?

about 50 seconds if you get max speed. which I do from astraweb.

Nollog

TheZohan wrote: »

If you upgrade your package are you tied to another 12 month contract?

Yes you are.

vibe666

Richard Dower wrote: »

Jammy git :mad:

to be fair, it's not always rock solid at that speed, sometimes if it's busy pn a weekday evening it might drop to 30mbps, but i just tried it there at 1:45pm on a saturday afternoon and got this, so it's hard to complain for the money.

SachaJ

Checked the site this morning and either the site is wrong or they've given us all the incorrect price.

According to the site, the broadband is €55 a month or €50 if you take the phone

donutheadhomer

SachaJ wrote: »

Checked the site this morning and either the site is wrong or they've given us all the incorrect price.

According to the site, the broadband is €55 a month or €50 if you take the phone

no they told me 55 standalone 100mb or 50 with phone

SachaJ

EurasianBadger wrote: »

no they told me 55 standalone 100mb or 50 with phone

Fair enough. I read elsewhere on the forums it would be €55 including the phone or €50 for the broadband alone.

vibe666

SachaJ wrote: »

Fair enough. I read elsewhere on the forums it would be €55 including the phone or €50 for the broadband alone.

no, they WANT you to take the phone (i'm guessing as an additional revenue stream, if you have it you'll use it kinda thing) so since they launched the 100mbps they made it cheaper to get the phone and broadband together than it was for the broadband on its own.

Melendez

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vibe666

Melendez wrote: »

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they sent out the letter to existing customers. it would have to be particularly cruel for them (even by normal UPC standards) to rub it in our faces if it was another new user special offer.

donutheadhomer

vibe666 wrote: »

they sent out the letter to existing customers. it would have to be particularly cruel for them (even by normal UPC standards) to rub it in our faces if it was another new user special offer.

From: UPC Social [mailto:sociale@upc.ie] On Behalf Of >UPC Social
Sent: 30 August 2011 16:17
To: XXXXX
Subject: RE: a/c XXXXXXX


Hi XXXXXXX



Firstly, apologies for the delay in getting back to you with confirmation on your query.



I can confirm that the Fibre Power 100 pack (i.e. 100 Mb Broadband, Phone and Freetime world) will definitely be €50 per month.



Apologies if Billing informed you otherwise last week.



Regards,



The UPC Social Media Team

SachaJ

I presume you can get it and not actually use the phone? Or will there be some minimum use policy?

Anan1

SachaJ wrote: »

I presume you can get it and not actually use the phone? Or will there be some minimum use policy?

I have the phone with anytime calls, and i'm only charged for calls outside of what's included in the bundle. If you didn't use it at all there'd be no charges for calls.

jimmycrackcorm

Did anyone get upgraded for an extra fiver today?

Anan1

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Did anyone get upgraded for an extra fiver today?

I made the call this morning and they said they'd do it, but it hasn't kicked in yet.

Yakuza

Melendez wrote: »

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I got a letter to that effect so I hope so

donutheadhomer

Yakuza wrote: »

I got a letter to that effect so I hope so

see my email above from them

Paul007

Anyone know the situation with the 50meg?

I got the UPC letter stating the 50 meg packages would be priced as follows:-
fibre 50 with freetime world- 39eur
fibre 50 with anytime world- 44eur

Looking at their website, it now says freetime world is actually 45eur with anytime world a fiver extra.

Assuming the website is correct, it seems a little unfair that the 100meg pack has dropped from 57eur to 50eur whilst the 50meg pack has only dropped 2eur

I wonder if they'd be willing to honour the prices quoted in the letter?

pjproby

I have spent two days trying to upgrade to the 100mb package and have now given up,
i have a 3.ie mobile phone. 3 frequently are frequently criticised for their Indian call centre.
I can assure you their Indian call centre have a lot to be proud of compared to UPC where UPC staff speak English perfectly but are incapable of communicating.

ArthurG

Currently on 50meg plus basic phone pack (€52/month).

Rang up this morning and asked if it's possible to be moved onto the mentioned package (100meg, freetime world, €50/month).

Was immediately put through to customer loyalty (note I'm only with UPC a few months....).

They did some checking and put me on this package.

Delira.

Have gone from 20 meg for €42/month when I signed up in April to 100meg plus phone for €50 within the space of 6 months - not bad!!

Jilm

ArthurG wrote: »

Have gone from 20 meg for €42/month when I signed up in April to 100meg plus phone for €50 within the space of 6 months - not bad!!

What about the €7.75 standalone charge or do you have them for TV as well?

ArthurG

Phone = standing charge waived

ArthurG

Curses! My irrational need for ever faster broadband has backfired!

Got home from work on Friday last to fire up speedtest and brag about my blazing speed, power cycled the modem, couldn't get a connection.

Long story short, there's a signal issue in my area. I initially thought this was too much of a coincidence, but some of my neighbours are in the same boat.

Had the tech out yesterday, nothing he can fix, needs level 2 network support (or something).

That's due for tomorrow - now 6 days sans fast broadband, which makes baby Jesus cry.

On a positive note, my iPhone 4 (with 3) is proving to be a fairly capable hot spot - I even connected into my work VPN with zero problems the last 2 days.

But I want my 100 meg working!

vibe666

keep the faith brother rabbit, it'll be worth the wait.

jimmycrackcorm

I'm having a "Little Britain" moment with UPC C/S. I rang up to get the €5 upgrade to 100mb and I just get "Computer says No". But it also says not available for the 50mb which I actually have.

They say that they cannot help me as their system won't allow it. I only managed to get the 50mb in the first place by using the online ordering.