Alternative Broadband outside city

Jack burton

Ok I'm moving house to just outside the city and after ringing UPC it turns out that the lines where I'm going wernt upgraded and can only handle TV.

So does anyone have any experience if using other broadband services around Waterford and be able to let me know what would be the best to get. I'm not 100% sure about using eircom aswell because I dont know what the story is with the phone line is.

Thanks

ex_infantry man

Jack burton wrote: »

Ok I'm moving house to just outside the city and after ringing UPC it turns out that the lines where I'm going wernt upgraded and can only handle TV.

So does anyone have any experience if using other broadband services around Waterford and be able to let me know what would be the best to get. I'm not 100% sure about using eircom aswell because I dont know what the story is with the phone line is.

Thanks

i live in kill st lawrence and have imagine wimax out here and it works brilliantly

CardBordWindow

A friend is living out near the airport, and has Wimax. Hasn't had any issues with it, other than having that Wimax song in his head whenever someone asks him about his broadband!

Jack burton

Yeah i was just looking around and I'd say that would one my my best options. Mind me asking what plan your on and do you actually get the speed your supposed to be getting?

ex_infantry man

Jack burton wrote: »

Yeah i was just looking around and I'd say that would one my my best options. Mind me asking what plan your on and do you actually get the speed your supposed to be getting?

yeah getting the right speed, i,m on the 7mb package its 35.58 a month and finding it really good the only issue i,ve had is when it went down all over waterford one night two weeks ago have it 5 months and thats the only issue

callaway92

ex_infantry man wrote: »

yeah getting the right speed, i,m on the 7mb package its 35.58 a month and finding it really good the only issue i,ve had is when it went down all over waterford one night two weeks ago have it 5 months and thats the only issue

Ouch, , , That's a pretty sick downgrade from the 25MB UPC

Jack burton

Ah right, I'll have to double check about the phone line. Because I'd prefer to be getting a fixed line over wireless.

Worst thing is that I'm about 100 meters from where UPC stopped upgrading lines

ex_infantry man

callaway92 wrote: »

Ouch, , , That's a pretty sick downgrade from the 25MB UPC

ah shur it does me, aint as if i,m running a whole office of pc,s from me house

AdMMM

I would definitely recommend a DSL solution over that provided by WiMAX/3G providers. The line rental can be a bit off putting but this is absorbed in some of the bundles that are advertised!

Jack burton

well yeah I'll definitely try and get a DSL if i can at all. Any recommendation for that? Considering there's gaming and a nice bit of downloading involved

ex_infantry man

AdMMM wrote: »

I would definitely recommend a DSL solution over that provided by WiMAX/3G providers. The line rental can be a bit off putting but this is absorbed in some of the bundles that are advertised!

wimax is 4G

Jack burton wrote: »

well yeah I'll definitely try and get a DSL if i can at all. Any recommendation for that? Considering there's gaming and a nice bit of downloading involved

i do loads of gaming on the wimax and have no problems ever with it!!!

S28382

I have wimax and its great and im getting more speed than i should be it has 2 ipods a macbook 3 xbox 360s and 2 smartfones running off the connection and it doesnt lag at all so happy days

paul-2008

one thing ill say, stay away from eircom broadband...

ex_infantry man

paul-2008 wrote: »

one thing ill say, stay away from eircom broadband...

why do ya say that?

wellboytoo

I live 2 miles from Waterford on a main road , I had Eircom narrowband and nearly went off my skull, it was worse than dial up at times, I got Wimax, ported my telephone number, two years ago and never looked back, have VOIP two pc's thtree lap tops in the house and rarely a problem, and no €29.00 line rental

Jambo

Jack burton wrote: »

Ah right, I'll have to double check about the phone line. Because I'd prefer to be getting a fixed line over wireless.

Worst thing is that I'm about 100 meters from where UPC stopped upgrading lines

Jack you never know you may be able to get BB from UPC.

My folks (On the outskirts of the city)were told they could not get Broadband Ect from UPC yet 50% of their neighbours had it. We knew the cables were there but UPC we said they were not.

UPC also said it would cost too much to upgrade the area considering there was only 30 or 40 connections they would gain - again we persisted and told them the cables were there - as we remember them been installed plus 50% of the neighbours houses locally had the full service, so they said they would look into it.

Upon investigation they found out we were right all the time and it was down to UPC internally logging the address of the local properties incorrectly ( County Vs City Address), within 2 days they were connected up - and upc gained 30 ro 40 customers instantally !! This was all of 6 weeks ago.

Sometimes it takes putting in a little groundwork - these folks on the other end of the phone can only tell them what their computer and manuals in from of them says and it up to the customer to reliably inform them different !

Jack burton

yeah thats exactly what I was told to do by someone else.

Trying to find a number for the Waterford office now

Jack burton

Ah no, looks like I could have gotten analogue tv there back in the day but the lines wernt upgraded for fibre.

So my options now are to either pay eircom 55 a month for 8Mb (lovely hidden 25 a month line rental that isnt mentioned on top of 30 a month)

Or I can get WiMax 10Mb for 45 a month

Dunno which to go for. I'm on eircom atm and my "8Mb" is really 4-4.5
Could I be better off with the 10Mb with Wimax?

AdMMM

Vodafone offer 8mb for €40, which includes line rental...

http://www.vodafone.ie/df/homebroadband/broadbandonly/

Jack burton

Forgot to say the phone line is disconnected haha

ex_infantry man

Jack burton wrote: »

Forgot to say the phone line is disconnected haha

i,m tellin ya!! go wimax ya won,t be dissappointed