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Name me a good provider

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  • 17-09-2013 12:05pm
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    Gunnersaurus
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭


    Hi all,

    In the process of moving home and I've learnt my lesson about going with a cheap Broadband provider (3 have given me nothing but trouble).

    Assuming I have a good choice of providers, who do you recomend going with - Im not too concerned with price and I will be doing the following:

    Downloading a couple of large files a week, possibly 5 GB's worth (wink wink nudge nudge) :rolleyes:

    Watching a bit of football streaming at weekends

    Other day to day usage such as checking email & YouTube.

    As I said, I want quality - not too concerned with paying a good price, any advice would be great.

    Thanks.
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    Mr. G
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


    UPC if you can get it.

    If you can't VDSL providers such as Eircom or Vodafone would do up to 70Mb download speeds.


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    Gunnersaurus
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭Gunnersaurus


    Thanks Mr.G - I was thinking of going for UPC alright, have you heard anything about Wimax?


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    King Krib
    Closed Accounts Posts: 600 ✭✭✭King Krib


    I got Sky in last week and I find it great. Downloaded a file off PSN it was about 1.7 gb took about 25mins I think.


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    Gunnersaurus
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭Gunnersaurus


    Is Sky unlimited broadband?


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    King Krib
    Closed Accounts Posts: 600 ✭✭✭King Krib


    Gunnersaurus wrote: »
    Is Sky unlimited broadband?

    Yeah it sure is. Doesn't seem to have any slow down either. I've had it a week and could only say good things about it.


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    whiterebel
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭whiterebel


    I got Sky in back in July, and got persistent drops in connection. In fairness to them after a couple of calls and emails, they admitted that they had made a mistake that they couldn't fix: The profile on my line was always set to 6144 download, and was steady as a rock with UTV and then with VF until July. When Sky took it over, they saw the line was capable of taking 10,000ish and set it to 9250. This made it unstable, with 3/4/5 dropouts a day. Certainly noticeably quicker when it worked, but not much good when it kept dropping. Got a call yesterday from Sky to say they can't change the profile back down, and would release me from the contract immediately. Put an order in with VF for the eFibre yesterday, so happy days (Hopefully)


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