Imagine wimax in North County Dublin

DublinBeaker

Hi there.
Just wondering would anybody recommend imagine wimax in North County Dublin.

Particularly the up to 10mb speed and unlimited calls for 19 euro.

What's your experience like and what kinda download speeds do you

Thanks for advice.

DesperateDan

I personally would never recommend wimax to anyone for what it's worth. We had a year with them in direct line of site with the mast, we paid for 10mbps but rarely got above 1-2, lots of calls and fobbing us off. Also they throttle the broadband if you hit their cap (which at the time for us was 50gb, probably more now)

DublinBeaker

Very positive comments so far. :-)

yoyo

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DublinBeaker

DesperateDan wrote: »

I personally would never recommend wimax to anyone for what it's worth. We had a year with them in direct line of site with the mast, we paid for 10mbps but rarely got above 1-2, lots of calls and fobbing us off. Also they throttle the broadband if you hit their cap (which at the time for us was 50gb, probably more now)

Hi desperatedan
Is your experience with them recent enough?

Irish Steve

Slightly out of the area asked about, in Ashbourne, and for the last couple of years, been using Wimax here, with no real issues other than occasional slow down that I suspect is congestion on their DNS servers, but the speeds are good, can regularly download at at over 1MB per second reliably for reasonable periods even at peak times, and without transmission errors.

Phone service is also OK, only snag is that if power goes, so does broadband and phone, as the hub is dead, so a mobile is essential for emergency services etc.

Hope that helps

Steve

BeerWolf

Irish Steve wrote: »

Slightly out of the area asked about, in Ashbourne, and for the last couple of years, been using Wimax here, with no real issues other than occasional slow down that I suspect is congestion on their DNS servers, but the speeds are good, can regularly download at at over 1MB per second reliably for reasonable periods even at peak times, and without transmission errors.

Phone service is also OK, only snag is that if power goes, so does broadband and phone, as the hub is dead, so a mobile is essential for emergency services etc.

Hope that helps

Steve

I live near Ashbourne myself [by Oldtown]. Ripplecom will be cutting me off anyday now - how far is the mast from you ?

And on a side note - you're in Ashbourne, why on earth are you on wireless when you can surely get eFibre / UPC / upto 70MB ?!

DesperateDan

Ah my experience is from 2011, so afaik not too long after wimax was first rolled out, I'm sure they are much better nowadays about throttling you etc., but I still wouldn't ever use them again (We were in Dundalk).