UPC 240mb broadband and telephone package €45/month

eamondunphy

I thought if I set my Cisco 3925 to bridge mode, that the phone wouldn't work... Is this correct?

It's the only reason I didn't do it

Into The Blue

theintern wrote: »

Which one did you buy and what speeds are you getting?

upgraded to the 240mbit package
tplink tl-wpa4220kit

220mbit so far..

coolbreeze72

eamondunphy wrote: »

I thought if I set my Cisco 3925 to bridge mode, that the phone wouldn't work... Is this correct?

It's the only reason I didn't do it

No, phone still works!

leo2a6

Pablo1802 wrote: »

I upgraded to that Limitless 240 broadband with mobile calls package for €45 with a 12 months new contract + €10 off for the first 6 months.
So it's slightly better deal then it is available for new customers.

What is important is the great upload speed of about 24 Mbps which is very useful if you got google drive or similar services in the cloud.
And actually I am getting those connection speeds but only on cable as you can see on attached screenshot

how many free minutes do u get to irish mobiles ?

Into The Blue

leo2a6 wrote: »

how many free minutes do u get to irish mobiles ?

All day unlimited to landmine/mobile

Nickindublin

Just wondering if you sign up to BB and Phone package do they send you the Horizon box? I would be a new customer. Had that box last year but got rid of upc.

yoshimitsu

I'm currently on promo paying 38 Euro for 120mb, full TV package and phone which runs till May. After that I'll see what I can bargain with them or will threaten to cancel and open a new account in my partner's name (which is what got me my current promo)
Maybe just highlight one fact which should be kept in consideration:
To allow Three Ireland to take over O2's Irish mobile business, UPC committed to take a very favourable mobile wholesale agreement with them middle of last year. I would be expecting UPC to release soon a bundle which includes a mobile phone service. Other UPC sister companies do this in Europe (in Uk, Holland and Belgium) and they are usually very good offers which in combination with Wi-Fi sharing and the Voip phone app turn out to be excellent value.
I would assume that they'd launch with some pretty aggressive promo a on the back of this
If like me you are in a promo it may make sense to wait it out until these bundles come

Into The Blue

Nickindublin wrote: »

Just wondering if you sign up to BB and Phone package do they send you the Horizon box? I would be a new customer. Had that box last year but got rid of upc.

I got the bb and phone deal. Come with a technicolor modem/router. Max wifi of 70ish mbps. Upc have bridge mode locked in it, but a bit of searching will show you how to enable it so you can connect your own wifi router

bromley52

yoshimitsu wrote: »

I'm currently on promo paying 38 Euro for 120mb, full TV package and phone which runs till May. After that I'll see what I can bargain with them or will threaten to cancel and open a new account in my partner's name (which is what got me my current promo)
Maybe just highlight one fact which should be kept in consideration:
To allow Three Ireland to take over O2's Irish mobile business, UPC committed to take a very favourable mobile wholesale agreement with them middle of last year. I would be expecting UPC to release soon a bundle which includes a mobile phone service. Other UPC sister companies do this in Europe (in Uk, Holland and Belgium) and they are usually very good offers which in combination with Wi-Fi sharing and the Voip phone app turn out to be excellent value.
I would assume that they'd launch with some pretty aggressive promo a on the back of this
If like me you are in a promo it may make sense to wait it out until these bundles come

UPC have no problem with in contract customers moving to new products and beginning new contracts. Iv done this and Iv also got what ever deal was going at the time. I only ever deal with the loyalty dept as well. The contract and €200 breakage clause is to encourage you to stage with UPC for the duration of whatever contact you are on.

Talisman

cruhoortwunk wrote: »

How did you get the router to work with it if you havent changed to bridging mode? You have it in routing mode, with another router plugged into it?

You set the DMZ Host on the Cable Modem to the IP address of your router. Turn off the firewall/set it to the lowest setting.

My setup:
Technicolor Modem - 192.168.0.1
http://192.168.0.1/advanced/dmz.asp
DMZ Host : 192.168.0.2
Firewall : Low (It wasn't possible to switch it off at the time of setup)

Draytek Vigor router:
WAN Configuration
Connection : Static IP
IP Address : 192.168.0.2
Default Gateway : 192.168.0.1

LAN Configuration
IP Address : 192.168.0.3
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

The network clients have been configured to use the LAN port (192.168.0.3) of my router as the gateway.

Nickindublin

Into The Blue wrote: »

I got the bb and phone deal. Come with a technicolor modem/router. Max wifi of 70ish mbps. Upc have bridge mode locked in it, but a bit of searching will show you how to enable it so you can connect your own wifi router

When i had the horizon bxz i just connected my own router and that worked to get speeds of 200mb. Can this be done with the technicolor modem?

ThisRegard

bromley52 wrote: »

UPC have no problem with in contract customers moving to new products and beginning new contracts. Iv done this and Iv also got what ever deal was going at the time. I only ever deal with the loyalty dept as well.

I do it myself all the time, but usually through the regular sales guys.

bk

Nickindublin wrote: »

When i had the horizon bxz i just connected my own router and that worked to get speeds of 200mb. Can this be done with the technicolor modem?

It can, I do as mentioned earlier.

bk

cruhoortwunk wrote: »

How did you get the router to work with it if you havent changed to bridging mode? You have it in routing mode, with another router plugged into it?

It is far from elegant, I really should set up bridging, but this is what I do.

I simply plug my wifi router into a port on the Tehnicolor modem, I change the IP address of my wifi router to 192.168.1.1 (the IP address of the Technicolor is 192.168.1.0). I also set the DHCP of the wifi router to issues IP addresses to connected devices in the range of 192.168.1.x

degsie

bk wrote: »

It is far from elegant, I really should set up bridging, but this is what I do.

I simply plug my wifi router into a port on the Tehnicolor modem, I change the IP address of my wifi router to 192.168.1.1 (the IP address of the Technicolor is 192.168.1.0). I also set the DHCP of the wifi router to issues IP addresses to connected devices in the range of 192.168.1.x

You sure about that? That is a network address and can't be used as a host ip address.

cruhoortwunk

degsie wrote: »

You sure about that? That is a network address and can't be used as a host ip address.

I'd say he means 192.168.0.1

cruhoortwunk

bk wrote: »

It is far from elegant, I really should set up bridging, but this is what I do.

I simply plug my wifi router into a port on the Tehnicolor modem, I change the IP address of my wifi router to 192.168.1.1 (the IP address of the Technicolor is 192.168.1.0). I also set the DHCP of the wifi router to issues IP addresses to connected devices in the range of 192.168.1.x

Elegant or no, if you get 200Mb over wifi, youre doing something right

zefer

Is the 240MB package (€45) the only one that has mobile calls included?

keithclancy

bk wrote: »

It is far from elegant, I really should set up bridging, but this is what I do.

I simply plug my wifi router into a port on the Tehnicolor modem, I change the IP address of my wifi router to 192.168.1.1 (the IP address of the Technicolor is 192.168.1.0). I also set the DHCP of the wifi router to issues IP addresses to connected devices in the range of 192.168.1.x

I think you would do something like:

If the ip of your UPC Modem is 192.168.1.1 set your Wifi router to something that is in the same range e.g. 192.168.1.2

Set DMZ on your UPC Router to point to 192.168.1.2

Turn off DHCP on the UPC Modem

Turn on DHCP on the Wifi Router and set it to hand out addresses like:

192.168.1.10-60

Primary DNS Server 89.101.160.4
Alternate DNS Server 89.101.160.5

IMO I would go the bridging route, this setup can have problems with Bit Torrent and SIP

bromley52

zefer wrote: »

Is the 240MB package (€45) the only one that has mobile calls included?

Yes. The €40 package doesn't so you are paying €5 extra for free mobile.

bk

degsie wrote: »

You sure about that? That is a network address and can't be used as a host ip address.

Yeah sorry, typo there, the Technicolors IP address is 192.168.0.1

keithclancy wrote: »

I think you would do something like:

If the ip of your UPC Modem is 192.168.1.1 set your Wifi router to something that is in the same range e.g. 192.168.1.2

Set DMZ on your UPC Router to point to 192.168.1.2

Turn off DHCP on the UPC Modem

Turn on DHCP on the Wifi Router and set it to hand out addresses like:

192.168.1.10-60

Primary DNS Server 89.101.160.4
Alternate DNS Server 89.101.160.5

IMO I would go the bridging route, this setup can have problems with Bit Torrent and SIP

Yup you can do that too. I forgot to mention that in my setup, I turn off DHCP and wireless on the UCP modem and I set the the wifi router to hand out IP addresses in the range of 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.200

I also have nothing else plugged into the UPC modem, everything hangs off the wifi router. I have 3 x 8 port gigbit switches around the apartment for extra ports.

All designed to avoid conflict between the two devices. I absolutely agree that bridging would be better, however I haven't seen any issues with bittorrent, etc. with my current setup.

cruhoortwunk

keithclancy wrote: »

I think you would do something like:

If the ip of your UPC Modem is 192.168.1.1 set your Wifi router to something that is in the same range e.g. 192.168.1.2

Set DMZ on your UPC Router to point to 192.168.1.2

Turn off DHCP on the UPC Modem

Turn on DHCP on the Wifi Router and set it to hand out addresses like:

192.168.1.10-60

Primary DNS Server 89.101.160.4
Alternate DNS Server 89.101.160.5

IMO I would go the bridging route, this setup can have problems with Bit Torrent and SIP

Anything special that needs to be set for bridging mode? I have it running, but I am only getting 80Mb d/l on my own router, whereas direct connection to the modem gives me 200 d/l

rogercross

Would the following router be able to handle the traffic of the 240MB UPC package do you think: TPLink: 300Mbps Wireless N Router - TL-WR841N

I have the cisco 3925 in bridge mode connected to the TP Link, presently on the 30mb package and considering making the leap to the faster ones that have just become available to me.

droidman123

Does anyone know if the horizon box you get with this package act as the router as well as the TV box or is the router separate?

bromley52

droidman123 wrote: »

Does anyone know if the horizon box you get with this package act as the router as well as the TV box or is the router separate?

Horizon box is combined router and tv. If you already have a suitable upc router it is recommended that you keep using that instead of the horizon box as it is still very buggy and the range is not very good. You are allowed to do this even though they may try to talk you out of it or charge you €60 for the privilege. A quick chat with the loyalty dept would sort that out.

droidman123

bromley52 wrote: »

Horizon box is combined router and tv. If you already have a suitable upc router it is recommended that you keep using that instead of the horizon box as it is still very buggy and the range is not very good. You are allowed to do this even though they may try to talk you out of it or charge you €60 for the privilege. A quick chat with the loyalty dept would sort that out.

I have my phone service with upc also,so if i kept my current router i assume i would just leave the landline phone plugged into my current router and just use the horizon box for tv only?

cuppa

What is upc's web site is it www.upc.ie , because I cant seem to be able to connect to it , tried chrome and explorer.

droidman123

its always extremely slow, useless site; if you click on it, it will eventually load, just give it a bit of time

dashcamdanny

Thanks for this alert.

I was paying 43 for 24Mb with phone and no extra mins on the phone line.

Not sure if the extra bandwidth will be any use as 24m was already plenty. But the home phone and being able to call internationally is a real benefit.

Had to pay 60 for connection and new router though.

What is the upload speed with this package?

EuskalHerria

With all the talk on here the last few pages, will the router that is supplied with this offer be capable if achieving the advertised speed? I've ordered this but now I'm wondering.

tharmor

I have two frequencies on my Cisco3925..........can i use the 5.1 Ghz to get more speed ? I only get 55 Mbps on my 200 Mbps over WiFi !! Thanks

Mimikyu

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tharmor

Captain Morgan wrote:

5GHz usually doesn't give as good coverage as 2.4 but it should give you a good speed increase (also good if there is a lot of other 2.4GHz devices in the area as there is a lot less interference on 5GHz)

my laptop and chromecast only found the network...mobile could not !!

Mimikyu

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Kintarō Hattori

bromley52 wrote: »

Ring the UPC loyalty dept on 061 272190. They are so nice and have no problem in giving the 'new customer offers' or better to existing customer. The main sales staff are completely clueless and rude.

Any idea what time these guys work until? I had thought it was up to 9pm?

Laphroaig52

With UPC, does 240 MB mean 240 MB?

I currently have an 'upto' 24 MB service with digiweb but it rarely goes above 12 (according to speedtest.net) and never above 14 - apparently due to the line from the exchange

If I go with UPC will it be the same story or can I expect the full advertised speed. I've asked UPC reps this question several times but never got a straight answer.

dashcamdanny

Flyer28 wrote: »

With UPC, does 240 MB mean 240 MB?

I currently have an 'upto' 24 MB service with digiweb but it rarely goes above 12 (according to speedtest.net) and never above 14 - apparently due to the line from the exchange

If I go with UPC will it be the same story or can I expect the full advertised speed. I've asked UPC reps this question several times but never got a straight answer.

I get slightly over my current 25Mb allowance . But this could be about where you live.

El Inho

ArtyM wrote: »

Whats the contract length on these - 12/18/24 months?

18 with discount or 12 without

fullirish

Hi

Just switched over to this 240mg package with upc - I have the Cisco EPC3925 and only getting 35-40 download and 24 upload - if the upload is one tenth normally up the download why amn't I getting 240 download ? Is it them or me ?

cheers
fullirish

Mimikyu

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ThisRegard

Flyer28 wrote: »

With UPC, does 240 MB mean 240 MB?

I currently have an 'upto' 24 MB service with digiweb but it rarely goes above 12 (according to speedtest.net) and never above 14 - apparently due to the line from the exchange

If I go with UPC will it be the same story or can I expect the full advertised speed. I've asked UPC reps this question several times but never got a straight answer.

In my experience you get pretty much what is advertised, give or take a 1Mb or two.

fullirish

@ Captain Morgan - the download speed i am getting is the same wired and wireless - 35 to 40 , up to a couple of months ago I used to get a d/l of 70 but now not over 40, but since I switched to the 240mg package the upload has doubled from 12 to 24.

dashcamdanny

Im just wondering why anyone would need 240mb going to a home . Its seems quite excessive for a normal families needs.

cruhoortwunk

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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What router do you have, and what wifi card in your laptop?

bromley52

Flyer28 wrote: »

With UPC, does 240 MB mean 240 MB?

I currently have an 'upto' 24 MB service with digiweb but it rarely goes above 12 (according to speedtest.net) and never above 14 - apparently due to the line from the exchange

If I go with UPC will it be the same story or can I expect the full advertised speed. I've asked UPC reps this question several times but never got a straight answer.

For actual download speed divide by ~8

Into The Blue

dashcamdanny wrote: »

Im just wondering why anyone would need 240mb going to a home . Its seems quite excessive for a normal families needs.

Three phones, sky box, chrome cast, smart TV (netflix), two laptops, two tabs, spotify on sonos speaker.. That's just the legal side.

bromley52

dashcamdanny wrote: »

Im just wondering why anyone would need 240mb going to a home . Its seems quite excessive for a normal families needs.

Maybe no one here is in a normal family.

Twilightning

We signed up for it and we were told they're going to send out a wireless modem we've to set up here ourselves within 5 days via DPD, that was yesterday. Is it much of a bother to set up?

3wayswitch

dashcamdanny wrote: »

Im just wondering why anyone would need 240mb going to a home . Its seems quite excessive for a normal families needs.

No one really NEEDS it, but it is nice. For example I bought GTA V digitally on my PS4 which was a 50GB download. That's 27 mins on a 240mb connection which is a lot better than the 9 hours it took my mate to download it on his DSL line.

Kintarō Hattori

So got through to the loyalty department and spoke to a lovely rep. Ended up with the full €85 package (just a €15 increase on what I was already paying but I get a lot more- 240MB vs 30MB and all the HD channels where I've had none) on half price for 6 months and a modem separate from the Horizon box for better Wi-Fi but with the €60 fee waived.