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Imagine LTE Rural Broadband
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How does Imagine compare with mobile broadband from the likes of Three, Vodafone, eir? I'd like to give it a go but the 18 month contract is putting me off as it will only be a stop-gap until fibre is available to the house.
It all depends on your geolocation. Where we live in West Clare eir coverage is quite poor, so speeds are not great. Though 3 seems to have a quite good coverage and speeds are quite good too.
Currently with imagine we can get ~40Mbps down and 2.5Mbps up, on a good day more, but that’s very rare nowadays. Unfortunately for past few months this goes down from around 6-7pm sometimes to 2Mbps or less until maybe 10/11pm and it is not caused by exceeding the limit. It’s temperamental and does not happen every day, thus making it quite unreliable, as you never know when it will play up when you need it most. Sometimes also times vary when the issue occurs.
Latency at any time is very poor. On the plus side it really never went down, even through the severe weather we’ve had.
The usual speeds are like this:
I definitely would not recommend it if you have multiple devices, as we do, and rely on stable internet.
Mobile broadband from 3 on a good day shows similar download speeds, but the upload is much better, usually at 10-20Mbps.
We use one of the iPhones and personal hotspot for this.
In our location Imagine was the best broadband we could get, and we weren’t too fond of the 18 month contract either, it is up now and we’re trying to find a different provider or install a second connection to improve the latency / speed issues.0 -
It all depends on your geolocation. Where we live in West Clare eir coverage is quite poor, so speeds are not great. Though 3 seems to have a quite good coverage and speeds are quite good too.
Currently with imagine we can get ~40Mbps down and 2.5Mbps up, on a good day more, but that’s very rare nowadays. Unfortunately for past few months this goes down from around 6-7pm sometimes to 2Mbps or less until maybe 10/11pm and it is not caused by exceeding the limit. It’s temperamental and does not happen every day, thus making it quite unreliable, as you never know when it will play up when you need it most. Sometimes also times vary when the issue occurs.
Latency at any time is very poor. On the plus side it really never went down, even through the severe weather we’ve had.
The usual speeds are like this:
I definitely would not recommend it if you have multiple devices, as we do, and rely on stable internet.
Mobile broadband from 3 on a good day shows similar download speeds, but the upload is much better, usually at 10-20Mbps.
We use one of the iPhones and personal hotspot for this.
In our location Imagine was the best broadband we could get, and we weren’t too fond of the 18 month contract either, it is up now and we’re trying to find a different provider or install a second connection to improve the latency / speed issues.
Thanks for the detailed response. I’m using Three at the moment and it sounds like similar to your experience with Imagine so I don’t think there’s any point in getting Imagine. Three drops to 1-2Mbps in the evening too for us.0 -
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No. I didn't miss the point and I'm not saying, that it isn't so.
The issue is though, if you try to make your point, you need to get it right. Otherwise nobody is going to listen to you.
And that includes to use a reliable service for the speedtest and testing it right. Because no internet provider will accept results from any odd random server, that they have no idea about what bandwidth it has. And fast.com or the google speedtest yoke are probably the worst ones you could be picking.
/M
There you go.
I understand this is your experience with the website it doesn’t make it true though.
Changing server made 0 difference.
Again, speed reading were for illustrative purposes and readings are the same on all websites.0 -
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