Broadband on Lightnet(or alternative)

joe123

Hey all,

So Im living in Headford, Galway and although its a live Fibre area, I still can't get access to it. I live right in the town so Im looking at alternatives and Lightnet has been recommended to me by a friend.

He also lives in Galway but another area. I spoke with lightnet and while they will send out an engineer to test the speed/signal strength, they mentioned that if the engineer deems the speed acceptable but I dont, I will have to pay a call out charge of 35 euro.

They didnt mention what their acceptable limit is but anything below 20mb for me isnt really worth the change.

So my question is, is there anyone around Galway and namely the Headford area that could give me a rough estimate of the speeds they are currently getting?

At present im hitting 10/11mb with Sky BB but the quality is terrible especially in the evening. Upload is 0.2 and ping usually lands at around 80-130ms

Also if you knew what latency/ping was like that would be great as Im big into online gaming.

jkforde

this is using http://openspeedtest.com in Chrome on Android phone about 20ft from the WiFi router... it does us fine and we're down in Ballinduff with a link across the lake to the mast

Boardnashea

Lightnet uses line of sight so if you can see their mast from your roofline or similar you should have no problem. If there are trees in the way this may affect reception seasonally and as the trees get higher/thicker