Best town for broadband outside Dublin county?

Sweetest Perfection

I'm in the planning stages of moving to somehwere that's at most a 2hr drive from Dublin. I need decent broadband so I can work from home. What towns have a good service?

listermint

I think you might want to broaden. Excuse the pun...

Your requirements for a home outside of just broadband alone. There is high speed broadband in a huge amount of towns throughout the country.

What else are you looking for . And why 2 hours...

Atlantic Dawn

Anywhere that has Virgin Media.

Sweetest Perfection

I'm moving because rent is too high in Dublin so I'm on the hunt for somewhere to live but I'd like to move somewhere that has decent broadband. All my family and friends are in Dublin so I don't want to be too far of a drive away. The post is just a hail mary to get suggestions.

Shefwedfan

Sweetest Perfection wrote: »

I'm moving because rent is too high in Dublin so I'm on the hunt for somewhere to live but I'd like to move somewhere that has decent broadband. All my family and friends are in Dublin so I don't want to be too far of a drive away.

Check Siro map and choose a town

Sweetest Perfection

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Anywhere that has Virgin Media.

Actually a good shout! Thanks.

Sweetest Perfection

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Check Siro map and choose a town

Another great suggestion, thanks a lot.

Del2005

Sweetest Perfection wrote: »

I'm in the planning stages of moving to somehwere that's at most a 2hr drive from Dublin. I need decent broadband so I can work from home. What towns have a good service?

Is that 2 hours during rush hour or normal times? The difference in distance would be massive.

Check out Eir or Siro for coverage. Just be aware that even if the town has fibre it may not be available to all the houses as they have limited capacity.

Sweetest Perfection

Del2005 wrote: »

Is that 2 hours during rush hour or normal times? The difference in distance would be massive.

Check out Eir or Siro for coverage. Just be aware that even if the town has fibre it may not be available to all the houses as they have limited capacity.

I'd mainly only be visiting Dublin at the weekends to see family or socialise, coming up Friday afternoon going home Sunday. I was looking at Dungarvan as an option and it's the furthest I'd move in distance (that's 200km).
I appreciate the response and linkage.

joe_99

Dublin has very poor FTTH coverage. There are over 500k homes outside Dublin that have access to 1Gb speeds.

Del2005

joe_99 wrote: »

Dublin has very poor FTTH coverage. There are over 500k homes outside Dublin that have access to 1Gb speeds.

Most of Dublin has Virgin.

Don't believe the hype that over 500k homes have access to FTTH. They have fibre going past their entrance but a lot can't get it to their home

tsue921i8wljb3

Del2005 wrote: »

Most of Dublin has Virgin.

Don't believe the hype that over 500k homes have access to FTTH. They have fibre going past their entrance but a lot can't get it to their home

How could you possibly know how many of the homes passed may not be able to get FTTH due to, I assume, issues on the property?

Del2005

Vienna Brief Eyebrow wrote: »

How could you possibly know how many of the homes passed may not be able to get FTTH due to, I assume, issues on the property?

Not enough connections available. It's easy to run fibre, the expensive bit is the connections.

There was a thread on Boards a few days where someone had fibre broadband, cancelled it and now can't get connected again while a house across the road can.

joe_99

Del2005 wrote: »

Not enough connections available. It's easy to run fibre, the expensive bit is the connections.

There was a thread on Boards a few days where someone had fibre broadband, cancelled it and now can't get connected again while a house across the road can.

Eir have over 50k DPs and less than 100k active customers so that scenario would be rare and definitely not the case in SIROs footprint.

babelfish1990

Sweetest Perfection wrote: »

I'm in the planning stages of moving to somehwere that's at most a 2hr drive from Dublin. I need decent broadband so I can work from home. What towns have a good service?

Unless you specifically want to live in a town, you would be best to avoid the towns and cities altogether. They have the highest house prices and rents. Go for any rural location on eir's 300k FTTH rollout. You will get exactly the same 1Gbps service anywhere on the FTTH network.
Rural FTTH speeds are actually better than whats generally available in Dublin on VM's cable TV network or eir's FTTC. Plenty of choice within 2 hours of Dublin. Just be careful not to pick a house that is outside of eir's FTTH rollout.

plodder

babelfish1990 wrote: »

Unless you specifically want to live in a town, you would be best to avoid the towns and cities altogether. They have the highest house prices and rents. Go for any rural location on eir's 300k FTTH rollout. You will get exactly the same 1Gbps service anywhere on the FTTH network.
Rural FTTH speeds are actually better than whats generally available in Dublin on VM's cable TV network or eir's FTTC. Plenty of choice within 2 hours of Dublin. Just be careful not to pick a house that is outside of eir's FTTH rollout.

This is probably ironic and unexpected, but 100% correct. You could use the maps on fibrerollout.ie as a general guide to where FTTH exists and where you are interested in. Then if you find an area and a specific house, use one of the retailers eircode checkers (not the one on fibrerollout.ie) to make sure FTTH is available at the specific address.

tsue921i8wljb3

Del2005 wrote: »

Not enough connections available. It's easy to run fibre, the expensive bit is the connections.

There was a thread on Boards a few days where someone had fibre broadband, cancelled it and now can't get connected again while a house across the road can.

Nonsense.