Pure, Digiweb or Nova?

ACitizenErased

I've multiple options as a first-time fibre user and am completely bamboozled as to who to pick. I've narrowed it down to Pure, Digiweb and Nova.
Here are the prices I've been given:
Digiweb (including phone)
€39.46 for first 3 months
€64.05 for remaining 9 months
No activation fee

Nova (including phone)
€61 per month
Free installation

Pure Telecom (including phone)
€35 for 12 months
€55 thereafter
? installation


Anyone able to recommend which to go for? I'm in Cork City btw.

TheDriver

ACitizenErased wrote: »

I've multiple options as a first-time fibre user and am completely bamboozled as to who to pick. I've narrowed it down to Pure, Digiweb and Nova.
Here are the prices I've been given:
Digiweb (including phone)
€39.46 for first 3 months
€64.05 for remaining 9 months
No activation fee

Nova (including phone)
€61 per month
Free installation

Pure Telecom (including phone)
€35 for 12 months
€55 thereafter
? installation


Anyone able to recommend which to go for? I'm in Cork City btw.

There'll all much of the same, you're dealing with an Irish company that is easy to get through to and they all set up appointments with SIRO. Hence I'd go with cheapest.
PURE has free installation but check that it's still the case.
You can move after 12 months.
Ensure you ask that there are no usage limits. I know PURE and NOVA don't but Digiweb has a FUP but apparently doesn't penalise.
At end of it all, they all give a fritzbox modem, I think they all use BT backhaul so price is king.

ACitizenErased

TheDriver wrote: »

There'll all much of the same, you're dealing with an Irish company that is easy to get through to and they all set up appointments with SIRO. Hence I'd go with cheapest.
PURE has free installation but check that it's still the case.
You can move after 12 months.
Ensure you ask that there are no usage limits. I know PURE and NOVA don't but Digiweb has a FUP but apparently doesn't penalise.
At end of it all, they all give a fritzbox modem, I think they all use BT backhaul so price is king.

Thanks very much

jcmg73

I'm with pure got the 35 deal with phone and 500mb broadband.
They are supplying old eir f2000 modems which are rebranded
If u are going with pure then definitely get a different modem as I never got near the 500mbs with the f2000.
I had to buy a better one which was an added cost but I'm really happy I did as getting 450-480mbs down and 45mbs up

Belfunk

jcmg73 wrote: »

I'm with pure got the 35 deal with phone and 500mb broadband.
They are supplying old eir f2000 modems which are rebranded
If u are going with pure then definitely get a different modem as I never got near the 500mbs with the f2000.
I had to buy a better one which was an added cost but I'm really happy I did as getting 450-480mbs down and 45mbs up

I'm going to sign up with Pure tomorrow. Did you bridge the f2000 or can you take it out altogether?

bonsai_73

Belfunk wrote: »

I'm going to sign up with Pure tomorrow. Did you bridge the f2000 or can you take it out altogether?

I'm with Pure, just had it installed this month. I got a FritzBox from them. Not sure of it's specific to area, but they told me they don't do the 500mb anymore, so I had to sign up to the 1gb.

jcmg73

Belfunk wrote: »

I'm going to sign up with Pure tomorrow. Did you bridge the f2000 or can you take it out altogether?

no didnt bridge it just hooked up another router to the ONT.
just have to set the new router to take pure settings
just gotta make sure that the new router is compatible with vlan

TheDriver

bonsai_73 wrote: »

I'm with Pure, just had it installed this month. I got a FritzBox from them. Not sure of it's specific to area, but they told me they don't do the 500mb anymore, so I had to sign up to the 1gb.

Makes sense. I have a gig and I've never managed to run enough stuff that even touches 500. And even when I have a high load running, it's over in a minute.

Don Imac2

bonsai_73 wrote: »

I'm with Pure, just had it installed this month. I got a FritzBox from them. Not sure of it's specific to area, but they told me they don't do the 500mb anymore, so I had to sign up to the 1gb.

Today I was offered 500mb service from Pure so it's still available.

Is there much of a difference in everyday usage between 500mb and 1gb?

Can anyone say why is the SIRO connection better than EIR? I am thinking of switching to Pure Telecom but cannot get SIRO.

TheDriver

Don Imac2 wrote: »

Today I was offered 500mb service from Pure so it's still available.

Is there much of a difference in everyday usage between 500mb and 1gb?

Can anyone say why is the SIRO connection better than EIR? I am thinking of switching to Pure Telecom but cannot get SIRO.

If its FTTH you shouldn't see a different SIRO vs EIR. If its a VDSL product, you might see a difference.

500vsgig? No difference, you'd want to be having a consistent heavy load. A home user doesn't need anything more than 200-300 in reality to stream a few 4k devices at same time etc.

Don Imac2

The Driver: Thanks for that!

st3veebee

Contacted Pure myself today and they told me the offer for me was the standard: 'cabinet unlimited broadband, with that is your line rental and unlimited broadband at €35 monthly on 12 month contract' (think its 100mb d/l)

Have to wait 2-3 weeks before they can get out to me though

Anyone know if other similarly priced providers are quicker to get out and setup?

TheDriver

st3veebee wrote: »

Contacted Pure myself today and they told me the offer for me was the standard: 'cabinet unlimited broadband, with that is your line rental and unlimited broadband at €35 monthly on 12 month contract' (think its 100mb d/l)

Have to wait 2-3 weeks before they can get out to me though

Anyone know if other similarly priced providers are quicker to get out and setup?

Id go onto vodafone website and check your eircode, you may only get 30Meg download.

st3veebee

TheDriver wrote: »

Id go onto vodafone website and check your eircode, you may only get 30Meg download.

Just checked and apparently Vodafone don't supply broadband to Dublin 15, sigh

Pure also contacted me and said that 2-3 weeks is the minimum for ANY broadband supplier in the country as they all work with the same Technicians, which sucks as I need to work from home.

Anyone know any magic way around this? Are Pure just saying this or is it possible to get a quicker setup appointment