Best Broadband Provider - Kilmacredock, Leixlip

mickey15ie

Evening all,

Any suggestions on best broadband provider for this area?

Virgin is not an option

it is between sky, eir, vodafone?

Also there anyway of working out the actual speed in the area?

L1011

Most houses there can get gigabit FTTH from any openeir network provider. Some can't and have utterly abysmal speeds

mickey15ie

sorry what is gigabit FTTH?

L1011

gigabit - 1000mbit - 10x faster than normal phone line broadband ever can be.
FTTH - fibre to the home

Basically, during a period where Eir were specifically sabotaging the National Broadband Programme by doing all the cheap bits, they laid fibre out to the densest bit of Kilmacraddock - meaning those houses can get better broadband than any house in Maynooth town (Virgin Gigabit is much higher latency, and dearer). The sparser houses have really awful mid-00s broadband speeds if anything.

mickey15ie

L1011 wrote: »

gigabit - 1000mbit - 10x faster than normal phone line broadband ever can be.
FTTH - fibre to the home

Basically, during a period where Eir were specifically sabotaging the National Broadband Programme by doing all the cheap bits, they laid fibre out to the densest bit of Kilmacraddock - meaning those houses can get better broadband than any house in Maynooth town (Virgin Gigabit is much higher latency, and dearer). The sparser houses have really awful mid-00s broadband speeds if anything.

Can you advise which provider has the high power service now? Is it eir?

L1011

Any of them but Virgin basically. Eir, Vodafone, sky, airwire, digiweb

jorry

Do no harm in registering your interest here too for Siro.
https://siro.ie/roll-out/leixlip/

You can see the Siro cable braided to the overhead power lines in Kilmacredock, just not rolled out yet to the area...

mickey15ie

Drove around Kilmacredock today unfortunately it doesnt seem to be my side of Kilmacredock which is the green lane side hopefully it will go up on the poles also