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Business BroadBand

  • 03-08-2005 3:40pm
    #1
    prospect
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I was just wondering what business broadband others use.
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    ISP: LEAP BROADBAND
    Download Speed: 2Mbps
    Upload Speed: 2Mbps
    Contention: 4:1 (I Think)
    Monthly Bill: €250 (ExVAT)
    Performance: Very Good 75% of Time
    Number of Staff using internet: 20
    Downtime: 3 days over 20 months
    Comments: Mostly happy with service & price.


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  • #2
    Blaster99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Blaster99


    I'm interested too. I got prices from Leap and they charge €299pm for 2Mbps 8:1. According to my price info 4:1 costs €450pm.

    My setup:

    ISP: Irish Broadband
    Download Speed: 3Mbps
    Upload Speed: 3Mbps
    Contention: 24:1
    Monthly Bill: €70 (ExVAT)
    Performance: Between 300kbps and 2Mbps, usually around 1Mbps.
    Number of Staff using internet: 3
    Downtime: Very little actual downtime, but have had many days where the performance has been below 100kbps which equates to downtime.
    Comments: Totally unpredictable performance, useless support.

    ISP: Eircom
    Download Speed: 2Mbps
    Upload Speed: 128kbps
    Contention: 24:1
    Monthly Bill: €45 (I think)
    Performance: With overheads I get about 1.6Mbps. All the time.
    Number of Staff using internet: 3
    Downtime: None
    Comments: Extremely good apart from the upload. I only use this as backup.

    Considering I get about 1Mbps with IBB's Breeze Lite 3Mbps, I'm tempted to try another package before I give up on them. It's just that I can't trust them to deliver consistent performance. I had the 1Mbps 8:1 before this and it was all over the shop too.


  • #3
    prospect
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭prospect


    Blaster99 wrote:
    I'm interested too. I got prices from Leap and they charge €299pm for 2Mbps 8:1. According to my price info 4:1 costs €450pm.

    We had 'issues' during start-up, and at the end of the first year of contract. The price we have was their bargaining chip. ;)


  • #4
    ButtermilkJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 632 ✭✭✭ButtermilkJack


    Whats difference with the business packages? Why are the prices so high compared to residential?


  • #5
    WillieFlynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 300 ✭✭WillieFlynn


    ButtermilkJack wrote:
    Whats difference with the business packages? Why are the prices so high compared to residential?
    Business packages tend to have a lower contention ratio, better support and some of them are symetric. So they have a much faster upload than the standard Irish offering of 128k (if you are sending a large number of big emails/files this is important).


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