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Would recommending IBB on 3 Rock be insane?

  • 28-09-2005 9:36pm
    #1
    Blaster99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭


    If I were to recommend somebody near 3 Rock to go for IBB, could I expect to have pints thrown over me in the future?


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  • #2
    cgarvey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    I wouldn't waste my pint. I'd seek to have "irony" redefined in the dictionary though. Please don't say it's Ripwave, an' all!


  • #3
    beller b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭beller b


    YESYES
    Blaster99 wrote:
    If I were to recommend somebody near 3 Rock to go for IBB, could I expect to have pints thrown over me in the future?


  • #4
    PowerHouseDan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭PowerHouseDan


    Any Chance of setting up,Stay away, Its Shííte Auto Response when people ask is the IBB service any good. There is WAYYYYYY to many of them...


  • #5
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,864 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    Blaster99 wrote:
    If I were to recommend somebody near 3 Rock to go for IBB, could I expect to have pints thrown over me in the future?

    If they can't get wired BB like NTL/Smart/BT, then Digiweb Metro or Clearwire might be slightly safer options, but still a little risky.


  • #6
    Blaster99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Blaster99


    A couple of problems: at least one static IP address is required and upload speed is important. Digiweb (a) is unproven (b) doesn't have a static IP address offering that's worth considering (c) no mentioning of being able to offer more than one (d) have poor upload speeds unless you spend crazy-ass money and then you're capped. Clearwire doesn't do static IP so they're out. He can get NTL but most of the above applies. I think the only real alternative is Leap, but they're very expensive in the scheme of things. If he was just a vanilla user, I would say go with NTL.

    3 Rock users, I presume the IBB service is fairly stable and does deliver good performance normally?


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  • #7
    jesus_thats_gre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    IBB has been generally very good for me off 3Rock.. There was a period when I had very poor sevice but I have been able to max out my connection regularly for months now and my roundtrip time to boards.ie is a stable 8ms..


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