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fastcom 2meg wireless, any good for gaming?

  • 21-10-2005 3:56pm
    #1
    angelofdeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭


    sorry if this has been asked before, i don't browse the broadband forum much

    the phoneline that i had to wait a month and a half for eircom to install, which is well within an enabled exchange and is in a fairly new block of houses (wiring should be fine) they confirmed to me today, after lots and lots of calls and one email, has failed the line test, yay:mad:

    www.fastcom.ie seems to be the only real alternative in sligo at the moment, anyone with these guys, know if the service (2meg up and down, wireless) is any good or not (especially for gaming)


Comments

  • #2
    Superbrogie
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭Superbrogie


    Slow & Unreliablable!!!


  • #3
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Aren't digiweb and Irish Broadband here in sligo?


  • #4
    martinm167
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭martinm167


    stay away from fastcom, they we're fine when i first got connected but for the last 2 month i've had nothing but trouble, slow and unreliable and that when it works, they have done nothing to make fix it


  • #5
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    martinm167 wrote: »
    stay away from fastcom, they we're fine when i first got connected but for the last 2 month i've had nothing but trouble, slow and unreliable and that when it works, they have done nothing to make fix it
    I've been with fastcom for the last 3 or 4 months and this has been my experience with them as well. Luckily I'll be moving out of that house in a couple of weeks. Right now I'm in my parents house because I have to do some things for work and I to use the internet a lot. Having a connection that drops every 30 minutes would just piss me off too much today.


  • #6
    Mothergoose555
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Mothergoose555


    Fastcom are ok when you know how to deal with them. They do throttle and do packetshaping now and again....It's annoying but what you have to do if your with them is either encrypt your P2P stuff, or like I do just don't do any of it.

    What you have to do if your dl speeds are crap is talk to them and get them to take you off traffic shaping.

    If you do that, then I guarantee you;ll have the lowest pings in the game if it's a an irish Server.


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  • #7
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,500 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    very old thread lets leave it die


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