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Ireland wide broadband coverage

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  • 22-05-2002 12:26pm
    #1
    megavolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭


    This company www.mediasat.ie offers broadband throughout Ireland.

    Here's their Packages & pricing. Not terribly competitive, but I'm sure once we have enough providers, the prices will change - hopefully.


    B-Dsl SOHO Pricing

    Bandwidth costs € 49.99 per month for 500 MB download

    Bandwidth costs € 0.10 per MB thereafter.

    USB Satellite Receiver Purchase € 290.00

    Satellite Dish, Universal LNB and installation of such not included.
    All prices shown are exclusive of V.A.T. @ 21%.

    B-DSL SME PRICING

    SME Hardware Rental € 240.00 per month

    Bandwidth costs € 272.00 per month for 1 GB upload/download

    Bandwidth costs € 0.36 per MB thereafter

    All prices are exclusive of V.A.T. @ 21%

    B-DSL Enterprise PRICING

    Enterprise Hardware Rental € 285.00 per month

    Bandwidth costs € 500.00 per month for 1 GB upload/download

    Bandwidth costs € 0.21 per MB thereafter

    All prices are exclusive of V.A.T. @ 21%


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    #2
    phaxx
    Registered Users Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭phaxx


    Originally posted by megavolt
    Bandwidth costs € 49.99 per month for 500 MB download

    Good god that's worse than eircom. (Or do they mean 500mb a day? That would be acceptable...)

    And what the feck are they doing calling it a DSL product?


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    megavolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭megavolt


    I was just doing some maths on this.

    If you use it every day then you have 16.48mb to play with or 115.38mb per week.

    I think if you use the web every night for checking a few websites and sending a few emails, then it'll probably suffice - it may be even cheaper than dial up - but I'm not sure, I'll check this against my phone bill tonight.

    Also, because it's satellite, it's also not going to be much of a gamers realm due to latency (afaik) even for a light gamer.


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    Saruman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    wow this is pathetic... it is definatly 500mb a month, not a day.. m8 rang them.. when he said thats crap they said oh we aiming at business users who will not use that much? Eh what tripe!!

    Also their website suffers from a complete lack of info...


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    #5
    Dr.Seagull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭Dr.Seagull


    Originally posted by megavolt

    it may be even cheaper than dial up - but I'm not sure, I'll check this against my phone bill tonight.

    the soho package is one way only so u will still be using dial up for your upstream


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    megavolt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭megavolt


    Oops, sorry, I should have noticed that. The SoHo is indeed dial back. This goes through your current ISP, so there's no freecall number or anything.

    Methinks 'tis too expensive for my liking!

    The other ones are two way, but even for businesses they're a bit expensive.


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    carbsy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭carbsy


    This has allready been discussed in great detail in an earlier thread -> http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51861


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