€ircon Adsl Availability Update

sceptre

Originally posted by Drazhar
jesus christ i cant believe that Castletroy, limerick aint there what with the national business park and the like out there (And me )

Originally posted by Dave Letterman
Can't believe Castletroy isn't on their list , what with UL, Technological park, big population etc.

The exchange is too small for any extra equipment (even a few wall racks)

(no - I'm not kidding)

pork99

The exchange is too small for any extra equipment (even a few wall racks)

f*cking muppets

its amateur hour!

Boston

Originally posted by Muck
Yes they are...just about.

"Summerhill Dublin 1 Dublin By January 2003"

Wouldnt ask a local in a pub around there what ADSL was though . He'd sell me Rat Poison

M

For your information, I'm on that exchange, and so is MounthJoy Mugger. I've Had eircom adsl service, and ive recruited several of my mates into ringing up eircom and getting on the ADSL trial 9 months back. Fair enough they didn't know what it was, but I had them all downloading donkey porn by the end of it.

Anywho Dolphins Barn Dublin also serves part of North Dublin. I take it that this is the exchanges to be upgraded to esat ADSL. Most of these are the exact ones eircom uploaded for their launch.

PiE

Where exactly is the North Main Exchange, does anyone know?

alastair

it's the one on marlborough street isn't it?

oh, and I'm an adsl punter on the summerhill exchange too. less of the smartarse comments :-)

MDR

Raheny Dublin 5

I can't believe you are that far away from an exchange in Raheny ...

pete

Originally posted by MDR
I can't believe you are that far away from an exchange in Raheny ...

what about those of us out here in the wastelands between blanchardstown and clonee? thousands of lovely new houses, all too far from the blanchardstown exchange... a friend who lives nearer to clonee was told he was on the clonee exchange, and that it was enabled, but he was too far away.

it was the first i'd heard of clonee exchange... for those of you who've never driven through clonee, it is the archetypical one street which up until 3 years ago had 4 pubs, a nissan garage, a post office and a butchers shop ... a telephone exchange would have stuck out a bit.

spongebob

The divide in Greater Dublin is East / West.

The nearer you are to the Coast the better your chances of getting DSL

By the time you get to Leixlip and Maynooth :mad: you are out of luck.

M

LoBo

I wouldn't worry about them enabling exchanges and more about passing the infamous DSL line test... I've been trying to get DSL for our company in the city centre and EVERY line in our building plus all our neighbours lines have so far failed. We're about 200m from the street where our exchange is supposed to be.

Synkronite

Well, I passed my eircom test- and all along I was under the impression that DSL in my exchange was avaliable from both Eircom and Esat BT. But I was sorely mistaken. Esat BT say they dont know when Douglas, Cork will be upgraded and cant give me any time frame.

Either way, why is the pricing so different?

Eircom
€199 installation
€175 USB Modem (Others are more expensive)
€89+ VAT per month for 512Kbps

Esat BT
€125 installation (-AND- modem!)
€90+ VAT per month for 512Kbps - and the rumoured €50+VAT for the 265Kbps one.

Think I should wait till after Christmas and see if Eircom brings down their prices or take the plunge now? *feels his bank account getting lighter than ever*

vinnyfitz

I can imagine TDs being quite interested in the % of their own electorates who are going to be deprived of DSL technology in the medium term.

(They may have no idea what it is but they will know enough to be upset if their voters can't have it!).

What are the chances of building up a map of DSL concentration constituency by constituency?

Eircom are taking out full page newspaper ads at the moment talking about the half a million lines being enabled so they should be able to tell us where they are....

By the time you get to Leixlip and Maynooth you are out of luck.

Why is this by the way Muck?

spongebob

1. €ircon are a shower of &*%^%&%^*&%

2. The further wesht ya go ...while still remaining in Greater Dublin mindya vinf, the lower the general population densities....in a nutshell "Tharrrrr be Semis".

The fact that the largest single contributor to national GDP and therefore €ircons profits, Intel, is in the area between Leixlip Maynooth and Celbridge matters not a jot.

Luckily , some of them have Chorus who'll ride to the rescue at the last moment fair play ta them.

M

LoBo

Synkronite, you've left out the fact that Eircom reserve the right to charge you more if you go over the 3GB download cap for that service (i-stream solo). Esat don't seem to have a cap at all.

Unfortunately EsatBT aren't available to you yet or the choice would be easy

Xithus

Last time I rang Eircom (to get ISDN for UtvI) The nice lady told me Raheny Exchange would be upgraded before or just after xmas, so not to bother going with isdn and just to wait for DSL.

She seemed genuine enough... Then again I do want dsl so bad Id believe anything.

DC

Synkronite, you've left out the fact that Eircom reserve the right to charge you more if you go over the 3GB download cap for that service (i-stream solo). Esat don't seem to have a cap at all.

And EsatBT give you 256Kbps upstream... twice that of €ircon... so you can send emails twice as fast!

And €ircon according to the contract will not "allow" you connect more than 1 PC to that modem. You are not "allowed" to connection share, for example using a PC as a gateway for an office network. (You can do it anyway as long as you don't tell the RAT!)

EsatBT have no such restriction.

On principal you should always go with EsatBT unless it looks like years till they come to the exchange.

Oh, and did I mention the 12 month contract with €ircon? 3 months with EsatBT.

I'm not a huge EsatBT fan, but I can tell a mongrel from a thoroughbred.

daveirl

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[nicK]

omg, that should be on the humour board