Broadband switch deals

Currently out of contact with Virgin and have tv and home phone with them. Was a new customer and rang cancellations and not entertaining me. Curently on 500 with Virgin and not sure whom else provide this? Dont think we can get Sky as believe need phone line in ???

Also if I change account to Mrs Gunner do they issue a new Modem as have existing one bridged and dont want to muck around with new one. Also any loss of service if changeover ?

Going to try ringing Virgin again see if I get anything better

Just rang Eir not available in my area so would say the same for Sky so its Virgin or nothing !!!

If Mrs Gunner rings for new account and they can see existing account already at that address that would not cause an issue?

Going to try ring them again and see if I can get any better deal with them

Put your name in Irish (or English!) and sign up again. If you've Revolut/N26 etc you can use that IBAN for it to be a brand new account. If you get the Mrs to sign up there's nothing to say that (God forbid!) you've just separated and she's beginning to put things in her name which is why the surnames are the same. You'll be grand

You need to give 30 days notice. I cancelled my broadband and the day before it was due to stop I ordered as a new customer under the wifes name. The new box arrived the next morning. All very easy and no questions asked.

Yeah thinking of cancelling but there are so many devices connected to internet, Huem ring doorbell Wifi plugs just a pain in the A having to do the PW for these again and having to Bridge the new modem.

We have Eye Pee TV so might cut the cord or maybe just look at getting Saorview pity only has irish channels but rest I can get from BBC and ITV and More 4 if need be. Just cant record them and Eye Pee not the greatest for that and not always reliable but have other ways not for publishing here

Might see and cancel and then 5 days before get Miss Gunner to call in and see what she can get as a new customer

Did you have any problems with eir ?

Also has anyone had a SIM card from eir ?

They are offering the SIM card package for €9.99 a month if you have broadband from them ,,seems a great deal but l'm wondering whats the coverage like do they drop calls .

Thanks, that's the problem for me, we're stuck with Virgin.

No problems at all. Been with them a few times,I normally just switch between them and Vodafone every year but that Eir deal with One Big Switch seems to be best value currently .

I'm also with Gomo,coverage can be a bit crap especially in more remote areas of Ireland but I'm rarely in those places so overall,for €9.99 a month it's fine.

I know I gave my tuppence worth already in this thread but Eir aren't a bargain, even at the price-point listed here.

I've had numerous issues with them.

After reading some of the replies in this thread last week, I stupidly mellowed my opinion of them, and signed up via a different offer to this one. Via a an Eir employee that called to the door.

Mother of God, within 24 hours of signing up, it was the same bullshit that I put up with a few years back so I cancelled yesterday. Issues with everything from install fees to other costs, to blatantly told lies at the doorstep. They were as unhelpful as a few years ago when trying to sort it out.

Eir, as a company, are the f*ckin' pits. I honestly didn't actually think it was possible to dislike a company as much as I dislike Eir. I'd gladly pay one of the other providers an extra €5 per month, or more.

Another thing to consider here too. The €35 jumps to €70ish after the 12 months are up. I see Vodafone are offering €40 flat fee with no increase after the 12 months now too. No messing about with ringing around to save a €5er a month. That to me is a better bargain than dealing with Eir. Sky are doing €35 per month too via Bonkers.

I'm sure OmegaGene will be on to defend them again soon but hopefully the above stops at least one person from signing up to them.

If you're in doubt, give "Conor Pope & Eir" a Google search.

I concur, never trust any doorsteppers.

What's the story with VF same price announcement? Sounds like you still have to recontract which means ring up like now? Except now you can't look for new customer price

My Vodafone bb is going to be out of contract in 5 weeks. Intend on contacting them next week giving them the months notice to end. I don't want to get caught with a high out of contract bill. Iseminder on my phone each year

Planning to move to Sky from Eir, how reliable is their 500mbs service? Does sky have similar CPI annual price increase policy like Eir and Vodafone, I don't see any info in their site? I am planning to go for 24 month contract if the price is going to be the same 35 euro without any increase for 24 months.

Eir 34.99 for 12 months and will have annual price increase 8% (based on 2023) on full price 75.99 calculates to 6.07 increase. Vodafone 40 for 12 months and will have annual price increase of 11.2% on full price which is 40 (if it stays the same) which will be 4.48.

Excuse my query but why bother with 2Gb? Surely 500 is enough for any household?

I've been with Eir fibre for nearly 2 years great service and never had any issue, will have to move to one of the other providers and not sure which, wasn't there some issue with over selling by Vodafone and issue on their back haul causing slowdown during peak times or have they resolved that bottleneck

If you currently have fibre to the home then there should be no down time with moving to either. If both are offering 500mb for €30pm then I would go with pure telecom but sky is a very close 2nd. I've had no issues when with either.

Eir router I had 2 years ago had poor range.

Went with Vodafone and router was way better.

I’ve moved from virgin to Vodafone Siro yesterday. VF now active on my line. Virgin wouldn’t bring down their price for 360mb from 71.50 per month. So I cancelled and during that process they offered half price for 9 months plus upgrade to 500mb.

VF is 50 per month for 1gb plus 5 for phone line. We are mostly wireless so the speed is not all that important for me. We won’t reach the headline speed on wireless. It’s price.

Both are subject to usual price increases.

I was with virgin well over 10 plus years and can’t complain one iota about the service but they just are too expensive. I tried bargaining months before pulling the trigger but they have no record of this and don’t seem to understand how far outside the competition in pricing they are.

Next up for the chop is sky tv. 46 a month is too much for what we view. Cutting the cord is the plan.

I see your point but unless you've a home server or uploading video professional files, you're only spending more to get bragging rides ie I got 2Gb BB everyone.

I used to have 1gig BB via Siro and realised there was no point having it, esp as I had to pay more over 500. Now I just switch annually for my 500 connection.

Both eir & VF now increase their prices in April each year by CPI + 3% on the full plan price. This year the VF increase was just over 11%. I done a deal with VF in Feb for €35 pm & it jumped to over €42 pm in April.

Sky essentials is €10/month and gives the basic Irish channels plus a good few others with the recording function.

It will work on the Sky HD box but they will try and tell you that you need the Q box if you don't have it.

Are there any Sky Broadband deals with sky for existing customers - had TV & Broadband for years but now Broadband only, no contract…..

Very heavy Broadband users between remote working & an online gamer in the house…. Thankfully very rarely an issue - not enough to even have to ring them… Hence don’t want to leave but it’s now €60 per month

Might have to ring them with the auld ‘I want to cancel my subscription’ line…

Just signed up for Digiweb 1gig fibre plus home and mobile calls for 39.95 for 12 months, rang Monday, fibre cable run from the ESB/Siro pole on Thursday and final install next Tuesday, cant argue with that