Broadband switch deals

Do they give you a receipt that you have returned the router?

I was aksed last time to drop mine into the vodafone shop, they don't give you anything to prove you dropped it off, so i took a photo of the box on the counter with the serial visible just in case.

I just noticed i wasnt asked to drop it back in last week, did it anyway same deal.

Not in the few times I've done it. Just hand it in, or dont and keep it

So fibre has just been rolled out in my parents area. You could only get 56k through the phone line up until now 😂

So, I go onto eir as they are doing 500mb for 34.99, put in eircode and it says that only 1gb is available at 44.99. Spoke to chat just now and they said it’s all they are offering 😐 When I put eircode into sky website, they offer 500mb at 30.00.

What’s eir’s problem and is the sky offer the best deal going?

It was 1gb or nothing with eir so just signed up with sky 500mb

Did you check availability of the eir 500mb FTTH through bonkers.ie or switcher.ie?

500mb not showing on bonkers either. Sky was a better price anyway.

virginmedia is giving €100 one4all voucher on 500mbps at €39 pm so works out €30 pm..Not bad at all !!

1GB works out at €40 pm with voucher

Valid till 31st !!

So 2 weeks after Eir fiber "survey" I'm told to access local fiber box requires a "demerger" process rather that string a cable over neighbouring premises, a process that might take 10 working days. On persuing the delay I'm told of a 13 week delay.

got my virginmedia router hub 3.0…i cant login to connect app..does anyone know? Thanks

Just had network engineers call to our house to say FTTH is being installed on our street within two months.

I was just about to sign up to a new deal (max 100mb) with someone. Do I need to wait now or should I find a good 500mb and sign up to that?

Would OneBigSwitch's Eir offer be the best?

I checked an address that I know can't get eir FTTH but can get SIRO/UPC and the offer is still available. It's for *up to* 500Mb though 1Gb is available too!

Because of all the feedback about EIR being a bad company to deal with I thought I'd update my experience with EIR , I signed up for the €35 broadband and 2 sims € 9.99 each .

changed my mind before anything had changed over well within the 14 day cooling off period and rang them up to cancel ,still have sky broadband nothing changed over ,sim cards the same were never changed over .

Last month received an email saying €2.68 was being taken by direct debit , l didn't bother chasing it up as not worth all the hassle over such a small amount.

Today l got another email saying €59.99 will be taken by direct debit .

I tried ringing today but when l typed in my account number it said account number is not recognized .

I'll ring back tomorrow , I know they will refund the money they have to , but what about people who aren't watching their emails ,elderly people with no online banking to see the money being taken , a mortgage payment could be missed by them taking money that's not expected to be taken .

Currently paying €40 for 1Gb with Sky, due to expire around Halloween. Just got an email off them saying they've extended my offer by another 12 months without me needing to do anything! Happy days as I was going to switch to Digiweb anyway.

A saving of €360 for the year!

I signed up around Halloween last year and new discount end date is 24/11/24. The email came from "sky@email.contact.sky". If not I was gone to Digiweb @€40/m.

Nope, I don't have Sky tv. Just 1Gb broadband through SIRO

Definitely just a genetic placeholder email anyway. I'm delighted cos with the way Sky bill in advance you nearly always end up paying for a month at full price (€70!) even if you cancel on time.

They’re the absolute pits

Quick question on Vodafone. Is there broadband SIRO only or do they offer FTTH also? Cannot see it on the basket. I have Eir FTTH and looking at options that I can switch to.

SIRO is FTTH, it's just a name for the company delivering it. All of "SIRO" fibre, NBI and open eir fibre will be described as fibre in the package name on the front end for us customers.

There's SIRO, delivering along electricity lines (typically at least) which was (?) co owned by Vodafone and ESB.

There's Open Eir who will have the widest difference of different types of internet (from Copper only, to Fibre to Cabinet (which is then Copper from Cabinet to House (FTTC)), and finally FTTH.

Then there's Virgin Media who are starting to run fibre ut I believe still have a mix of fibre and non fibre delivery. Regardless they can deliver speeds of 500Mbps or greater.

Then there's NBIs network.

Then you have various other players using line of sight and satellites.

Yeah I understand that so I'll explain better. There is SIRO in my area but I'm not using it and want to use the FTTH line that Eir installed two years (not the electric line) so I suppose if I get Vodafone FTTH will they be looking at utilising SIRO or the FTTH line that I have. I had a SIRO line but removed it from the house as it was ugly once I got Eir to do a cleaner install of a FTTH line so if a provider tries to use SIRO it's no good to me.

I see Digiweb differentiate between them although there both same speed and I'm wondering about Vodafone too, or even Sky. Thanks.

I'm pretty much the same, I switch yearly and always at least ask the current supplier to match whats on offer with competitor. The sky agent I was dealing with was quite frankly a bit of an asshole throughout our interaction. It was quite a weirdly confrontational exchange. No skin off my back and not the usual level of decorum any time I've dealt with them previously. May well have just been a bad day for the agent, but far cheaper for me to move than stay with what they offered.