Broadband switch deals

so what you're saying is you stayed with the company that has terrible customer service, tried to fleece you, lied to you about going to other providers and then still only gave you the service that others give without all those shenanigans….

Finally switched over Myself (FTTC) and the Mothers house (FTTH) to Eir from Vodafone today. I had a fault with Vodafone since Jan this year and I am still waiting for an engineer to come out with a router. I am not joking. I hooked up my own one since the issue but they have the fault still open and the last time I called 2 months ago they were still looking into scheduling an engineer. So as bad as Eir may be, Vodafone have given them a run for their money since they farmed out any engineer visits to CIRCNET. I'll take my chances with Eir - €34.99pm for 500mb and 2 mobiles @ €10 each. Same for FTTH on 500mb, €34.99pm. Both have the €100 cash back after 2nd or 3rd bill.

My 12 month contract with sky broadband is up and the price has jumped from €30 to €65, rang them today and best they would offer is €45 so I cancelled. Plenty of better options out there

Yeah I just used my uan number and switched to eir, €35 a month and €100 voucher

Do people ever consider mobile broadband (5g) options?

I see that Three are doing a 24 month deal on Three+ at 20e a month for 12 months and then 40e (+cpi) for the following 12 months.

Alternatively buy a 5g router (e.g. on CEX/Adverts etc for <200e) and use an unlimited data mobile sim for 10e/15e pm. You can use the comreg coverage map to see who is the best signal provider in your area.

I'm in a semi rural area, using 5g and getting 170 mb which is plenty for what I need. Including purchase of my own unlocked router, costs 22e pm over a comparative 24 month period.

Yep just give your uan number to your new supplier

Coming to an end with eir. Has anyone been able to get the new customer rates and discount by staying with them?

I have been doing this for the last 18 months - I still have the 3 hero plan deal - 15e/month all you can eat data. Like you, pretty rural, quite close to a 5G mast. Bought my own 5G modem - works great, runs tv's ,cameras, I even have a bridge out to the shed's outside. I will stay with it as long as I can - and to the poster who asked, the only downtime I have had is powercuts - and that would affect you if you had cable as well.

Afaik it needs to be the same service eg Siro to Siro. If you're moving Siro to openeir ftth it can cause issues as both services could keep going.

All went live with EIR this morning. Vodafone went off 9am, EIR was up and connected by 9.10am.

Only issue I have, in this modern age, is that it is going to take 3-10 days to port the landline phone number. Old tech was the issue their end they say. Hard to believe.

Thats very good. I got the email but it only offered me €60 pm but I am fttc or whatever the crappy 60mbps one is called! The fancy one still isn't available in my area for some reason. Received the eir modem in the post today and due to go active in 2 days so sky have said they'll refund whatever I'm owed for this month. Not sure how true that is!

Its bonkers.ie. However I mentioned this to virgin rep and after bit of negotiation he said if I signed up today he would give me one for all voucher.

I'm the same the best they could offer me was €86.

bye bye sky