Broadband switch deals

My Eir 500 meg 12 months contract is now expired.

I calle he yesterday and they are pushing me to a new 2 year contract. I don't liectheia of a two years contract. Are all providers goingbthectwo years contract option? If not I'll contact Sky

Thanks for clarification. I've just spoken to Virgin Media rep and advised yes to phone but at an additional cost of €3 pm

Always found them OK over last 2 years. Only downtime related to NBI fibre damage/fault. They had billing issue over last few months which were annoying but ultimately resolved. Didn't like the 16% inflation based increase on my €35pm payment in April (calc based on 7.6% increase on prediscounted €75pm rate which was a bit sneaky as the increase was not discounted accordingly) but these increases it seems to apply to multiple providers

Sorry for multiple posts but am being hard sold benefits of 1gb over 500mb service for better latency etc. Have people who upgraded to 1gb notice any appreciable improvement in quality of service? Is it worth €10pm for a normal household?

Your mileage may vary but I spent a year and a half with vodafone. First six months were perfect in every way, then I got a call offering to add tv to my fibre and phone (500mb) package for an extra fiver a month on a new 12 month contract (so €45 a month for tv, fibre and phone). They didn't install the tv for 2 months and didn't activate it for another 5 or 6 and then for the entirely of the new contract they messed up my bill every single month without fail resulting in my spending at least 30 minutes on the phone every month, most times having to send my copy of my contract to them and them promising it would never happen again. As soon as my new 12 month contract was up at the end of March I left them and, I'm not joking, I still have to contact them every month because I keep getting texts and emails about my latest bill.

Having said that, if I had to choose between vodafone and eir as the only providers available, I'd still choose vodafone but those two are the bottom of the barrel for me.

Good deal. That's the exact offer I got for renewing a 500mb contract with 1gb at €45/€55pm. As I said to them your business model is designed to reward customer disloyalty which seems bizarre to me

I would be more understanding of that approach if the contract would roll over at current rates but if I didn't actively engage with VF to renew my contract I would move onto an out of contract undiscounted rate of €80pm. You'd want to be fairly oblivious of you finances to allow that to happen

For anyone thinking of leaving Eir: I was on the 500Mb plan which was 34.99 when I signed up and now 39.99 with the CPI increase. I just rang Eir to cancel as I was planning on taking Digiweb up on their 1GB Siro plan for 39.99 a month and Eirs counter offer was 34.99 for 12 months and they upped the speed from 500Mb to 1Gb. Yes it includes CPI increase but he did say you're allowed recontract 2 months early which will negate the increase for 2 months roll around next year which I'm happy about. I'm no Eir fan by any means but was shocked by how easy this was and took exactly 20 mins from dialling 1901 to resigning and ending the call so I'm happy.

Same issue with Vodafone, the increase was 7.6% but on the undiscounted figure of €75 and not the actual monthly payment of €35

Is anyone else who upgraded to eirs 1gb broadband having issues with speed. I'm getting under 200mb. With the 500mb package I had the last 5 years I got 480 consistently.

They reset my modem over their system yesterday as there was a technical issue with their broadband.

3 years with VF , first 2 years I contracted and they removed it, 3rd year they just agreed to fixed contract price for the year and since you stay on that price afterwards , told me to just recontract each April going forward to avoid it, If I wished to remain with them.

Seems to be more to that story. In general switching is not that much hassle.

sky originally came back with 55 per month for BB only up from 30,said no thanks and started to move to VF for 35.

then a few days later called me and offered 30 per month for 12 months,cancelled VF and all is good.

pure for 1gb @40 euro PM could be the shout,like to give an Irish company a twist

Handset charge would be minimal compared to the rest.But no necessity to continue paying and Eir or any other provider not interested in getting it back.

no account info as yet from Pure though.

also couldn't find any setup info for router either in packaging.

thanks

called Pure

all set thanks for the info on here!

no ,didnt even think of it tbh! shudda! damn it

Definitely not the case with ftth as the "modeming" is already done at the point of entry. With VM co-ax you simply contact them and ask for bridge mode to be enabled on their modem then put your router behind it. Fttc logon details are always available from the provider.

Naa I was happy with €30 a month for 500 MBPS, especially given that's the cheapest 12- month deal at the moment.

On openeir ftth I've never had an issue using my own equipment for the internet part. Would only have had to bridge to use the phone service with vodafone as they wouldn't give sip details but for the actual broadband any provider i've used (airwire, pure, vodafone) have happily given me login details to use my own equipment.

Really appreciate the feedback guys. Assumed there was a trend of not allowing ones own Router to be properly bridged, which seems to be far from correct.

Just so i explain the previous point a little better, the ability to put the ISP Router into Modem mode (and then bridge ones own Router), is what i am on about.

Not just adding a Router and experiencing a Double NAT situation, as a result.

Possibly living in the past and this is just a coaxial thing

(By nerfing i mean not having the ability to login as root using SSH etc, and CGNAT hampers the ability to be connectable to download Linux ISO's)

Anyways appreciate the input folks :)

Do you mind giving more details about getting Google Nest Wifi working with Sky SIRO? I've tried using the "broadband@skydsl broadband" details but it won't work.