New Midband Provider Onwave( Tooway off new Ka Sat)

unclebill98 wrote: »

Trust to goolge sat bb and this tread is one of the top pages!

Really feedup of my old bb setup. Barely get 1mb download and my router is on the way out.

Looking at sat bb for the Cavan area. On wave and digiweb seem to be the only two who can sort me out.

Wired or USB dongles are a non runner. I'd use about 2gb per month but that would rise if I got decent download speed.

I understand the higher costs, download limits etc but from a customer service point of view, set up and over all service who is better?

I'm going to call both today but thought i would ask wise aul boardsies.

Really can't say that much as I don't use satellite myself but as I look out the window the two houses up the road have onwave and if I look out another window I can just see the onwave dish on the house down from us.

The latter is used 3 days a week for business (the 8Mbps download package I believe) and they seen happy with it. The two houses above me are recent installs on a cheaper package and then are getting speedtests of around 6Mbps or so I'm told .

BUT tbh I don't believe you are having issues browsing if you get nearly 1Mbps from a fixed line connection. Its not brilliant but I can browse away with much lower speeds (normally below .5mbps) for me the low speed restricts downloading and videos more than anything. If speed really is your issue then you will probably use a lot more the 2Gbs if you get a faster connection.

unclebill98 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply.

My current setup is a 3G sim card and an old 3G booster rooter with an extension ariel as high up as I can get it. Speed ranges from dial up speed to maybe 1mb. Main reason is the router is cutting out and somedays we have nothing at all. To replace the router is almost €150 euro and at this stage I'm on my 3rd one, build quality is crap. My set up is grand if and when it works, just fed up with it cutting out. Specially when your updating software, downloading music or trying to watch any video longer that a few mins.

Agree with better speed your usage increases. don't need the tv or phone packages. They did try flog that to me when i called them earlier.

Thanks for the reply.

A wireless TP-Link or Edimax 3G router should be less than 30quid (UK) delivered - Amazon.co.uk - provide your own dongle, just don't use the 3 e353 HiLink dongle as they don't work.