any ideas for bb in limerick... desperado...

zero_mac

hi all,
i have a very sad-ass story of dealing with esat bt for limerick bb, who strung me out for 6 months saying 'next week'... blah blah blah, until i finally found out last week that my line won't accept bb, even though i live in a new estate. they told me at the start that my line was suitable. i lodged a formal complaint which they never acknowledged.. grrrrr...

what can i do now to get bb? i haven't found any wireless operators in the area. does anyone know of any? any ideas?

my dial up bill was €225 for the last 2 months, very painful. iol anytime is a temporary option but i'd like to know from the pros if i have an alternative.

thanks
tim

Jilm

Originally posted by zero_mac
hi all,
i have a very sad-ass story of dealing with esat bt for limerick bb, who strung me out for 6 months saying 'next week'... blah blah blah, until i finally found out last week that my line won't accept bb, even though i live in a new estate. they told me at the start that my line was suitable. i lodged a formal complaint which they never acknowledged.. grrrrr...

what can i do now to get bb? i haven't found any wireless operators in the area. does anyone know of any? any ideas?

my dial up bill was €225 for the last 2 months, very painful. iol anytime is a temporary option but i'd like to know from the pros if i have an alternative.

thanks
tim

I'm in Limerick as well (Dooradoyle) & it took EsatBT 4 months to install ADSL for me. They told me after the 4 months my line wouldn't accept ADSL, after testing it again, it passed. If you haven't already, try getting them to test the line again.

Have you tried other ISPs RADSL (Netsource, UTVIP, €ircon)?

As far as wireless in Limerick goes, theres Chorus Powernet (~€300 installation ~€100/month, poor pings for gaming, have to have line of site to Watchers Hill). I haven't looked into it but theres also IrishWAN (private users setting up a wide area network, theres a group in the midwest AFAIK).

I have found EsatBT incredibly frustrating to deal with as well. When they finally installed ADSL, it was the Line Sharing option when I requested Unbundled. It took them another 4 months to fix this (after I don't know how many phonecalls & emails to them), the connection has just come back after being down for nearly 6 weeks (partly Eircoms fault, it has to be said).

Anyway, best of luck with whichever option you go for.

zero_mac

hi, thanks for the tips.
i tried eircom and utvIP but they go through my phone line which eircom have given the red light to, in terms of bb. so no joy there.

the guys at netsource were very helpful on the phone, and the man there said he'd keep an eye on my phone line over the next few months to keep checking if it gets bb enabled.

the irishWAN site is down... hope this isn't a reflection on their reliability i'll check them out later.

€100 a month is a rip off for powernet but i might end up opting for it. anything to not deal with eircom...

thanks
tim

sReq | uTeK

move toa different estate one that is on BB enabled xchange

zero_mac

i would, but having spent a year on the house knocking down walls and painting etc., i'm not about to do it all again just to get bb any other bright ideas?

John2002

Originally posted by Jilm
As far as wireless in Limerick goes, theres Chorus Powernet (~€300 installation ~€100/month, poor pings for gaming, have to have line of site to Watchers Hill). I haven't looked into it but theres also IrishWAN (private users setting up a wide area network, theres a group in the midwest AFAIK).

I don't think Chorus Powernet is available anymore.

http://www.midwestwan.org/ is the Midwest WAN website.

jbkenn

Sent you a mail

John Kennedy
Secretary MidwestWAN

RapierX

i have netsource in limerick


C:\>tracert clarity.jolt.co.uk

Tracing route to clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms rfc1918.space.should.not.be.used.on.publicips [1
92.168.0.1]
2 94 ms 94 ms 109 ms rt004dub.netsource.ie [213.79.63.254]
3 78 ms 47 ms 47 ms rt001kil.netsource.ie [212.17.32.101]
4 78 ms 63 ms 93 ms t3-4-2-0.ar1.dub1.gblx.net [64.213.22.253]
5 203 ms 187 ms 172 ms so6-0-0-2488M.cr2.LON3.gblx.net [67.17.66.25]
6 * 31 ms 63 ms pos6-1-622M.ar2.LON2.gblx.net [67.17.92.150]
7 63 ms 62 ms 63 ms lon1-9.nildram.net [195.66.224.59]
8 94 ms 109 ms 110 ms jolt-gw.nildram.net [195.149.20.126]
9 188 ms 187 ms 172 ms clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]

Trace complete.

it sucks langer, its fine early in the day or after maybe 2am