modem versus router

NakedHedgehog

Heyas,

right now i'm on Eircom's "Enhanced" package (which, being Eircom, is excessively expensive). I'm not using it as much as I thought I would be, so I was going to downgrade the line-speed.

Right now I'm using a four-port router/modem (D-Link), but the woman-on-the-phone said I'd have to buy a USB modem from them for 150 Euro.

Do router/modems not work with the 512kpbs package eircom has, or can I tell her to feck off, shut up and downgrade me.


I was also thinking of going for Netsource.ie until I saw all the ping problems!! Alternatively I'd go with UTV, but their package is just for one connection (or so it says on the site)- while I have 2 PCs and 2 laptops in the house that need the net.

Any ideas?

thanks

Frank Grimes

Originally posted by nhedge
Do router/modems not work with the 512kpbs package eircom has

They work fine with it.

MrPinK

Originally posted by nhedge
Alternatively I'd go with UTV, but their package is just for one connection (or so it says on the site)- while I have 2 PCs and 2 laptops in the house that need the net.

Any ideas?

thanks

Don't mind that, it's very misleading. Like any other service, you can only have one connection, but you can share this one connection between as many comps as you like. Your current hardware does this for you.

CubicleDweller

Originally posted by nhedge
Right now I'm using a four-port router/modem (D-Link), but the woman-on-the-phone said I'd have to buy a USB modem from them for 150 Euro.

As far as I know, (some of the regulars here can hopefully confirm this) Eircom are breaking the law if they tell you that you have to buy the modem off them. They're allowed to sell you one if you want it, but they have to offer you the option of providing the service only, if you already have your own equipment.

I'd call them again, and see if they say the same thing. If they do, ask to speak to a supervisor to confirm it. Ask for his/her name, and tell them you'll be writing to ComReg about this.

I'd lay good odds that they'll back down before you get that far.

And the D-Link kit (I've got a DSL-504) works fine with RADSL, by the way. It has a few niggling issues (see http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=110187 ) but those probably apply to normal ADSL too.

NakedHedgehog

thanks guys.

as for the "have" to - I'm sure I wouldn't have to buy it from them and that it was merely the uninformed person on the other line.

If I can use my router, then that's all that's necessary


So - do I understand correctly that I could get the UTV service as well using my router mode then, yeh?

CubicleDweller

Originally posted by nhedge
So - do I understand correctly that I could get the UTV service as well using my router mode then, yeh?

Not sure, as I don't know anything about UTV's service. (I stopped following this forum once I got my IOLBB working, until today - UTV hadn't launched their service last time I was here.)

But I'm guessing that UTV may be re-selling Eircom's product, just like IOL. In which case, it should work fine. If they're somehow providing a service without re-selling the Eircom one, then it should probably still work - D-Link seems to support lots of different ADSL/RADSL versions...

Urban Weigl

The router will work fine with UTV Clicksilver, no problems.

BKtje

As far as I know, (some of the regulars here can hopefully confirm this) Eircom are breaking the law if they tell you that you have to buy the modem off them. [/quote[
They are indeed