Broadband in Galway and leaving BT

tammy

Hi all,
two questions. Firstly I am possibly moving to Galway, from Dublin, in the next month or two and was wondering what the broadband availability is like there. I will probably not be in the city, but a few miles outside.
Secondly, I currently use BT, anyone know what the crack is with leaving the service while still under contract??

Ta Ta Tammy

Sponge Bob

a few miles out of Galway (say 5 miles ) could mean satellite or dsl or wireless

NTC

I live in Oranmore (about 7miles from city) and am moving aay from BT. Service very poor. connection drops every hour or so.

I am moving to Metro. You will get Broadband in most of the towns, but the only way to know is to know where you are moving.

huggs2

This site will tell you whats available.
http://www.broadband.gov.ie/BBInfo/ServiceByLocationSearchWF.aspx

Sponge Bob

That site run by Noel Dempseys department is a DISGRACE , here is a specimen answer 8 miles from Galway

Broadband Providers in Your Area
The following companies provide Broadband Services in Moycullen , Galway
Check if your landline is on a DSL enabled exchange (opens new window).
Satellite (* subject to survey) Provider Website E-Mail Telephone
Digiweb Satellite broadband.digiweb.ie sales@digiweb.ie 042 939 3300
Applied Solutions www.ADSLnow.ie ask@applied.ie 1890 924 854
Orbitlink www.orbitlink.ie info@educom.ie 01-8601995
Pure Telecom Satellite www.puretelecom.ie info@puretelecom.ie 01-2895555
e3 Broadband www.e3broadband.ie sales@e3broadband.ie 1850 303333
ehotspot www.ehotspot.ie info@ehotspot.ie 0044 1262 409109
Avonline www.avonlinebroadband.co.uk broadband@avonline.co.uk +44 (0) 800 073 1102
Eircom Satellite www.eircom.ie directsales@eircom.net 1901
Fastnet Broadband Satellite www.fastnetbroadband.com info@fastnetbroadband.com (01) 2303746
Cross Country Broadband Ltd. www.crosscountrybroadband.com customerservice@crosscountrybroadband.com 01 4693476

Want to compare the Broadband Services (in terms of price, speed, etc.) of these and other Broadband Providers?

All sat providers. Yet you can get ADSL in Moycullen and you can get Wireless in Moycullen but that fool Dempsey wants you to take his cruddy VSAT service instead.

pointofnoreturn

tammy wrote:

Hi all,
two questions. Firstly I am possibly moving to Galway, from Dublin, in the next month or two and was wondering what the broadband availability is like there. I will probably not be in the city, but a few miles outside.
Secondly, I currently use BT, anyone know what the crack is with leaving the service while still under contract??

Ta Ta Tammy

If your going to be living outside Galway then your options become much more limited, but it depends which direction you go out, here is a list of the main ISP and other smaller groups around Galway.

giving that your going to be outside the city i can't be sure of the coverage of ADSL

Wireless
Digiweb Metro
Magnet Networks (Leap) Magnetbusiness.ie
Irish Broadband Breeze service
Eircom FWA, Yes they are live here just put the presure on and you'll get it!

Smaller Groups
Airwire.ie http://www.airwire.ie/
Clarinbridgebroadband http://www.clarinbridgebroadband.com/Athenry broadband GBS http://www.athenrybroadband.com/
Craughwell Community Broadband http://www.craughwellbroadband.com/
Broader Wireless http://www.broaderwireless.com/

if you can give us any idea of where your moving to outside galway i'll be able tell your which provider covers your area.

Sponge Bob

pointofnoreturn wrote:

Smaller Groups
Airwire.ie http://www.airwire.ie/
Clarinbridgebroadband http://www.clarinbridgebroadband.com/Athenry broadband GBS http://www.athenrybroadband.com/
Craughwell Community Broadband http://www.craughwellbroadband.com/
Broader Wireless http://www.broaderwireless.com/

if you can give us any idea of where your moving to outside galway i'll be able tell your which provider covers your area.

Also

Cellcom http://www.cellcom.ie/

and Kinvara GBS http://www.kgbb.net/ , the original of the species.

and Com1 http://www.com1.ie/

and Airspeed http://www.airspeed.ie/

tammy

Thanks for the feedback. I have no idea which direction or how far from the city I'll be unfortunately. However broadband availability will be a factor the re-location so with the above information I should be sorted.
nice one.

philologos

Sponge Bob wrote:

That site run by Noel Dempseys department is a DISGRACE , here is a specimen answer 8 miles from Galway



All sat providers. Yet you can get ADSL in Moycullen and you can get Wireless in Moycullen but that fool Dempsey wants you to take his cruddy VSAT service instead.

sorry how is it "his" cruddy VSAT service? surely those are all independent companies??

Sponge Bob

Jakkass wrote:

sorry how is it "his" cruddy VSAT service?

His site recommends VSAT over all other technologies , it helps "him" to pretend there is "choice" in the "market" when in reality its a few cruddy VSAT services.

The DCMNR only updates its site about twice a year too. Moycullen , the example I gave, was DSL enabled in MARCH but this is not reflected on the DCMNR site at all.

Check his other site .

http://www.dialup-dempsey.com/

NutJob

Id listen to spongebob on Dempsy. He has a habbit of screwing things up. I remember his proposals when he was minister of education. :mad:


VSAT is not a broadband solution. Its horrible to use.

From having friends who are using broadband heavily in galway.

IBB <<< REALLY BAD
NTL << getting good reports:eek:
Smart telecom << Pending a serious test but exchanges comeing online (Eircoms fault)
Eircom << Dont like them but it works ok from reports



All these are city connections so milage may vary. From what i understand the outskirts of galway tend to limit your choices.

jor el

tammy wrote:

Secondly, I currently use BT, anyone know what the crack is with leaving the service while still under contract??

I asked BT this exact question a few months ago, actually I asked three times since they're a bit slow to respond to questions. Anyway, they say there's a €100 cancellation fee if you're still withing the contract. Outside the 12 months there's no fee. You also need to give 1 month's notice of cancelling.

If you were to stay with BT though and simply move your account to Galway you may not need to pay this fee. Of course, you'll need to know the phone number at the address you're moving to, have an Eircom account number and make sure the line is BB compatable before this will work.

mr_disc

Smart telecom are due in oranmore soon, id go with these guys... good price ( €35 3mbps speed etc ... )

LimerickNomad

Folks,

Any updates here please, especially outside the metro-Athenry/Loughrea area?

FredsWebHead

LimerickNomad wrote:

Folks,

Any updates here please, especially outside the metro-Athenry/Loughrea area?

Try,

http://www.lightnet.ie/ (I'm with these )

http://mapviewer.broadband.gov.ie/ServiceByLocationSearchWF.aspx

Where are you moving to?

Good luck

Marlow

LimerickNomad wrote:

Folks,

Any updates here please, especially outside the metro-Athenry/Loughrea area?

http://www.airwire.ie and depending on where you are http://www.athenrybroadband.com (ACGBS)

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
Airwire

LimerickNomad

FredsWebHead wrote:

Try,

http://www.lightnet.ie/ (I'm with these )

http://mapviewer.broadband.gov.ie/ServiceByLocationSearchWF.aspx

Where are you moving to?

Good luck

Marginally outside the village of Kiltulla!

Marlow

LimerickNomad wrote:

Marginally outside the village of Kiltulla!

We are servicing Kiltulla, no problem.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
Airwire

Firetrap

On the leaving BT thing, keep all records of your correspondence with them on this. If you ring them, get the name of the person you're talking to. Keep any emails, copies of letters etc. Let's just say they're not the most efficient company in the world and even if you think you've cancelled your account with them, it's not unknown for them to not cancel things at their end and keep billing you.