Not connected to local exchange

trotter_inc

I live in Macroom in Cork half the town has broadband with eircom and the other half, which Im on, doesnt! One side of the town is on the "exchange" and the other side, which is separated by a bridge doesnt!

What does it mean when they say we're not "on the local exchange"? Would it be a big job for eircom to "connect us to an exhange"? Ive been on to them before about it, but to no success.

I dont get it...there is a couple of thousand ppl living there without broadband, Im sure that if eircom connected us then they would get a lot of business from the residents there! I dont understand why they're not doing anything about it!

Frustrated in Cork...

uncle_sam_ie

trotter_inc wrote:

I live in Macroom in Cork half the town has broadband with eircom and the other half, which Im on, doesnt! One side of the town is on the "exchange" and the other side, which is separated by a bridge doesnt!

What does it mean when they say we're not "on the local exchange"? Would it be a big job for eircom to "connect us to an exhange"? Ive been on to them before about it, but to no success.

I dont get it...there is a couple of thousand ppl living there without broadband, Im sure that if eircom connected us then they would get a lot of business from the residents there! I dont understand why they're not doing anything about it!

Frustrated in Cork...

Because, eircom can make a lot more money if your stuck on dial-up. You can thank Noel Dempsey's lack of leadership for that.

trotter_inc

uncle_sam_ie wrote:

Because, eircom can make a lot more money if your stuck on dial-up. You can thank Noel Dempsey's lack of leadership for that.

Not in my case though, dial-up pisses me off so I just dont bother using it! If I had broadband though Id surf at home...at the moment I do whatever I have to from work

uncle_sam_ie

trotter_inc wrote:

Not in my case though, dial-up pisses me off so I just dont bother using it! If I had broadband though Id surf at home...at the moment I do whatever I have to from work

Have you looked into Vodafone's 3G broadband. It's not bad. That's what I'm using at the moment and I'm only in a 2G area.

Sponge Bob

Maybe , Voda Map

http://62.17.23.101:8080/liteview6.5/servlet/MapGuideLiteView?REQUEST=MAP&WIDTH=396&HEIGHT=396&FORMAT=PNG&LAYERS=VodafoneCoverCombo.mwf&BBOX=40268.07190000001,-12359.274550000002,211111.989,158484.64255

Foxwood

uncle_sam_ie wrote:

Because, eircom can make a lot more money if your stuck on dial-up. You can thank Noel Dempsey's lack of leadership for that.

Eircom make a lot more money from broadband than they do from dialup. There can't be more than half a dozen saddos doing more than 5 hours a day on dialup on the wrong side of the bridge in Macroom, and there'd likely be far more people willing to hand over their 30 euro for broadband than for 150 hours of dialup a month.

uncle_sam_ie

Foxwood wrote:

Eircom make a lot more money from broadband than they do from dialup. There can't be more than half a dozen saddos doing more than 5 hours a day on dialup on the wrong side of the bridge in Macroom, and there'd likely be far more people willing to hand over their 30 euro for broadband than for 150 hours of dialup a month.

I reckon they do make more money on dial-up. My bills were around €120 a month on ISDN. What are the Ireland offline facts on this?

trotter_inc

Sponge Bob wrote:

Maybe , Voda Map

http://62.17.23.101:8080/liteview6.5/servlet/MapGuideLiteView?REQUEST=MAP&WIDTH=396&HEIGHT=396&FORMAT=PNG&LAYERS=VodafoneCoverCombo.mwf&BBOX=40268.07190000001,-12359.274550000002,211111.989,158484.64255

The map doesnt seem to want to load for me

Sponge Bob

macroom has 3g

trotter_inc

Sponge Bob wrote:

macroom has 3g

just rang them and signal is supposed to be quite good...

how different in speed wise is it from broadband? would it be as fast? would watching videos on youtube for example be ok?

its €49 per month, would it be worth the extra cost?

thanks for all this info guys!

trotter_inc

uncle_sam_ie wrote:

Have you looked into Vodafone's 3G broadband. It's not bad. That's what I'm using at the moment and I'm only in a 2G area.

what speeds are you getting sam?

uncle_sam_ie

trotter_inc wrote:

what speeds are you getting sam?

About 44-55 Kb on 2G (good dial-up speed) and about 288-300 Kb on 3G( near BB speed). The only thing that sucks is 5G "cap", because I'd go way over that if I was living in a 3G area.