Smart 8Mb/s

Mountjoy Mugger

Just got upgraded this evening to Smart's new 8Mb/s package with 512Kbps upload, all for €49.99 and no cap.

Such is life

KTRIC

Mountjoy Mugger wrote:

Just got upgraded this evening to Smart's new 8Mb/s package with 512Kbps upload, all for €49.99 and no cap.

Such is life

Sounds good, might have a looky myself

spurious

Those durn Smart folk...and we wonder why eircom tried to rid the land of them.
Unsuccessfully.

Spear

Mountjoy Mugger wrote:

Just got upgraded this evening to Smart's new 8Mb/s package with 512Kbps upload, all for €49.99 and no cap.

Such is life

It should be 600KB up rather than 512KB.

Gonzo

8mb/s, hopefully eircom will finally upgrade me to that speed by 2015

Mountjoy Mugger

Spear wrote:

It should be 600KB up rather than 512KB.

It is - I just didn't want to rub it in..

byte

Sadly, my line can't handle much more than 5 - 5.5Mbps, so I won't be able to avail of that (which is a good price IMO).

Still, the standard 4Mbps is grand for now (just need more upload speed).

game4it70

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
lol i am glad 2 c some1 actually happy with there service.nice 1.

Mountjoy Mugger

byte wrote:

Sadly, my line can't handle much more than 5 - 5.5Mbps, so I won't be able to avail of that (which is a good price IMO).

Still, the standard 4Mbps is grand for now (just need more upload speed).

Have you enquired about doubling your upload for an extra €5?

Liam Byrne

Feck - I've a crap/long phone line too.....maxes out at 2.8 most of the time .....no 8mb speed for me unless I pay eircom the line rental for 2 more lines.

Still, I've already got the fastest available to me, so guess I shouldn't complain..

I just wish Smart had enough money to put out even a couple of adverts saying "Get Smart Broadband......4 times faster than eircom for the same price (and 192 times faster if all your neighbours are online)!" :eek:

Gotta hand it to 'em, though.....still firing out the best options despite cashflow problems, eircom's tactics and false advertising and a regulator & government with as much clout and willingness to act as.....a pornstar ?

the corpo

is that including a call package?

i'm on the original package, wonder is it worth paying the extra few quid

qwertplaywert

8mb............jayas.....................this is the problem with this contorys bb services. the best way to combat it imo is to block any speed upgrades until 100 percent[or whats possible] is achieved for bb

Mutant_Fruit

qwertplaywert wrote:

8mb............jayas.....................this is the problem with this contorys bb services. the best way to combat it imo is to block any speed upgrades until 100 percent[or whats possible] is achieved for bb

Are you saying that the problem with this country's broadband service is that some companies supply a great service for a respectable price? What would you expect to achieve by effectively banning the BB companies from competing with each other? Is that what you really want? Would you like all prices and speeds to be frozen from now until whenever they get broadband available to that sheep in the back arse of nowhere* with no phonelines around?

I'm just wondering why you find it so terrible that a BB company would think of offering such a good package.

* no offence to anyone who does live in the back arse of nowhere with no phone lines around

BlackWizard

I wish the Smart was available on the Palmerstown exchange or BT upgraded
their upload.

Terra

Is there any company offering a better service for the same price at the moment ?


I just wish they could get out too all exchanges and put the pressure on eircom and all the others too actually provide a decent broadband package

thefinalstage

BlackWizard wrote:

I wish the Smart was available on the Palmerstown exchange or BT upgraded
their upload.

Mail SMART! I already asked them about the PALMERSTOWN exchange and showed my interest,do the same! We may get it yet!

Dasilva94

Using the statistics page on my Netgear Modem/Router, it says of my connection
Line Attenuation: Down 15 db Up 5.5 db Noise Margin: Down 20 db Up 16 db
Would this be OK to supply an 8Mb/s supply?

lifebook

Living down in Dungarvan now and they have 9Mb here. Was amazing for two days 900K++ but now im struggling to get 2-3Mb at best.


Sick of calling them, they are monitoring my line ...my arse

dub45

Dasilva94 wrote:

Using the statistics page on my Netgear Modem/Router, it says of my connection
Line Attenuation: Down 15 db Up 5.5 db Noise Margin: Down 20 db Up 16 db
Would this be OK to supply an 8Mb/s supply?

Have a read here:

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/linestats.htm

and here:

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/lowSNR.htm

and if you dont know how to get the stats for your equipment:

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.htm#top