Irish Broadband DSL any good?

mrplop · 06-01-2008 9:54pm #1

I've asked this question before and all I get are responses about Breeze and Ripwave.
Is Irish Broadband DSL any good?
What sort of speeds are normal with the 3mb package?

Ta.

will_forde · 07-01-2008 12:49am

I have recently changed over to Irish Broadband from BT and so far i have had no problems with them. I am on the 3MB line and the speed seams to be a little bit faster than what BT was.

mrplop · 07-01-2008 7:59am

What sorts of speeds are we talking here?
Anything above 2500 would be acceptable I think...

watty · 07-01-2008 11:55am

It's eircom bitstream, so speed mainly depends on how good the line is and amount or lack of bitstream congestion that's less than the quoted contention.

will_forde · 08-01-2008 4:55am

I mostly get around 2700Mbps or 350KBps.

Shamo · 08-01-2008 11:33am

It says unlimited downloads as well, wonder how long they'll keep that wording?! Don't see anything in the t&c about it although I scanned through it.

Dara Robinson · 09-01-2008 1:49pm

Shamo wrote: »

It says unlimited downloads as well, wonder how long they'll keep that wording?! Don't see anything in the t&c about it although I scanned through it.

I've been a IBB customer for years and I have never had any problems with download limits. Actually I got a call years ago about my downloading, they asked me if I wanted an upgrade

murph01 · 09-01-2008 10:30pm

Currently have clearwire and they are a shower of ripping of b***ards to say the least,plus having a lot of connection problems.
Was thinking of switching to Irish broadband,what kind of $$$$$$$$$$$$ are you looking at with or without a phone line.
Any feedback and advice would be much appreciated.
Thanx a million

mrplop · 10-01-2008 7:40am

It's €39.99 a month for 3mb dsl.
After my experiences with Ice I'm avoiding the Alvarion based products like breeze.
Breeze type products do work but there are too many factors involved that can screw things up - it really doesn't help when providers like Ice use unlicensed frequencies too.
I think you pretty much know where you stand with dsl.

Rattlehead_ie · 10-01-2008 8:07am

Thats the main difference prob between IBB and ICE. I'm not sure about ICE but IBB own and use licenced Freq. They also have a much larger network infrastructure compared to ICE. But yes there can be factors like heavy rain or wind moving your antenna that can cause loss of signal.

mrplop · 10-01-2008 10:18pm

As far as I know IBB use 3.5ghz and Ice use 5ghz.

Irish Broadband DSL any good?

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