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Any experience of eircom wimax?

Krachmacher · 2008-02-08 16:20:08

Hi All, I've just moved house and I can't get broadband by landline as before. Eircom is offering wimax at the same rate (but 150 euro install charge!). I'd never even heard of wimax until now. Anybody have any experience of this? - it it reliable? According to eircom I should get same speed (1Mb download, 128k upload).…

08-02-2008 4:20pm

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Krachmacher

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Hi All,

I've just moved house and I can't get broadband by landline as before.
Eircom is offering wimax at the same rate (but 150 euro install charge!).
I'd never even heard of wimax until now.
Anybody have any experience of this? - it it reliable?
According to eircom I should get same speed (1Mb download, 128k upload).

I'm in Barna, Galway, if that's of any relevance.

Thanks for any info,
Krachmacher

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#2 08-02-2008 6:22pm

zonEEE

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Is this the stuff irish broadband do ? the little satellite ? If so then its pretty good. Im getting from a local sligo company called fastcom. its not the best for gaming but for an average user its good.

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#3 09-02-2008 12:20am

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Its not the same as IBB, IBB were going to roll it out but that seemed to have never happened. It's a wireless tech with a much greater range than the tech IBB use. It's range is approx 15-20km and is capiable of speeds of up to 70Mbit but not a chance more like 10Mbit over 10Km so 1 MB wont be a problem in the slightest.

The installation cost is on account that they will be strapping a few grands worth of equipment to your house.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055005647

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#4 09-02-2008 12:24am

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Is this truly wimax, or dialup onto a digi phone card? Wimax is just beginning in the States, whereas dialup through phone carriers has been around awhile. Transfer rates on dialup here run about 1.5mbps (slow!), while the new wimax (in beta) is said to be much faster.

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#5 09-02-2008 3:18pm

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The overall WiMax speed is shared. So to have a reasonable number of users it is limited per user to 1Mbps. The 3.6MBps on HSDPA is for the sector, so a user if 23 others are connected might get 70k

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#6 09-02-2008 3:39pm

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What are the response times like. Is a no go for gaming?

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