Recommendations for Wireless Broadband?

jaqian

Looking for wireless broadband. Sick of paying Eircom for a phone line we hardly use other than for the net.

I live in Finglas South and am looking for a basic package to check some email and upload the odd photo to Flickr. Won't be downloading anything much.

Any recommendations?

Cheers,
Rob

spartacus93

Try Digiweb Metro...

Nehaxak

Lol digiweb !?

Try IrishBroadBand fixed wireless (Breeze not ripwave) - no cap either.

Only try digiweb if all else fails as they have a very drastic cap in place, really not worth even bothering with them and their customer service is an absolute joke.

spartacus93

Digiweb's Metro service is very fast and very reliable. I have never had an issue with their customer service. Been a customer of their's since they launched their fixed wireless service in Waterford. Probably 5+ years ago.

Their cap is not "drastic". It is similar to caps on similar products. They do however enforce it. Which may be an issue if you go over it alot.

The OP has stated he does not want to download much, therefore metro would be very suited to him... Perhaps you should have read his post before you jumped at the chance to badmouth digiwebs service :rolleyes:

lm7

In my opinion wireless BB in this country sucks. I had IBB ripwave modem could not send an email with out it just dropping. This was In the Harolds Cross Rathmines area. Swithchd to clearwire not much better and dearer. now I have o2 Broadband not great and dropped while trying to send this and its saturday morn 7.40am. but at least I can send emails.

watty

There are nearly a dozen DIFFERENT wireless technologies

They vary from slower than Dialup to fibre speeds of 1Gbps.

Ripwave, Clearwire and Mobile Phone mast based Wireless are the three slowest.

The next tier of technology do 512Kbps to 3Mps consistent speed depending on package.
(Most FWLA 3.5Ghz, Digiweb or IBB Breeze and others, some WiMax)

The Mobile UPTO 3.6Mbps is shared for EVERYONE in a mast sector thus can easily be 70k per person, the FWLA 2Mbps is pretty much per person.

The next level is 1M to 10Mbps (Digiweb Metro)

The next level is Business solutions 10Mbps to 100Mbps symmetrical.

The top tier is wireless links that offer fibre performance (up to 10Gbps on over 2km distance http://www.wifiber.ie/ )

So you can't claim that about wireless BB. It's like claiming all cars suck because you only drove 500cc 1960 fiat Bambini, a 1978 cardboard Trabant and a 1976 two stroke Wartburg.

In 2008.

cormie

I'm not sure about this, but digiweb metro says you don't need a phoneline, but yet it says landline rental included and mentions about call costs. So if you DO have a phoneline, do you basically just keep it and pay them the same rate for if you don't have a phone line and if you do have a phone line you can make landline calls, and if you don't you can't?

Is the Metro any less reliable than the likes of UTV broadband? Also, at the moment, my friend is sharing his connection with me through a wireless router that I can pick up (it's my router in his house:pac:). Would we still be able to share with Digiweb Metro? He wants to stop paying for a phone line he doesn't use and just use skype instead!

watty

Metro Modem has two phone sockets that work mostly like phone lines.

By default you get one real phone number (i.e. 021 cork, 061 Limerick etc) and you can buy a second number.

There is no charge for the 1st number. Calls to other Metro users free, calls elsewhere are cheaper than eircom. It uses a kind of VOIP system but unlike Blueface or other 3rd party systems it's secure and the bandwidth needed is ensured on Digiwebs own network and the call does not go via Internet, only on Digiweb network into the phone network.

You can usually use your existing phone. Fax, analogue modem and Sky Digibox connections usually work. Often they supply a DECT cordless phone. I have two DECT dual handset systems with different numbers and also a multifunction Brother Fax/Scanner/Printer on one "line".

You can get your existing number transferred from eircom (cancel any CPS and go back to eircom 1st) which will automatically cancel your phone line/rental. Or if your phone line is very good allowing high speed fax and you do a lot of it, or you have specialist ISDN applications (non-Internet), you can transfer the phone line to Digiweb CPS and save money.

But Metro itself does not need eircom or anyone else's phone line to provide one free phone socket / "line" and Broadband.

UTV broadband depends on eircom infrastructure and eircom. Depending on your area Metro may or may not be better than what you have. Very often it's better than DSL as it has up to 5 times the range with no loss of speed compared with maximum phone line distance. The phone line starts losing speed beyond 2km.

To connect more than one PC you need an ethernet WiFi router. You may be able to get one from Digiweb or purchase your own cheaply from Argos, Maplin, expansys.ie dabs.ie or Komplett.ie A DSL "ONLY" router won't work. You need one with ethernet WAN socket, not phone line socket. Argos misname them Cable Routers.
Linksys (Cisco consumer), Netgear, Dlink, Zyxel, Sitecom etc make them. Or Cisco and Juniper if you want corporate management

Put long password WPA PSK AES encryption on your WiFi part when you get it.

You get your cake and eat it as you get the Digiweb phone service (with real phone sockets) free connection (no line rental), with low cost calls, and Skype, Blueface, Gizmo etc all also work often better than on DSL (UTV, eircom internet).

So the no line rental only counts if you get rid of existing phone line. Keeping existing number (Digiweb has to pay eircom 50 Euro for transfer I think, so may be a charge to transfer) is possible or get a new local geographic number free. You pay a small monthly charge (under 6 Eur I think) to get a second number.

A few people have had problems with phone due to Radio Interference. But since Digiweb has a licence for the frequencies, when source is identified Comreg has in the past intervened and solved it.

Super Sidious

digiweb any good in temple bar?