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No line rental + 3MB Download speed without NTL = impossible?

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  • 28-07-2009 11:49am
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    Guy Montag
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    Hi everyone,

    I browsed through old posts but didn't quite get the info I was looking for. I just recently moved in a new area where NTL/UPC broadband is not available.

    Last week I ordered Eircom but then I started reading about their threats of downgrading or suspending users and I don't want to sign up with them anymore. On the other hand why should I go with BT and pay a line rental fee at all?

    Do I have any other option, as the wireless broadband providers seem unreliable and at times painfully slow (I'd need to stream live football and can't deal with low connection speed, really not)?

    Cheers
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    jor el
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    What threats of downgrading or suspending from eircom? eircom have never suspended a user, or downgraded (unless the line is incapable of the speed).

    To get broadband over the phone, you have to pay line rental, doesn't matter who you chose (BT, etc).

    Digiweb Metro and Imagine (IBB) Breeze are two good wireless services. Mobile, Clearwire, Ripwave are all poorer services.


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    Guy Montag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Guy Montag


    This is what I have read and what people are talking about in one of the sticky posts at the top of this section of the forum:

    http://torrentfreak.com/irelands-largest-isp-starts-throttling-and-disconnections-090725/

    and if they are supporting this I don't want to give them my money.

    It seems that with IBB you can't get it faster than 2M.


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    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Guy Montag wrote: »
    This is what I have read and what people are talking about in one of the sticky posts at the top of this section of the forum:

    http://torrentfreak.com/irelands-largest-isp-starts-throttling-and-disconnections-090725/

    UPC throttles torrents, there are many posts about it in the UPC thread, I don't believe eircom do. eircom have not yet disconnected anyone for this. There have been no confirmed warnings received by users either.
    Guy Montag wrote: »
    and if they are supporting this I don't want to give them my money.

    If you get DSL from any provider, you are supporting eircom as they get almost all, if not all, of the money anyway. All the ISPs in Ireland are largely wholesale resellers of eircom bitstream products, and eircom make the vast majority of the money you pay, including all of the line rental. Even the very small number of LLU customers are paying a huge chunk of their monthly fee to eircom.
    Guy Montag wrote: »
    It seems that with IBB you can't get it faster than 2M.

    Breeze is up to 4Mbps.


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    Cabaal
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    Guy Montag wrote: »
    and if they are supporting this I don't want to give them my money.

    It seems that with IBB you can't get it faster than 2M.

    If you ever get a phone line you'll be giving eircom money regardless of the provider you choose to provide the service over the phone line


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    Guy Montag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Guy Montag


    Cabaal wrote: »
    If you ever get a phone line you'll be giving eircom money regardless of the provider you choose to provide the service over the phone line

    Yes, that's why I was looking at other possible options without line rental, first and foremost because I don't need a landline at all.

    ;)


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