Any no-contract broadband services?

kirsh

I'm from Canada and I've been living in Dublin for the past 7 months.... now when we moved in we had hard-line Broadband through NTL, but when our housemate left, he took his account with him, leaving us without a provider for tv or internet.
Now I currently have a 3pay/3G wireless broadband dongle, but to tell you the truth, it sucks. It's real slow, inconsistant signal, and not much bandwidth.

So I'm looking for a phone-line based broadband provider for dublin city center that doesnt have a 12-month contract, since im leaving come december. does anyone out there know of any providers that do something better than what im using right now?

ive already looked into Chorus/NTL, O2, Perlico, eircom and most of the other big names.

thanks for the help in advance.
Jake

mukki

your from canada and living in dublin, dude you got it soooo wrong

anyway

don't know if their is any no contract bb available, but the 3g modems have a transferable contract, so you can try o2 or vodafone and see if they are better, and in decemeber you can flog it to someone

also with vodafone you can switch it to pay as you go, and go, lol

kirsh

mukki wrote: »

your from canada and living in dublin, dude you got it soooo wrong

hahaha, you have no idea how often i get that!
to each his own though. change is nice too.

thanks for the heads up about switching to pay as you go...
currently im doing 2gb 10eu/per week on 3pay broadband....

oneway

Check the coverage maps of the 4 main 3g wireless offerings (Yodafone, O2, meteor and 3).

My sis got a o2 one (deal from her work) only to find out she was in an o2 black-spot that's about 100m x 200m, she only has 2g coverage.

If whe went for any other she would have had full 3g coverage.

Most of the providers have maps showing full or 2g coverage.

Perhaps the reason 3 is slow if because they don't supply full coverage.

have fun

kirsh

oneway wrote: »

Check the coverage maps of the 4 main 3g wireless offerings (Yodafone, O2, meteor and 3).

My sis got a o2 one (deal from her work) only to find out she was in an o2 black-spot that's about 100m x 200m, she only has 2g coverage.

If whe went for any other she would have had full 3g coverage.

Most of the providers have maps showing full or 2g coverage.

Perhaps the reason 3 is slow if because they don't supply full coverage.

have fun

i seem to be regularly connecting to the 3g and the HDSPA networks with my 3broadband dongle, so i think it's just the dongle not having high speeds. i never seem to see anything more than 700kbps... with a 3-500 kbps average.
my coverage is fine, but i need better internet.

bugfreebob

kirsh wrote: »

I'm from Canada and I've been living in Dublin for the past 7 months.... now when we moved in we had hard-line Broadband through NTL, but when our housemate left, he took his account with him, leaving us without a provider for tv or internet.
Now I currently have a 3pay/3G wireless broadband dongle, but to tell you the truth, it sucks. It's real slow, inconsistant signal, and not much bandwidth.

So I'm looking for a phone-line based broadband provider for dublin city center that doesnt have a 12-month contract, since im leaving come december. does anyone out there know of any providers that do something better than what im using right now?

ive already looked into Chorus/NTL, O2, Perlico, eircom and most of the other big names.

thanks for the help in advance.
Jake

eircom do 6 month contracts on DSL, and they offer 1 month free, so that gets you to December nicely. The option is buried on their site under "Broadband only". They try to encourage you to take up Bundles, and these are normally slightly cheaper, but 12 months contracts.

I have friends who spent a half year here recently and took up one of the 6 month contracts.

watty

3G / Mobile certainly is NOT broadband, it's Mobile Internet using the Mobile Phone Service.

You can't get "no contract" broadband.

Some Operators will let you pay a year in advance. If you have no phone line, Cable or Fixed Wireless Broadband is considerably cheaper than eircom or any DSL service, especially comparing 3Mbps+ speeds.

JCX BXC

4g in dublin now over 3 of the 4 main operators.
Any problems now?
Three offer prepay 4g where as the rest are contracts.
Expect 10mbps+ on three 4g

hadit2here

Magnet do a contract free option....

http://www.magnet.ie/news/first-contract-free-broadband/

fat-tony

zombie thread from almost six years ago :eek: lots changed