Boycott Eircom Broadband

Mike...

Everything has a facebook page these days,
hopefully people thinking about getting broadband will see this and take their custom elsewhere

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Eircom-Broadband/120929584611512?v=wall#!/pages/Boycott-Eircom-Broadband/120929584611512?v=wall

RoadKillTs

Got rid of them ages ago.

Boom..i was the second person to like it..i think i need to put the laptop down..perhaps i should go outside,,.

SmashingPilot

Damn, I'm too slow. Took third spot though.

RoadKillTs

Boom..i was the second person to like it..i think i need to put the laptop down..perhaps i should go outside,,.

Fourth


Bring me back some fresh air.

El Weirdo

First person to unlike it.

Onesimus

whats wrong with eircom broadband? its the cheapest one around are you people crazy?:mad:

squod

Corime

IvySlayer

It's not Eircoms fault ffs.

Blame the music companies and their court cases.

Mike 1972

Onesimus wrote: »

its the cheapest one around

When something is cheap there is usually a reason for it.

brendor

Why? Because they won't let you download copyrighted content? Grow up.

parker kent

Onesimus wrote: »

whats wrong with eircom broadband? its the cheapest one around are you people crazy?:mad:

On the Facebook group it says:

EIRCOM WILL from today begin a process that will lead to cutting off the broadband service of customers found to be repeatedly sharing music online illegally.
Ireland is the first country in the world where a system is being put in place. Under the pilot scheme, Eircom customers who illegally share copyrighted music will get three warnings before having their broadband service cut off for a year.

I say meh. If you have already got 2 warnings from them it is your own fault.

punkindrublic

IvySlayer wrote: »

It's not Eircoms fault ffs.

Blame the music companies and their court cases.

Eircom were sh*t before this anyway

minidazzler

Onesimus wrote: »

whats wrong with eircom broadband? its the cheapest one around are you people crazy?:mad:

They now have a 3 strike rule that if you download files they don't like they can and will shut you off, they don't need evidence, they can just do it.

My name is URL

I'm too apathetic to switch provider.. just have to wait until they disconnect me

If UPC was available here I'd switch in an instant but the only others I can go to are Eircom resellers

Minstrel27

I never had Eircom broadband.

minidazzler

parker kent wrote: »

On the Facebook group it says:



I say meh. If you have already got 2 warnings from them it is your own fault.

This thread has been done, but basically it means download even legal torrents, and only legal torrents, and you will be shut down. They won't be checking to see if the torrents are for free and without copyright.

Mike 1972

Would disconnecting people without refund constitute breach of contract ?

minidazzler wrote: »

you download files they don't like they can and will shut you off, they don't need evidence, they can just do it.

Wouldnt they want to do something about the secruity problems on their customers wireless routers first ?

Onesimus

minidazzler wrote: »

They now have a 3 strike rule that if you download files they don't like they can and will shut you off, they don't need evidence, they can just do it.

I know, I'm just winding people up, trying to get the blood flowing ya know RWOAR :pac::D

zenno

EIRCON has dug it's own grave. it just show's you how stupid the austrailian business people in particular are, allowing this. sure EIRCON is rusting a good bit, it's only a matter of time before it goes under. :pac:

Thoie

brendor wrote: »

Why? Because they won't let you download copyrighted content? Grow up.

parker kent wrote: »

I say meh. If you have already got 2 warnings from them it is your own fault.

The point is that they're not proving you're downloading illegal/copyrighted content before issuing warnings. They are presuming you're guilty without verifying your guilt or providing any evidence, and then penalising you (and anyone you happen to share a connection with) based on presumed guilt.

Min

If you are a thief then boycott Eircom.

Thank me if you like this

TheZohanS

Onesimus wrote: »

whats wrong with eircom broadband? its the cheapest one around are you people crazy?:mad:

No it's not.

blubloblu

minidazzler wrote: »

This thread has been done, but basically it means download even legal torrents, and only legal torrents, and you will be shut down. They won't be checking to see if the torrents are for free and without copyright.

Wrong. You don't know what you're talking about. Read up on the facts, then post.

Onesimus

TheZohan wrote: »

No it's not.

read post #19

Nick_oliveri

Why are people boycotting now considering this was announced last year(?)...
Im boycotting them because they ****ed me around long enough with their non-service and "customer support".

For better or worse, vodafone here I come, please dont be vodafail.

Andy-Pandy

No

Jev/N

FFS, the amount of mis-information in this thread (as well) is ridiculous!

jd007

Onesimus wrote: »

I know, I'm just winding people up, trying to get the blood flowing ya know RWOAR :pac::D

http://blog.infinitemonkeysblog.com/files/images/obvious_troll.preview.jpg

Mimojo

Im with Eircom and find their broadband a good service so far.

I find it hard to believe that Eircom will, along with countless others, cut me off. If they do, then fairwell Eircom, first thing I will do it cancel the direct debit with the bank, and get a different service provider asap. I find it hard to believe that Eircom are willing to risk loosing thousands of customers over this - surely this makes no sense as a commercial business???

TheZohanS

Onesimus wrote: »

read post #19

Damn...

Onesimus

jd007 wrote: »

http://blog.infinitemonkeysblog.com/files/images/obvious_troll.preview.jpg

I hope you thats an invasion of privacy :mad::pac:

Onesimus

TheZohan wrote: »

Damn...

You dont mess with Onesimus!!! :D

My name is URL

Nick_oliveri wrote: »

Why are people boycotting now considering this was announced last year(?)...
Im boycotting them because they ****ed me around long enough with their non-service and "customer support".

For better or worse, vodafone here I come, please dont be vodafail.

Really? I've found the customer service from Eircom to be better than many other companies. Just recently, I had my line cut off because of an issue with my direct debit. I got a final demand from them and assumed it was just a bill so put it aside (I check my billing online)

Called them up and within an hour I was reconnected without having to pay the fee.

On other occasions I've been on to them for service inquiries and have always found them to be very accommodating.. maybe I'm just lucky though =/

Mimojo

My name is URL wrote: »

Really? I've found the customer service from Eircom to be better than many other companies. Just recently, I had my line cut off because of an issue with my direct debit. I got a final demand from them and assumed it was just a bill so put it aside (I check my billing online)

Called them up and within an hour I was reconnected without having to pay the fee.

On other occasions I've been on to them for service inquiries and have always found them very accommodating.. maybe I'm just lucky though =/

+1 = Found their customer service to be pretty good tbh from any dealings I have had with them

ejmaztec

Eircom's always been sh1t, even when they had no competition. When I was with them, they only had dial-up, the good old days when it took 3 months to download an MP3.

The_Thing

A CD-R or a DVD-R loaded to capacity with MP3's doesn't have an IP address

About the only thing the RIAA and their ilk can do to combat the above is push for a blank media tax as implemented in Canada.

Nick_oliveri

My name is URL wrote: »

On other occasions I've been on to them for service inquiries and have always found them to be very accommodating.. maybe I'm just lucky though =/

There is a cycle they always follow when issues arise with the broadband service. While it may work under most circumstances, of course it can't fix everything, namely the problem I encountered. I went through this cycle four times (four seperate engineers coming down)

boozelerooze wrote: »

+1 = Found their customer service to be pretty good tbh from any dealings I have had with them

Either of you guys have yeer broadband cut off for a week without being given any information as to why? Any bad experience with connection/sync at all?

Mimojo

Nick_oliveri wrote: »

There is a cycle they always follow when issues arise with the broadband service. While it may work under most circumstances, of course it can't fix everything, namely the problem I encountered. I went through this cycle four times (four seperate engineers coming down)

Either of you guys have yeer broadband cut off for a week without being given any information as to why? Any bad experience with connection/sync at all?

No cant say have any probs with them, havent had broadband cut off at all. Only with them about 7 months, and maybe have gotten lucky that havent had any major probs for them to deal with

My name is URL

The only problem I've ever had with my connection was when their DNS was hacked.. it was slow for a few days then. I live right accross the road from the exchange though so maybe that has something to do with it.

G_R

i had an idea, do ye reckon this would work?

Im in contract with ericom, wanted to change recently, but costs a fortune to buy out, so didnt bother. if i was to blatantly download stuff, then get them to cut me off, would that get me out of the contract without paying the release fee?

FearDark

Onesimus wrote: »

whats wrong with eircom broadband? its the cheapest one around are you people crazy?:mad:

No
and
no.

And its shíte. (trust me) I had an 8 meg line of which I can only ever get a max download of 2 meg, customer support is a joke too.

StraddleFor6

What if UPC lose their Court case next month for the same thing?
Will the rest follow?

Its clearly not in Eircom's interest to enforce this.

Does anyone know if they'll be forced to cut off people, or is it at their discretion who, and how many offenders get the cut?

Nick_oliveri

StraddleFor6 wrote: »

Does anyone know if they'll be forced to cut off people, or is it at their discretion who, and how many offenders get the cut?

This is unknown IIRC. I'd say it (numbers/results) was set in the out of court settlement that all this is based around.

zenno

Nick_oliveri wrote: »

Why are people boycotting now considering this was announced last year(?)...
Im boycotting them because they ****ed me around long enough with their non-service and "customer support".

For better or worse, vodafone here I come, please dont be vodafail.

vodafone got a summons the other day as far as i heard.

Jev/N

StraddleFor6 wrote: »

What if UPC lose their Court case next month for the same thing?
Will the rest follow?

It's different in the situation of a court case as Irma are looking for secondary liability on the part of the ISP for failure to implement filtering software on their network. They can just go looking for a settlement like Eircom. It's hard to see UPC losing the case on the basis of having some liability as a service provider.

TiGeR KiNgS

Every few weeks theres a boycott eircom campaign.

daithimac

will this only be effecting people using p2p or will people using server sites be hit by this as well, It will be interesting to see how this goes. Between this and UPC rolling out uncapped 100 MB service by the end of the year things can't be looking to good at eircom towers

DoIMakeUHorny?

Eircom is the sorriest excuse for a telecommunications and internet company history has yet to "devolutionise" us with.

Ireland is now up their with the leading broadband systems of the world and holds it's head high among such role models as Congo, Bolivia and indeed, the Amazon rainforest.

SKY won't even set up shop here because the proper structure is far from being in place. Why people accept to pay nearly three times the amount of money for a slower connection is absolutely beyond me. But then again, the new lazy Irish generation just sit on their asses and let things happen instead of saying "no, I ain't getting my ass owned each and every month". God damn criminals. That's all they ever were.

Onesimus

FearDark wrote: »

No
and
no.

And its shíte. (trust me) I had an 8 meg line of which I can only ever get a max download of 2 meg, customer support is a joke too.

Read post #19 *yawn*

Sonnenblumen

zenno wrote: »

EIRCON has dug it's own grave. it just show's you how stupid the austrailian business people in particular are, allowing this. sure EIRCON is rusting a good bit, it's only a matter of time before it goes under. :pac:

What stupid Australians? AFAIK Singapore is an independent state!

2 more mistakes and you're OUT