Please advise me on Satalite Broadband

Cottage Rescue

Hi,

I am with Eircom and am on dial up and I get 150 hours a month.

I am looking into getting Satalite Broadband as none of the o2, o3, vodafone etc work at my home, it is an old cottage with walls 3 foot thick and I pay a fortune every month to Eircom for my second line that I got installed a few years ago as I needed the home line free while on the net.

My daughter is special needs and she also loves the internet and I run a rescue and have to update the site on a regular basis.

I spoke to Eircom this morning and there is broadband coming this way for a long time, they quoted me €1,000 to install a saalite dish and the rent on that will be €153 per month.

I also spoke to Digiweb who quoted me €589 to install and the rent will be €34.95 per month but they will not come out and test unless the 589 is paid first and if it is not good enough they will pay me back my money??

Can anybody advise me what to do?

I am not well at the moment so have nothing better to do at times than surf the net as most of the dogs are in kennels,

My home phone bill was €97 for 2 months and my other line which is only used for the net was €300 and the same 2 months previously.

Hubby would kill me if he knew the half of it.. lol

Any advice really appriciated and to hell with EIRCOM who are robbers but I feel in the long run that it may be cheaper to go down that road of their satalite??

watty

Digiweb is largest. Eircom's might even be Digiweb.

lets see
12 months @ €200 a month dialup = €2400
Satellite
approx €40 x 12 = 450 + 600 install = 1050.

In less than six months you break even
in next 1 years after six months save nearly €2,000
In first two years save nearly €3,000

It's extremely unlikely you won't get a satellite signal unless your entire property never sees sunlight in the morning. They will pay you back if there is no install. The install is highly skilled and thus expensive apart from equipment. They don't want time-wasters.

ttm

So you pay 30euro for 150 hours a month thats just less than 5 hours a day and 60euro plus line rental for the month. Where does the 300euro bill come from? You must go over by quite a few hours each month?

watty

I wonder is the €140 off special offer, off the €600, or included already?
http://www.digiweb.ie/home/broadband/satellite-broadband/index.html

Sponge Bob

Cottage Rescue wrote: »

Hi,

I am with Eircom and am on dial up

Are you in an NBS area?? ( not grey)

http://bing.bizmaps.ie/threeireland/Pages/Public/NBSPublicPage.aspx

ibFoxer

Whereabouts are ya in Tipp mate? Im near Nenagh and my provider is wirelessconnect, i get 3mb, no dl cap, its €55 per month. Worth a look on their website if your not too far away from Nenagh.

Cottage Rescue

Well I got in Satalite Didiweb but nobody told me how massive the dish is, it is like a space station here.. LOL but it is FAB connection and so quick and I will be in my glory telling Eircom so sod off today.

The engineer told me to get a Belkin n300 wireless cable router so that I can set up 2 laptops in the house as well, my friend was down in Limerick yesterday and went into PC World to get it and they quoted her €100 + and also wanted her to buy some sort of a stick as well and now I see that Argos are selling the Belkin n300 at €49.99 and PC World are selling them at €39.99.

Why was she told that she needed another item when the engineer said I need nothing else?

Do I need something else to set all this up?

Any advice gladly received,

Thank you...

watty

If you have ethernet cable or WiFi in computers you only need a Router. Belking would be my last choice.

You need to make sure and get one marked Ethernet or Cable. One with an ADSL or DSL modem built in won't work. Argos, Maplin, Tesco, PC World and others sell them from €45. You don't need "N" a G or Turbo G is fine. The Stick/Dongle is only for Laptops with no WiFi built in.

Cottage Rescue

Thank you Watty,

Both laptops are fitted with WiFi in them,

I this what I want

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/belkin-f5d8236uk4-wireless-router-802-11-n-4-port-switch-06605527-pdt.html

watty

Netgear and Linksys are better than Belkin

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/cable-wireless-routers/727_7087_70094_xx_xx/xx-criteria.html

Argos and Maplin are only around the corner from PC-Word (Dunnes Childers Road).
PC World is expensive and full of stuff I wouldn't buy.

As long as the Router isn't Belkin and has no built-in DSL modem, it's fine. I have no idea why the installer recommended a Belkin. Digiweb has actually supplied routers in the past and use some internally (apart from the Data Centre & ISP stuff), but not generally Belkin.

The Satellite modem works with ANY good ethernet Router (5th ethernet WAN port instead of a phone line socket for DSL). So called "cable" routers are nothing to do with Cable broadband, it's just that cable Modems are the commonest thing that needs a "plain" ethernet router.

When you connect your router, connect via ethernet cable first.
The documentation tells you what address to use in your web browser to configure it.
If connected by ethernet and DHCP is on in your computer, "ipconfig" shows the "Gateway" which is the configure web address

Start | Run | cmd

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.


C:\WINDOWS>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter WIFIabgt:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : lan
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.121
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

C:\WINDOWS>

Mine is 192.168.0.1, yours may be different depending on brand of Router.

Set its WAN port to DHCP and automatic for other settings.
Set up then its WiFi using WPA and long random key you wrote down.

You have to power off and on the Satellite Modem after connecting its ethernet direct to "wan" port on Router (usually slightly separate, or marked WAN or a different colour to the ordinary "LAN" 4 port ethernet switch) to get it to give the router an IP address instead of your PC.

ruffmut

Just watch what you are using the internet for. I have just got satellite broadband in myself and it is very good and fast.

The only thing is you cannot use you tube or down load a lot of music / movies / software updates until after 11pm as it will eat into your monthly allowance.

From 11pm to 6am it is unlimited unless you have exceeded your daily allowance.

mixed up

Hi i just seen this thread i was looking at getting satellite broadband because i can't get proper broadband where i live i'm also in the grey area on that map.I came across aptus broadband and it covers my area but can somebody please explain the usage on it http://www.aptus.ie/solum.html because i have o2 broadband and went over the usage and got charged a fortune.

John mac

you get 3meg download with 384k upload with a download limit of 20 gB for €35 a month, and €99 install ..




what does your o2 do ?

mixed up

I have 15gb allowance a month with 02 but what does the 3 mpeg download and 384k upload mean?

bigpaddy2004

mixed up wrote: »

I have 15gb allowance a month with 02 but what does the 3 mpeg download and 384k upload mean?

You could try www.reachbroadband.com
They cover most areas that Aptus do and they have unlimited packages too.