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Meteor Mobile Broadband

  • 12-08-2010 09:05AM
    #1
    a_l_a_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭


    I just want to vent.

    "Internet in your pocket" my ass. Unreliable "56k modem in your pocket" maybe.

    This thing is a piece of crap. I mean its better than nothing but I'm amazed at how slow it is. Most of the time it seems to be DNS issues as you can spend a full minute trying to resolve a host, but its also super flakey, dropping in and out. Firefox regularly times out trying to pull pages with this useless thing.

    I'm using it in the god damn university town of Maynooth. Coverage should be (and supposedly is) good here!

    Damn you Meteor and your false advertising.


Comments

  • #2
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    They never guarantee anything. Also, coverage doesn't mean you get connected. It doesn't work that way.


  • #3
    a_l_a_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭a_l_a_n


    jor el wrote: »
    They never guarantee anything. Also, coverage doesn't mean you get connected. It doesn't work that way.
    Oh I realise they will have their asses covered by small print, but their marketing clearly states that it is not only capable of connecting to the Internet, but also quick!
    All you need is a super speedy broadband stick ...
    Super fast speeds
    They should put something more like this on their website: 
    $ ping www.meteor.ie
PING www.meteor.ie (212.129.64.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- www.meteor.ie ping statistics ---
195 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 194388ms

    :)


  • #4
    Kriebie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 ✭Kriebie


    a_l_a_n wrote: »
    They should put something more like this on their website: 
    $ ping www.meteor.ie
PING www.meteor.ie (212.129.64.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- www.meteor.ie ping statistics ---
195 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 194388ms

    :)

    Try pinging a different website. My ping requests to www.meteor.ie also time out, although I am on O2. May be their site is blocking ping requests altogether?


  • #5
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,451 ✭✭✭✭watty


    ping www.heanet.ie


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