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IOL No Limits

  • 16-08-2010 6:24pm
    #1
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭


    10 points if you had Ireland Online's No-limits dial-up internet service.

    20 points, if you got kicked off it for using it too much. :p


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Max points for me. :)

    I know heaps of people who were on way longer than me and didn't get the dreaded letter. I had it uploaded somewhere on boards way back when. There are probably tons of threads in the Ireland Offline forum regarding it.

    Oh, I think I moved to Netsmart as well (the post No Limits product) that didn't last long either.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I got the letter but then phoned Esat and claimed that the name was false advertising. They backed down and didn't kick me off.

    I kept using it until December 2005 when fixed wireless broadband was launched in the area; having used satellite for the downstream for about two years.


  • #4
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,062 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    The best was bank holidays - off peak all day!! :D


  • #5
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Ah yes, Surf no Limits!

    I didn't get kicked off, which was just as well, as I could never get damn well on! In fairness, after the cull, the service was great :D

    Started using it over 64k ISDN line, as 28k line drove me spare.

    Thank Christ I'm not still stuck at those speeds.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    byte wrote: »
    Ah yes, Surf no Limits!

    I didn't get kicked off, which was just as well, as I could never get damn well on! In fairness, after the cull, the service was great :D

    Started using it over 64k ISDN line, as 28k line drove me spare.

    Thank Christ I'm not still stuck at those speeds.

    Yeah I remember that... dialling 1332103001235... line busy... rinse and repeat several times. On one occasion I took me 17 tries to get on!


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  • #7
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Karsini wrote: »
    Yeah I remember that... dialling 1332103001235... line busy... rinse and repeat several times. On one occasion I took me 17 tries to get on!
    Only 17 tries?

    It got so bad, I gave up trying til after 10pm - it was just a waste of time any earlier.


  • #8
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,518 ✭✭✭✭briany


    I hadn't even heard of this IOL no limits. We were on IOL gold as I recall. Always preferred Oceanfree though. Remember getting a stark warning from my mother over the usage because she had heard on the radio that some girl had left her connection on for like 3 days or something and the bill for a few hundred pounds. Those were the days. The rip off days. Eircom's trying to get back to those days with a usage based price plan with NGB so maybe they are feeling nostalgic too? :P


  • #9
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    30 points for me. That service was an absolute farce.


  • #10
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    30pts for me too. I even to this day remember the phraseology they used in my disconnection letter. It went along the lines of" Your usage has not been in the spirit of the agreement." (ie pay for it, but don't use it) :rolleyes:


  • #11
    jackiebaron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭jackiebaron


    Karsini wrote: »
    I got the letter but then phoned Esat and claimed that the name was false advertising. They backed down and didn't kick me off.

    I kept using it until December 2005 when fixed wireless broadband was launched in the area; having used satellite for the downstream for about two years.


    Jaysus. Was there no DSL service in Drumcondra until 2005??? I'm from there but live abroad.


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    jackiebaron wrote: »
    Jaysus. Was there no DSL service in Drumcondra until 2005??? I'm from there but live abroad.

    Nah I lived in Kerry at the time, my parents moved there. We were about 5 miles from the local exchange so not a hope in hell of getting DSL. But I can't get DSL in my place in Drumcondra either, the lines on my road all fail. If it wasn't for UPC I'd have no decent options.


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