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Meteor Stick - speed in Dun Laoghaire

  • 26-08-2010 01:34PM
    #1
    frash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,634 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I'm currently on a bundle for landline & broadband but hardly ever use the phone.

    Thinking of gettng the Meteor Stick - does anyone know what kind of speeds I can expect in the Dun Laoghaire / Deansgrange area?

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,461 ✭✭✭✭watty


    No. Not even people in Dun Laoghaire / Deansgrange

    It will be 0.05Mbps to over 5Mbps.

    It's a mobile system with very small capacity per mast sector (Each mast usually has 3 slightly overlapping areas). Just 4 or 5 users on your sector trying to watch YouTube can kill your speed. Move 100m and you can be on a different empty sector. An area such as "Dun Laoghaire / Deansgrange" has likely got several masts and many sectors.

    You won't know till you try. Even if it's great during trial period it can be poor later. Or vice versa.

    No Mobile operator provides Broadband.


  • #3
    danjo-xx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭danjo-xx


    No Mobile operator provides Broadband.


    True.....I understand that now but why are they allowed to promote and sell it as such....oooh never mind....tis a great little country:D


  • #4
    frash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,634 ✭✭✭frash


    danjo-xx wrote: »
    True.....I understand that now but why are they allowed to promote and sell it as such....oooh never mind....tis a great little country:D

    Vodafone do on fixed lines - took over from BT (didn't they?)


  • #5
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,461 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Vodafone resell DSL (phone line Broadband, took over BT Retail, was IOL and ESAT (some LLU, but mostly resold eircom) and bought Perlico, eircom Reseller) and also are a Mobile Phone company. Their Mobile product is essentially similar to Meteor/Eircom Mobile, O2 and 3 Ireland. 3G/HSPA over their Mobile phone system. A 0.05Mbps to 5Mbps dial-up system.


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