O2 HEAnet/Student Offer of 9.99 p/m

ILA

O2 are currently offering "broadband" for students, researchers and college staff at €9.99 per month (with modem costing €19.99 once-off), however there is a 10GB limit on it, then its 2c per MB over that. Spped "up to 7.2mbps".

Also, the contract is for 12 months, and after 12 months normal O2 monthly rates will apply to your account.

So, is 10GB p/m enough for most internet browsing?

Link: http://www.o2.ie/heanet

jay93

10GB Should be well enough unless your downloading alot of large files you should be fine I download quite alot and 10GB would last me the whole month

Sponge Bob

No wonder they are officially half the speed of the other Midband networks ( apart from Clearwire)

frankymail

Sponge Bob wrote: »

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jay93

frankymail wrote: »

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on the midband speedtest thread o2 have came out worst over all even three are well ahead of them now they are crippling the network with all these cheap offers and tbh they havnt built a good enough 3G service to handle all the new customers

foggy_lad

the problem with o2 is they have the oldest network and so have the oldest equipment servers etc etc so things are not as up to date as with three or vodafone or meteor and due to things like the i-mode mistake and the millions pumped into it they have been unable to properly update their systems for some time,

they then made quite a mess of the iphone launch and then went a step too far for most by doing away with thousands of loyal customers upgrades9and the customers) with the stroke of an accountants pen then there was another fiasco for the iphone upgrades and release of the 3g and 3gs.

i can see o2 becoming like the esb, having a large network but selling it off to the likes of tesco and other mvno's while retaining a small share of the market for themselves.

watty

ILA wrote: »

O2 are currently offering "broadband" for students, researchers and college staff at €9.99 per month (with modem costing €19.99 once-off), however there is a 10GB limit on it, then it's 2c per MB €200 a gigabyte over that. Speed "up to 7.2mbps".

Also, the contract is for 12 months, and after 12 months normal O2 monthly rates will apply to your account.

So, is 10GB p/m enough for most internet browsing?

Link: http://www.o2.ie/heanet

Fixed it.

fergm

Meteor have the same offer for students except you can get the dongle for free
http://www.meteor.ie/student/
might be a better call if you live in a city (dont think they really have broadband coverage outside the cities), less people use it so might be better plus i think it network to 21mbs before christmas

foggy_lad

they are supposed to be good in dublin and cork but i would not truse then outside those areas.

jay93

Im using it just outside drogheda in my small town speed of the meteor network is unreal compared to others signal is also great have full bars 3G they have most the north east covered by their 3G network moving more toward the west of the country and you mite only get EDGE have only been using meteor for a couple of hours now and find it great wil also be buyin their broadband stick from them for 20euro would be interesting to try there new modem at 21MB speed network is supposed to be 14.4MB wonder if it would even go over 8MB would be great if it would!

billyhead

Folks,

Would a current valid ISIT card to expire the end of 2011 saitisfy the list of requirements for signing up to this contract, I already have a letter from the institution.

http://www.o2online.ie/wps/wcm/connect/O2/Home/Shop/Broadband/Student+Broadband

Mongo

So you guys wouldn't reccomend the O2 dongle? I was gonna go with this as I live in a city and it has full coverage but if it's really slow I wouldn't bother. The 10GB limit is fine for me. Just worried about speed.

watty

no-one can say what your speed will be.

it's either zero, (no connect, or disconnect) or between 0.05Mbps and 6Mbps.
http://www.techtir.ie/comms/fixed-wireless-broadband-better

DSL better
UPC good