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Broadband in Monalin / Ballinahinch - Newtownmountkennedy

  • 27-02-2013 11:04am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭


    Hi all, moving up to that area and just wondering if anyone has any experience of the broadband available up that way?

    Does anyone know how far from the exchange it is? I was going to try the 24MB broadband but if it's any distance from the exchange, there is probably no point. Anyone with experience from the location?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,515 ✭✭✭RosieJoe


    Had someone from Eircom knocking on the door the other day, I asked and the exchange is at the Townhouse pub. He said that the most you'll get from it is 8MB.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭d31b0y


    Thanks for that RosieJoe. I ended up ordering the 24MB. I'll see what I get. easier to decrease the service than it is to increase it, test and then decrease.

    You might point out which pub is the townhouse for me? If it's where I think it is, I am about 2KM from the exchange so hopefully would be able to push about 16MB but it's a pretty steep downhill scale as you go out past 2KM (damn logarithmic scales).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,515 ✭✭✭RosieJoe


    Townhouse pub is the one on the main street in Newtown by itself. The one that is on the opposite side to the rest of the shops/pubs/hotel.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Wicklow Broadband. check them out and see what they say. They're excellent where I am (Delgany), where no other internet provider could provide anything (even Eircom).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭ActingDanClark


    DazMarz wrote: »
    Wicklow Broadband. check them out and see what they say. They're excellent where I am (Delgany), where no other internet provider could provide anything (even Eircom).

    +1 on that, with them about 14 months.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,830 ✭✭✭✭Taltos


    I'm with Magnet - also in Delgany using the Eircom line.
    2Mg is the max but at least contention is 0 so speed is relatively OK. Comparing to others seems quite good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭StonedParadoX


    i live in newtownmountkennedy kilmurry ..which is monalin

    you'll get 8meg and the full 8meg all the time. There isnt many people here so it wont be like living in a housing estate or whatever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭d31b0y


    Thanks StonedParadoX. I just moved to Kilmurry myself so that's good to know :)
    Just a quick question about the area, what do you do about refuse? Thornton's just told me that they don't go up that far. They told me if I bring it down to the junction at Rossmore they would pick it up but that'd take ages to bring it down that far.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭StonedParadoX


    i have a van so i bring my refuse down to kilcoole where i work and its sorted by our company from there.

    i dont know what our neighbours do.. but yeah its a hassle bringing it down if you dont have transport big enough

    you could on the sly burn it. we wont say nothing :P

    where abouts in kilmurry if you dont mind me asking ..is it monolin?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭d31b0y


    i have a van so i bring my refuse down to kilcoole where i work and its sorted by our company from there.

    i dont know what our neighbours do.. but yeah its a hassle bringing it down if you dont have transport big enough

    you could on the sly burn it. we wont say nothing :P

    where abouts in kilmurry if you dont mind me asking ..is it monolin?

    I don't know where I live sometimes :) So many different place names

    I moved in just down a bit from Kilmurry Cemetery.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭StonedParadoX


    is there a lad there living with you called derry or derri or darry or some ****?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭bido


    Greenstar used to do a collection on that road from Roundwood to Newtown.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭d31b0y


    bido wrote: »
    Greenstar used to do a collection on that road from Roundwood to Newtown.:(

    Yeah, I think Greenstar is the only option.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭d31b0y


    Does anyone know what the price of the Greenstar bags are? And where they can be bought locally?

    Their subscription service seems a bit high for the amount of waste I have and I don't mind doing my own recycling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭jellybaby21


    Dellboy if you go into Eugenes or Sentra they will have greenstar bags, think they both do them one of them definitely does.

    As for broadband, I am in Killadreenan and with the 24 mb bb was getting about 14mb, I downgraded to 8mb and get the full 8mb, broadband pretty good up here :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Greenstar bags are €5.67 for the refuse, €2.65 for the Recycling. Get them in Post Office, Sentra or Eugenes.


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