Broadband without Line rental?

Tic Tac

Who has cheapest 2mb wireless system . Not a dongle as coverage is poor on all suppliers . I don't want to pay for landline. Some type of satellite would be best, any ideas?

gctest50

http://www1.meteor.ie/mobilebroadband/billpay/ will give you 20GB for 25euro or 20euro - not a huge amount of data

You can put the 3g dongle up on the roof etc :

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056698625



http://www.vodafone.ie/home-phone-broadband/ if you have a phoneline 37euro for unlimited

( i think line-rental is free with them )

Meteor 3g :

$ ping boards.ie
Pinging boards.ie [89.234.66.107] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=77ms TTL=52
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=52
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=52
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=52

Landline
:~# ping boards.ie
PING boards.ie (89.234.66.108) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.108): icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=18.2 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.108): icmp_req=2 ttl=55 time=17.3 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.108): icmp_req=3 ttl=55 time=17.4 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.108): icmp_req=4 ttl=55 time=17.5 ms
64 bytes from boards.ie (89.234.66.108): icmp_req=5 ttl=55 time=17.4 ms

m4rkiz

Tic Tac wrote: »

Who has cheapest 2mb wireless system . Not a dongle as coverage is poor on all suppliers . I don't want to pay for landline. Some type of satellite would be best, any ideas?

satellite should be your last choice, it usually has same tiny allowance as mobile operators but it have much higher latency and both equipment and monthly charge are usually much higher

poor coverage of mobile broadband can usually be resolved with proper fixed unidirectional antenna pointed at your nearest bts instead of tiny omnidirectional thing dongle has built in

if this is a remote location where is no chance of upc or adsl another option is wimax, while i can't say a single good work of imagine tech support it is pretty decent connection when it is working (which is most of the time)

Tic Tac

Thanks yes all mobile signals very poor. I am interested in putting up an external antenna , where can i get one? I had a Vfone dongle had to put it on roof to get signal but could not use when raining. Antenna if works seems good idea
Many thanks


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m4rkiz wrote: »

satellite should be your last choice, it usually has same tiny allowance as mobile operators but it have much higher latency and both equipment and monthly charge are usually much higher

poor coverage of mobile broadband can usually be resolved with proper fixed unidirectional antenna pointed at your nearest bts instead of tiny omnidirectional thing dongle has built in

if this is a remote location where is no chance of upc or adsl another option is wimax, while i can't say a single good work of imagine tech support it is pretty decent connection when it is working (which is most of the time)

Cantona's Collars

Vodafone Max is €32 a month with unlimited downloads.I was on Simply and got changed over recently,saving me a few quid in the process.Price include vat etc.

Check the broadband forum to see what else might suit.Imo dongles are a dose and wouldn't touch them myself.

gctest50

Tic Tac wrote: »

Thanks yes all mobile signals very poor. I am interested in putting up an external antenna , where can i get one?

The setup from that thread is for sale here :

http://www.adverts.ie/routers-and-modems/3g-modem-outdoor-setup/2636620


Remote dongle thread :

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056698625