Imagine Wimax??

Cloonara Flyer

Hey guys,
I live out in the countryside not far from roscommon town and I'm just wondering if imagine Wimax is any good? My contract is just ending with three and I want to switch because it's too costly at 35 euro a month for a 3G router. WiMax on the other hand is only 19 euro a month. Is it any good? Any problems? Is it fast enough for a bitta streaming? Or do you think I should get eircom fibre instead as it's recently came into my area?

colm_mcm

Its €150 to connect unless you want the indoor antenna.
The likes of vodafone at €27 woud work out cheaper when you take connection into account,
If 20gb is enough of course

https://www.vodafone.ie/home-phone-broadband/

Cloonara Flyer

Do you know if the indoor antenna is any good? Yeah Vodafone does sound better, ya can add 150gb for like 6 quid too which would do the job

siblers

You should go with Vodafone if you can get decent speeds off them, have you a landline installed?

Cloonara Flyer

Nope I don't have a landlines, got rid of it a year ago

Cloonara Flyer

I got rid of the land line there a year ago

colm_mcm

Cloonara Flyer wrote: »

I got rid of the land line there a year ago

As in you physically removed it from the house

If the line and socket is still there that's what matters.

Cloonara Flyer

Oh no we just got rid of the home phone , the socket is still there

siblers

They can re-activate the line for you, if you ring Vodafone they can tell you what speeds your line would be capable of.

Cloonara Flyer

Oh right well thank you
Do you know if you have to pay for line rental on top of the broadband package?

colm_mcm

Cloonara Flyer wrote: »

Oh right well thank you
Do you know if you have to pay for line rental on top of the broadband package?

Nope, it's included. No idea what speeds you'll get though but its worth calling them.

Cloonara Flyer

Right I'll see, good man thank you

siblers

If you have any neighbours living next to you and if you know their phone number, you can put their number in the Sky Broadband line checker and it'll tell you the speed. If they are living next to you, you'll get the same speed.
http://www.sky.com/quickbuy/ireland/build?showCheckAvailability

Cloonara Flyer

Thanks siblers, it says I need a UAN though to check

siblers

Just click on the option that says I will provide my UAN later.

Cloonara Flyer

It says I can, do you know if there is good speed off it?

siblers

What speed did it say you can get?

flutered

speedtest.net will not ask you any qquestions.

Zillah

flutered wrote: »

speedtest.net will not ask you any qquestions.

It might ask "Why did you break into your neighbour's house just to check their internet speed?"