stay clear of qsat

Milltown17

Hi folks.
Just a quick warning to people thinking of getting qsat broadband for xmas.i have it since April and the speed is seriously slow. Can't watch you tube or stuff like that. its seriously as slow as the old dial up after 6pm im not joking. I would be gone from them only im tied into a contract with them. Im a very unhappy customer with the service.

colm_mcm

Did you not know satellite is the very last resort when you ordered it?
Do you have any other options (bar dial up)

shane7218

colm_mcm wrote: »

Did you not know satellite is the very last resort when you ordered it?
Do you have any other options (bar dial up)

Im using digiwebs too way service and its disgraceful 0.5 download on average for the apparently up to 20mb. Nothing else availbale in the area and only living 10 minutes outside of a big town. This country is still in the stone age.:mad:

Frank Garrett

shane7218 wrote: »

Im using digiwebs too way service and its disgraceful 0.5 download on average for the apparently up to 20mb. Nothing else availbale in the area and only living 10 minutes outside of a big town. This country is still in the stone age.:mad:

That's a lot more common than you think. It's certainly not a problem unique to Ireland and you have to make sacrifices in services when you live in peaceful, rural areas. Those who live in the hustle and bustle of the cities get rewarded with better services.

shane7218

Frank Garrett wrote: »

That's a lot more common than you think. It's certainly not a problem unique to Ireland and you have to make sacrifices in services when you live in peaceful, rural areas. Those who live in the hustle and bustle of the cities get rewarded with better services.

For a country this small it shouldn't be any sort of an issue to have a "basic" broadband service available to everyone. It's not like i'm living in the middle of no where you know.

Frank Garrett

shane7218 wrote: »

For a country this small it shouldn't be any sort of an issue to have a "basic" broadband service available to everyone. It's not like i'm living in the middle of no where you know.

It's small but so is the population. Houses in the countryside are scattered, so it's not financially beneficial for Eircom to build an exchange that will serve one hundred houses. Would you open a restaurant or bowling alley in a town or outside of a town? You would make more money in a town and it make economic sense to build them in towns or villages.

If Eircom refuse to build an exchange in your area, then they obviously believe building one would cost them more money then it would earn them.

Anyway, I don't where you live but if your telephone line is more than 4km long (I think), you won't be able to get broadband. My line is 2km and the exchange is only 600-700 meters from my house as the crows fly.

In South Korea, the people live in densely populated areas because they choose to live in apartments, whereas, Irish, and probably Europeans in general, love the countryside. South Korea has some of the fastest broadband speeds in the world.

I'd love to live in the countryside, but then my broadband would be crap, my phone service would be crap and the bus service would also be crap.

tayto lover

Eircom broadband is useless too.

Frank Garrett

tayto lover wrote: »

Eircom broadband is useless too.

How so? Most people find it stable, it's just really fúcking expensive.

tayto lover

Frank Garrett wrote: »

How so? Most people find it stable, it's just really fúcking expensive.

On off on off on off on off.

Frank Garrett

tayto lover wrote: »

On off on off on off on off.

That happened to me once, turned out the line between the socket and the router was too long. I was using a line I found in my house to bring the router upstairs instead of the 1-meter line you get with the router. I had to buy a DSL cable and run that through the ceiling instead.

I never really get disconnects, maybe 2 a day at most, but that's due to high noise on my line. When I'm upgraded to fiber, I should have ano more issues - I hope.

Stickit

How is it possible that I have to deal with line contention with qsat. Very unhappy customer not getting near the speeds as advertised. This is a consumer rights issue and should be dealt with. Very unhappy customer tied into a year contract joke of a company. Stay well clear.

Milltown17

Stickit wrote: »

How is it possible that I have to deal with line contention with qsat. Very unhappy customer not getting near the speeds as advertised. This is a consumer rights issue and should be dealt with. Very unhappy customer tied into a year contract joke of a company. Stay well clear.

I agree with you qsat are awful the speed is on par with dial up so happy im rid of it now.

ted1

shane7218 wrote: »

Im using digiwebs too way service and its disgraceful 0.5 download on average for the apparently up to 20mb. Nothing else availbale in the area and only living 10 minutes outside of a big town. This country is still in the stone age.:mad:

Shane are you living in a cluster if houses? How fat apart are the houses? Do you know how much it costs per m of cable?