Eircom E-vision change in price plan

ComputerTech

Hi All (I hope I am on the right forum), Just to let people know that Eircom E-vision TV has changed its price plan since yesterday Morning Fri the 1th of August 2014 at 09:00. You could of have got on the OLD plan, 12 months of the basic packet FREE and thereafter 10 euros each month for the next 6 months. (This only applied when it was signed up on line)
So from now on, you must pay an extra 3 euros per month onto your existing bill package for 12 Months and thereafter pay 15 euros for the next 6 months.
OH!... by the way, when you get this E-Vision installed ... you broadband line speed will drop by about 25MB ... they forget to tell you that when ordering ... be warned

the_syco

ComputerTech wrote: »

you broadband line speed will drop by about 25MB ... they forget to tell you that when ordering ... be warned

Pretty sure the 25MB drop is only when the eVision box is on, as the stream comes down through your broadband...

TallGlass

the_syco wrote: »

Pretty sure the 25MB drop is only when the eVision box is on, as the stream comes down through your broadband...

25MB is a fairly big drop ! That drop would knock me offline.

Anyway regardless, I don't think it's a bargain alert more a thread for the rip off forum.

Etnies

My girlfriends house was on normal 2mb line with these and paying 30 p/m for it told her to get on so they upgraded her to efibre and now she can't even watch Netflix on it, huge pings massive drops in speed and bad WiFi signal and massive contension during peak hours with speeds off 200kb down.

Got on to tech support and they rebooted the router and changed the WiFi channel.. shocker it changed nothing.

This is in a built up area, I'd avoid getting into a contract with them

rosieirl

I can't believe I'm going to actually defend Eircom (previously known as robbing b*stards in my head) but here it goes. Long ago, around 2008, before the USC and when I had a disposable income, I had the €50/month broadband package. It worked very well so no complaints apart from rip off republic price. At the end of year 1, Mary Harney got her USC, so I lost my broadband. Eircom couldn't/wouldn't offer me a better deal at the time so bye bye Eircom.
Then a few months ago I saw the €30/month fibre broadband/off peak calls/evision for 12 months, the €10 more for 6 months offer here on boards.ie, and also saw it offered in the Eircom shop in town. I signed up in June. Of course this is Ireland, and they are Eircom, so there was a delay in installation (online application let me sign up even though the efibre box in my area was still being upgraded). Anyway, when I signed up in store on Monday (at end of June), it was installed by Friday lunchtime.
Maybe my area isn't as congested as others sharing the same box ( Limerick) but my wifi works really well. I feel I have rejoined civilisation! I was told during ordering and installation that the evision box would take up about 10mb of bandwidth. But that still leaves plenty for streaming elsewhere. I don't have Netflix but my Sky go & RTE player works perfectly as does any other streaming sites. Last night, Friday night, I had no issues at all, as usual. This morning with everybody still in bed asleep, my speed test says 46Mbps.
I know that offer was limited and it's obviously not as good value any more. I would definitely recommend the service though for my area at least.

Davy

Thanks, but not a BA.

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