Evision

JohnLeahy72

I live in the middle of athlone and for some time i was not able to recieve efibre even though people on the outskirts were able to, i finnaly got efibre, i am approx. 450m away from the local exchange which in broadband terms is far away, because of this distance i was only able to recieve 40mbps, i also decided to get the evision included too, once i got it my 9 year old boy was complaining to me that his favourite channels with sky were now gone as evision only has 50 channels, i finally got to use the evision and i noticed all my favourite channels like mtv, cbs reality and national geogrphic were not there, i rang and they told me these kind of channels would never be available. On top of this i was never told that evision uses a ton of the broadband, i ran speedtests and when i was using evision my speeds were down to about 15mbps, i rang and they told me that yes it uses 25mbps due to all the channels being HD quality, vefore i had efibre i had a strong connection of 16mbps so in theory you would think that because i now have efibre that my speeds would be faster but in reality they are now slower due to evision, because of me getting only 40mbps when i watch tv there is a lot of buffering in the channels as it is using broadband, also when my i ternet goes down from time to time the evision service also goes down which is extremely frustrating, after having evision for 3 months i switched back to sky and my internet speed is back to 40mbps and we all have our favourite channels back. Eircom should stick to supplying broadband and not tv services. They also tell all customers bew and existing that evision is only an extra 10€ per month buy what they dont tell you is that is only for the first 6 months where is then goes up to 35€ a month which is nearly the same as sky, sky is way better as sky has so much variety in its channels and it does not run on broadband.

degsie

Sorry, but my head hurts. What's the problem again?

mass_debater

Sounds like you let a sales rep sell you something.

dxhound2005

There is a very big Evision thread on the IPTV forum. No activity there though since March which might be an indication that it is working OK for most people. Forums are usually only busy when things are going wrong and people want to complain.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057051968

IPTV is the future of TV eventhough it is not really TV at all. So don't expect Eircom to leave that market. You should have informed yourself better about the channel lineup and the pricing structure before you signed up for the service.

Deagol

JohnLeahy72 wrote: »

450m away from the local exchange which in broadband terms is far away, because of this distance i was only able to recieve 40mbps

Something wrong there. I live ~600m from the cabinet and I get 70mbps.

Is vectoring turned on for the direct from exchange lines?

If not, I'd be looking at the internal wiring.

Simi

Deagol wrote: »

Something wrong there. I live ~600m from the cabinet and I get 70mbps.

Is vectoring turned on for the direct from exchange lines?

If not, I'd be looking at the internal wiring.

It's not. And direct from exchange speeds seem to vary widely from people's reports.

TheDriver

Did you think evision wouldn't use any bandwidth? Simple science I'm afraid....

normanbond

Is evision a good service?
Am thinking of switching to it.
Is the pause rewind and record feature any good?

TheChizler

normanbond wrote: »

Is evision a good service?
Am thinking of switching to it.
Is the pause rewind and record feature any good?

It's all right, very basic. Pause and rewind works fine.