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I need broadband help

  • 18-12-2015 1:17am
    #1
    Blake1412
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭


    I live in a rural community that isn't supportive of 4g, fibre optic or the likes. My internet says I can get speeds of [UP TO] 100 mbps, I normally get 40's - 50's though. My school, which is a rough 6 minute drive from my house, can get 1gb's. I checked the town where the school is and it said it wasn't able to get 4g or fibre optic, but the school can get 1gb?



    Can someone explain this? I done some research and it seems so far, I may be wrong, that it is my broadband line that is poor and limiting my speeds? If so, is there a way of upgrading my line?


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  • #2
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,561 ✭✭✭✭guil


    School is most likely served by FTTH whereas you're not. How is 40-50 Mbps not good enough for you?


  • #3
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    Essentially there is no way of upgrading the line. At 50 Mbit you would be crazy to go near mobile broadband. It sounds like you have a decent connection for a rural area.


  • #4
    legocrazy505
    Closed Accounts Posts: 691 ✭✭✭legocrazy505


    guil wrote: »
    School is most likely served by FTTH whereas you're not. How is 40-50 Mbps not good enough for you?
    Even our local primary school can't get 1gbps and we're 20 minutes from Limerick. I would kill for 40-50mbps.... I get 1.5. OP you are really complaining about nothing here, you are already well above the NBP target and will no doubt be getting upgrades soon.


  • #5
    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    Blake1412 wrote: »
    I live in a rural community that isn't supportive of 4g, fibre optic or the likes. My internet says I can get speeds of[UP TO] 100 mbps, I normally get 40's - 50's though. My school, which is a rough 6 minute drive from my house, can get 1gb's. I checked the town where the school is and it said it wasn't able to get 4g or fibre optic, but the school can get 1gb?



    Can someone explain this? I done some research and it seems so far, I may be wrong, that it is my broadband line that is poor and limiting my speeds? If so, is there a way of upgrading my line?

    You even highlighted the point - you can get up to 100Mbps, but you don't. You get 40-50Mbps. Most likely because you are probably around 700-1000m from your cabinet.

    VDSL speeds reduce drastically over short distance. At close to 2KM from a cab or 1.5KM from an exchange you'd be looking at 7Mbps if you are lucky.

    As for the school, up until 6 months ago my local primary school had a 6Mbps wireless connection. They now have a satellite thing from the department which gives them something closer to 20Mbps. Not the 1Gbps yours gets. Oh and there is fibre in our little village (<100m from the school), but eir won't let anybody play with it just yet. :mad:

    Different places get different solutions depending on their infrastructure.

    OP - you have a connection that thousands of people on here would be envious of (myself included). You have little to complain about.


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