Broadband in South Galway

Shurwhynot

Hi all,

Am moving from a city to near enough to Labane, in South Galway, and am currently going through the painstaking process of trying to find adequate broadband.

I have read reviews on both Airwire and Lightnet, and the reviews are very mixed - mostly negative to be honest. The house is in the countryside - is it at all possible to get anything close to 5mb somewhere like there? What speed is needed to stream to shows etc? I wouldn't be looking to download movies and stream tv shows the odd time, but wouldn't say I'd be approaching any major download limits. I work from home the odd time (emails and accessing work server through VPN).

Can anyone from the area, or anyone in general, help me out? My knowledge of what speeds etc I need is miminal.

Shurwhynot

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ED E

Whats "near enough to"? How many KM's and in what direction?

Scruff

Your options are
1) buy prepay sims for the 3 mobile operators that have their own network: Three, meteor, vodafone. All others piggyback on these, mainly on three. top up by enough to get adequate dl limit. Stick in an unlocked 4g capable phone. Walk around house, particularly upstairs/attic and test signal strength and dl speed with each.

2)Ring Lightnet and get a site survey done. It should be free and they will be able to tell you what the max speed you can get if you can get it at all. Their new packages are faster than the ones i was on and they have updated their webpage to stat you will not be cut off if you go over their limits but you will be throttled back.
Their cap still sucks but you have the option to increase it in blocks that cost €5

Netflix says you need 3mb to stream SD
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

Welcome to the fun of getting decent connectivity in the Sticks!
Read this thread here

on the 50GB monthly limit i have with Meteor i can probably stream 20hrs+ of Netflix + general web usage before hitting limit which has only happened me twice in over a year.

Shurwhynot

ED E wrote: »

Whats "near enough to"? How many KM's and in what direction?

About a half a kilometre the Limerick side of Labane

Shurwhynot

Scruff wrote: »

Your options are
1) buy prepay sims for the 3 mobile operators that have their own network: Three, meteor, vodafone. All others piggyback on these, mainly on three. top up by enough to get adequate dl limit. Stick in an unlocked 4g capable phone. Walk around house, particularly upstairs/attic and test signal strength and dl speed with each.

2)Ring Lightnet and get a site survey done. It should be free and they will be able to tell you what the max speed you can get if you can get it at all. Their new packages are faster than the ones i was on and they have updated their webpage to stat you will not be cut off if you go over their limits but you will be throttled back.
Their cap still sucks but you have the option to increase it in blocks that cost €5

Netflix says you need 3mb to stream SD
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

Welcome to the fun of getting decent connectivity in the Sticks!
Read this thread here

on the 50GB monthly limit i have with Meteor i can probably stream 20hrs+ of Netflix + general web usage before hitting limit which has only happened me twice in over a year.

Lightnet are coming out to do a site test next week, and they are charging €35!

I am able to get 3G with Three on my phone and my girlfriend can get 4G with Vodafone, not sure if this is an indication as to whether decent broadband coverage would be achievable, but obviously want to be sure I get the right one before committing to a poor service!

ED E

Fixed line would be ok if it wasnt an old exchange.

Vodafone will give you speed, three will give you unlimited data for 20€. Id probably go with Three assuming speeds are ok.