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Min speed required for Vodafone or Eir TV ?

  • 20-09-2016 4:03pm
    #1
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,740 ✭✭✭✭


    Our line is due to be upgraded to Fiber in a few weeks

    According to both Eir and Vodafone the max speed available will be 15mb DL.

    According to a Eir online chat I just had this is sufficient for Eir TV

    But is it really ?

    And if it is what else will suffer i.e regular browsing, youTube etc ?

    According to the stats on my router the downlink attenuation is 17, which translates to a max speed in the low 20s (1.2km)

    Would that increase once there is Fiber ?


Comments

  • #2
    STB.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    No its most definitely not.

    You are not getting fibre if its 15Mbs.


  • #3
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,740 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Well thats what I thought.

    The cabinet in question is going to be fiber enabled but is 1.2km away so all calculations indicate that 20 odd mb is the max I can get.

    Right now I'm living on a max of 5.

    The Eir sales man is due at the door any minute, he'll get short shrift if he tries to tell me lies.

    By the way what should the min fot TV really be 40mb + ?


  • #4
    STB.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    Well thats what I thought.

    The cabinet in question is going to be fiber enabled but is 1.2km away so all calculations indicate that 20 odd mb is the max I can get.

    Right now I'm living on a max of 5.

    The Eir sales man is due at the door any minute, he'll get short shrift if he tries to tell me lies.

    By the way what should the min fot TV really be 40mb + ?

    Yes that would be a fair assumption even allowing for other devices also being used in parallel. Its definitely 25+.

    Most scenarios I have seen the TV service is where EIR are offering 100mb broadband. As far as I can recall they dont offer the TV service unless there is a minimum speeds of 40Mbps.


  • #5
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    Our line is due to be upgraded to Fiber in a few weeks

    According to both Eir and Vodafone the max speed available will be 15mb DL.

    According to a Eir online chat I just had this is sufficient for Eir TV

    But is it really ?

    Vodafone's TV service requires a min speed of 40 Mbps to install but eir will install at lower speeds.

    According to Ed_E here, 12 Mbps (stable profile) required for 1 box, 18 Mbps required for 2-3 boxes.


  • #6
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,740 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    The Cush wrote: »
    Vodafone's TV service requires a min speed of 40 Mbps to install but eir will install at lower speeds.

    According to Ed_E here, 12 Mbps (stable profile) required for 1 box, 18 Mbps required for 2-3 boxes.
    #

    Thanks for that

    The Eir guy called around and once he figured out that I had done my research he stopped with the BS that 15 was good for TV and basically admitted that is was not.

    I was temped to go for it with the 14 day cooling off period but it does not look worth it.


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