Curious as to other speeds around Ireland?

zxxtonyxxz

So I live out in rural Limerick and my speed sits under 1 down and about .3 up sometimes goes worse and this is the best possible out here. Im curious as to what speeds others get around Ireland?

Nollog

Open eir's network is distance dependant so if you're a few cm from a cabinet you get 99mbps, a mile away 2mbps (or so).

Virgin have 360mbps I think. That's not distance dependant.

Siro and open eir's ftth I'd again not distance dependant. They both offer 150, 300 and 1000 mbps speeds.

davo2001

Living in county Limerick also, getting 92Mb down and 20Mb up using magnet business.

Jayop

Roughly 26d 5U in rural Sligo using Vodafone fixed line BB.

31D and 22U on 4G in Mayo right now.

Gonzo

basically any home that has green fields nearby your looking at ADSL or worse, there are exceptions in a few lucky places.

Likewise most urban areas have great broadband but there are exceptions with some urban areas as bad off as rural areas.

Most towns and villages get 50-95meg via FTTC fiber broadband. Places with Virgin Media get up to 360meg and a handful of people can get Eir or Siro's FTTH. This will get more widespread into rural areas over the next 12 months hopefully.

ItHurtsWhenIP

I'm just over the border in Co. Tipperary and getting 3 down 1 up from Munster Broadband. They've had their moments, but it's been stable recently. They're the only game in town as the nearby exchange has been awaiting eVDSL for years and the mobile midband is shyte around here. Imagine can't see us cos ... hills!

I'm a very patient internet user ... but you my friend must be a saint!

Donutz

Living in rural Limerick but still not too far from the city. Was on 2 down and .5 up until last month when I switched to a satellite provider. Now I am on 8 down and 1 up.

I live in a rural village in the south end of Kildare that was upgraded to Fibre, 24 Mbs down and 6 up.

Eir's trick is to install as few cabinets as possible just so they can claim they have xxxx homes on fibre. We're wired to the exchange about 1.5 kms away. My Mother on the other hand lives 500 meters further from the exchange but about 100 meters to the cabinet and gets 90 odd Mbs down and 25 up, and what's worse is that I'm about the same distance from the same cabinet but not cabled to it.

Eir could have put in more cabinets but they didn't.

What's even more unbelievable is that the place we're moving to , even more rural, they have a cabinet installed about 500 meters outside the Village so it's seriously degraded by the time it even gets there.

Unbelievable company !

ED E

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Eir could have put in more cabinets but they didn't.

Nope. Where there are populated CCPs they add a VDSL cab, where there arent they don't. This is based on infrastructure decisions made in the 70s 80s and 90s.

They arent deciding cab locations today, they're overlaying them.

edgari0kas

co. monaghan Oram atuside Castleblayney in blayney 4 km away there fiber, here in oram have 3 mb maxes out to around 2.8 in evenings drops to bellow 1 mb dc's randomly latency over 100 .

ftth only in 2017 winter according to the map , im going to try 4g midband with router in few weeks as i had enough of this useless broadband.

bk

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Eir's trick is to install as few cabinets as possible just so they can claim they have xxxx homes on fibre. We're wired to the exchange about 1.5 kms away. My Mother on the other hand lives 500 meters further from the exchange but about 100 meters to the cabinet and gets 90 odd Mbs down and 25 up, and what's worse is that I'm about the same distance from the same cabinet but not cabled to it.

Eir could have put in more cabinets but they didn't.

What's even more unbelievable is that the place we're moving to , even more rural, they have a cabinet installed about 500 meters outside the Village so it's seriously degraded by the time it even gets there.

Unbelievable company !

All completely wrong!

Eir have been placing FTTC cabs at pretty much every location where there is an existing PCP cabinet, even when it doesn't necessarily make financial sense. By placing the FTTC cabs next to the PCP cabinets, it allows them to very easily plug the lines connected to the PCP cabinet into the FTTC cab.

Lines that bypass the PCP cabinets go directly to the exchanges and thus get Exchange launched VDSL if close enough.

Even though a PCP cabinet maybe closer to you then the exchange, it is extremely expensive to move a phone line that is directly connected to the exchange to the nearest PCP cab.

Having said that, in time Eir may well move these lines. But to start it made far more sense for them to first tackle the low hanging fruit of PCP connected lines, then the much harder and more expensive exchange launched lines. Also the LLU's would complain very loudly to Comreg if Eir started moving lines out of exchanges.

The network structure developed over the 60/70's. Initially each town and village got it's own exchange and every home was connected directly to the exchange. As time went by and more and more houses were built, it ended up cheaper to put PCP cabinets in place to handle these newer homes due to lack of space in ducts, etc. Older homes were never moved over, they were just left in place, connected to the exchanges, as it didn't really matter in the pre-broadband days.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Rural south Roscommon - 2.4 down, 0.3 up on Eir, a mile from the cabinet.

Athlone town - 10 down and 10 up on Vodafone 4G. 85 down and 28 up on Eir.