Internet for home

neerb

I'm looking at getting the Internet installed in my house - who is the most reliable supplier and what is the best speed to get ? I'll only be using it for general day to day - phone and some tv viewing

Thanks I'm advance

colm_mcm

The likes of eir/Sky/Vodafone will be entirely dependant on the line coming into your house and how far it is from a cabinet, whether the cabinet is fibre. There is no real best between them as there are so many variables.

If Virgin is available at your address, you're pretty much guaranteed that you can get 240/360mb speeds. It isn't distance sensitive and it'll either work or it won't. This comes in on a TV style cable as opposed to the phone line.

If you're using the landline a lot, or even a bit, it makes sense to get a package that covers unlimited landlines and mobiles. Virgin do a 240mb package that will cover this. They also don't have a fair usage cap, which a lot of competitors do.

If virgin is available, I'd get that.

They're doing that package with a tv package for €49 a month for 12 months on a 12 month contract.
You can get it without the to package for €35 for 12 months.
You can also get a €50 voucher because you're on Boards. Not certain how that works but the talk to: forum has details.

The Cush

More information required

Where are you located?
Do you have a phoneline to the house?
Do you have a cable connection to the house?

What does this indicate for your eircode - http://fibrerollout.ie/
What does this indicate for your eircode - http://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/communications/topics/Broadband/national-broadband-plan/high-speed-broadband-map/Pages/Interactive-Map.aspx

neerb

colm_mcm wrote: »

The likes of eir/Sky/Vodafone will be entirely dependant on the line coming into your house and how far it is from a cabinet, whether the cabinet is fibre. There is no real best between them as there are so many variables.

If Virgin is available at your address, you're pretty much guaranteed that you can get 240/360mb speeds. It isn't distance sensitive and it'll either work or it won't. This comes in on a TV style cable as opposed to the phone line.

If you're using the landline a lot, or even a bit, it makes sense to get a package that covers unlimited landlines and mobiles. Virgin do a 240mb package that will cover this. They also don't have a fair usage cap, which a lot of competitors do.

If virgin is available, I'd get that.

They're doing that package with a tv package for €49 a month for 12 months on a 12 month contract.
You can get it without the to package for €35 for 12 months.
You can also get a €50 voucher because you're on Boards. Not certain how that works but the talk to: forum has details.

That's great thank for that very useful info . I don't think ll be getting the tv just the broadband as can watch stuff on player etc but great to know .

Re the speeds is 240 enough or should I go lower - usage will be low

neerb

The Cush wrote: »

More information required

Where are you located?
Do you have a phoneline to the house?
Do you have a cable connection to the house?

What does this indicate for your eircode - http://fibrerollout.ie/
What does this indicate for your eircode - http://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/communications/topics/Broadband/national-broadband-plan/high-speed-broadband-map/Pages/Interactive-Map.aspx

Hi many thanks for your reply . It has an old lead for UPC in the house I don't have a phone line I'm located in south Dublin city

colm_mcm

neerb wrote: »

That's great thank for that very useful info . I don't think ll be getting the tv just the broadband as can watch stuff on player etc but great to know .

Re the speeds is 240 enough or should I go lower - usage will be low

240 is their standard speed. You connect the modem to the UPC cable that you mentioned.