Broadband providers

Buford T. Justice XIX

Well, folks, my contract is up soon and I said I'd ask what provider you found good, both price and data wise.

marno21

Who is your current provider? Are you happy with the speeds and quality of service you are receiving?

Given the forum, I presume you are in a rural area. If that's the case, you are normally restricted to service via phone line/fibre if you are lucky, or a host of area-dependent wireless providers, or the dreaded mobile/satellite options.

orm0nd

after spending 3 weeks without calving/lambing cameras last february due to storms and a lightning strike I switched to 3 mobile

€30 per month for 750 GB allowance ,
speeds are quite good but I did install external receiving aerials ,

1 or 2 short outages and a couple of days with slow speeds but certainly way better than on the copper wire

no hope of fibre here in the next 10 years at least

Timmaay

orm0nd wrote: »

after spending 3 weeks without calving/lambing cameras last february due to storms and a lightning strike I switched to 3 mobile

€30 per month for 750 GB allowance ,
speeds are quite good but I did install external receiving aerials ,

1 or 2 short outages and a couple of days with slow speeds but certainly way better than on the copper wire

no hope of fibre here in the next 10 years at least

Same here, 0.25mb about all that the landline could provide previously, and no hope of Fibre here. No 4g in the yard here but reasonable signal in the pump house which is about 200m away. So I put a 4g router in the pump house, and afew nanostations later I got decent internet in the house, office and sheds for calving cameras, and all cost about 400e (plus several hours setup). And I'm getting away with the 20e three all you can eat prepay sim for now.

Buford T. Justice XIX

marno21 wrote: »

Who is your current provider? Are you happy with the speeds and quality of service you are receiving?

Given the forum, I presume you are in a rural area. If that's the case, you are normally restricted to service via phone line/fibre if you are lucky, or a host of area-dependent wireless providers, or the dreaded mobile/satellite options.

Moving from Vodafone and only 4G mobile available for the foreseeable future. On 3 using a mobile hotspot atm and speeds vary. Ormonds 3 with 750GB would do the trick but downloads probably slow. The kids are looking for Netflix and will cancel Sky movies but want to be sure we will be able to download reasonably quickly first.

Eir is attractive for sports but a lower data allowance kinda puts me off. Having calving cameras would be a plus also with a high data allowance.

Any other options around though? Virgin and Sky and those are all fibre only?

marno21

Is it Kerry you're in?

Virgin have no operations in Kerry as their predecessor Horizon never laid any cable network and relied on wireless for TV since the late 80s/90s.

Sky would be via the eir landline network. You can check if you are able to get fibre, or will soon be able to get fibre here: https://fibrerollout.ie/

I'm not sure if that website will tell you if you are eligible for non-fibre phoneline DSL broadband but it's worth a shot anyway.

If they're not an option, it's 3/4G or fixed wireless. There's a decent map of fixed wireless providers here: http://irelandoffline.org/map/#!/map

restive

Using eurona-brisknet. Site to site. Ok but €600 a year. In fairness untill the were rolled out in 2011, I had nothing.