Broadband and TV drogheda south

Guv

Hi all,

Moving to an estate near the boyne valley hotel. Just wondering about broadband and what any of you would recommend. Does chorus offer a broadband package?

Thanks


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Dingatron

Whats the exact location? For example the lines in Five Oaks fail but down the road in Longwood (opposite the Black Bull pub) they pass. There are problems on the Dublin road depending on where your based? Fairly sure there is no Chorus broadband package in Drogheda yet. If you can't get Eircom the only other option is wireless AFAIK but I could be wrong.

Guv

Hi Mate,

Roschoill. Chorus not available but BT or Eircom are. The estate was not cabled when being built so chorus is wireless. I will probably give bt a go. 2-3 week wait is a kick in the pants.

I was reading the other threads on Drogheda and development. Grange Rath are building 4 4500sq ft houses which will sell for €1m and if interest is high then another 8 will be built. Heard somewhere that they have more land nearby which will be built on. The grange rath farm cost some chap £3.5m punts about 5-6 years ago. That makes the site cost for each of the 1800 houses less than €3000.

In my view the value atm is the northside of the 'city' - Monasterboice/Tullyallen/Termonfeckin - Sandpit and Blackhall especially.

1/4 acre non local need sites in Termonfeckin are shifting at 250k whereas 2 acres just outside the planning zone in sandpit is selling for 240k - big difference!

Cheers


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Dingatron

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Termonfeckin is the 'millionaires row' of Drogheda. Southside prices are mainly due to access to the train station and not having to go through the town on route to Dublin IMO. Your right about value atm is the northside of the 'city' although I'd spread that also to north west along the M1. I recently moved to the old Slane Road off Mell and I am about 3 minutes off the M1. A real bargin so if your willing to spread your wings a bit there are still a few deals around.

Guv

Any issues with M1 noise?
Mell/Old Slane Road is the road where you can get down to the Westgate Fitness Centre?

Lots of good things happening in Drogheda imo, like the pedestrianisation of the main streets. One issue might be scotch hall having a negative affect on other retailers elsewhere?


You guys have seen this:
http://www.broadband.gov.ie/BBInfo/ServiceByLocationSearchWF.aspx

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Dingatron

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Bookmarked that link thanks.

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Any issues with M1 noise?

No theres more noise from the cows grazing across the river lol! :eek:

Mell/Old Slane Road is the road where you can get down to the Westgate Fitness Centre?

Yes at the top of this road it splits and the left one is the old Slane Road.

Lots of good things happening in Drogheda imo, like the pedestrianisation of the main streets. One issue might be scotch hall having a negative affect on other retailers elsewhere?

Better consumer choice and more competition so a good thing IMO. Impact to traffic around the entrance to the carpark for Scotch Hall maybe. There's a few other threads knocking around discussing Drogheda but search function is knackered so can't link to them. There is a good one in the "Thunderdome" forum. Roschoill's a nice spot, I've a cousin living there.

lucernarian

Unless the eircom engineering depot in the industrial estate is converted into an exchange then the most southerly, new estates being planned have as much a chance of getting broadband as I have, and I live in Monasterboice...

Wireless is offered by Net1 and Digiweb, at least one of which definetely have a transmitter on the Lourdes Hospital. There is no true cable TV service in Drogheda.

I'm really interested in what will happen to Drogheda as the two huge developments are built in a few year's time. Will the estates become bart of the Drogheda community? Or will they be private B&Bs?

I saw the latest zoning map for Louth a few months ago and significant swaths of South Louth are Zone 2 - basically the 10 year clause thing. I live in a Zone 2 area. Most of Monasterboice is Zone 2 for example. Is the "Local need apply" thing the same as the 10 year rule?

Cute_Mandy

I worked in Eircom for about 3 months on the Broadband team so i learned a lot of tricks both Broadband and one of them is that anyone in Ireland can have broadband but Eircom just arent bothered to take the time to make sure that everyone can get it.

As I am from the northside of Drogheda i was unable to get broad band but as i worked inEircom i knew what had to be done to make my line compatable
and so i did anyone can do it ...


so if you ahve the righht price i can do it for you

ccd

Go On

lucernarian

originally posted by Cute_Mandy
I worked in Eircom for about 3 months on the Broadband team so i learned a lot of tricks both Broadband and one of them is that anyone in Ireland can have broadband but Eircom just arent bothered to take the time to make sure that everyone can get it.

As I am from the northside of Drogheda i was unable to get broad band but as i worked inEircom i knew what had to be done to make my line compatable
and so i did anyone can do it ...


so if you ahve the righht price i can do it for you

You seem more than a little confident don't you? I like my proof if you know what I mean... Not even Des Keating, overall boss of Eircom Broadband could do anything for me at the moment.

Cute_Mandy

Thats cuz he is lazy like the rest of the m and give it a few months and Eircom Broadband will be whiped out.

Ahh well i just letting you know it can be done.

ccd

So how you we do it then

Cute_Mandy

Like you would have to work in Eircom to be able to do it you would have to have access to the right systems which i did when i worked there but not no more but i Know ppl that still work there.....