magnet.ie Broadband

jonski · 18-10-2005 1:10pm #1

Can't search for this on boards , so incase it hasn't been mentioned yet , here's a link

http://www.magnet.ie/index.aspx

Still limited to location but sound good . 4mb bb up and down , digital tv and free national and local calls , for 73 yoyo's .

cgarvey · 18-10-2005 1:35pm

You can search now .. there's been lots of threads about them already.

The good: fast speeds, triple play, FTTH.
The bad: limited location, no competition, limited TV channel selection (compared to NTL or Sky Digital)

They're allegedly starting some LLU deployments of ADSL2, but haven't heard of any reports.

.cg

jonski · 18-10-2005 1:54pm

Typical me , only heard about it last night and that was through discussing multi room tv and my reason for not going digital . I believe that this runs through the phone lines and therefore would allow multi-room tv without the need for extra boxes .

Having said all that I am a gamer at heart and all I really care about in the world is latency , I deem myself a shallow realist

cgarvey · 18-10-2005 5:08pm

Not sure of the FTTH offerings they have (in the handful of new estates), but the ADSL2 offering will require a "decoder" box, so you have the same dilema as you'd have with Sky/NTL digital. Fire 'em off an email and see what they say, to be sure.

.cg

Blue Ice · 18-10-2005 8:45pm

I phoned them up two weeks ago and they said their ADSL +2 unbundled service was available in Lucan.:cool: Does any one have their ADSL +2 unbundled service and is it any good

TomTom · 18-10-2005 9:34pm

I'm being installed in the morning, held up for ages due to eircom the absolute bastards. They held it up with the line over and over again. Fair play to magnet, they kept me updated regularly.

TomTom · 19-10-2005 11:19am

just got installed, and let me say its un fecking belivable. Off to play sone online games now so see ye in a year or two.

just downloaded from heanet at 4.5meg

steve-hosting36 · 19-10-2005 12:14pm

sweet, whats the trace / ping to boards.ie like ?

TomTom · 19-10-2005 12:34pm

Pings to boards are at about 30ms with jolt at about 35mc. I'm quite a bit from the exchange.

They are rock solid at that though. 2500 packet sent, no loss, average 35

flamegrill · 19-10-2005 1:14pm

post a trace to boards ..

Blaster99 · 19-10-2005 1:41pm

What's the [real] upload speed?

tones_ie · 19-10-2005 1:57pm

Dammit!! not avaibalbe here...

just the step up package ...grrrrrr

edunon · 19-10-2005 2:11pm

I'm gonna order the Magnet Value package, for e73/month I get digitalTV, phone (with unlimited national calls) and 4mb up/down broadband.
Bye, bye NTL, Eircom and Irish BroadBand, I'm gonna enjoy this last one

Grayarea · 19-10-2005 3:58pm

I just signed up on the web site and got sa call within the hour. They have confirmed that north main is OK with them and have arranged a package with contract etc to be sent in the post.

So far very impressed and as they will save me about €50 a month, which is great

bk · 19-10-2005 4:22pm

edunon wrote:

I'm gonna order the Magnet Value package, for e73/month I get digitalTV, phone (with unlimited national calls) and 4mb up/down broadband.
Bye, bye NTL, Eircom and Irish BroadBand, I'm gonna enjoy this last one

IMO if you can get NTL BB, then it is better value for money:

NTL Analogue TV + 3m BB = €65
NTL Digital TV + 3m BB = €75

NTL Digital TV includes 120 channels (compared to 22 or 50 from Magnet) and a much better lineup. You also get the NTL analogue service free so you can hook it up to other TV's, VCR's, PVR's, etc. You can't hook a second TV or VCR up to Magnet

Add free local and national calls for an extra €15 for blueface to NTL.

Also many people (including myself) seem to be able to get analogue TV free for 12 months with NTL (take another €20 off) and BB free for 12 months.

TomTom · 19-10-2005 4:54pm

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [82.195.136.251]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 28 ms 31 ms 25 ms 10.194.0.94
2 32 ms 33 ms 29 ms 10.194.0.93
3 32 ms 29 ms 31 ms gi1-2.core1a.dub.ie.magnet.ie [10.192.128.1]
4 34 ms 33 ms 29 ms vl7.border1a.dub.ie.magnet.ie [85.91.0.9]
5 32 ms 33 ms 35 ms vl6.edge1a.dub.ie.magnet.ie [85.91.0.17]
6 33 ms 33 ms 35 ms 85.91.0.54
7 36 ms 31 ms 33 ms d-deg-edge2.magnet.ie [85.91.0.58]
8 33 ms 33 ms 31 ms panama-inex.hosting365.ie [193.242.111.87]
9 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms corerouter1.hosting365.ie [82.195.128.7]
10 35 ms 35 ms 39 ms 82.195.136.251

Trace complete.

edunon · 19-10-2005 5:14pm

bk wrote:

IMO if you can get NTL BB, then it is better value for money:

NTL Analogue TV + 3m BB = €65
NTL Digital TV + 3m BB = €75

NTL Digital TV includes 120 channels (compared to 22 or 50 from Magnet) and a much better lineup. You also get the NTL analogue service free so you can hook it up to other TV's, VCR's, PVR's, etc. You can't hook a second TV or VCR up to Magnet

Add free local and national calls for an extra €15 for blueface to NTL.

Also many people (including myself) seem to be able to get analogue TV free for 12 months with NTL (take another €20 off) and BB free for 12 months.

NTL are not in Donnybrook yet. Magnet gives me 100 GB download cap, and 4mb upload, finally a decent skype use.

Diabolus · 19-10-2005 5:39pm

So the 3MB and 4MB packages are Synchronous?
3/4 Up and Down?

bk · 19-10-2005 6:13pm

Diabolus wrote:

So the 3MB and 4MB packages are Synchronous?
3/4 Up and Down?

Yes and no, they are synchrous in areas with Fibre To The Home, these are normally only new housing developments. In other areas where they are using ADSL, it is 512k up.

Couch Potato · 19-10-2005 8:06pm

Jus toff the phone to them - Blanchardstown exchange due to be unbundled in next 6 months ..

[V3] · 19-10-2005 8:38pm

bk wrote:

IMO if you can get NTL BB, then it is better value for money:

NTL Analogue TV + 3m BB = €65
NTL Digital TV + 3m BB = €75

NTL Digital TV includes 120 channels (compared to 22 or 50 from Magnet) and a much better lineup. You also get the NTL analogue service free so you can hook it up to other TV's, VCR's, PVR's, etc. You can't hook a second TV or VCR up to Magnet

Add free local and national calls for an extra €15 for blueface to NTL.

Also many people (including myself) seem to be able to get analogue TV free for 12 months with NTL (take another €20 off) and BB free for 12 months.

I've been waiting for NTL to come to Rathmines for years and years now. Unfortunately, its still not available

Grayarea · 25-10-2005 8:28pm

bk wrote:

You can't hook a second TV or VCR up to Magnet

Yes you can, €6 per month per additional point.

paulm17781 · 25-10-2005 9:29pm

Grayarea wrote:

Yes you can, €6 per month per additional point.

Which makes it more expensive than NTL again. NTL have as many analogue as you like at no extra charge, extra digibox is €5 per month.

OfflerCrocGod · 26-10-2005 12:44am

Couch Potato wrote:

Jus toff the phone to them - Blanchardstown exchange due to be unbundled in next 6 months ..

YES! LLU for 2008-9! I can't wait to get 256k up; only another 4 years to go. 6 months......sure.

cgarvey · 26-10-2005 7:09am

paulm17781 wrote:

Which makes it more expensive than NTL again. NTL have as many analogue as you like at no extra charge, extra digibox is €5 per month.

Technically speaking, NTL charge for additional analogue points

paulm17781 · 26-10-2005 8:47am

cgarvey wrote:

Technically speaking, NTL charge for additional analogue points

They don't anymore though.

oscarBravo · 26-10-2005 8:57am

Diabolus wrote:

So the 3MB and 4MB packages are Synchronous?
3/4 Up and Down?

Symmetric!! Symmetric!!! God damn and blast it, the word is "symmetric"!!1!

You know, as in symmetry? Mirror image? One side is the same as the other??

:mad: :mad: :mad:

dub45 · 26-10-2005 9:02am

paulm17781 wrote:

They don't anymore though.

Since when? I am being chared for a couple at the moment.

paulm17781 · 26-10-2005 9:45am

dub45 wrote:

Since when? I am being chared for a couple at the moment.

Don't remember, call them and ask.

jonski · 26-10-2005 10:42am

oscarBravo wrote:

Symmetric!! Symmetric!!! God damn and blast it, the word is "symmetric"!!1!

You know, as in symmetry? Mirror image? One side is the same as the other??

:mad: :mad: :mad:

so your saying you download the same as you upload ? but why would you download it if you already have it ?

bk · 26-10-2005 11:31am

Grayarea wrote:

Yes you can, €6 per month per additional point.

That is probably only in areas with Fibre To The Home, there simply isn't the bandwidth for it on DSL. I'd be delighted to be corrected about this, but it is a well known problem with IPTV over DSL.