eircom launch residential offering €60

Tazz T

Spot on Dusty

Won't it be weird if we get a decent wholesale price for broadband before we get one for FRIACO?

crawler

I think it's more or less good news all the way form here - I would think it will be a different world from April onwards

Andor

yay for optimism! Every little helps.

One day the IrelandOFFLine community will be known as IrelandTEMPORARILYBACKInService

Ardmore

Originally posted by De Rebel
Or why not get her one of these . Eircom are flogging them for a very reasonable €471 "(Configured and Posted)".

Seriously, when you can get a Firewall router for GBP 49.99 you'd be mad not to have one. That's about €85, including delivery. (And I'm pleased to note that Amazon.co.uk will deliver to RoI).

The full specs of the Linksys are

The only gotcha is that your ADSL Modem must provide an Ethernet port, which is why I don't want any of that USB muck!here.

Dustaz

ENN have an article too

pete

Fantastic.

Too bad there's no new exchanges coming on stream.

50% off DSL we can't have is of absolutely no use to me and the rest of the bogmen out in the wilds of Dublin 15.

Dustaz

Originally posted by pete

Too bad there's no new exchanges coming on stream.

From the RTE article

Eircom also announced that broadband will be available to any town with over 2,000 telephone lines by September of next year. Ireland currently has one of the lowest rates of broadband usage in the OECD.

One would assume they would keep upgrading exchanges to sell this new product.

kamobe

Originally posted by pete
Fantastic.

Too bad there's no new exchanges coming on stream.

50% off DSL we can't have is of absolutely no use to me and the rest of the bogmen out in the wilds of Dublin 15.

The Blanchardstown exchange is enabled, I was on the trial there up until the summer!

pete

Doesn't that contradict the recent post here that said that there were no plans to enable any more exhchanges this year?

In any event, DSL is already available in my exchange (Blanchardstown). Unfortunately my house is too far away from it and I've failed the line test. An eircom engineer told me that there's another DSL-enabled exchange in Damastown industrial estate (sometimes called Clonee exchange), which is actually nearer to me than Blanch, but I think that's just for the industrial estate itself.

What i'm saying is that for me and the thousands upon thousands of people who've bought houses out here, it looks like no amount of cost cutting or waiting for up to 20 months is going to get us DSL.

spongebob

Originally posted by Ardmore

The only gotcha is that your ADSL Modem must provide an Ethernet port, which is why I don't want any of that USB muck!here.

OK I'm not trying to sell you USB chill chill.

Whats your recommendation for an ADSL PPPoE modem with an ethernet port then ?

Dlink or Linksys or SMC or Asus will do but ONLY if ya got them working here in the E-Tub before. Granny wants the best advice only.

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sceptre

I've split off all the talk after the details were released into another thread. In other words, the speculation is here (you guys had a lot of fun while I was doing exams)

Locking this one then