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flamegrill · 01-03-2003 8:43pm #1

From my dealing with eircom and esat over the last 2-3 weeks, information has come my way and probably many others, but eircom are going to release it by the end of march in serveral key towns in the south east, Carlow town is one of them. Arklow is another, parts of Waterford, Kilkenny city etc..

So it may still be crap with a 4GB cap but at least the price has dropped some at 55/m inc vat. One thing, VIA are reselling eircom's adsl and will be a bit cheaper so maybe thats a better option.

Regards,

Paul

p.s. ill post a full list of south east towns that should be enabled by the end of march early April.

ManWithThePlan · 01-03-2003 10:04pm

Sounds good!

Mossy Monk · 02-03-2003 2:39am

Eircom were upgrading something down the road from me a couple of weeks ago so maybe ..........

ManWithThePlan · 02-03-2003 10:48am

Where are you based Mossy Monk?

azezil · 02-03-2003 11:21am

esat already released theirs, and its uncaped (afaik)

Mossy Monk · 02-03-2003 4:00pm

Originally posted by ManWithThePlan
Where are you based Mossy Monk?

just outside Dungarvan

shinzon · 02-03-2003 4:08pm

is this another pay 3 months in advance, 12 month contract like esats

or is it just pay 55 pound a month, not 165 every 3 months

just curious

shin

bkehoe · 02-03-2003 7:42pm

Any idea if it'll be in New Ross (just it and Bunclody without DSL, and New Ross is bigger

)? I assume that the full uncapped multiuser packages would also be available and not just the 4GB/month?

Brendan

ManWithThePlan · 02-03-2003 7:47pm

Hmm, methinks it'll be a long long time before good ol' Rosslare get broadband.

flamegrill · 02-03-2003 8:33pm

Originally posted by bkehoe
Any idea if it'll be in New Ross (just it and Bunclody without DSL, and New Ross is bigger )? I assume that the full uncapped multiuser packages would also be available and not just the 4GB/month?

Brendan

Brendan,

New Ross is one of the planned exchanges to be opened up to the market in the next few weeks, keep yours eyes open :-)

Still don't have full list on me, will get it from another PC tommorrow.

Paul

bkehoe · 03-03-2003 12:16am

Sounds very good. The end of paying so much for Aramiska looks to be in sight!

Brendan

ManWithThePlan · 03-03-2003 11:35am

Those Aramiska prices are insane. :rolleyes:

ManWithThePlan · 08-03-2003 2:09am

You got that list yet flamegrill?

bkehoe · 11-03-2003 6:48pm

Also waiting here.

bkehoe · 19-03-2003 9:37pm

Well I eventually rang Eircom and they confirmed that New Ross was scheduled to be upgraded by the start of April anyway.

Brendan

flamegrill · 21-03-2003 1:10am

LOL - My bad - been very busy etc ...

ill em snag the list in the morning.

Paul

flamegrill · 21-03-2003 1:59pm

Sorry about the delay Guys and Galls, so here's the list:

Arklow, Athy, Carlow, Enniscorthy, Gorey, Greystones, New Ross, Waterford Central, Waterford Tycor, Wexford and Wicklow Town.

Now bare in mind once these babies go live it-ll be 2-3 weeks i'd say before anyone can get it.

So all going well some of us should have ADSL by the end of April :-)

Paul

williamb · 21-03-2003 5:59pm

Flamegriill, can you clarify..you say Greystones is included.

Esat have ADSL in Greystones exchange..are Eircom putting it in as well ?

flamegrill · 22-03-2003 1:28pm

yes that is correct - eircom do own the exchanges after all and they will eventually have it in all the places esat can offer it also.

williamb · 22-03-2003 6:47pm

Thanks for the reply.

I'm deeply disorientated and seem to have entered a surreal parallel universe, where I have a choice of Irish broadband connectivity providers and there's competition in the Irish retail broadband market. It seemed to me more likely Eircom would totally ignore the already-enabled Esat exchanges and I'd be stuck paying the same price for half the speed of the Eircom product, since Esat would have no incentive to change their offering where they have no competition.

flamegrill · 27-03-2003 5:20pm

As of today 27/3/2003 ADSL is available in Carlow town and the surrounding area's up to 2.5KM.

Snowball · 28-03-2003 1:58pm

got an email from IOL about adsl and broadband through electricity lines. must find it and post it

flamegrill · 10-04-2003 4:03pm

Got ADSL installed here today ...

Still can't order it for home, as there is a problem doing the line tests in this area.... pain in the bum but sure, i have it here now so ....... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

bkehoe · 15-04-2003 6:35pm

Still no DSL in New-Ross - eircom are "still working on it" and expect it to be ready in a few weeks.

Brendan

nagero · 17-04-2003 6:27pm

Originally posted by flamegrill
Got ADSL installed here today ...

Still can't order it for home, as there is a problem doing the line tests in this area.... pain in the bum but sure, i have it here now so ....... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

is here in carlow town? I just got told today that they are having problems with the exchange and it will be another 2 weeks before they can test my line.

nagero

flamegrill · 20-04-2003 9:11am

Originally posted by nagero
is here in carlow town? I just got told today that they are having problems with the exchange and it will be another 2 weeks before they can test my line.

nagero

Yup its carlow town on pollerton road.

They are indeed having problems testing the lines, AFAIR they it was working fine for the first week and there have been problems since.

It looks like its going to be a winner for business etc in carlow as most would spend in excess of 300/month on isdn, but I can also see why there may be problems .....

Paul

bkehoe · 20-05-2003 9:09pm

I'm now pleased to report that ADSL is now available in New-Ross!

Ordered the enhanced service tonight. Initially they couldnt seem to figure out if it was upgraded - the exchange was down as still being upgraded, but my line was passing the test, but after a brief wait they decided that it was indeed upgraded.

The online store still says the exchange isnt upgraded, but anyone wanting it can order it by ringing for the moment. Now all I have to do is wait and buy myself a router.

Brendan

Kernel32 · 21-05-2003 12:53am

I would be interested in knowing if ADSL is easily available within Waterford city, and generally what areas, around ardkeen? Cork Road? The reason I ask is because I may be moving back to Waterford for a while soon and high speed internet access is essential for me, so any house I rent must have it.
Also what about availability outside Waterford, in County Kilkenny, Mooncoin, Piltown, Carrick-on-Suir, does anyone have any service out in those areas?
I have talked with Eircom about it back in March but talking to Eircom's customer service people is like banging your head againist a wall, I had to drag information from them like it was top secret or something and the two people I spoke with gave me different information which left me more confused.

-A

AdMMM · 24-05-2003 4:26pm

Thankfully I'm in Waterford Central, therefore I'm able to get it. Unfortunatly, it's still a bit outta my price range. What price is it for uncapped??

kano476 · 27-05-2003 9:51pm

no chance of it comin to tramore anytime soon then eh?

frea · 04-06-2003 2:17pm

Is there anybody that supplies ADSL for Tramore?

flamegrill · 09-06-2003 9:00pm

Bit of an update for Carlow area peeps, it'll be rolled out around the end of June/Mid-July. it was due to some faulty hardware, that has been srced but takes an enginneer with skillz to install it. They have only one person capable of doing this ... hehe. Well thats how it bloody well sounds.

So in abour 4 weeks or so we should be able to order any of 4 adsl packages Yaay!

Eircom/Esat/Netsource/UTVip (to be announced on the 10/6/2003)

Now who to go with ... need i even think about it ...

Paul

bkehoe · 11-06-2003 4:49pm

I got my ADSL installed in New-Ross yesterday.

Going fine, no problems with it so far anyway. Aparrantly the exchange was ready by the end of April, but due to confusion on Eircoms systems to whether it was upgraded or not they were only accepting random orders - i.e. if you got the right person you could order, and anyone who did got installed ages ago

.

ManWithThePlan · 11-06-2003 10:17pm

Originally posted by Snowball
got an email from IOL about adsl and broadband through electricity lines. must find it and post it

Any more info on this?

shinzon · 11-06-2003 10:25pm

Originally posted by Kernel32
I would be interested in knowing if ADSL is easily available within Waterford city, and generally what areas, around ardkeen? Cork Road? The reason I ask is because I may be moving back to Waterford for a while soon and high speed internet access is essential for me, so any house I rent must have it.
Also what about availability outside Waterford, in County Kilkenny, Mooncoin, Piltown, Carrick-on-Suir, does anyone have any service out in those areas?
I have talked with Eircom about it back in March but talking to Eircom's customer service people is like banging your head againist a wall, I had to drag information from them like it was top secret or something and the two people I spoke with gave me different information which left me more confused.

-A

theres some estates in the aardkeen area that can get broadband, viewmount im afraid is not one of them, thecork road area will npt be upgraded by eircom till spetember october sometime
Shin

flamegrill · 14-06-2003 9:59am

Originally posted by shinzon
theres some estates in the aardkeen area that can get broadband, viewmount im afraid is not one of them, thecork road area will npt be upgraded by eircom till spetember october sometime
Shin

There are problems in Kilkenny, Carlow, Wanterford Central and Galway. The time to fix is approx mid July.

Paul

Snowball · 18-06-2003 4:55am

Originally posted by ManWithThePlan
Any more info on this?

If i was not 2 lazy

Its all on my mail at home. Its miles away. Will do so soon though. Will post then. Anyone who has iol should have gotten the email. I was a broadcast by iol

AdMMM · 25-06-2003 5:58pm

Originally posted by kano476
no chance of it comin to tramore anytime soon then eh?

I dont think they'll be upgrading that ancient exchange for a while yet

spongebob · 22-07-2003 3:41pm

Originally posted by flamegrill
Yup its carlow town on pollerton road.

They are indeed having problems testing the lines, AFAIR they it was working fine for the first week and there have been problems since.

It looks like its going to be a winner for business etc in carlow as most would spend in excess of 300/month on isdn, but I can also see why there may be problems .....

Paul

Is this exchange still dead some 4 months later?

M

flamegrill · 22-07-2003 9:02pm

Muck,

Just as you asked this today, no it's not

. The carlow exchange is go go go since last monday 14/july as promised, eircom had it on the ball. Was told mid-july and there it was. I ordered netsource RADSL last wednesday and today i went live

Mad, but good man.

Paul

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