Broadband availblility. what and where.

Coyote

The idea for and part of the info comes from the IrelandOFFLine sticky
With thanks for Muck,(for original ISP info) Dustaz and the other mods and committee members of IOFFL


ISP = Via netsource
Name = SOHO
Cost per month = €45 per month (plus €10 for Domain Name) + 21% vat
Type = RADSL
Speed = 512k/128k
Download cap = No download limit
Ping = ?
Contention ration = 48/1
Install cost
Onsite: € 165.00 + 21% vat
Self Install: € 81.81 + 21% vat
other stuff
A fixed IP address
2-month rolling contract term
Domain Name
Total cost
Per month = €66.55 (vat included)
Install = €199.65 (vat included)


ISP = Via netsource
Name = SME
Cost per month = €89 per month (plus €10 for Domain Name) + 21% vat per month
Type = ADSL
Speed = 512k/128k
Download cap = No download limit
Ping = min 60ms
Contention ration = 24/1
Install cost
Onsite: € 165.00 + 21% vat
other stuff
A fixed IP address
2-month rolling contract term
Domain Name
Total cost
Per month = €119.79 (vat included)
Install = €199.65 (vat included)


ISP = Via netsource
Name = Premier
Cost per month = €169 per month + 21% vat per month
Type = ADSL
Speed = 1024k/256k
Download cap = No download limit
Ping = min 60ms
Contention ration = 24/1
Install cost
Onsite: € 165.00 + 21% vat
other stuff
A fixed IP address
2-month rolling contract term
Domain Name
Total cost
Per month = €204.49 (vat included)
Install = €199.65 (vat included)


Generally available in Dublin City. Patchy availability in the County.
Call 01 4336000 for details.
Prices start at €66.55 pm (incl vat) with No download Cap
Base Product 512/128 RADSL 48:1 Contention (only 256/128 guaranteed)
Net Source Website
email enquiries@netsource.ie

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ISP = Eircom.net
Name = Starter
Cost per month = €45 per month + 21% vat
Type = RADSL
Speed = 512k/128k
Download cap = 4GB
Ping = ?
Contention ration = 48/1
Install cost
Onsite: € 165.00 + 21% vat
Self Install: € 81.81 + 21% vat
other stuff
12-month contract term
Interleaving Turned on. Low Setting.
Total cost
Per month = €54.45 (vat included)
Install = €199.65 (vat included)
Eircom Do Not Publish A List or Map of Enabled Exchanges

ISP = Eircom.net
Name = SME
Cost per month = €89 per month + 21% vat per month
Type = ADSL
Speed = 512k/128k
Download cap = No download limit
Ping = min 60ms
Contention ration = 24/1
Install cost
Onsite: € 165.00 + 21% vat
other stuff
12-month contract term
Interleaving Turned on. High Setting
Total cost
Per month = € 107.69 (vat included)
Install = €199.65 (vat included)
Eircom Do Not Publish A List or Map of Enabled Exchanges

ISP = Eircom.net
Name = Premier
Cost per month = €169 per month + 21% vat per month
Type = ADSL
Speed = 1024k/256k
Download cap = No download limit
Ping = min 60ms
Contention ration = 24/1
Install cost
Onsite: € 165.00 + 21% vat
other stuff
12-month contract term
Interleaving Turned on. High Setting
Total cost
Per month = €204.49 (vat included)
Install = €199.65 (vat included)
Eircom Do Not Publish A List or Map of Enabled Exchanges

Generally available in Dublin City. Patchy availability in the County.
Generally Available in Larger towns and County Towns. Patchy availability in the northern

half of the country
Eircom Do Not Publish A List or Map of Enabled Exchanges
Call 1800 512 128 for details.
Prices start at €54.45 pm (incl vat) with a 4gb Cap
Base Product 512/128 RADSL 48:1 Contention (only 256/128 guaranteed)
Eircom.net Website

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ISP = Esat/iol
Name = IOL Broadband
Cost per month = €40.90 per month + 21% vat
Type = RADSL
Speed = 512k/128k
Download cap = 5GB
Ping = ?
Contention ration = 48/1
Install cost
Self Install: € 74.40 + 21% vat
Onsite: € 157 + 21% vat
other stuff
12-month contract term
including a modem
Total cost
Per month = €49.49 (vat included)
Self Install: €90 (vat included)
Install = €190 (vat included)


ISP = Esat/iol
Name = 512k/256k
Cost per month = €90 per month + 21% vat per month
Type = ADSL
Speed = 512k/256k
Download cap = No download limit
Ping = min 20-30ms
Contention ration = 24/1
Install cost
Onsite: € 125.64 + 21% vat
other stuff
12-month contract term
including a modem
Total cost
Per month = € 108.90 (vat included)
Install = €150.02 (vat included)


ISP = Esat/iol
Name = 1024k/256k
Cost per month = €205 per month + 21% vat per month
Type = ADSL
Speed = 1024k/256k
Download cap = No download limit
Ping = min 20-30ms
Contention ration = 24/1
Install cost
Onsite: € 125.64 + 21% vat
other stuff
12-month contract term
including a modem
Total cost
Per month = € 248.05 (vat included)
Install = €150.02 (vat included)

Patchy availability in Dublin City and parts of the County.
Call 1800 923 111 for details.
Prices start at €49.49 pm (incl vat) with a 5gb Cap
Base Product 512/128 RADSL 48:1 Contention (only 256/128 guaranteed)
EsatBT Website (the product is invisible there, ring them)

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ISP = NTL
Name = NTL’s Always-On 600
Cost per month = €40 (vat included)
Type = Cable
Speed = 600k/128k
Download cap = No Cap
Ping = ?
Contention ration = 20/1
Install cost
Onsite: € 65 (vat included)
other stuff
12-month contract term
Including a modem
Total cost
Per month = €40 (vat included)
Install = €65 (vat included)


ISP = NTL
Name = NTL’s Always-On 150
Cost per month = €30 (vat included)
Type = Cable
Speed = 128k/128K
Download cap = No Cap
Ping = ?
Contention ration = 50/1
Install cost
Onsite: € 65 (vat included)
other stuff
12-month contract term
Including a modem
Total cost
Per month = €40 (vat included)
Install = €65 (vat included)

NTL - Cable

Available in a very limited part of Dublins southside
Call 1800 923 005 for details
Prices start at €30 per month No Cap
Base Product 128/128 50:1 Contention
NTL Website

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Leap Broadband - Wireless

ISP = Leep Broadband - Wireless
Name = SOHO
Cost per month = €99 + 21% vat per month
Type = Wireless
Speed = 512k Symmetric Service
Download cap = No Cap
Ping = ?
Contention ration = 20/1
Install cost
€169 for two storeys + 21% vat per month
€249 for above two storeys + 21% vat per month
other stuff
12-month contract term
Total cost
Per month = €120 (vat included)
Install = €204.49 (vat included) for two storeys
Install = €301.29 (vat included) for above two storeys

ISP = Leep Broadband - Wireless
Name = Business
Cost per month = €199 + 21% vat per month
Type = Wireless
Speed = 1mb Symmetric Service
Download cap = No Cap
Ping = ?
Contention ration = 20/1
Install cost
€169 for two storeys + 21% vat per month
€249 for above two storeys + 21% vat per month
other stuff
12-month contract term
Total cost
Per month = €240.79 (vat included)
Install = €204.49 (vat included) for two storeys
Install = €301.29 (vat included) for above two storeys


Available in certain Dublin localities.
Call +353 1 6606531 for details
Prices start at €120 No Cap
Base Product 512/512 20:1 Contention.
Leep Website

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ISP = Irish Broadband - Wireless
Name = residential
Cost per month = €48.40 (vat included)
Type = Wireless
Speed = 512K Symmetric Service
Download cap = No Cap
Ping = ?
Contention ration = 8/1
Install cost
€381 (vat included)
other stuff
12-month contract term
Total cost
Per month = €48.40 (vat included)
Install = €381 (vat included)

ISP = Irish Broadband - Wireless
Name = residential
Cost per month = €84.70 (vat included)
Type = Wireless
Speed = 1mb Symmetric Service
Download cap = No Cap
Ping = ?
Contention ration = 8/1
Install cost
€381 (vat included)
other stuff
12-month contract term
Total cost
Per month = €84.70 (vat included)
Install = €381 (vat included)

Irish BroadBand - Wireless

Available in certain parts of Dublin.
Call +353 01 206 3780 for details
Prices start at €48.40 No Cap
Base Product 512/512 8:1 Contention
Irish Broadband Website

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ISP = IrishWisp - Wireless
Name = residential
Cost per month = €49 (vat included)
Type = Wireless
Speed = 512K
Download cap = No Cap
Ping = ?
Contention ration = ?
Install cost
€220 without bracket and pole (vat included)
€259 with bracket and pole (vat included)
other stuff
12-month contract term
Total cost
Per month = €49 (vat included)
Install = €220 without bracket and pole (vat included)
Install = €259 with bracket and pole (vat included)

IrishWisp - Wireless

Available in certain southside localities.
Call +353 01 295 4585 for details
Prices start at €49 No Cap
Base Product 512/512 Unknown Contention
IrishWisp Website

Coyote

deathcube ^_^

would be handy if you put urls up
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ando

Originally posted by Coyote
NTL - Cable

Available in a very limited part of Dublins southside
Call 1800 923 005 for details
Prices start at €30 per month No Cap
Base Product 128/128 50:1 Contention
Website

Leap Broadband - Wireless

Available in certain southside and central localities.
Call +353 1 6606531 for details
Prices start at €120 No Cap
Base Product 512/512 20:1 Contention.
Website

Irish BroadBand - Wireless

Available in certain southside and central localities.
Call +353 01 206 3780 for details
Prices start at €48.40 No Cap
Base Product 512/512 8:1 Contention
Website

IrishWisp - Wireless

Available in certain southside localities.

Biased, are’nt they :mad:

Coyote

Other Broadband ISP’s
Will do up more info

i like the way you cut your quote just after i say i'm doing up more info.

jonski

tks for the info , but was there a reason why u left out the self install option for IOL/esat .also seeing that these boards are for us ppl living outside the pale aswell the eircom and iol/esat ver are also available arround the country , not just in dublin.

John.

Coyote

poing taken jonski and fixed

Lemming

Just pointing out a mistake I noticed. IBB's install cost varies. There are two prices which are determined by the distance they need to run a cable from the wireless ethernet box.

Anything over 10 metres requires PoE (Power over Ethernet) so there's additional equipment or something needed of which I'm not entirely certain. That scenario incurs the full 381 euro price.

If you don't require PoE, the price is 320.65 euro

Morpheus

will it ever be in balbriggan???

who'll be supplying it there?

Dawg

will it ever be in balbriggan???

Both Netsource and €ircon recently told me that the Balbriggan exchange is sheduled to be enabled between April and June, so with a bit of luck it may be done by the end of the year :rolleyes:

Eircom Do Not Publish A List or Map of Enabled Exchanges

They have this up though.

bombidol

theres no mention of Netsource doing homes, only businesses. anyone know anything about this?


gar

_Kaiser_

theres no mention of Netsource doing homes, only businesses. anyone know anything about this?

I rang them this morning having been referred to em by a friend in work, and the girl was more than willing to sign me up, even after I told her it'd be for home use.

JNive

Go to http://www.boards.ie/irelandoffline for good info on availability and user experiences.

Subc

wuts netsource SME and SOHO. Is this available for at home too or only businesses

Tazzle

SME is netsource's adsl product, SOHO is netsource's radsl product. Both are classified as 'business' products but are freely available to residential customers too.

Subc

taz do you have to call them to know if its available in your area?
Also the i-stream from eircom is rdsl same thing thouhg its 512/256 no?

Tazzle

http://www.iol.ie/~discover/net.htm should sort you out, scroll to the bottom, there's a list of enabled exchanges.

Subc

thank you
what would u recommend apart from ntl wuts the next best solution in order (ex: eircom, esatbt, netsource etc...)
512k/512k seems very nice

Tazzle

Personally I'm going to go with Netsource, seems like they've pretty much sorted their problems, and since there's no cap and fixed ip it's right up my alley.

Subc

what dload speeds
im looking for 72-80kb not 20 or 40 lol

?

goo

(Possibly a stupid question)

What's a contention rate?

DannyD

Originally posted by Coyote
Available in certain southside localities.
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Coyote ,
Good work but remember that only 1 in 5 people in this country live in Co.Dublin.What is a soutside locality ? Is Cork a southside locality, please state the county.

Col_Loki

I presume by southside he was refering to dublin southside, alas doesnt apply to cork or stupid kildare. Dont know how long im gonna be waitin for broadband.

DannyD

yeah, just me being sarcastic.

captainpat

ISP = Eircom.net
Name = SME
Cost per month = €89 per month + 21% vat per month
Type = ADSL
Speed = 512k/128k
Download cap = No download limit
Ping = min 60ms
Contention ration = 24/1

Is the "Download Cap = No download Limit" a mistake? I understood there is a 6 Gb.mth cap (whether applied or not is another matter). I've been on hols and am looking for news on BB and FRIACO.

Stormfox1020

Will They ever bring Broadband To Kilmeague, Naas. Its aviliable in Naas but not in one of its Suberbs Arhhhh ive been waiting for ages and now they tell me i have to wait until september. They are as efficent as a Chocolate Kettle. Anybody know if its gona be here earlier than September?

Chowley

Coyote .

Do you have any info on Amocom in Cork?
Pings and contract length?

Coyote

no not yet
if i can find anyone on it i will post the info.
i have more info to sort out and post up.
just very very busy right now.

Coyote

Chowley

Thanks coyote Im contemplating going for Amocom at the moment but I'm a bit apprehensive about diving in at the deep end so to speak, I havent heard anything about it and I dont want to get stuck with a crappy ping on an expensive service for a year, as you can imagine.

robert muldoon

Originally posted by Stormfox1020
Will They ever bring Broadband To Kilmeague, Naas. Its aviliable in Naas but not in one of its Suberbs Arhhhh ive been waiting for ages and now they tell me i have to wait until september. They are as efficent as a Chocolate Kettle. Anybody know if its gona be here earlier than September?

I am in Johnstown, Naas which has its own exchange, but when i put in my a/c and tel nr, it tells me its an error, so I dont know what the story is ??

Stormfox1020

For my number it just doesnt recognise it.

Chowley

The whole country seems to be waiting for September.
It wont happen.

BKtje

Might be an idea to update this with all the new info?

Gangsta

Any1 know when NTL Cable is going to offer their excellent broadband service in the rest of Ireland?

KilOit

do u relise how much work is involved in laying down cables.
their wont be cable in some parts of the country for a very long time or maybe never. try isdn not as good as cable but what choice u got. thank **** i live west dublin hahahaha suckerz

Civilian_Target

Eircom and netsource are now available in Letterkenny. Could someone also post the details for UTVs service, and it's quality. Is it run through eircom exchanges, and is it available in Letterkenny?

Tazzle

eircom i- stream rollout has been extended
10:14 Monday 14 July 2003

We are delighted to announce the following eircom exchanges are now DSL enabled:
Galway HPO.
Tycor (Waterford).
Pormarnock.
Letterkenny.
Athlone.
Ballina.
Mullingar.
Macroom.
Bandon.
Shannon Town.
Listowel.
Tuam.
Ballinasloe.

Full List of newly upgraded exchanges, as of 14th of July

Soldie

Erm, the pings you mention, nice idea to include pings. But what are these pings to??? UK server, Dutch, American or an Afghanistan server? What? Pointless including a ping when you don't specify the ip you pinged and/or the location of it geographically.

Tazzle

Try the ping thread mate

jonski

this could do with an update to include UTV's b/b service.

Gangsta

Originally posted by KilOit
do u relise how much work is involved in laying down cables.
their wont be cable in some parts of the country for a very long time or maybe never. try isdn not as good as cable but what choice u got. thank **** i live west dublin hahahaha suckerz

R u thick? The cable is already layed down, it's only upto some1 to offer the service, idiot.

MrPinK

Fraid not. The cable already in place can only transport information one way. They need to replace it with spankin' new 2-way fibre optic cable for their broadband service, which is damn expensive to do.

KilOit

then in that case everyone would have it silly boy

SOL

Stupid Question: Why would anyone lay down one way cable?

MrPinK

Because there was no need to have 2 way cable at the time. TV signals only need go one way.

embee

Broadband has landed in my home town (Ardee, Co. Louth)
This means nothing to me but apparently its quite exciting.
I work with eircom and I can get broadband installed free of charge. I dont want it though. A few frantic friends are asking me to give their address as my own and get it installed. Who is going to tell me what the big deal is?

The_Bullman

Just noticed this thread.

Is there any way of posting information about digiwebs wireless availability.

I have heard that they are covering the northeast with wireless broadband but it may just be rumours

embee

Louth, Meath and cavan are the only counties that are getting the wireless broadband afaik

Serbian

Originally posted by goo
(Possibly a stupid question)

What's a contention rate?

I didn't see a reply to this anywhere so here's my attempt to explain! Also this is not a stupid question at all goo, lots of people would have no idea what a contention ratio is.

Basically, your phone line is connected to something called a DSLAM [DSL Access Multiplexor] in your telephone exchange with 48 plugs in it -- Don't worry too much about the technical speak, just think of it as a giant plug board that you can plug 48 telephone lines into.

This DSLAM is connected to a pipe with a certain amount of bandwith assigned to it, say 5 Megabits. All the users connected to the DSLAM share the 5 Megabits of bandwidth. So, the more users that are connected, the less bandwith there is to go around.

This is basically what a contention ratio is -- 48:1 means 48 people share the same connection from the exchange -- Or there are 48 plugs in the DSLAM. It sounds pretty bad, well it is, but most of the time you won't even notice yourself being contended. So, the lower the contention, the lower the likelihood of your connection being affected by other people downloading things, and the more 'pure' the bandwidth is.

This was meant to be a simple explanation of what contention is, but it didn't really turn out that way

The_Bullman

Originally posted by embee
Louth, Meath and cavan are the only counties that are getting the wireless broadband afaik

I still think that it should be mentioned all the same. Not all of us live in Dublin

rander00

Can u get Digiweb wireless in Louth, howcome theres nothing on digiweb at the top of this thread.

Chowley

Originally posted by The_Bullman
I still think that it should be mentioned all the same. Not all of us live in Dublin

Youre dead right, its about time they found out theres life outside dublin theres even city's