chewed wrote: » when you order through online chat or at the front door, do you still get all the discounts (e.g. €100 cashback and new customer deals)?
More Music wrote: » Wondering about the fiber termination at the home. Is there a wall mounted box outside? Is it a direct fiber run all the way to the router?
pegasus1 wrote: » One of the yellow lines in Thomastown Kilkenny on the inistioge rd, has been run with fibre...First live ftth is sp/sum '18...Don't know how long its been done..splice boxes an all
Johnboy1951 wrote: » Whatever about speedtest, I hope you are really enjoying your new connection
More Music wrote: » Is the attic of a bungalow now out of bounds for the KN install tech? It would make things so easy. The old copper (not used anymore) is coming in through the gable into the attic. Would make perfect sense for the fibre. No drilling, no messy terminations in the hallway. Power available and a simple 2m CAT5 drop down to room where the LAN switch is. Otherwise it's across eves, through porch and then through front door. Could I accept the fiber in attic from KN tech outside at gable and run the short distance across attic?
Gonzo wrote: » if it's down for going live a year from now and the fiber and splitter box's already on the road, then it has to be going live much sooner than Spring/Summer 2018. just did another speedtest to test late at night, lowest ping results yet.
chewed wrote: » Wow...don't think I've ever seen 1 ms ping before.@Gonzo, can I ask what deal you took with eir? Was it the 12 month 300mb contract? You mentioned you didn't take the phone option, so how much are you paying? I'm looking for something similar.
Gonzo wrote: » I took the standalone broadband 300mb. contract is 12 months. the first 4 months is 45 per month and the remaining 8 months is 63 a month, so in total 684 euros for a whole year. When the contract is up the price rises to 65 per month making it 780 euros for Year 2. I was paying 55 per month for 8 down and 0.5 up. my 12 month contract will be up mid April 2018. By then I hope things will be even more interesting. Hopefully Eir will have a better FUP by then or different FTTH plans. If Eir were to remove the FUP completely I would run and order the 1000 without a second of thought. The ping looks great on speedtest and dos but in reality in-game pings are more like 20-30ms depending on where you connect and what game you are playing.
chewed wrote: » Thanks Gonzo! I might go for that contract. I was thinking of getting the TV as well, but may just keep Sky for the year and then decide.
chewed wrote: » Going off topic, but can you use your Sky dish to get FTA channels?
daraghwal wrote: » I presume it's not physically possible to have a ping of less than 1 ms is it?
Gonzo wrote: » speedtest and dos pings are accurate but don't reflect real world gaming pings. The majority of Irish gamers would play on servers that are based in the UK and continental Europe as Ireland hosts very few gaming servers unfortunately.
daraghwal wrote: » You're not allowed complain anymore http://www.speedtest.net/result/4980033896
Gonzo wrote: » yep, a cancelled Sky account you can still get all the FTA channels, you just can't record, rewind etc. Take your viewing card out and see what channels you get. You basically get BBC's, Channel 4 and their other stations like e4, film4. Here is the full list of stuff you get on a dish without a subscription. Some channels may need to be manually added to other channels.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free-to-air_channels_at_28%C2%B0E
Gonzo wrote: » is that dsl? You'd be far better off with mobile 4g. I know a few people who use 4g just for gaming.
ACLFC7 wrote: » I'm using 4G for my home internet. My ping is 20 to Speedtest.net but it's between 50 and 60 when playing Rocket League on PC. Decent ping for casual players(like me) but its not really good enough if you're serious about gaming.
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