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.
Grumpypants wrote: » Do you have BF1? EA have servers in Dublin. It would be interesting to see what ping you get on Irish BF1 servers. I'm worried that when I get my new connection and I'm still terrible at online shooters I can't blame my poor connection anymore
chewed wrote: » I'm still wondering should I go with 300mb option or 150mb! At home, it's only me, my wife and 15 year old son. He plays online in the evenings a bit (currently this is eating into my 4G monthly limit). Other than that, I'd download movies now and again as well as stream stuff from my Sky box (including Sky Go). Is it worth going for the 300mb contract?
Grumpypants wrote: » I'm going with the 1,000mbps. Screw it, I've been waiting almost 20 years for good internet so I'm going to go crazy. Plus when I actually looked at upgrading I would get a discount from my existing €115 to €87 for 6 months and then it goes to €130. So on balance I was able to justify it to myself.
Gonzo wrote: » I don't play BF1. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000's I was still in my 20s and a first person shooter fan, would have given me arm for this connection/ping back then. Now that I have the ping, my fps reflexes are just really bad, time to take the online gaming much more casually now.
Ron603 wrote: » What speeds can one expect over wifi if you get the 1Gb package? Let's say that you're in the same room as the router, and I'm aware that there are many factors that affect the speed. Would 600Mb be achievable if the device supports the technology?
Pangea wrote: » Why does Eir want my bank details when ordering extreme fibre?
rob808 wrote: » If you don't want to pay Direct Debt you can pay through post office with paper bill but they charge you 2 euro extra if you do it that way.
Gonzo wrote: » ring Eir sales, tell them your situation, they may be able to pay off some of that contract and switch you over to FTTH. It's not a great business decision for Vodafone to not resell Eir's FTTH especially over the next year when rural FTTH sales will really take off.
Pangea wrote: » Thanks Can't I just continue to pay online whenever the bill comes out like I do now?
ED E wrote: » I thought ALL new customers had to be DD now.
long_b wrote: » I think the poster is an existing Eir customer Ed. Today's the day our exchange goes live for FTTH according to the Rollout map. Have a more accurate date of May 3rd from Pamela on here and the sales rep. Don't think anything happens today? Maybe some lucky people will be installed?
MBSnr wrote: » Apparently just passed 40,000 rural fibre connections...https://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/broadband-open-eir-fibre-rural-ireland
long_b wrote: » Thanks for this. Naturally all figures are unofficial till Navi confirms them.
halkar wrote: » Does extreme fibre use the existing phone socket or a new one installed?
