Eir or sky broadband

harpsman wrote: »

Hi. Just moved to rural Donegal and need to get sky tv, broadband and probably a landline as the mobile signal is almost nonexistent inside the house. We do have a mobile broadband modem that works perfectly everywhere else but very poor here because of the poor mobile signal.

I was wondering is the sky broadband as good as the eir one? I saw someone say they just use the old eircom line so if that’s true they should be the same yes?

It would be handier just to get all in one package from sky.

Thanks for your help

Eir Mobile are the only mobile operator with WiFi calling, so you should be able to use your landline broadband to solve your mobile coverage problem if you use Eir Mobile. You will need to make sure that your handsets support Eir WiFi calling, but most of the newer handsets over the last couple of years do.

If you are in a Fibre-to-the-home area, then Eir will deliver Gigabit speeds over Fibre. I don't believe that Sky are doing this yet - but they may do it in the future. If you are not in a Fibre-to-the-home area, Sky just use the Eir line, so it won't be any better than Eir, and could be worse if they have contention in their backhaul.