Imagine LTE Rural Broadband

Ultimanemo · 17-01-2019 06:53AM

Marlow wrote: »

No. Airwire fixed wireless coverage stops where Westnet coverage starts. Only marginal overlap in South Mayo.

/M

Same for Airwire and Lightnet both stop where my fence starts

vidapura · 18-01-2019 11:53AM

Anyone here tried Vodafone mobile broadband as an alternative?

I'm pretty sick of the Imagine dropping to under 5mb when Im trying to stream a match on a Saturday evening... so lookin for better...
Feckin Eir stops about 200 yards up the road from me... sigh....

Anyone in Galway county tried the Vodafone ?
Wondering if it has the same problems at peak times...

heavydawson · 18-01-2019 12:01PM

vidapura wrote: »

Anyone here tried Vodafone mobile broadband as an alternative?

I'm pretty sick of the Imagine dropping to under 5mb when Im trying to stream a match on a Saturday evening... so lookin for better...
Feckin Eir stops about 200 yards up the road from me... sigh....

Anyone in Galway county tried the Vodafone ?
Wondering if it has the same problems at peak times...

I use a combination of Vodafone and Nova (in Tipp). Nova is generally great, but not suitable for video conferencing (I work from home so this is a must). I've set up a Vodafone Mobile Broadband router in the attic, and set up routing rules for all the video conferencing traffic to go through it, and it's been fantastic.

I've occasionally ran SpeedTest using the VF Wifi, and I've got up to 73.5Mb/s down. I've got 4bars signal according to router itself.

Mortelaro · 18-01-2019 06:16PM

This is my speed test right now on three 4g
It's indoors too just on my phone
They get a lot of drumming but it all depends on where you are,I'm in rural south Wicklow

It's double what I'm getting off imagine at the minute
Not too shabby

Ultimanemo · 18-01-2019 08:10PM

vidapura wrote: »

Anyone here tried Vodafone mobile broadband as an alternative?

I'm pretty sick of the Imagine dropping to under 5mb when Im trying to stream a match on a Saturday evening... so lookin for better...
Feckin Eir stops about 200 yards up the road from me... sigh....

Anyone in Galway county tried the Vodafone ?
Wondering if it has the same problems at peak times...

I tried Vodafone for a week in Galway speed was minimum 40, up to 200, The cap turned me off, you can try it for two weeks for free anyway

Ultimanemo · 27-01-2019 07:00PM

I have Imagine for two weeks now, installed on 14/01/2019, installation was very neat, they used the brackets of a previous antenna and "the hole in the wall" was in the conservatory so it wasn't "painful" I am connected to Tonabrocky mast in Galway, it survived yesterday storm with no interruption of service.
The speed is up to 98 during the day, goes down to 5 to 20 at peak times, ping 20 ms, but I still can stream 1080p videos without buffering

Psygnosis · 30-01-2019 11:33PM

Anyone elses Imagine dog slow this evening. I'm wondering is it real cold weather we are having. I'm in knockraha and its shocking around 1mb since 6pm this evening. It's normally slow at this time but never this bad.

irishfeen · 30-01-2019 11:44PM

Psygnosis wrote: »

Anyone elses Imagine dog slow this evening. I'm wondering is it real cold weather we are having. I'm in knockraha and its shocking around 1mb since 6pm this evening. It's normally slow at this time but never this bad.

Exact same here off the Bweeng mast, it’s gone completely to the dogs over past 3 nights.

Wegian · 31-01-2019 04:55AM

irishfeen wrote: »

Exact same here off the Bweeng mast, it’s gone completely to the dogs over past 3 nights.

Same here in Galway, really poor the last few days

Ultimanemo · 31-01-2019 06:11AM

Wegian wrote: »

Same here in Galway, really poor the last few days

Yah

Tonabrocky mast Galway

Last evening

This morning

Thank God it is only for 3 days, if it was two and half weeks I would feel guilty as I joined Imagine two and half weeks ago, "more spaces became available recently"

Ultimanemo · 31-01-2019 06:17AM

Wegian wrote: »

Same here in Galway, really poor the las t few days

Few days ago I received a message they are optimising the service, it seems they have done it already

Leonidas BL · 31-01-2019 02:46PM

This is our 12mb broadband druing the day.

SpannerMonkey · 31-01-2019 03:52PM

its been pretty poor the last 2 days . it seems to be ok today though

This is it right now

this was it yesterday

Ultimanemo · 31-01-2019 07:38PM

Very good today in Galway Tonabrocky mast

SpannerMonkey · 31-01-2019 08:35PM

gone to crap again tonight

d31b0y · 04-02-2019 01:15PM

Certainly slower than usual for me in the evenings for the last week. Hasn't caused any noticeable issues with streaming though.

Wegian · 05-02-2019 08:50PM

d31b0y wrote: »

Certainly slower than usual for me in the evenings for the last week. Hasn't caused any noticeable issues with streaming though.

Anybody having issues in the evening in Galway?

It’s been chronic bad here for the past week or so particularly in the evenings

Leonidas BL · 05-02-2019 10:56PM

Well after waiting for years, the Imagine engineer arrived today. Was left very disappointed.
Even though we have clear line of sight of the area the mast is in, he couldn't get a proper signal.
My friend who is further away and is surrounded by trees got hers installed yesterday no problem.
Fcuk My Life.............................

Huntline · 05-02-2019 11:01PM

Did he give you anymore info as to the reason?

Leonidas BL · 05-02-2019 11:03PM

Huntline wrote: »

Did he give you anymore info as to the reason?

He said he couldn't get it to stabilize at a constant speed. Possibly interference of some kind.

Huntline · 05-02-2019 11:52PM

Leonidas BL wrote: »

He said he couldn't get it to stabilize at a constant speed. Possibly interference of some kind.

Well that's highly annoying

Leonidas BL · 05-02-2019 11:53PM

Huntline wrote: »

Well that's highly annoying

Ya, next option is moving house..

Grab All Association · 06-02-2019 03:47AM

To the person who is really frustrated, set up a twitter page called ImagineFraudband and constantly tweet local TDs, National/local press, radio etc with Speedtest results. Run a daily competition looking for the worst speed reported and mark it on a map.

@imaginefraudband our worst speed comes from @johnobrien in Ennis @ennisTD @richardbruton @clarepaper @clarefm #imagine #NBP

Picture of Ireland with Clare county highlighted.

Ultimanemo · 06-02-2019 06:41AM

Leonidas BL wrote: »

Well after waiting for years, the Imagine engineer arrived today. Was left very disappointed.
Even though we have clear line of sight of the area the mast is in, he couldn't get a proper signal.
My friend who is further away and is surrounded by trees got hers installed yesterday no problem.
Fcuk My Life.............................

Have you tried Three with Huawei router and outdoor antenna with 3G, I have Three and Imagine, same.
Imagine faster in the morning, in the evening they are the same Three 3G and Imagine

Leonidas BL · 06-02-2019 01:11PM

Ultimanemo wrote: »

Have you tried Three with Huawei router and outdoor antenna with 3G, I have Three and Imagine, same.
Imagine faster in the morning, in the evening they are the same Three 3G and Imagine

I'm looking into it. Getting about 8meg on Three's 4G signal. But the limits annoy me.
Two more of my neighbors got Imagine in today no problem. Difference today is its not raining I think.

hatchman · 06-02-2019 01:32PM

Leonidas BL wrote:

I'm looking into it. Getting about 8meg on Three's 4G signal. But the limits annoy me. Two more of my neighbors got Imagine in today no problem. Difference today is its not raining I think.

Bigger limits on three 4g than imagine

Leonidas BL · 06-02-2019 01:36PM

hatchman wrote: »

Bigger limits on three 4g than imagine

Would it reach 70mbps though? The phone only reaches 8!

hatchman · 06-02-2019 01:51PM

Leonidas BL wrote:

Would it reach 70mbps though? The phone only reaches 8!

With a lot of neighbours getting it will they all get 70 ? I tried to get imagine in and had similar issues to you. I signed up for Three 4g for 30 euro a month and get speeds around the 20 mark and down to single digits in the evening time. I have single story house and put modem in attic and give great coverage through out house and helps with improving signal on 4g. It does what I want i.e two kids on Netflix hd at same time and what ever browsing we do. So I don't get obsessed with the speed. And at 30 euro it's half the price.

Leonidas BL · 06-02-2019 01:59PM

hatchman wrote: »

With a lot of neighbours getting it will they all get 70 ? I tried to get imagine in and had similar issues to you. I signed up for Three 4g for 30 euro a month and get speeds around the 20 mark and down to single digits in the evening time. I have single story house and put modem in attic and give great coverage through out house and helps with improving signal on 4g. It does what I want i.e two kids on Netflix hd at same time and what ever browsing we do. So I don't get obsessed with the speed. And at 30 euro it's half the price.

Well I just got a whatsapp from one of them. 217.73mbps download and 5.56 upload. Thats plugged directly into the router. Wifi is 60 she said.

Daz_ · 06-02-2019 02:01PM

hatchman wrote: »

With a lot of neighbours getting it will they all get 70 ? I tried to get imagine in and had similar issues to you. I signed up for Three 4g for 30 euro a month and get speeds around the 20 mark and down to single digits in the evening time. I have single story house and put modem in attic and give great coverage through out house and helps with improving signal on 4g. It does what I want i.e two kids on Netflix hd at same time and what ever browsing we do. So I don't get obsessed with the speed. And at 30 euro it's half the price.

I’m on the same plan with Three. How does Imagine deliver speeds of 70 on the same network? Is it all down to the external antenna or do Three provide a better service to Imagine? I have had to switch my service to 3G as it became unusable in the evenings from 6pm onwards

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